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i dont know the answer to either question, but the CCs do max out pretty soon in my experience especially if you are real-time recording yourself doing knob twiddling. On the other hand if you manually input/step sequence the parameter locks you can have a lot more freedom and room before you max them out. And you've got me intrigued now, I am not aware of the MD's external gear sequencing abilities because i've never tried them. The monomachine has 6 whole midi tracks devoted to external triggering ( on top of the already 6 synth tracks) and each one can be assigned its own midi channel. Something similar can probably be devised on the MD but i imagine youd only get to trigger one piece of rack drum gear at most. Plus the Monomachine has a chromatic keyboard step input interface, where the MD does not. So trying to externally sequence say your Nord Lead with the MD would be a bitch using step sequencing, but a breeze using the monomachine's step sequencer. for example the Monomachine will tell you which note and octave you are about to input, and you can stack them to make chords if you put it on poly mod. The nice thing is even if it's on mono-mode for it's internal synth engine, you can stack notes (chords/ polyphony) on each 6 channels of your external midi tracks.

while i can understand thinking the EQ and compressor aren't that fully featured, i don't now too many drum machines (synthesis or otherwise) that let you EQ and compress the master bus with such ease. I'm also not sure what you mean by it 'lacked punch' , compared to what? other digital drum machines or analog drums? I will agree that the MD sound is hard to completely escape from, but if you don't like the MD sound i would not get one. Monomachine is a far more flexible beast, and is also great for sequencing patterns and melodies on external synth and drum gear. I use my monomachine to control my Polyevolver, Novation Drumstation, Vermona Drm1 and Eventide Eclispe (i use the parameter CC lock sequencer to fuck with the effect parameters) all at the same time. and while im doing this i can also utilize 6 voices of monomachine synthesis.

Kcinsu, you have an open invitation to come over here to masturbate indefinitely with my machinedrum. I live about 20 minutes from your house by car, probably 40 minutes by BART it will also give me the opportunity to show off my VL1

Kill the King, and Thirsty Fish are probably my favorite LPs by him. I don't really find any of the stuff he put out past 2000 to be worth the price of admission. download these ones first to check them out.

sounds quite boring! I see no reason to let a more powerful machine collect dust in your corner, the Elektron can't duplicate the 808 and the 808 can't come close to touching what the Elektron is capable of. in other words, why not use both? i use a novation drum station with mine and its great. not as good as a real 808 obviously but pretty close everybody check out a few Futureimage albums at juno.com, some of the finest music i have ever heard using monomachines and machinedrums

sweet, i miss my frac rack case, i still have about 5 modules sitting around i should probably either make one or buy the one blacet sells. Do you know of any other more sturdy Doepfer like cases but for frac rack? I can't seem to find any besides Blacet's and miniwave is fucking awesome, i think probably my favorite Blacet module besides Time machines (which i am jealous of after buying the dopefer bucket brigade delay module)

please give us a money shot closep of the modulars or at least tell us what they are (modules/brands/frac/eurorack)

im fascinated by how authentic some of this stuff sounds. have these artists said that they sample much from old library music? a lot of it sounds like original material

i love my monomachine and md, but recently my Monomachine has been loosing its internal memory like once a week, the battery probably needs to be replaced

can't win them all , i wonder if the kill the king tshirt i own is unauthorized

sounds like it must have been pretty intriguing to listen to a whole 2 hours, ill have to listen. It's the thing posted on the first page ?

i love how you fancy yourself the expert of dubstep is that why i keep asking questions in this thread to the actual experts? i really like dub music but most of my knowledge from dubstep comes from this forum. what gave you the impression that i 'fancy myself' an expert of dubstep

16bit stuff sounding good! i love the dubstep stuff that has a true and understanding connection to actual dub music.

sadly i know more than one artist personally who suffers from the same problem. Insanely talented almost autistic like genius but absolutely abominable personality wise, zero social skills unfortunately these two go together pretty often.

yeah, i can certainly see this. he was always responsive when i asked questions about his work, but his answers were difficult and hard to understand.. any attempt to draw more than a cryptic answer out of him was met with derision what are the horror stories? autechre seemed to be able to handle him enough to do two releases with him.. mostly just stories involving very diva like behavior and burning bridges within the experimental community. i don't want to mention any names because even world wide the scene is still very small. One particular story i remember was described to me by a friend of a drone label owner who put out a very costly H30 special edition, apparently he got into debt because of the expense of this h30 project, he was so dedicated to it seeing the light of day that he refinanced his home to get extra immediate funds. When it finally came out (after some understabdle delays) Mckenzie started posting messages to several online mailing lists telling people not to buy this release because it didn't come out exactly how he wanted. It was a big enough deal that i think it soured a lot of people in the scene on working with him. I trust the sources implicitly that i heard this from.

