I like the way the MD sampling and sample down pitching sounds.
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I like live resampling à la OT + crazy retrigs and a filter on top, I always get some crazy bass lines out of this!
MD is always a pleasure to play with, to me.
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I took a short excerpt from the manual for those that don’t know about the uniqueness of the UW part of the MD.
[“UW” is short for “UserWave”, inspiration was drawn from the 12-bit samplers of the 1980’s, for example the EMU SP-1200. The sound from these instruments were often very character-istic and had a punch and grit that can be hard to obtain today.]
The MD adds its own character to your source material - it has nothing to do with opting for an Octatrack as a sampler instead of finding an MD with UW; it’s character cannot be imitated!
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I have both and despite my love with the OT, have to concur.
It’s funny to dig out your own old threads 
I was 100% sure being over this UW-stuff, as transfering the samples looks awkwardly complex.
The re-sampling capabilities could change my mind 
As the manual grasps this rather shortly (and YT is rather a blind spot for those old videos): outputs have to be connected to inputs, or is an internal sampling possible?
Leaving an activated trig on a RAM record overwrites the recording in each cycle?
How do you use it?
Could think of creative mangling of ground machines - or shortwave radio 
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Yep, and this is where the fun is.
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Yes it does.
It works the same as OT in this regard.
You can resample internally, no need for additional cables.
It gives incredible basslines, with MD filter, that I really like the sound of.
You can also resample the whole phrase and add weird pitched and glitchy replay of it (check at the end after 9:23):
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MDUW actually has a pretty easy sampling workflow once you get used to it, and AFAIK is the only Elektron sampler that supports immediate sampling via trig key(?).
The file management isn’t great but imo it’s more fun to sample into / resample as opposed to loading preexisting sample banks.
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Crazy - I spent almost the entire evening with re-sampling , pitching and p-locking one sine gnd chord.
I was really surprised, ho different the sampled signal sounds (so gooood 
)
It’s an amazing box. Wish, I had explored the UW functionalities earlier.
Installed X.12 today - feels like Christmas
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Sounds like a good way to learn what the RAM machines do.
Congrats on your new MD UW!
Yeah I definitely love the sampling capabilities!
I would say you can easily have a RAM-R1 and a RAM-P1 going simultaneously without muting the RAM-P1. Just limit the RAM-P1 playback lenght so it doesn’t play back constantly or you can high pass it. I also usually place the Record trig on step one like others mentioned. No excessive feedback here but feedback surely can be fun to experiment with!
on Octatrack you can hold down a track button and then press the record button associated with the external inputs you want to sample from, or the MIDI/part button for the internal resampling source associated with that record buffer. So a similar immediate access to sampling with or without sequencer running - but not precisely the same thing
in the MDUW manual they specifically mention the EMU SP-1200 so I assume they did some careful coding to mimic how those old 12-bit samplers were doing things internally, but I’m only speculating
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