Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Scott Kellogg <glaive@g...> 
wrote:
Could someone recommend a product that can replicate the 
> functionality of the SFX-6 joystick?

I think one of the best, and cheapest replacements for the missing 
joystick is a used ~$120 US Korg Kaoss Pad 1.  I think that the 
default CC/pitch mod settings on the SFX-6's joystick are the same as 
the KP-1's default output.  I haven't tried my KP with my MnM, since 
I have the SFX-6, but I imagine one of the best things about using it 
is the "remember mode" that keeps the output position of 
the "joystick" at the last remembered position.  This way, you can 
tweak away, and leave the beast cranking through sequences at 
that "sweet spot" while you twiddle other knobs.  The joystick always 
returns to zero - with the KP-1 it is optional whether or not you 
want it to.  The other thing I like about the KP-1 is that you can 
drop two fingers at different locations, hopping from one x-y 
position to the other, or the average of the two if both fingers are 
down at once.  This allows for discrete jumps in the joystick 
settings.

Given how impressed I am with the bugger... why has it been in the 
closet for over a year?  Hmmm... I guess it has to do with the fact 
that I bought it for live performances which I vowed never to do 
again shortly after a "rockstar" noise-head threw my gear across the 
stage at Phi-Phenomena "Never Forgets".  The KP-1 survived - but my 
desire to perform live again didn't.

-gerald