Elektron Musical Instruments

--- daniel_elektron <daniel@...> schrieb:


> Sometimes when reading forums you can get the
> impressions there are
> many bugs and problems with our gear, but I'd say
> they are really
> realiable, and we use them ourselves on stage like
> so many others.
> 

I had 6 gigs now with the Md and 1 gig crashed by that
songmode button, i havent had a song programmed...
ok..thats a feature and no bug...but realiable has
also something to do with easyness off handling... at
least such "features" dont create the most reliable
feeling... aswell that many operations that are
essential to liveplaying are only accesible with
double keystrokes that make one hand handling an
unreliable thing...
And i had 2 times weard things with the outputs
happening... seems that a midiloop in clocking can
bring the MD in a state of seeing out C as Out D or
the other way around...
Nothing i was able to repeat yet...just an idea...
and Hanging notes on the midimachines on
patternchages...

Many people use the MD...but for stage use?..its
rather a studio machine than a stage tool...
At least it dont feels very reliable for me...at least
not yet...
Too many issues for 6 gigs.
I am doing stage things with drummachines for 23 years
now...so i have quite a few experiances with other
products...
The MD has many nice features...but also many strange
handling arrangements... little things sometimes like
that the song/pattern and global are sharing one
button while Kit and songsettup share another...
ok..no big thing... but i just mention it because its
quite exemplaric how things are structured in the
Md... It appears to be a work in progress box where
many features have been added one after the other
reaching a state where the controls are not optimal
used anymore... But that is that waht i want from a
drummachine on stage..
Good working controls...spontanius access...reliable
performance factor... That there is no return to the
saved state of a pattern can be seen as a good
sportsman attitude...but...
A good sportsman attitude dont likes to press multiple
buttons to deo a mute... and...sportsman or not..its
often just what you want on stage to freak the thing
up...do a break..and return to the initial theme...
Ok..you can make copys of the patterns before..and go
with a double keystrokee to another pattern page...
But that is again not really the optimal solutioin for
beeing spontanious on stage..or?
I allready was thinking about an extra faderbox to
remote the MD...but than we get to a point where the
concept of a hardware drummachine gets a bit
questionable... At least..the MD is versatile enough
to allow such arrangements... In the studio its an
allmost ideal drumcomputer...but...
The only thing that makes the MD real nice on stage it
is szise..
With the other features i ask myself sometimes if
stage use was intended at all..

Sorry to say that... I still refused to sell it again
because i like it somehow..But its defenetly the most
problematic drummachine i had on stage yet... And this
mainly because conceptional things than real bugs...




	

	
		
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