Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "ofthicktum" 
<electrodavid@h...> wrote:
> 
> Spoke to Daniel Elektron at the Sounds-Expo.
> 
> The Ultra Wave is available as a hardware upgrade for the 
MachineDrum as well as 
> being sold as new Unit/product. You will have to send your 
MachineDrum to Elektron 
> though. He didn't say how much the upgrade would cost, but i'm 
sure it will a lot less than 
> a new unit.
> 
> Here is the low down!  
> 
> Exactly the same as the MachineDrum but with 2 new machines.
> Rom Record and Rom Play.
> Boots up same as the MachineDrum then has extra Rom loading screen.
> Up to 32 Samples can be stored.
> You can have 16 Rom Play machines at once each playing any one of 
your 32 loaded 
> samples.
> Sample time is approx 20 secs. Which I understand can be increased 
if you choose a 
> different sample rate.
> 
> The Rom Machine controls are (from memory). 
> Pitch, 
> Retrig, 
> RTime,
> Rate, (sample resolution. Just on the record machine, i think)
> Hold (ie Decay), 
> Start and End (To play sample in reverse put start to '127' and 
end to '0'. Some interesting 
> LFO modulation possibilties here!).
> There is no "real-time" time-stretch function.

with these start and end controls it may have similar sounding 
results to the akai s612 sliders.. only with param locks - which 
means FUN!
> 
> You can record on the fly, while other Machines are playing.
> You set record in and out points as you would trig points. 
> For example If you are recording a live from a sound source the 
Record Machine will keep 
> recording from the until you are happy. Then I presume it switches 
to a play machine 
> when you have finished recording. An Elektron Demo guy was doing 
this with a loop from 
> a record deck and it appeared to happen seemlessly. 
> 

> Daniel mentioned something about offereing a fast USB Midi adaptor 
to speed up sample 
> transfers times when you buy the machine. Import via midi for a 4 
bar loop did seemed 
> painfully slow.
> 
> Oh and I almost forgot. It sounded great. 
> 
> David

i bet =)  thanks for this update david..

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