Elektron Musical Instruments

Hej!
I have Just returned from a trip to Sweden. So thought
it would be rude not to 
pop into Elektron and say hello while i was visiting a
friend in Goteborg.
The guys were very welcoming and the office very
relaxed. 
Daniel spent the best part of 1 1/2 hours
demonstrating the MM to me, fielding my 
inane questions and discovering the odd bug.

So what do i reckon? Well I ordered one the other night
when I came home from the pub. 
So that kinda says something. 
As Daniel has said on this user group, at this beta
stage the MM doesn't have any 
presets sounds, so I wasn't wowed by any crazy "Phat
Analogue Space Panpipe pad" 
but the MM's appears to have MD's ability to radically
alter its seemingly enormous 
sonic palette.
As the demo was a bit of a blur I will give you some
vague highlights.

The sequencer appears to be very very powerful. 

The MID machines now have the ability to play chords. 

Great user interface just like the MD.

The VO synth sounds great especially in conjunction
with the Joystick. With the ability 
to create breathy vowels and very harsh consonants. It sounded 
very "kraftwerkian" but i'm sure u would be able to get more "natural"
out of it.

The SID station sounds great but doesn't have anything
as much character as the real thing, so it certainly won't make the 
noisy SIDStation redundent.

The Wave synth sounded very interesting (its what i
like playing with the most in the 
SID). Its has some kind of granular mixer thing that
blend between each step. The sonic possibilities are mind boggling!!

The Joystick can be assigned to any parameter.

It crys out to be played live.

I will post some more comments when I have time, but by which point 
everyone who has ordered the Beta version will be exploring it
themselves. 



P.S. Daniel and Elektron thanks so much for being so welcoming and 
generous with your time  at such sort notice. I hope I helped in some 
way. Goteborg Rocks!