Elektron Musical Instruments

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Introducing 6 tracks of finest mono

What the Monomachine is
The Monomachine is a new concept for synthesizer, and what makes it 
great is
not separate aspects, but how all the parts work together, as a 
whole. But 
as I know you all are eager for the details they will follow here.

The Monomachine is:

* 6 tracks of monophonic sound synthesis or FX, plus sequencing.
* 6 additional tracks for sequencing of external MIDI gear.

Each synthesis track offers:

* One machine for synthesis or FX. The synthesis is chosen from one 
of the 
five Monomachine synths. The FX is chosen from a dedicated machine 
group.
* One Amplitude Envelope engine.
* One Filter engine. Offering control over the HQ 24dB resonant 
filter, that
can form high pass, band pass and low pass filters with envelope 
control.
* One Track Effects engine. Offering SRR, 1-band EQ and distortion.
* One Delay engine, synchronised to tempo.
* Three LFO's. All LFO's are synchronised to tempo, and can be set to 
a wide
range of speeds and forms.
* One specialised sequencer for controlling tones and parameters.
* One very wild arpeggiator.

What the Monomachine is not
Here are some points to start with to clear up some common 
misconceptions:

1) The Monomachine is not a synthesizer with a Machinedrum clinging 
to its 
left side. The Monomachine is designed to be the best friend of the 
Machinedrum, not to duplicate or compete with it. However, the 
Monomachine 
shares the same base concept as the Machinedrum.

2) The Monomachine does not have any SID-chip inside it. However, it 
carries
some sounds and features from the SID-chip and the SidStation, for 
example 
the SID-6581 machine and the SID-mode in the arpeggiator.

So, just to make it clear - we are not discontinuing the Machinedrum. 
We 
will continue to support and develop it further. Monomachine is a 
complementing product designed for a different mission.

The MM synths
SuperWave - Following the path of the analogue synthesisers, 
SuperWave 
offers machines with thick luxurious sounds. Available so far is the 
SWAVE-SAW machine, which offers no less than six oscillators forming 
the 
final sound. The PULS and the ENSEMBLE will follow shortly.

SID - The SID-6581 machine offers the corner stone of the SID chip. 
Each 
track that you fit with the SID machine will generate convincing SID 
sounds,
complete with choices of triangle, saw, pulse, mixed and pitched 
noise. 
Ringmod and sync options are provided as well. The full spirit of the 
SID 
can never be captured outside the real SID-chip though.

DigiPRO - DigiPRO forms its sound in the digital domain. The DPRO-
WAVE 
machine is based on selected digital waveforms, offering raw electric 
sounds. The WavePhase modulation can give the sounds untamed life if 
you 
prefer. The DPRO-BBOX brings a Beat Box with a handful of drum sounds 
to 
allow for self contained Monomachine songs.

FM+ - The Monomachine offers three new tastes of FM. The FM+DYN, 
FM+PAR 
and FM+STAT all offer the best sides of FM - fantastic shimmering 
sounds. 
But what separate the Monomachine incarnation from what is commonly 
known 
from FM, is that the FM+ machines are controllable and inspiring.

VO - We are very proud to introduce a new concept for oscillators: 
The singing VO-6 machine! Offering control over vocals and 
consonants, you 
can make VO-6 sing those words you never dared to sing yourself! 

Monomachine Key Trig Modes
The Monomachine structure is very flexible. Here follows some 
examples on 
how the key trig modes can be set up and used:

* Standard mode, 6-track multitimbral synthesizer. Use each track as 
an 
individual monophonic sound source. Control it either externally with 
each
track individually accessible by a MIDI track, or by the internal 
sequencer.
Example: Load the SID-6581 machine on each track and get a six-voice 
SID!

* Poly mode, 6-voice polyphonic. Example: Use the VO-6 to sing like a 
choir!

* Multi-trig, All tracks. The six tracks will be trigged 
simultaneously with
their respective settings for the massive mono sound. Example: Put 
the 
SWAVE-SAW on all six tracks, detune them slightly, and alter the 
track 
effects for each track. You will now have 36 massive oscillators 
ready under
your fingertips.

* Multi-trig, Split mode. Split the tracks assign the upper and lower 
half
of the keyboard to each. Example: Great for live use when you can't 
do 
without that FM+ bass and the wild DigiPRO arpeggio simultaneously on 
one 
keyboard.

* Multi-trig, Sequencer. Example: use the sequencer to compose a 
melody, or
rhythmic arrangement. Then use the Multi-trig, and each key plays the 
sequence, but with a new pitch. This works somewhat like advanced 
SidStation
Wavetable sequencing.

The Monomachine Trig Tracks
Presenting an innovation in sequencing; Monomachine breaks the 
barrier of 
the standard Note On and Note Off concept of sound sequencing. The 
SFX-6 
offers extended easy-to-use control not only through the Parameter 
locks 
known from the Machinedrum, but through the Trig Tracks. Building on 
the 
Machinedrum concept, but with the possibility to lock parameters on 
all 
steps, and individually control pitch updates from envelope and 
filter 
retrigs.

* All - this is the standard Note On, and is a combination of the 
Amp, 
Filter and LFO trigs described below.

* Amp, Filter, LFO - individually retrig, or exclude, the amplitude 
envelop,
filter envelop or LFO restart.

* Trigless - used to lock a parameter or pitch without trigging any 
envelopes.