Autechre MD+MnM sysex files! [+ MPC, Nord]

Does C6 indicate the number of kits, patterns etc when you originally load the file there? If not, redownload the sysex file.

Are you trying to load into an instrument that already has patterns and kits loaded? If so, you need to use the “Orig” receive method. Note that this will write over whatever is in the instrument currently.

Give us a step-by-step write up of what you’re doing if the above doesn’t work.

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Some little notes from my couple hours going through banks A through D:

They use hold LFOs a lot, which I had never used before. This gives every sound its own kind of bounce. They seem to use it with the filter base and width most commonly, amp volume sometimes too. I had to look at he LFO chart in the manual again to be sure I understood just what it’s doing…

The arp on bbox, particularly on pattern B08, works really well.

They routed an LFO to the retrig and another to the retrig time of the Bbox. Cool sounding stuff.

B14 has a reverb trig on every step. If you play with the amp decay (even send an LFO to it) you get a really nice, percussive gated reverb effect.

They utilize some distorted reverbs and it sounds pretty sweet.

Sometimes there are p locks where all they’ve done is turned the volume to 0. I wonder if this was so they could easily add variation without a new pattern? Go to a p lock, turn its volume back up to unity and suddenly you’ve got a “new pattern”. I imagine they played with various volume p locks live as a means of introducing quick and easy variation…But that’s just a hunch.

That’s all I got so far. Note selection is to be expected…Lots of half step stuff. It seems they use Swave Pulse a lot, as well as FM+ Dyn with uneven ratios.

Oh and lastly, from what I can tell they never once turned off the HPF and LPF key tracking :wink:

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@pselodux, correct me if I’m wrong but I thought I saw you post a youtube of you going through these banks. Did you pull it down?

So …who will perform those patches and record it in multitrack? :stuck_out_tongue:

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I think that’s called “Quaristice + Quaristice Versions + Quaristice.quadrange.ep.ae” :wink:

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I use pieces cut out of a transparent plastic document folder (check your office supply stores!) over the screen to dim it down a bit. Purple seems to look best on camera.

Also, good webcam and bright lighting, yeah.

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Hold LFOs are the best things. I’m surprised you haven’t used them. Especially on the silver boxes, it’s the best source of random and best way to add at least some variation and life to repeating patterns in a world without conditional trigs.

(And side note - I think Monomachine’s LFOs are my favorite Elektron LFOs. Having three of them with so many p-lockable params is a powerful resource).

It looks like their Monomachine usage is about as I expected. I still can’t wait to dig into it. But I’m thinking it’s the Machinedrum stuff I’m most keen to dig into. I struggle with my beats and have had harder time finding good inspiration and tricks for what I want to do there than I have with Monomachine.

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This is one I’m my favorite things to do on the monomachine. I Add the third lfo to pitch, it’s fun stuff

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One thing I didn’t think to check was that if there were any other outputs being used on the MnM… I could have missed a few sounds. There were also a lot of unused kits.

They mentioned in the AAA thread that they never got any recordings of that tour, but this is making up for it imo!

For me, the HOLD LFO is an important part of the Elektron experience :smiley: it’s a great technique

yesss I knew they were legit

Check further up in this thread! I just have the 30min video; I may do a longer one dissecting some patterns but I’ve got my own music/sound design to work on :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wild. Loaded the sysex for sfx60 this morning. They sound great. A few really nasty ones in there:

Playing around a bit more:

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I recorded some of the drums from an MKI Machinedrum:

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I can’t remember when or where I found this, but I think it matches the time frame.

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Ahh, so he’s using outputs C+D as well… hmmmm

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Did Rob use the elektrons at all, or only Sean? Not that it’s important to know, haha.
Well, I guess nobody knows what they did in the studio.

does that mean we get another video? :wink:

thank you Autechre.
i just goofed around with it real quick. all i can say is damn…

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Mad love for all the comments / examples on their technique. Thanks yall.

Now who’s going to be the hero and make some samples? :wink: (unsure of the ethics involved; correct me if wrong)

Awesome :slight_smile:

That glass is stressing me out.

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I know, right. Someone get the poor man a drink!

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