Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Storm" <jeff@j...> wrote:
> fair enough.  What is the internal frequency of the
machinedrum/monomachine 
> anyhow?

We're running at 44.1kHz as the base frequency. 96kHz would be good,
but not because of getting those bat frequencies out, but to get more
space for the filters to work at. Still, we oversample certain parts
internally to 2x and 4x  to get good sounding filters and sample rate
conversions (the issues are connected).

When we have discussed internally, 64kHz as the general base frequency
would be a good trade off between using DSP cycles efficiently and
have enough headroom for filters. 44.1 makes cutoff filter design a
bit tough, they need to be steep to cut somewhere around 20kHz without
audible alias.

...but this is quite advanced theory... High sample rates in our
opinion are good for internal calculations (filters especially), not
to store the non-audible frequencies as is the general accepted truth
I guess.

The best is to not look at specs but use your ears!

Daniel