Thoughts on Elektron Model:Samples after 3 years 

It is very pleasant to listen your voice and on top of that out of the box interesting ideas you came up with.

Great video and really great out of the box thinking! Thanks for sharing your insights on the MS. I have one sitting in my shelf for quite some time and now I really wanna try some different ideas and use cases. Really appreciating the fresh air and keep it up :)

Elektron customer service is really great. I also have a m:s and had the same issue with the keys sticking down. I contacted Elektron about it and they sent out a replacement button mat for free. I asked elektron if I should be concerned about the issue coming back, and they told me they had identified a manufacturing issue with the button mat and resolved it. It has been at least 2 years since I replaced the buttons, and I have zero issues with it. The model series machines are great little boxes. Sometimes I think I want more, but these are just so small and portable. That and I don't get complaints from the wife when I use them late at night as opposed to the click klack keys on my Octatrack.

What a great video! I've been thinking about buying one for a while now but I wasn't sure it'd fit well in my workflow. But you basically answered all the questions I had about this little unit.

I sold my MS in the past to buy a Digitakt instead and then i'd bought the Blackbox, and sold the Digitakt. Yesterday I bought a Model Samples again. I missed it

I admire your ability to articulate these detailed elaborate thoughts so well. I have the model cycles and inserted tape beneath the pads as well. That only helps to a degree like you say and is the main reason I don't use it much. My shoulder and wrist are very frail and start hurting quickly from stiff pads or similar repetitive strain.

Great one!

Thank you :D, great video

im so happy i saw this before and now that i have one (just got it a week ago) the synth workflow you described with wavetables?! so good. thank you for helping me wrap my head around this (and for ANY audio!) wtf!!??? thank you again man. do you have any more tutorials on it? i cant lie. im really into the m:s

Dude you are Faramir

Your videos are great these days. Great content, style and production. (Although there's a bit of clipping on the loudest bits of this one...) Only mod I've don't to my MS is add a 3.5mm stereo output.

Great coverage! I don't have any experience with the model series, but I do own both takts. I didn't know the models do midi sequencing and audio on one track; personally I'd find that confusing. The digi's entire second row of buttons (9-16) are dedicated midi channels. With everything going on with these boxes, one button per track/lane feels like a feature not a bug. But maybe I'm just dense lol

I'm exploring different ways of controlling rack synths, and I couldn't pass up a M:S on Reverb for $170 + 25 s/h with the cover. So now I'm kinda learning about it. This is pretty helpful! And it's the most pleasant color grade of any M:S video! 😂 It's funny how many samplers are great for sequencing external stuff. You can get a non-plus Polyend Play for under $400. The Play is awesome in a lot of ways. It has separate USB vs. TRS Jack MIDI busses, so you have 32 different channels you can assign to any step of any track. The less-than-great thing about the Play is that it's monophonic if you're recording from a keyboard. It can play chords if you actually program the chord (it has several chord options). And the selected sample is global. So the Play is a bit slower workflow for making a beat than most drum machines because every time you change which track you're working on you need to long-press one of the notes to select it as the current sample. The KO2 is awesome for controlling external stuff if you like working with a bunch of looping patterns. You have 4 groups of 12 pads and can assign any channel to any group/pad combination, and it's polyphonic, so it's great for playing your own chords on an external keyboard. And I love the buttons (I think they're cherry MX switches). I just always prefer to have a TR-style sequencer with 16 steps. That's why I think the M:S seems pretty great. It's more like a cut down Analog RYTM. I like the layout of the M:S so much more than a Digitakt. I just wish they had a nicer one with higher quality buttons and a bit better screen. If they made a $400 M:S except it was the build quality of a Digitakt and had an internal battery that lasted a couple hours people would love it.

Did you ever get weird looks while taking it out in public? I just realized it looks kinda like an explosive with the powerbank and the cables 😅 Great content btw, love yout videos 🙏🏻

Can you/somebody explain the tape modification behind the drumpads? I have the M:S and it would be great if I can make it more responsive for fingerdrumming

from where u got that crazy stickers? it looks awesome.

What's the most pratical way to paste 120 singel cycle wave forms into a wave table file

if i can only get one right now, cycles or samples? i have no drum machine at the moment, i use ableton

What is that orange 5 pin midi adapter to mini a b? I can’t find it

What kind of battery is that? Is that the Elektron battery they teased about?

Where do i get the colors you put on there? Are they stickers?

If you like volcas check out the Roland Aira compacts .

i loved my cycles but didn't get along with the samples

I will write a thank you at the front cuz Im taking you with me to the kitchen to make cofee and wake n bake and don’t wanna forget when my flea brained attention span gets moved on afterward to some distractive YT nonsense 🙃

what ripcord did you buy for the model samples?