Elektron Musical Instruments

at least i do believe that polyphony msut be able to ahve voices 
triggered independently no?

i got this expecting it to be 6 monosynths, but when i saw taht i was 
like 'hmmmm it's not complete it seems"

hopefully it isn't;D...at least they got speedy os updates.  1.2 
seemed pretty quick:D
--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "hal3001" <hal3001@y...> wrote:
> hhaving multiple oscillators per synth  DOES NOT equate polyphony 
> polyphony = seperate voice, seperate playable individual filter per 
> voice...if that's their explanation that's a tad bit weak...makes 
me 
> scared to own a synth of theres if they don't understand that's not 
> polyphony!:o
> 
> I don't really see them using any complex cpu stealing algorithms? 
> the whole thing seems like some simple programming?(i could be 
wrong 
> though?)
> 
> hehe :) i really wouldn't mind 6 polyphonic sids i think thatd' be 
> badass, i really bought this ysnth cuz of the sid emulators
> 
> I do wish tho that there were more oscs for some of the synths...
> 
> pretty cool synth tho,  you really don't think it's a work in 
> proggress synth?  I undrestand it's not beta anymore...but, ya 
never 
> know?:o   i was thinking by os 2.0 it'd be fully finalizeD:)
> 
> i don't think adding polyphony would change the market of the 
> synthesizer...nor take too much proccessing power!!!:)...come on 
for 
> the price these are they gotta have some nice cpu in them!:)...i 
hope 
> all the $ didn't go into marketing and cosmetics!!!:P (since they 
> have a very good marketing and very good cosmetics for synth)
> 
> -ryan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 07:57:24AM -0000, hal3001 wrote:
> > >    that'd be super lame if that was the explanation of the 24 
> voice...
> > >    maybe it's just not complete?
> > 
> > I doubt it. when people discuss polyphonic requests for the MnM, 
> the reply
> > from Elektron is usually "this is meant to primarily be a 
> multitimbral
> > monophonic synth".
> > 
> > anyway, the 24 voice thing makes sense to me; the same way that 
the 
> MD
> > being 16-voice polyphonic makes sense.
> > 
> > > it seems so far to be a moderately
> > >    work in proggress synth, no?
> > 
> > maybe up until recently.  and I'm guessing they'll be making a 
few 
> more
> > additions in the near future.  but I doubt they'd be making such 
a 
> major
> > addition now that the units are actually being sold (i.e. non-
beta 
> units).
> > such a feature would change the character of the MnM and change 
the
> > marketing focus, etc. so I doubt they'd do that this late in the 
> game.
> > 
> > >    I seem to get bugs about not being able to play some sounds 
> sometime
> > >    from sequencer which confuses me;o
> > 
> > report them :-)
> > 
> > Joe