Fuck and masturbatorium are kind of fascinating, if only for the concept and the photos of andrew jacking off into a bucket in the linear notes (not to mention precum emanating from his cock on the cover) i've never heard masturbatorium, was the 3rd part of that trilogy ever released?

i love his early works, thirsty fish especially. his later stuff kind of dropped off for me, the drones are too unchanging and not as textural. he is a weird guy, i've heard several 'horror' stories from pretty well known artists in the experimental scene about him though, apparently he is ridiculously hard to work with edit: i miss the all the 80s post industrial ambient/experimental stuff though. I feel like a lot of experimental drone and ambient music made now is too sterile and digital sounding in comparison

i think the 'fatcats' who make money directly off of green business is only a tip of the iceberg for the type of people who who will benefit monetarily or otherwise from having these regulations. cap and trade to me seems like a way for all the polluting corporations to league together and say 'we polluted the shit out of this planet since the industrial revolution, but that was ok because everyone was doing it, but since you're just starting to do this now we can't let you' to me it seems transparently a means to stifle rising competition. analogue wings is right, when has a corporation ever gotten into big trouble for breaking the law or a regulation? usually they just get slapped a fine and to them it's cheaper just to pay the fines than it is to actually follow the regulations.

while i believe climate change is a serious issue i think the way the mainstream debate about it has been framed is false. unfortunately most people are either on the side of 'global warming doesn't exsist, look at all that snow!' to 'carbon taxing is a great idea, lets hand over the power to the federal government who is basically controlled by corporations to stifle competing industries' anybody here know about one of michael Crichton's last book? It was critically panned because it was a story about how both sides of the global warming debate are part of a secret conspiracy. the things bolded i think are pretty genuine concerns that barely anybody talks about, msot of the time the 'conflict of interest' assertion is only leveled at skeptics of the mainstream climate change theories, people always say they work for oil companies. the level of faith that people have for the people who will be instituting these regulations is pretty astounding in comparison.

it's pretty good, i don't think adding pop instrumentation to dubstep quite counted as 'game changer' though

Nickodemus remix by Kush Arora now on the front page of urb magazine http://www.urb.com/2009/11/17/nickodemus-2-sips-magic-kush-arora-remix-x-remix-album/ full track streaming there... Nickodemus “2 Sips & Magic (Kush Arora Remix)”

if i have someone to go with next time ill check out one of those redline parties , do you know of anything like that coming up Jasper? im surprised its taking people that long to start taking massive dubstep parties outside of clubs (and more into the renegade or unpermitted format) here in the bay area, but on the same token i don't pay too close attention to the scene so ive likely been missing them for quite some time

yeah nommo ogo have imo carved out one of the best underground scenes the east bay area (outside SF) has had in a while mostly in the last 2-3 years. The Katabatik parties used to be relatively small but recently they have kind of blown up , which is awesome for how avant-garde and dark the music usually is (ie: entire dj sets comprised of caberet voltair and john carpenter). if you havent already check out 'the Sea Finally Surfaces' , it was one of the last records out on Isolate i highly recommend it. edit: unfortunately the 'home' for Katanexus, their monthly is not really usable anymore so they are looking for a new location at the moment. Although this last place i posted that Dubstep show link for, the Bordello is an absolutely ridiculous Winchester Mystery house on mushrooms type of venue. I've never seen anything like it before, i hope they keep doing parties there.

spukkin faceship (great guy from spaz, a renegade sound system collective out here), nommo ogo (not dubstep but they reside in the bay great electronic music), kush arora has been wokring out here for a while too, his earlier stuff (which he was doing out here before almost any other producer) is much more grimeish and even kind of industrial , the new sutff much closer to actual dubstep. Also for dj sets mixes, Dj Ripley is pretty awesome. edit: just remembered this other guy Sub Swara who kush just has been telling me about for a while, until recently his stuff didn't float my boat but he just put out a few really crazy new tracks that i love. just realized hes in NY not SF, but check him out anyway if you havent