A Taste of the New Monomachines

[Gert van Santen]

M-.-n schreef:
>> I think it might just be because I don't see the point of a digital drum
> machine.
> 
> It's just a question of sound, like pretty much everything. I think 80% of
> the minimal techno guys use the MD and love it's digital clean-ness... to
> the point that I'm sometimes wondering if the whole movment has not been
> triggered indirectly by elektron. The MD has big ass names raves from people
> like Ritchie Hawtin & Ae.. you could get worse :)

RH rocks.

> That being said, I have a huge love/hate relationship with mine. I like the
> sound engine and philosophy but I don't like the sequencer as I find it way
> too fiddly and its way too easy to fuck things up. It's nice to get sounds
> out, I'm totally unable to build any decent song structure out of it.

If you feed the MD through some tubes (like I do with mine; I use 
an SPL Charisma II) you can really make that digital sound come 
alive. :-)

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