Elektron Musical Instruments

I think it's a shame they've given the P-I machines so much 
attention. These machines are definitely the least interesting and 
useable. Their respective parameter ranges are really limited, they 
sound hard and metallic (and not really "physical"!), I use them 
quite rarely. I understand that these are the most "avant garde" 
and "new" machines in the MD, but that doesn't really help their 
usability. Frankly, I think the FM snare sounds equally realistic as 
the P-I snare. But then again, that's only my opinion... :) Nothing 
really beats the EFM sounds for punch and flexibility, I use them 80% 
of the time. Tonal, fx, bass, melodic and....drums. They can do it 
all. A few weeks back I did a 3-part string section with 3 tuned EFM 
hihats, using 6 LFOs. Marvellous. ;-)

Regards,
Nils


> I spoke to the Elektron guys a couple of months ago, and they told 
me
> that the PI machines really eats a lot of DSP processing power, so 
in
> order to guarantee that you are able to have 16 PI machines + fx
> running at the same time, they can't really cram more stuff into of
> the machine.
> 
> /Janne
> 
> -- 
> Janne G:son Berg, d3berg@d...   http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3berg
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