Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, niall munnelly <aleph@a...> 
wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:33:50AM -0000, sargeant_damien wrote:
> > i have a monomachine and an md. at the moment i'm only using the 
> > stereo outs. i want to record some stuff into my friend's 
protools. 
> > will is sound any different if i record all the synths on 
seperate 
> > tracks. is it better to record as a single stereo track?
> 
> on the MD, the fx only reside on the master outs, so
> anything you route through an individual out will be dry.
> the monomachine has fx that can be assigned to different
> stereo pairs and mono outs, but you'll need to configure
> your kit to make the most of them.
> 
> i prefer to use as many outs as i can record at once - it's
> a more flexible arrangement, it's more editable, and
> you can use external effects on individual sounds, rather
> than the entire track.  i also found early on that the
> machinedrum seemed to lose some clarity when a whole pile of
> sounds were stuffed through the master outs, but that may
> have been my imagination.  i definitely prefer the sound of
> all six outs at once.

i have noticed (with headphones) that a bass sound may swamp out 
some higher freq sounds. hard to describe, perhaps it was the 
uncontrolled use of the compressor?

> 
> in short: if you can, unless you insist upon using only
> the synth's effects on its sounds, record multitrack.
> 
> -- 
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> niall.
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