Hi all. I’m entirely new to Elektron machines, having just bought a Machinedrum. Aare there any settings to get a fully clean open sound on the input filter machine? The filter is a bit complex. Should I be using different input machine? As I understand it the gate is for triggering things with a piezo or other drum trigger. Sometimes I just want to listen to some stereo instruments clean before I add effects without switching them to another mixer.
Welcome to the forum!
For passing through audio without filtering or enveloping, the Input Gate A/B machine is the obvious choice.
Give it a try and report back.
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Okay, thanks Peter. That’s what I was using originally, but I got scared to use it after I read some horror stories on here about sending audio to one of the gate machines intended for drums.
from page a-11 in manual:
INPUT GATE A/B “INP-GA/B”
This is a gate for the A and B inputs. It is made for
passing through external audio. It does not react to
trigs, other than you need to trig it once for it to
become active.
INPUT FILTER FOLLOWER A/B “INP-FA/B”
This is an input envelope lowpass filter follower for the
A and B inputs. It is made for passing through external
audio. It does not react to trigs, other than you need to
trig it once for it to become active.
INPUT ENVELOPE A/B “INP-EA/B”
This is an envelope that treats external audio as a percussion source. It has two active envelopes, one for
the external audio and one the extra built in lowpass
filter. The envelopes are trigged using the standard
drum trig buttons.
Thanks for the help last time. I have on odd glitch occasionally where when I add one of the audio input gate machines to a track it doesn’t work unless I go to another kit that has one already, and then go back to the kit I’m working on. Then it suddenly starts working when I start play. Does anyone know if this is just a bug, or if there is something I can do to get new gate inputs working reliably.
Are you sure it’s ot due to that?
Like: the other pattern has trigs on the GATE machine track and then it’s working forever?
I make a new pattern and put a new A/B input gate machine on it, add a trigger, press play, and I get no sound, or even sound on only one or the other input if I have made a machine for both. I discovered when testing it by going to a pattern with an input machine on it, that when I went back to my original track it was suddenly working. It’s happed several times now, and I always solved it by copying an already created pattern with inputs and editing it to what I wanted.
Weird.
Sorry if this obvious but: make sure the track you added the GATE machine on is not in mute.
BTW, you should “start” the GATE machine just by triggering it manually, no need to play the pattern for that, if that makes sense.
Other than this mute thing, I have no more idea…
Alternatively, you can use a RAM REC machine: one of the CUE settings is for letting the input signal through it even if you do not trigger it, AFAIR.