Elektron Musical Instruments

I use The power of the MD-UW. That means get all my controls  
preprogrammed with Lfos controlling multiple tracks plus tons of  
parameter Locks! Then I will write one 32 note main pattern and and  
15 duplicates for variations! I will arrange my patterns in the MD  
song mode arranger editor then Slave the MD-UW out to my host! I  
route all the mono drums out to 1 of the six individual outputs of  
the MD and and track all the drum sequences in a row that were  
prearranged in the MDs song arranger! If I have more than six drum  
tracks in a pattern I will then reroute those  to their own seperate  
outputs after recording the first six and then track the remaining  
Mono drums. Now for effects, Melodies,Drum hits with effects like a  
snare with a touch of reverb or a track that is having it's pan  
control being manipulated in real time by an Lfo. I will set up a  
bunch of stereo tracks for these and record them individually one at  
a time out of the stereo (1-2 )outs of the MD-UW . So this way It  
will print the delays,verbs additional effects that were programmed  
for those tracks on their own specific stereo tracks. Now if any of  
them like a snare that had some verb on it were printed in stereo  
these hits should be split to mono. After every thing is tracked  
properly into the DAW then I will go in tab to transient seperate the  
individual hits on all the tracks and then time correct all their  
latencies buy snapping them to grid! After that mix time! this is my  
basic procedure for tracking the MD hope it helps give you some  
ideas! best regards, Paul
On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:59 AM, Tarekith wrote:

> I was just curious how others are integrating the Machinedrum into
> their songs.  I love the sound and interface of the MD, but find I
> have issues with integrating it into my songs.  It's more of a
> workflow issue than anything else, and I'm wondering how other users
> are recording their MD parts?
>
> - Record the stereo outs of the MD and "perform" the drum parts in one
> pass.  Pros are that it lets you actually 'play' the MD using all the
> cool live sequencer functions, and the master effects are present.
> Downside is that the balance between instruments is then fixed (unless
> you want to get into multi-band dynamics manipulation).
>
> - Record the MD live in one pass, but use the separate outs to gain
> more control over the mix of instruments later on.  More flexibility,
> but you lose the master effects, and still need to end up grouping
> certain sounds together since there's only 6 outs.  How do you assign
> your outs if you use this method?
>
> - Record the separate parts of the MD pattern individually and use the
> DAW to mix and match.  More flexibility in the mixdown phase, but
> again you lose the main effects, particularly the interaction of all
> parts with dynamix.  Also takes away from the performance aspect
> somewhat.
>
> - Other methods?
>
> How do you record your MD parts in your studio?
>
>
> --
> Tarekith
> http://www.Tarekith.com
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