Elektron Musical Instruments

Monomachine OS 0.98 has just been released. It brings a few bug 
fixes, and comes with the first harvest of presets! Go try them out 
and see if they maybe bring some inspiration on new ways of using 
the Mono. 

To hear the presets you need to do a factory reset after upgrading. 
If you want to keep your current patches you need to dump them over 
SYSEX first. Don't forget to do the verify after sending them, so 
you are sure they went through correctly.

The presets are located at patterns A01 to B15. First select multi-
trig mode, select one of them, and try pressing a key. Some presets 
use multi-trig mode sequence start/transpose and some all-
track/split key. If the sequencer is not used for the multi-trig 
action you can also press play to listen to a demo pattern. For all 
presets you can do some fun with the joystick. Try moving it in all 
directions and listen to the effects. Some sounds totally transform 
as you move the joy around.

The OS will not be renamed into 1.0 until the day we start shipping, 
as we want to be able to fit in possible updates.

As the time was tight for compiling the presets we will do another 
revision in some weeks with the ones we didn't have time to fit in. 
There may be additional banks released at later times like we did 
for the SidStation.

Let me know which ones are your favourites!

Daniel

Someone beat me to the announcement, but anyway,

Monomachine OS 1.00 has just been released. Some bugs have been 
squashed, and the presets are updated (some levels, some joystick 
assignments, one preset dropped and two ones added). To hear the new 
presets you need to do a factory reset. Backup your data before as 
the factory reset empties the memory. The VO is adjusted so it never 
distorts internally.

We will continue to update the OS intensively for yet a while until 
we are sure there are no further major bugs. The beta page will stay 
online, please use the forms to report suspicious behaviour.

I will try to get time to compile more presets for an upcoming 
release, so please, if you've got something you think would fit in 
there, please send them my way (info@...)! Just don't forget 
the joystick assignments.

As the 1.00 is released the public sales has been starded, and SFX-6 
and SFX-60 units started shipping yesterday.

Thanks everyone who participated in the early beta development, your 
support and assistance has been greatly appreciated.

The programmers of the presets so far are:

A01, A03-A16: Erase
A02, B01-B05: Jesper Kouthoofd
B06:          Gerald Stevens
B07-B08:      Andrew Denyes
B09-B12:      Roonan
B13-B14:      Daren Ager
B15-B16:      C. Storm

Daniel

Monomachine OS 1.01 has just been released. This is mainly a bug fix 
release. Notes could get stuck when changing patterns, and LED's 
could get stuck when using advanced trig-pos settings. The LED's in 
multi trig seq start now also follow the key-transpose. The 
distortion have been updated. Now the distortion should affect the 
sound level less. This might affect some of the presets slightly. 
They will be updated for the next release.

You will find the OS image at:

http://www.monomachine.com/beta

Daniel

Monomachine OS 1.02 has just been released. This release fixed a few 
bugs, and add 10 new presets! The presets have also been adjusted 
for the new distortion level compensation introduced in OS1.01. To 
check out the new presets you need to do a factory reset after 
upgrading. Note that this erase the current memory, so if you want 
to keep your data you should back it up first.

You will find the OS image files here:

http://www.monomachine.com/support

Daniel

Thanks for including my preset at C2!!

Ravi

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_elektron" 
<daniel@e...> wrote:
> 
> Monomachine OS 1.02 has just been released. This release fixed a 
few 

> bugs, and add 10 new presets! The presets have also been adjusted 
> for the new distortion level compensation introduced in OS1.01. To 
> check out the new presets you need to do a factory reset after 
> upgrading. Note that this erase the current memory, so if you want 
> to keep your data you should back it up first.
> 
> You will find the OS image files here:
> 
> http://www.monomachine.com/support
> 
> Daniel

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:44:00PM -0000, Ravi Ivan Sharma wrote:
>    Thanks for including my preset at C2!!

Congrats!

Are there any more "Storm" presets?  That was my favorite from the
last OS (along with those very 80's sounding presets @B2 and B3) :-)

Joe

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:

> Are there any more "Storm" presets?  That was my favorite from the
> last OS (along with those very 80's sounding presets @B2 and B3) :-)

Maybe I can make you happy by letting you know that mr C. Storm have 
contributed with 10 new presets, making 12 in total. I think you will 
enjoy the C05, that's my favourite of his presets. The 
original "Storm" preset has been renamed into "Jungles" in this 
edition.

Mr. Storm is actually the producer of the BeatBox and E12 samples. I 
think you can tell he really knows his way around them when listening 
to his work. He is also part producer of the Machinedrum sample CD 
(together with Erase) if you happen to have that.

But don't miss out on the new ones between B15 and C02! There are 
some really nice new user contributed presets there, including two 
pioneering donators.

Here follows the updated preset designers list:
(sorry I forgot to post it together with the announcement)

A01, A03-A16: Erase
A02, B01-B05: Jesper Kouthoofd
B06: Gerald Stevens
B07-B08: Andrew Denyes
B09-B12: Roonan
B13-B16: Daren Ager
C01: John Kimble II
C02: Ravi Ivan Sharma
C03: Daniel Hansson
C04: -
C05-C16: C. Storm

Daniel

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:20:35PM -0000, daniel_elektron wrote:
>    Maybe I can make you happy by letting you know that mr C. Storm have
>    contributed with 10 new presets, making 12 in total. 

Yes!  That makes me very happy; now I just need to download it and 
update my MnM.

>    Mr. Storm is actually the producer of the BeatBox and E12 samples. I
>    think you can tell he really knows his way around them when listening
>    to his work.

Exactly.  And the sounds of those machines are fantastic, so kudos to him!

>    He is also part producer of the Machinedrum sample CD
>    (together with Erase) if you happen to have that.

No I don't; but I'd like to check it out someday.  I'm sad that
Odegaard didn't contribute to it, but still interested to hear
what Storm and Erase have done.

>    But don't miss out on the new ones between B15 and C02! There are
>    some really nice new user contributed presets there, including two
>    pioneering donators.

are preset submissions still being accepted?

Thanks for all the info!
Joe

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:20:35PM -0000, daniel_elektron wrote:

> No I don't; but I'd like to check it out someday.  I'm sad that
> Odegaard didn't contribute to it, but still interested to hear
> what Storm and Erase have done.

Odegaard was planned to be included as well, but due to different 
problems we couldn't make it.

> are preset submissions still being accepted?

We do not have any current plans to update the presets, but there is 
a chance we might extend also to the D-bank in the future, so if you 
have something nice and would like to see it included, send it our 
way! 

If we get the time we might also release additional patch-banks with 
some theme (like super-6-track-mono-sounds) like we have done for the 
SidStation.

Daniel

A quick one Daniel - are the audio connectors balanced or unbalanced?
The manual does not seem to have specifications listed.

Thanks

Paul

They are unbalanced.

Daniel

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Paul Nagle <paul@s...> wrote:
> A quick one Daniel - are the audio connectors balanced or 
unbalanced?

> The manual does not seem to have specifications listed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paul

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:55:39 -0000, "daniel_elektron"
<daniel@...> wrote:

>
>They are unbalanced.

Very much like me. Thanks man!

Paul