a coupla MOnomachine questions/opinions
2003-12-19 by zebraoner
AIght first of all, has anyone noticed how when you turn on the arpeggiator for a particular track, that if you want to have those same settings for it in a different pattern in a song with that same kit you have to reprogram the whole arpeggiator. It seems that arpeggiator settings are linked to patterns not kits. Is there a way to paste arpeggiator settings, or have the option to have them connected to the kit instead? Also does anybody like how kits are linked to patterns? I for one am not too partial to method this because sometimes ill load a pattern and have to reload the original kit for it because i had a different kit loaded. then sometimes you load a song and you'll have that different kit in there, making sometimes a nice little change up. not nice if you dont want it to be there, though. I wish there was some way that you could just have songs, then just load whatever kit you want and have the monomachine stay in that kit, and not go to whatever kit you programmed the pattern in ala MachineDrum. That way you could have more control over your songs, changing it up as you go along. ...or not. which brings me to next point: I mean i guess the current way of doing things can be ok, but i wish there was some way to have some control over the way things (patterns, arpeggiators, kits, songs, etc.) are linked and associated to each to each other. You should have the option to have the same arpeggiator settings for a track in a kit, always be there, or have them change with the patterns. the point is having the option. maybe you can do these things and i just dont know diddly about it. Maybe im missing the point of MnM altogher(maybe ill get it when Elektron puts out their presets), but I just thought id say something about it. What do yall think about this particular aspect of the Monomachine? Im interested to see if anyone else feels this way or not. peace, ZEBRA