The red is bad for some eyes. Like mine.
It hurts real bad looking at that red. I, myself, would rather the white on black screen. I have two for my MNM and MD.
I don’t have the skills to make the change tho.
Had an OT and an MnM. While I miss both, they were overkill and unnecessary luxuries at this stage in my musical development. I hung on to my dear MD though.
Months to learn … years to master. But oh the rewards!
Will get an OT again one day … maybe. (I hold out almost no hope for affording another MnM…)
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If only there were a couple developers around who could make a new firmware for the MD with inverted colors on the display……
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I played with the contrast…its no good.
and the red letters would still fuck my eyes. the red is no good…for me.
I do know a couple people that sent theirs in for “repair” and requested a MnM display.
Elektron did do it, but they were also fixing actual broken stuff at the same time. Not just a screen change. Wonder if they still have the part.
And there’s about 50 threads about how people F’ed it up.
Maybe a few years ago when they were still 900$ used, but not at these prices.
Its not me that needs to do it, tho. I’m down w/ the red.
If my display died tomorrow, I wouldn’t need it. Its all muscle memory for me, like people who type 150 words per minute
I have two screens sitting in my parts drawer waiting to go in. A bunch of the folks here know the story of me murdering my MD trying the screen replacement myself.
Fortunately Elektron, at the time, had extra UI boards and saved my box from death.
I gotta find a shop [and the stones] to go thru with it.
I’ve got two screens like @infekted posted.
Why do I feel I need to post the decision meme with “burn eyes out with red screen” and “destroy machinedrum during replacement” in the other thread…
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You mean “destroy my MD trying to replace the screen myself”
The black screen is super SICK! CLEAN!
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I still think red is the right choice the company made, it doesn’t hit the eyes in the dark, while blue or white does.
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Looks great! But (for me) only the red one is true!
Also like the new Audio Parasite faceplate - but I would never swap 
if this has been posted [as I can’t find] can I be direct to…
I’m trying to find a chart that shows the correlation to the compressor settings and the value of the encoder 0 - 127.
actually any and all charts for stuff like that in the MD. got the tips and tricks manual…it aint there. that was another tips and tricks manual that covered the MD and MNM but I cant find that either anymore [not sure if that info was in there tho]
thanks
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are you refering to something like this?
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no…I mean something like…
THRD: 0 = -48, 3 = -47, 6 = -46 etc etc
RTIO: 0 = 1:1, 3 = 1:2, 6 = 1:3 etc etc
Got a machinedrum recently and I have no idea why they would orient the knobs like this. Such a weird design decision.
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That’s the “Next Level” document compiled by @Veets in 2011 from posts on elektron-users.com which is available here in the Files section:
Elektronauts
and linked to in the previous response to you by @ninqe.
As far as I know, nobody has sat down and measured the values in the way that you asked for. Maybe you could be the one to do it?
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I have to give a shout out to (I believe) Amanita who did some follow up and showed that my labels are an approximation because there is some “interaction”. This means that if you turn one knob far enough it might affect some other parameters somehow.
The mystery deepens.
Anyway I personally would use the MD compressor a bit but not much as it is too hard to figure out. Nowadays there are a lot of other attractive options. FWIW.
I did not get to do ratios. I just ran a square wave through the compressor and looked at what happened. There is a software called Plugin Doctor by DDMF that can do some advanced stuff like that. It was not available back then. Hope this helps.
Also it might be worth pointing out that the Elektron team did all this a few years after university and with a primitive internet. No YouTube etc. I really have to hand it to them for an amazing accomplishment for the time.
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I just might at that.
Thanks for link.
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it’s both my favourite and bizarre compressor i have access to.
this and the EQ really have such a dramatic and profound impact shaping your final sound from the main outputs.
any further info discovered would be interesting but spoil it’s dark secrets
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