I wholeheartedly agree.
I have said it many times.
The power of the MD is in the box.
If someone spends time, to love the MD, they will discover this.
We are but messengers.
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It bums me out that more often than not when I come across cool sounds or tips/tricks for MD, it’s usually UW sample manipulation. Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough.
this is always my go-to listen for beautiful, pure MD synthesis. from an Elektron party in 2002, so it’s well before the UW came about. it is, however, two MD’s and two operators at once (@nils being one of them).
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Honestly try fucking with the lfo menu and some sine waves or an fm cowbell or something and you’ll find the gold
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Here’s an album of mine that is 100% MD synthesis using the X.04 firmware and GND machines only.
There are also some more recent tracks of mine in the Current Sounds thread that are MD-synthesis only. The MD synthesis is where it’s at for me. Extremely capable, absolutely love it!
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It’s up to you to create in in “Mission Briefs” a Track Challenge using only MD synthesis, same as Ryan did with cowbells ^^
Here is my 100% MD track I did for the said challenge, with only 3 samples from SNL (action starts at 1:05)
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Awesome! @chiasticon listening now, this is great. @korpinen, will listen once I’m done with this Elektron party set!
@Bitsnbobs yeah, I really enjoy throwing LFOs at tonal sounds. It gets so silly in a good way.
@LyingDalai nice, I hadn’t delved into the Briefs from before I joined. Lots of gold in here to check out.
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I love the Elektron Machinedrum
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Lovely track. The new firmware opens up so much more possibilities too. GND synth machines are a great addition.
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I only use the machines on the MD.
Here the my latest share of a little MD jam on insta in prep for a live show. There are a few MD only clips in my profile.
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What OS you running on your MD?
X.09 unofficial.
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This is a sps1 MK2, with latest oficial firmware 
I got this model luckily before prices went crazy some years ago, just interested on its synthesis engine and different sound generation capabilities.
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My only problem with my Machinedrum is needing to put down a MnM to get deep into it, and that I sold a few analog monosynths to get there.
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Wish I had monomachine
Watch out for Machinedrum scams on eBay folks. There’s I believe 2 from Brazil at the moment. I fell prey to one from Lithuania. I’ve been promised a refund but it still wasted a whole month when I could have bought a legitimate one.
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That is sad. Sorry to hear that.
I saw that and was wondering if that was the case. Always starting bid at $99.00
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The item photos on at least one listing are stolen from a blog from years ago, a quick reverse image search found.
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That’s crazy sorry to hear it - I got scammed in a slightly different way with a machinedrum - the guy claimed it had been broken in the post then saw it for sale with a new screen for double what he paid me