Elektron-Users

Ok, I know that we are all tired of hearing my brilliant ideas for features which will probably never come into existence, but I can't hold it in...

It's a new MIDI machine: MIDI-VEL which allows routing of velocity to different parameters. You can control 8 different parameters from one MIDI-VEL machine. The first param page gives you 8x destination track. The second param page gives you 8x destination param (corresponding to the track from the first page). And the final page gives you 8x velocity amount.

This would really open up the machine for people who are into sequencing the sounds externally. What do you guys think about it????

Nice! Seems more feasible that some other noteworthy ideas people have thrown out. That would make playing the MD from another sequencer (say, and MPC), much more expressive.

cchocjr

Wicked.

I too would love that, imho a huge leap in expressivity would result.

cool...I agree that it doesn't sound TOO far fetched...a couple of refinements:

it's actually more like a CTRL machine than a MIDI machine. Also, it won't be necessary to specify which track, since an incoming MIDI velocity will be tied to a note which would be tied to a track already...so that frees up an extra page of parameters to use for some other purpose in the new machine.

One new idea here also:

a New control machines called pad-offset.

It would only feature one parameter, named poff (pad-offset), which range would be -16 to 16. When turning it for example to 1, the trigs routed from other tracks would shift 1 tracks upward. So trigs programmed to BD track would now trig the SD and SD would trig the nex pad and so ... and finally the M4 track would trig the BD. :-o Only the control-machine would stay on it's track. It's a wicked idea :-D I would also love to be able to do it without the control-machine. Maybe function + big wheel would rotate the content of tracks. Huh, wicked! And what's the use of this? Totally abstract drumprogramming method and the creative use.

Totally a*skicking ideas!! Should not be too hard to implement? Brilliant :-D

yeah this would be awesome!

not to completely hijack the original topic (well maybe a little) but while they're fussing around with midi i think adding to ability to have each sound spread across +/- octave range would be the beezneez! imagine playing out your basslines and not have to parameter lock each step :-D

great ideas...oh pad offset...nice.

actuel

hup, here's another:

i find the swing function a bit too limiting for playing outside the 16/32 step grid. as i understood it the internal resolution of the sequencer is something like 1/96th so why not make use of that? machines would have a 'shift parameter' that would make paramlocked steps shift x 1/96th steps up or down the sequence thus allowing for much less quantized pattern making. (yeah yeah i know the machines' parameter pages are full...)

in the SPS-2 this could be pushed further by regarding a pattern as a timeline instead of a sequence of steps. there would be a 'lock' mode where the steps stick to a grid with setable resolution (1/16, 1/24, 1/32,...) and a 'free' mode where steps are freely moveable over the timeline. of course mixing the 2 modes would be possible and in combination with a graphic display of the timeline this would be sooooooo powerfull...

(should i patent this?

I would love the per-machine timeoffset idea...aside from cool creative uses, it would finally allow me to sequence my sidstation with the 'drum... (this is currently difficult due to sid inherent latency when using HCUT).

We now have individual swing-tracks, which in my opinion re great. If this should be pushed further, the swing-parameter-lock could be done on the swing-page. One could push swinged pad down and twist level-knob, from minus to positive. This would push or pull individual trig. This way the param-pages could be as they are now.

(yes, MD seems to be the ultimate product, since there is infinitive feature request with some of them pretty amazing and totally differend kind of what I've seen on other products by other companies.)