Modulations

Marc Nostromo

Nice nice. I got an evolver if you want me to try it, I’d be glad.

I could do with one for my MKS-50 & MachineDrum. Let me know if you are interested.

April 9th, 2009 @ 4:36 am

Peter Dines

Hey Marc, I’m pretty sure it will work with your Evolver and other devices that use standard MIDI. The trick with the Micron is it uses NRPNs with values scaled way the hell all over the place, so I have to find out if it supports that.

So how do you like your Machinedrum? I’m working on a Reaktor drum machine that has Machine Drum style parameter locks controllable from Kore. I’ve never touched an Elektron machine in real life so I’m just working from what I’ve read and heard.

April 9th, 2009 @ 10:06 am

Marc Nostromo

Hey Peter,

I have a strange relationship with it. It’s good but there’s something in the interface that blocks me. Somehow it doesn’t work too much in my flow. But then at the same time, I can’t get myself to sell it either. It’s one of those strange piece of kit

The parameter lock is a great thing but I’m missing something with it to make it effective. I would rather have a separate parameter lock track that gets re triggered each time the drum track is triggered. That’s the way it works in my tracker ( littlegptracker.com )  and it’s a lot more flexible because the locks become completely part of your instrument definition rather than a separate data.

April 12th, 2009 @ 8:21 am

Peter Dines

The nice thing about Reaktor is that you can do those little tweaks to make things work just the way you want, instead of begging a manufacturer for a firmware update. The downside of course is variable degrees of tactile control, depending on what you connect it to, and maybe too much flexibility.

You’re not the only one who has an ambivalent relationship with the MD. I think a love / hate thing is pretty common – this guy for example is more thumbs down than thumbs up – I wish he’d talked more about what he doesn’t like in the interface. Wanting to want something is a weird feeling, and I’ve had it myself over various things… and speaking of interface, someday I have to learn to use a tracker!

April 18th, 2009 @ 7:37 am