Elektron Machine Drum serileri 2001 ve 2010 yılları arasında üretilmiştir. Dijital, sampling özelliği olan ama içinde bir o kadar da synthlesis'leri uygulayabildiğiniz algoritmalar yani davul kanlları bulunmaktadır. Başka bir ülkede yaşayan biri Elektron Machine Drum kullanan kullanıcıların bir çok farklı farklı sitelerde yazdıkları yorumları, patch teknikleri ve alet üzerinde uygulanabilen sentez tekniklerini tek bir yazı içerisinde toplamış. Gerçekten çok iyi fikirler var! Benim de ingilizcem çok aşırı iyi sayılmaz. Okurken zorlandığım zamanlar oldu ama Google Translate gibi bir yerden tükçeye çeviri yaparakta rahat bir şekilde okunabiliniyor. Halen elinde Elektron Machine Drum olan herkese şimdiden iyi eğlenceler dilerim :)
Diğer modellerle ilgi henüz ne var ne yok çok ayrıntılı bir araştırma yapmadım. Belki onlar içinde bu tarz yazılar-bilgiler bulmak mümkün olabilir. Bir çok modeli çıktığından beri üzerinden oldukça vakit geçti.
Machine Drum Tips and Tricks
This document was created while I was browsing the Elektron Users Forums and Yahoo Group Mailing List looking for new ideas for things to try with my recently acquired SPS-1UW. Some of these are new tips, some are just clarifications of features explained in the manual already. I have attempted to the best of my ability to make sure that each author is properly given credit for their tips. However, if you spot an error or do not wish to have your name in this document, please let me know and I will fix the problem immediately.
In all cases, tips were quoted using the authors yahoo name, or their screen name from the forum. This was done to protect each author's right to privacy, yet still provides a way for any reader to attempt to contact the author should they wish to do so. The words "list" and "bbb" after all names denote which tips came from the mailing list, versus which tips came from the message board.
First compiled by Tarekith on February 16, 2006.
This guide is broken into the following sections, click on each to jump to that section below:
- Sequencing
- Synthesis
- Performance
- General
- Reference
Sequencing
UW Swimming Laps:
Load and play a long sample - 2 bars. Start = 0, End = 127. While sample is playing, tweak Start to 127 then End to 0. The sample will reverse on the fly and start "swimming back" to the beginning.
You can get 4 bars out of 1 sample this way without retrigging (!) and it sounds nice with pads or chords. Set up a Rom machine, a CTR-8P and Scale Length 64/64.
Trig your sample at the beginning of Bar 1. Set your Sample Length and Hold to 127 so it does not fade out. Towards the end of the second bar, have CTR-8P move the sample's Length to 127 with a p-lock (I did it on trig 14). Then on the last trig of the bar (16) p-lock the sample's Start to 0. (I actually used some Slide trigs to mimic me turning the dials but doubt it's necessary).
The sample then turns around and swims back (summer metaphor).
Don't forget that at bar 4, trig 16, reset the CTR-8P so that Start is 0 and End is 127 again. This will tell the sample to swim the right way again.
I was thinking about this some more last night and the way it's described above, it's merely fun factor entertainment - nothing you couldn't do with trigs. So I put my thinking cap back on and ...
Use LFOs to modulate the CTR-8P Start and End time parameters. Then you have a randomly starting/reversing sample. Not something you can do with trigs as this would be totally random.
- Veets bbb
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Using the delay as a sampler:
You can sample the MD output in stereo at full bit rate using the MD delay.
(This can be used as an alternative to RAM machine mixing between patterns)
(Also allows you to high or lowpass filter the output of the MD)
If you set your rhythm echo parameters to
LEV = 0
FEEDBACK = 64
DELAY TIME = 127
FILTERF = 0
FILTERW = 127
MONO = 0
MOD = 0
Then go into the fx page of one of your tracks. Hold FUNCTION + DELAY and crank it up to 127 (make sure you do a full clockwise rotation from 0 to 127).
Hit play.. and then press stop after 16 steps.
