In 2008 I ordered for the Monomachine. I was fascinated with the speech synthesis and the promo video. When the machine arrived I was lost , the manual was unhelpful, there were no online tutorials and I knew nothing of sound synthesis. I sent back the Monomachine and was relieved. Came the Analog Rytm. This time I studied the Elektron’s work flow for two months thanks to online help and Cuckoo. I was fascinated with the parameter locking of the sequencer, something that Machine drum had then. Today I own the AR Digitone Digitakt OT MkII And.. I’m desperately looking for a Monomachine 😜😜😜😜 Elektron 👍👍👍👍 simply magical.
@@antfactor Oh yea for sure, Machinedrum and Monomachine are easily some of the best Elektron boxes, but I agree the price can't be justified. You can do a lot with their new products.
@@antfactor Just a few months before your comment I picked up a MD UW+ for 1.5k ...Was hard to justify, for sure - but the more I’ve used it, it’s grown indispensable.. Such a unique sounding and powerful box. Now same condition MD going for 3k! (but sadly, so is MnM)
To anyone who has the Monomachine and Analog four I highly recommend controlling them with the Novation Remote SL 37 (MK1) since it has 2 midi outs you can control both of them without switching any cables just switch between the two templates and you can run midi clock to them from whatever source you’re working with through the SL 37. That gives you 37 keys AND a joystick to control this synths much like you would with the original keyboard versions. Definitely my favorite way to add keys to these machines and you can find the SL 37 dirt cheap on eBay since it’s a pretty old controller at this point.
@@sheateeley1 Me too but MnM is unobtanium for me now. Was lucky to get a MD before prices skyrocketed, A4 and OT - but at 3k, MnM is just too much now :(.
Very cool vid. As a machinedrum MKII UW+, Monomachine SFX60+ MKII, and Analog Keys owner.... this vid makes me smile... I just wish I was smart enough back in the day to order the monomachine keyboard when it was still obtainable. What a beauty! Just put in my order for the RYTM!!!
Wow! Its only watching this I realize how long I have been a lover of Elektron! I remember emailing Daniel before the MD came out. If I had known there were only 500 SFX-6's Id have kept mine :-) It was a beta and the O.S. REALLY confused me - it setled down a few months later but I was too confused at the time - lesson learned! Dont judge a product by beta O.S.s! I really miss the joystick, they should have kept that. I have #93 of the last 100 Sidstations made, SFX-60 & MDUw, (had and sold a) SFX-6. Here is to many more years together Elektron!!! Now PLEASE put overbridge in the MD & MnM!!!
Great interview and demo. I found Elektron stuff to have a bit of a learning curve, but once you get into it, it's absolutely amazing. Can';t wait for my rytm :)
Can't get enough of that Elektron stuff. Thanks for the exposé. Seems the complicated interfaces started off with SID-station. Can only get better after that... Still every piece of equipment they make leave me drooling.
Elektron is hands down the best hardware company! I’ve got the Machinedrum UW, Monomachine, Octatrack, Analog four and Analog RYTM and I couldn’t be happier with that combo. I’ve abandon my computer almost entirely during the creating and writing process as a result 💪🏽
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see a video, maybe if you could get 2-4 eurorack module company's in studio and having a modular talk. I'm dying to see a little more modular!! Haha
Interesting video- I learned a lot of new stuff. I thought you two were going to jam together on the MonoMachine though!! It would've been fun to watch.
Respect to Elektron, I wished I payed more attention to electron products when they came out, even the older product still sound fresh and incredible, perfectly engendered!
I had a Commodore 64 as a kid! Loved that PC and wish I still had it! I used to play MIDI stuff on it.
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Cool guys! I would like to have all that history.. Nick, how it felt to have all of those machines and Cenk in the studio?? :) I believe lights got glitchy and Hector came to say hello. Love it!
I ordered a Machinedrum when they first came out, and although it sounded awesome, there was a real issue with noise (clicks and pops). Electron first tried to fix it with a new power supply. Eventually I sent it back to them for another unit that had a worse problem: the blank screen of death. They tried to have me fix it with a fuse, but in the weeks that passed I basically gave up on getting this to work. I'm pretty sure I lost my Machinedrum (which I always hoped to get repaired) when we moved from California to Washington State. I'm sure these machines don't have issues like this anymore, I just got unlucky.
I got a machinedrum right at the beginning as well, and I got a unit with a dead screen. I had to pay over $100 to ship it to Elektron, even though it was 100% their fault. Elektron then proceeded to take over 2 months to fix it and ship it back. I don't remember thinking very much of their customer service at the time. Then they charged like $600 for the sampling upgrade which I considered to be highway robbery considering how expensive the MD was. I was pissed off about that high price. Over time, Elektron became my favorite instrument manufacturer, but it's been a rocky road. Rytm is my favorite, OT is my least favorite, and I'm quite excited to see how I like my Digitakt when it arrives.
