Elektron-Users

First Sandbox thread!
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Mine:

Probably the TRX-BD;
Dec: 50-59
Pitch: 40-59
(Nothing else)
Sometimes low-pass filtered with a little Q to "eliminate" the small click "on top".

Believe it or not,
for hats: GND-NS;
Dec: Very short
Filtered all the way up to ca. 122 / around that, EQ'd a little bit in the high-end.

The Noise and the TRX-BD are the building blocks of everything I do.

What are yours?

My only consistent sound these days is the EFM-BD...which I always filter... it's my goto BD. Everything else changes.

EFM HH
mainly parameter lock on decay tremolo pitch and feedback, feedback can transform the a hit hat sound as a voice sound ...

GND IMP
with lot of filter and sample rate reduction !

i have use the trx bd too much time before, now use it mainly for bass sound, not for kick (except for layering a rom kick sample), but generalyy i prefer now use the efm bd.

EFM BD layered with the TRX B2 = my favorite seriously hittin and DEEP bass drum!!

Also I generally always put some LPF on both bass drums. AND, most importantly, HPF everything else!!! A little HPF on the snare drum, a lot of HPF on the hats, and some HPF to taste on your fx and whatnot. Clears out the sub freq's for your BD's = more Boom! Actually, that's a very important tip for any mix (it's the first thing I do on any mix). But it also helps to do it inside the MD.

EFM kit at the moment in general:

EFM SD - Turn the main decay down quite a lot (10-20?) but increase the Noise Decay. Result: Instant Kraftwerk snare.

yes, TT, that's right, I do it too
on everything; all the claps, snares, hats, etc.

FI, I loooove the EFM stuff, it's awesome.
I love the EFM-CY least, it always sounds the same (kinda metallic)

EMF BD here too...

b2!!

And pi-snare + e12 hh and 4xram!

howdragonsdisappear wrote:

GND IMP
with lot of filter and sample rate reduction !


thanks for that tip man, have never thought of using IMP before... been playing with that all day

I use EFM hihats a lot, love the way it could be tuned if you remove all the feedback ( FB )


I start with a short decay and full FB EFM hihat

Put a trig on the uptempo steps (you know 3,7,11,15)

Then p-lock FB, decay in those steps

After that I porogram another line over it, in the same track....something that could be a complementary with the uptempo one but adds another rythmic feeling

Save the kit

Now turn down FB at all, rise decay and p-lock the non-uptempo steps to make a melodic line

Press FUNCTION + CLASSIC/EXTENDED to bring back the original FB + decay settings for all the steps (p-locks still there)

Last: p-lock volume for the uptempo steps


Now when you´re playing you get a mutable but controlled hh line,

turn down volume and you get a more dancefloor feeling

rise decay and all the setps but the downtempo ones rise in lenght,turn down FB and over your dance hihats appears a melodic line that has the hh rithmic sequence but without loosing the uptempo ones...is great to make it live so people could hear the HH mutate into a sequence and back but without loose the more rythmic hihats