Now if you turn up your delay volume you'll hear your 16 steps sampled
If the sequencer runs for more than 16 steps you'll get over dubbing. You could easily avoid this by switching into a blank pattern after the 16 steps has been sampled, then using an CTRL-RE machine to automatically turn up the volume on the delay.
The only real drawback to this method is that it overwrites any delay settings you may be using in your pattern. Also once you apply filtw and filtf to the delay loop you cannot revert back to an unfiltered version.
I should have added.. the delay loop does degrade over time. One last addition: This allows you to selectively sample. Which means you could sample say just the kick drum and snare.. as opposed to having to sample the entire output. You just choose which tracks you want to record by either sending them to the delay, or not.
- Justin Valer bbb
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Using an Input and MIDI Machine on the same track:
If an INP-GA or INP-GB machine is triggered, it will stay active until another machine that makes sound is triggered on that same track. This means you can have either a CTRL or MIDI machines occupying the same track as an INP machine.
Generally this would be done using 2 patterns with different kits.
Load an INP-GA machine on a track in your first pattern.
Load a MID machine on that same track number in your second pattern
The input machine will need to be triggered first in your first pattern kit. Then by switching into the second pattern it will be replaced with a MIDI machine. As MID machines produce no audio and tracks that make sound are only disabled by another track that makes sound, the input machine will stay active indefinitely.
You will lose all control of the INP machine and will only be able to disable it again when you trigger a non-midi, non-ctrl machine on that track.
Initially I found out about this feature/exploit by accident, and reported it as a bug to Elektron. It essentially allows you to have 18+ machines running on your machinedrum simultaneously.
- Justin Valer bbb
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Setting individual accent amounts for each track:
The amount of accent is shared between tracks but accent place is individual per track. So you can set accent to 8, put different accent points to different tracks, but they will all be accented by factor of 8 (at different points). And beyond this you always have individual control of each hit volume, length, pitch and so on with parameter locks.
- toni bbb
I have never used the accents on the Machinedrum - I just parameter lock in a volume tweak. Its faster for me.
- milkmansnd bbb
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Copying just one note's parameter locks in Grid Record Mode:
In grid edit, hold a trig key and then hit the play/copy button, then hold a different trig and hit paste, it duplicates all parameter locks, quite handy.
-ggoodwin bbb
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Using the Machinedrum to sequence external gear:
First of all, yes, the Machinedrum can sequence but its not nearly as intuitive as the live sequencer, or even the one in the mono machine for that matter. Load a MIDI machine, and you can assign a note to each step one by one using p-locks.
-milkmansnd bbb
You choose the MIDI channel you want to control when selecting the MIDI machine. You got 16 different ones. One for each channel.
- Rui Peixoto list
One good plus is using the Machinedrum to tweak another patch in the virus multi-mode. The Machinedrum LFO's can tweak the virus. You have to set your most wanted CC#s in the Machinedrum MIDI machine. Using the envelope input machine is something I have been discovering, too.
- endlessnessisticman list
You're using the Machinedrum to "play" your synth, right? That is, you've assigned a MIDI machine in the Machinedrum to control the synth note sequence. Assuming this, all you have to do is decide what are your six most favored MIDI controls that you'd like to tweak on the virus and assign them to CC's on the MIDI machine. Then tweak those while the pattern is recording and it will play them back correctly (assuming your changes fell where triggering was being done).
Now, you'd like to do this in song mode. This IS possible, but the solution is ugly :-) for example, if you're talking about having a pattern repeat 8 times while you tweak the parameters for it...you can have the Machinedrum record these changes as described above; BUT you would have to use 8 versions of the "base" pattern and have the parameter changes effect the pattern that they fall on. make sense?
BTW, if you want more than six CC controls for a given MIDI channel (for example on your virus) then you can just use another Machinedrum MIDI machine assigned to the same channel. this feature can also be used to increase the polyphony of the Machinedrum's external MIDI triggering ability. (since Machinedrum MIDI machines only use monophonic triggering.)