You guys must have gotten unlucky, or maybe the first few runs of the Machinedrum weren't as refined as the later ones. The MD UW+ that I own now has no digital clicks and I got lucky and bought a secondhand one just before they stopped producing them for 800 bucks all up.
Im confused at 15:50 the vocal/talk box effect that is played on the MONOMACHINE , how is that created , is it ure own voice recorded in then sent thru a effet for that sound, or is it just a standard preset with a short 20sec sentance (phrase)....i have just noticed that on the new ARTURIA micro freak it has a similar type preset with almost the very same identical phase as abbove....how is this created without a talkbox....???....I grew up listenong to a hip hop song called Black Superman by Above the law and this has the same sound, if anyone has the time to here me out and listen to the song on the bridge before the last verse and chorus, and if you could explain what instruments are creating this effect (as above on the MONO or the ARTURIA micro freak they could be sampled phrases for all i know)....??any help would be great as id love to get my hands on the equipment responsible....PS>THANKS n BIG UP TO DATALINE HIMSELF🔥🔥🤯👾👾& GODSPEED TO ELEKTRON
havent checked out the track but in this demo at 15 its pure synthesis that is deriving that sound. i thinknit has something to do with formant filters. but you could get something similar with any vocoder software and some creative filtering. i can almost guarantee that in the song you mentioned they used a vocoder edit: i checked out black superman, its 100% a vocoder, which is technically speaking, a very different instrument than the monomachines synthesis engine.
As old as they are after the first one, they are so creative and hands on the old ones still have a very relevant place for them now... the new ones with these seem like a hands on dream...
I regret selling my momomachine more than I regret selling my SP12 for $750 ten years ago. Hoping they make an MK3 in the near future. Until then, I have my Digitone Keys which I absolutely love. It will also be a future classic, watch.
James Jackson no you cant but I think you can do that with some of the Dave Smith synths. Oh also the Boomstars you can do that, but that would be an expensive polysynth.
kartulipuder There are a couple similarities in the programming style, and layout for sure. Interesting observation. Of course, sampling, parameter locks, wildly different synthesis engines, multiple outputs, trigger inputs stand out as innovations.
Your form factor, reminds me when I was programming songs on my Korg Karma I had years back. Getting into my Roland Fantom G was very different for comparison... although the effects on it are much wider for tinkering, I actually preferred warmer ones on Fantom X. Each keyboard basically has its own way for programming it. Funny thing is, what I've learned from going through several Korg synthesizers, I actually had to unlearn, in order to play Roland synths lol
Rumor has it that the USB port on the OT was integrated in such a way that it can only function as mass storage access to the CF card. Which means no direct access to the CPU so this can't be programmed in. The other thought was that the USB port might not be able to handle 8 stereo audio streams at once which seems like a very real possibility if it is USB 2.0. My OT isn't even a year old and I will be slightly pissed if they release a MKII version to add Overbridge in.
E. Z. West lol sorry. I didn't mean to get your hopes up. Elektron has not announced nor hinted at an OT MKII. The Elektron forums have just been speculating of a MKII due to the Over bridge incompatibility.
I'm really amazed with the RYTM. It's looking to be a powerhouse combo of a little of everything. I can't wait to get it. I'm not looking to collect all of them, because I don't want to sell a kidney just yet. But the RYTM seems to handle a bit of it all. All I ever knew of Elektron was the Machinedrum, but I am more than glad that they have become such a strong synth company now!
dear god im praying to you today to that you inspire elektron to release an instrument that has 16 tracks and polyphony of the machinedrum, the synth engine of the monomachine, the sequencer and effects of the analog four and the sampler/synthesis engine of the octatrak. oh and god tell elektron i will pay $5000 maybe $6000 CAD for it.
that machinedrum and monomachine have a lot of features the rytm and of corse the octa shoulda have f.e. eq per channel. that kinda pisses me off. cenk put some work in a new update for those two machines. overbridge is good features but core buisness shoulda be your superexpensive machines!!!
(now former) Elektron Ceo, had to read 'manual' for the SIDstation, subtly dissing the monomachine... Wonder why the latest Elektron products sucked so much!
Why do all elektrons have such a limited polyphony? It's 2019 and we have technology power to do much more than limited single figure polyphony!! Peace ✌️ out people
the only stupid design decision they made is : push /press ... The printing board and encoders will die out eventually ...happens with all elektron machines ...
New analog synths just don't cut it. They sound thin in comparison with older units with larger circuitry. I prefer something like the MiniNova through effects then these new "analogue" machines.
1997, the start of computer geek video gamers who wanted to play around with computerized beats and recorded sampled. sounds... to help revolutionize, music into a simpleton, abandoned, effortless appeal of expression... shameful device from a true musicians standpoint..
