Elektron Monomachine

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: Elektron Monomachine

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Announced at Frankfurt in 2003, the Monomachine is at last ready for the shops. The Monomachine is just 17.5cm deep and almost a metre long. The keyboard’s synth and sequencer controls, backlit display and four-direction joystick sit to the side of the 37-note, velocity-sensitive keyboard, rather than above it as you might expect.

The Monomachine is in fact six-part multitimbral, with five individual monosynths at the user’s disposal:

• Super Wave, an analogue-style subtractive synth, with saw, pulse and ensemble modes;

• SID, based on the Commodore 64’s SID chip, as used in Elektron’s own Sidstation;

• Digi Pro, based on the percussion synth from the Machinedrum, which specialises in electronic drum sounds;

• FM+, an FM synth;

• and VO, a formant synth for synthesizing vocal sounds.

Each synth is completely independent, with its own sequencer track and effects section featuring five effects: an EQ, a 24dB-per-octave resonant filter with low-pass, high-pass and band-pass modes, tap-style tempo-sync’ed delay, distortion and a bit reducer.

The Monomachine has a headphone output, six analogue outputs and two inputs all on quarter-inch jacks, plus MIDI In, Out and Thru at the rear. It’s available now to order direct from Elektron, priced at 1950 Euros (currently equivalent to £1360). A smaller version, the Monomachine SFX60, with all the same functionality but without the keyboard and steel joystick, is also available, priced at 1350 Euros (currently £940).

http://www.monomachine.com

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

That is so nerdy tech cool. Mmmmm... time for a loan.

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject:

Nerdy indeed! Very Happy

If you buy ten you get a propeller and a new pocket protector thrown in for free.

( Just kidding)

egw · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

I don't like the layout of the monomachine. Seems silly.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

I like that your controls are situated for you left hand, rather than over the keyboard itself, playing Hand Twister to manipulate the sound. Surely it is a preference thing.

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

Personally I am most in favour of the layout of the Odyssey, the CAT2, the Oberheims etc. ( no wonder.. I started out on such gear ) but it seems like the Monomachine has been pretty well thought out. Dunno about the sounds yet though. I guess I saw some links to some demo sounds at the site.

themoors · Joined: Dec 15, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: northern england

Looks very impressive, I wonder if the different synthesis methods are interchangable?

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

Nah.. well.. the way I read the specs it has 5 monosynths.. and you can layer sounds or play them individually.. I might be wrong. But the website has many audio examples.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject:

Just heard from Elektron that their little monster, the Monomachine is ready for the shops.

play · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject:

sure it looks cool, but can you throw it against the wall, stomp on it with steel toes, stick it in the oven and submerge it in the ocean for a fortnight and not drop a single control signal?

That's what I'm lookin for.

play · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:19 pm Post subject:

oh yeah. it reminds me of this:

http://www.noiseusse.org/bb/topic-57.html

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:21 am Post subject:

Hmm.. that is an excellent pix you have there! Very Happy

But will the NekoCar survive soaking?