I just bought a Monomachine

Since it’s not sure if the Anyma Omega will arrive, I doubled down on throwing money out of the window and got another crazy Synth: The Monomachine! From Elektronaut @Soarer, who got it from Elektronaut @cornelius.

It just arrived today, and I took it for a spin :wink:

All sounds from scratch, of course. The Hihat is done withe one of the FM machines, for example.

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I’ll post some thoughts about the differences between all the Elektrons soon, since now I either own or have owned everyone of them. Except the Sidstation, but … I kinda have one (see left of the pic) :wink: And yes, that’s a mess of cables. I’m rebuilding my Jaspers Stand this week.

Best wishes to everyone!

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I hope you enjoy. I had a blast in 2019 with one of it.

Congratulations!

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So glad for you, these silver boxes seem to be in good hands!!!

Things you might want to try:

  • layering tracks (one can trigger another)
  • SID arp (launches when you press at least two notes)
  • FX busses
  • arp on drums!
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whaaaaaaat!!!

The crazy noises in the beginning are short sounds on one track routed into then chorus on another track, with filter and distortion (the chorus itself filtered and distorted, that’s what sounds like kicks and squeals and what not).

At first I did not get it to work, because the field for the input (Assign) was empty, and I could not make out why. But it was because I was in the wrong mode :woman_facepalming:

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Yeah, plenty to learn in this machine…

Oh, I forgot: you can obviously make it sing!

More seriously: parameter slides are the best. Say you have the same parameter plocked on trig 1 and trig 16: with parameter slide, every trig in between will not interrupt the slide, so it’s like you have a linear LFO set between the two trigs. You’ll love this!

Anyway, these are some hidden corners, you seem to already smash it pretty well ^^

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The two or three things I’m most excited about: FM without snapping to harmonics and FM into Chorus CLANK (like one can do only on the Analog Four of current available Elektrons - CATENATION aka Dissonant Witchcraft on Instagram: "busted out the @weareelektron #analogfour again #analogfourmkii #elektron #analogsynth #analogsynthesizer #analogfourmk2" ) and Filter into Distortion (which can only be done on the Syntakt [of current avaiable Elektrons]… well and kinda on the A4, but it’s a less satisfying experience than on ST, MnM or MD). The latter is what I’m doing with the Kick, no FX bus needed, it just gives that “for free” :wink:

It’s like (at 05:39)

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Congrats!

It’s weird. I’m in the process of… letting go the desire for many instruments I once got interested in (of drolled over). Unexpectedly, the MonoMachine has popped up twice in my readings lately, and… well… No, I must be confused.

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The sale thread is now closed, so I can’t reply there anymore. However, I think I’m going to print that out :smiley: @obscurerobot

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Nice, always wanted to try one too, have fun with it.

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yah.

And in case you didn’t know, that’s a mess of cables.

Anyway, also check out GitHub - johnnywagner/MnMSCC: Elektron Monomachine Single-Cycle Chord Generator by @jw.

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Congrats again!
Incredible how different this device sounds in different hands :grinning::+1:

How did you create those nice Hoover sounds?

Thanks - and enjoy one of the best machines ever been made!

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It’s the SWAVE-SAW machine in extreme settings. That’s what most people do wrong when recreating this sound: Tame settings …

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A doodle from a minute ago. Was more about getting familiar with it than making a great tune :stuck_out_tongue:

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Second one is banger, like early AFX tracks

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I was just thinking the same :slight_smile:

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Great minds…

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Great bangers :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Cool! I suspected a SAW-ENS Machine.

Did you use LFOs here?
Those classical sounds done by changing the envelopes to slow attack / high sustain?

Thanks for your help - and for letting this classical device shine :grinning::vulcan_salute:

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Is it pure Monomachine?

hm? what would be an unpure Monomachine? :smiley:

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