Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "sd13mark" <sd13mark@v...> wrote:
> Ronald these are by far the best Elektron demos I have head! 
> Did you sequence internally or 
> externally?  Any info on the process would be more than appreciated.

Gear used for the second track is 1 MnM, 1 MD, 1 Evolver (only playing
the sustained sound in background) and 1 Kaoss pad II for dynamic
reverb. On the first track I also used a laptop with ableton for the
pads, a drum loop and the vocoder sequence at the end. 

I used only one pattern on both Elektron's and the tracks were made by
muting, using the joystick and EFX's by mixer fades and aux sends to
the Kaoss Pad II (still the most fun FX unit I know) I alway's use the
internal sequencers since they really do the machine's justice with
their parameter locks wich are the best feature of this gear. It's so
easy to make very dynamic, moving patterns wich make the tracks very
alive.

The amazing thing about the second track is that the MD pattern
contains only one machine: the EFM-BD. Every sound you hear is made
from this single machine; the clap, the hihats, the snare and the
strange basslike  notes. This was my contribution to the Oktober MD
contest! You can find the used pattern in the files section in the
oktober machinedrum contest. It can take some time to come up with
really interesting sounds, but if you dig deep enough I guess the
possibilities are endless. Try to discover to power of every
individual machine on the MD by making complete patterns of one
machine. Nils is by my opinion the reall master when it comes to that.

Ronald.