I cant find any creative use of the AMD/AMF function

Elektron Gear Machinedrum
#1

I cant find any creative use of the AMD/AMF function

any hint?

#2

try them on hats and other cymbals. aim lfos at these parameters and you can get some cool effects, plus making certain frequencies stand out more in a mix. useful when you’ve already got your track eq tied up on some other band.

some other ideas in [url=“http://www.elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&catid=9&id=41371”]this thread and [url=“http://www.elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&catid=9&id=26700”]this one too.

#3

nice thanks

#4

I started messing with these two parameters for the first time today, not really having any uses for them. If you turn the AMD all the way up and then sweep the AMF you can hear what it is doing. With stuff like hihats and even drum hits like the trx toms can get a metalic type sound with this. I figure using it creatively with the fm machines might be a cool.

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#5

Can be a free/cheap tremolo at very low settings.

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#6

LFO to AMF for weirder stuff?

#7

Get a sustained earthquake bass kick drum going, take the filter with width off and Q maxed, freq down around 28ish, then with that humming max the AMD, AMF between 0 and 10 starts undoing the foundations of reality. It’s just a track volume attached to an LFO

#8

Aside from the other tips one of the things that make it shine for me is combining it with the bitcrusher. Softens the bitcrushing a bit which for me usually is too harsh.

One sort of more general thing to keep in mind is that you don’t need to use every parameter or function on a device.
Sorry if this is a unnecessary truism but it’s something I need to remind myself of from time to time.

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