- Joe list
The Machinedrum has sequencing possibilities, but it's not like a regular soft sequencer. There are 16 parts in total, and they can be assigned to either internal Machinedrum sounds or MIDI sequencing parts (there are other possibilities as well, but they're not relevant here). Which means you can control a total of 16 external synths.
A MIDI sequencing part is basically monophonic (one trigger at a time, one basic note), but each step can play up to 3 notes simultaneously (triggered as one note). Which means that if you like to play big chords, you're in trouble. You would need a multitimbral synth, and set it up with the same sound on several channels. Not ideal.
It's not the most versatile of MIDI sequencers, but it does have its strengths, like the ability to set all parameters separately for each step (like CCs, eight per track). If you're using something like a modular analog synth with a MIDI-to-CV converter, you'll have a serious step sequencer. I've tried it with a Korg MS-20, and it works.
- Nils Odegaard list
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Changing the default notes numbers on the Machinedrum (IE, from c1-c3 to c3-c5):
These can be changed in the global settings area. Press function+[global] and select the slot that you want to edit. Press enter and select the MIDI section, map editor submenu. From there, you can change all of the track and pattern mappings.
- malyn bbb
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Realtime erase:
while in rec+play mode, hold exit/no and the trig key you want to erase. It will play the trig this time through the loop, but you will not hear it next time.
– ggoodwin bbb
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Can the Machinedrum pads transmit velocity or aftertouch?
No and no. However, you can have different volumes, decay, pitch or any parameter for each individual step with parameter locks, so it's no big deal achieving more "human" like feel for your sequences.
- Flavio Alvarez list
If its absolutely necessary, just bring along an oxygen 8 or other inexpensive controller that supports pressure sensitivity, and trigger The pads from there. In fact, with the oxygen, you'll even have 8 Extra knobs you can use, too. As far as I can remember, machinedrum Still responds to pressure sensitivity (mapped to volume) this way.
– Adam Watson list
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A different way of sequencing MIDI Machines:
Something a friend turned me on to, which I had never thought of for some reason: I was used to using one midi machine per synth I was sequencing. While we were both punching up patterns, he configured his Machinedrum with multiple midi machines, all transmitting on the same channel, and then set separate notes for each. This way you can enter Real-time Record and play eight or more notes into the sequence, just like a piano.
- jason vernon starnes list
Yeah, and as an extension of that, you could a make two octaves, one MIDI Machine on each track, tweak out a pattern live and then record it down to another sequence and repeat.
– jbeard list
If your looking for a step sequencer capable of driving external MIDI synths and samplers then the Machinedrum is one of the few choices that has it right with regard to tweaking while the sequence is playing. If you have been frustrated by the way the mc-series grooveboxes do this, or worse the rm1x, or even the emu xx-7 family you will find the Machinedrum a breath of fresh air. Only more esoteric (and expensive) things can work as intuitively and Interactively.
– drk list
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Cycling/Looping Patterns:
1. You press function and a different pattern you'll get the single arrow and no cycling back to the old one.
2. You hold the Bank button and more than one pattern button you'll get the double arrow and cycling multiple patterns in the order you pressed the pattern buttons.
- endlessnessisticman list
You can loop some patterns (I don't mean song mode) if you hold the bank button and then hold the patterns you want to be played in a loop. e.g. push and hold d+3+4+5+6 = Machinedrum plays 3-4-5-6-3-4-5-6-... the quantization depends on the pattern-quantization so you can play 16th-32th-6th-whateverth. If you don't want to compose a song, this is a nice feature. Also very good for live use.
- rolandsh32 list
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Realtime recording of external synths controllers onto MIDI Machine tracks:
As far as controlling the parameter values themselves from the Supernova (or any synth), I wasn't able to tweak the knobs and get the Machinedrum to record them. I had to map the Machinedrum knobs to the Supernova MIDI control values that I wanted to change and tweak from The Machinedrum.
- alan cannistraro list
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Making the Machinedrum do triplets:
You can achieve triplets if you set the pattern length to 12 or 24.