The Mono lets you change kit wherever you want in song mode, or even in pattern mode - just switch pattern with different kit.
head explodes
might seem simple, but i didn’t realize that !
awesome.
still torn on this debacle.
here’s some A4 i love:
https://soundcloud.com/floppydisk-pirates/dear-bobby-arp-short-bpm-sound?in=floppydisk-pirates/sets/analog-four-bpm-soundpack#t=1:08
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another perhaps-ridiculous question:
both units have a “free play” mode in which you can record a finger-played sequence w/ optional quantization, right ?
OSCar
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The Mono has realtime record but quantize is always active (unless I’ve over poked something for ages) . That said it can sound incredibly skewed in weirdest ways imaginable. Personally the sound is a lot (to my ears at least like old skool Warp records releases) and anything it lacks sonically can be easily made up for with the six midi tracks. Sure its reverb isn’t as nice as the A4’s but the independent digital delay per track is wonderful, the filters can have a really glorious sweet spot also but take a while to get the most out of.
Remember you also have Ringmod, Chorus, Dynamix, Reverb, Phaser, Flanging, and Thru Machines on the MnM plus incredibly flexible routing.
Song mode is incredibly flexible also with tempo, step number step length etc all being able to be changed per pattern register for some pretty freaky sequencing and I adore the Program Change parameter locking per over midi also. Could do some super cool things with it when I owned an Evolver.
A quick question whilst we’re on the subject…
Do the A4’s inputs use voice slots / tracks?
In other words, if I were to mix a delay send on a mixer and send it into the A4, would I lose and A4 track?
tsv
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The ext ins do not use up voices if you want to send to the reverb, chorus or delay. If you wanted to access the filters then yes you need to give up voices by setting the osc to external input.
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tsv
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The mono cannot. It always quantized to 16th notes. There are ways of messing with the swing trigs to adjust the feel.
The A4 quantize can be turned off. You also have micro timing adjust per trig.
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guga
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The mono cannot. It always quantized to 16th notes. There are ways of messing with the swing trigs to adjust the feel.
The A4 quantize can be turned off. You also have micro timing adjust per trig. [/quote]
micro timing would be great on the MnM, that’s one of the features i miss…
One of the options on the MnM mk2 is wavetable synthesis, which you may know already from the manual as the DigiPro machines. You can load the waves of your choice into memory quite easily, and if you get a new unit – something I’d recommend – its plus drive will give you thousands of wave slots (though admittedly you can only access 64 waves at a time).
One of the p-lockable parameters is the wave a particular note is based on. So on a single track, you can build each note from a different wave if you like. You can also build a note by combining two waves, with plockable parameters to control how one morphs into the other, how they balance relative to each other, etc. And aiming LFOs at these parameters is a blast 
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The ext ins do not use up voices if you want to send to the reverb, chorus or delay. If you wanted to access the filters then yes you need to give up voices by setting the osc to external input. [/quote]
That’s excellent news!
Thanks!
It theoretically means I don’t have to take my TC reverb and delay units out to gigs.
tsv
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The ext ins do not use up voices if you want to send to the reverb, chorus or delay. If you wanted to access the filters then yes you need to give up voices by setting the osc to external input. [/quote]
That’s excellent news!
Thanks!
It theoretically means I don’t have to take my TC reverb and delay units out to gigs.
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There’s no pre fader send on the A4 Ext so you can’t get 100% wet for your effects sends but you can make it work i’m sure.
Daisuk
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I love both to bits, but I think the sonic range of the Monomachine is just extraordinary. I sometimes bump into “sameish”-sounds when making random patches on the A4, while I hardly ever do that when using the similar approach with the MnM. It depends on what kind of music you want to make though. If weirdness and glitched out space-fuckery is your thing, then MnM all the way. If you can’t make a good patch on the MnM, to whoever said he couldn’t, you’re just not aiming weird enough. 
If I HAD to choose … I’d get both.
so excited right now… figure that either way you can’t lose…
but i like WEIRD.
crisp.
haunting.
clicky.
glitchy.
reverby.
FM bells.
bass-heavy.
rippy.
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If, by “brain of my work station”, you mean MIDI sequencing of the K4 and TX81Z, then the Monomachine is the one to choose.
The Monomachine is old enough that there are some incredible bargains available second-hand and, if you didn’t like it you could sell it on without losing any money.
Just to sway you further:
seems like i could really get my Nitzer Ebb on with the MnM !!!
I could just hook up my midi kybd to the MnM and play it just like this guy’s doing, right ?
few questions i thought up:
can i set each step’s note velocity on the MnM ?
what exactly is a userwave and how does it pertain to the latest version of the MnM ?
does the MnM possess an “infinite” reverb or anything close in terms of decay ?
tsv
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few questions i thought up:
can i set each step’s note velocity on the MnM ?
what exactly is a userwave and how does it pertain to the latest version of the MnM ?
does the MnM possess an “infinite” reverb or anything close in terms of decay ?
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Yes you can p lock the volume parameter on each step
A user wave is a single cycle waveform that can be loaded into a MKII and used in two of the DigiPro machines. You can load 64 available at one time. These can be AKWF or ones you make yourself etc.
I’ll have to check on the reverb. I have not used it much.
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^ thanks !
i gotta seek out how these are made & what they sound like…
tsv
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Just checked out the reverb. Its based on the Gatebox reverb of the MD. At full decay it’s only a couple seconds max. Much better suited for ambience and gated effects.
The A4 reverb on the other hand can. As I mentioned before I usually have one of the MNM’s aux channels going through the A4 effects.
[quote=““tsv””]
There’s no pre fader send on the A4 Ext so you can’t get 100% wet for your effects sends but you can make it work i’m sure. [/quote]
That’s a shame.
Feature request then!
