OK, is there a guide somewhere on how to do this? Because this sounds awesome.
old share rather than a guide (edit actually i kind of give an overview in the comments!) but love midiloopback for generative scapes (one or two 32 step patterns here).
sound quality ain’t great on this either, think recorded with an irig
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Concerning the Syntakt vs Machinedrum debate, I mean it’s really hard to say and totally down to taste ultimately. There’s both common ground and features one has that the other won’t ever be able to touch.
While I really like the Syntakt and have been using it a lot recently, the one thing no one talks about with the Machinedrum is the ability to send internal midi out, process it, and loop it back. I think this was a feature brought on from the x.0x OS, but I’ve been able to use it along with something like a MidiHub to add probability and other features.
I don’t think any of the other devices can do that but someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
Anyway the point is that I think the Machinedrum is in this weird place where because of its age there are a lot of modern features we’re missing, but because it was made at a time when Elektron basically added as many features as possible, UX and ease-of-use be damned, it sort of weird and modular and can go way farther with a bit more effort and work.
Is it worth $2,500+? I don’t know…
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Good news. Possible to hear that somewhere ?
Well since you asked, I made these two albums on the Machinedrum (all the tracks are live takes) only. Also played livesets for each album, again MD only (included on the albums). Lots and lots of melodic/tuned stuff in there.
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Hi can you elaborate the Midi Hub trick? We’re talking about Blokas? Thanks!
Yeah I just basically run a midi feedback loop but with the Blokas MidiHub in the middle.
In the MidiHub patch, I parse out each note (effectively each track) to its own patch lane with different options for random velocity and trig probability, and I think you can also do stuff like repeats, etc.
I also have additional LFOs pointing to the MD to modulate stuff, and all of that is controllable via Midi.
It’s not quite parameter locks and scale per track, but it was interesting.
Edit: I forgot to mention; you have to set the MD Local Control to Off. That way all the internal sequencing will go to the midi out, and then be looped back in through the midi in. This means you can use the internal sequencer, but still do probability-based stuff.
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Exactly!
2 years back I got a Monomachine for €800. And there were 2 on sale at the same time, same price!
Should’ve bought both…
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I got mine for 600€ on Audiofanzine (but it was 3 years ago, I think - before the hype)
Always check what items are actually selling for and not just what people are asking. If its listed online somewhere like reverb it will be a higher ask due to fees.
Anybody can ask anything they want. If you see a second hand item for sale online, in an in person store, or whatever. It means no one is buying it. Which means that isn’t the price it’s selling.
Great!! Thanks that’s what I need 
Wrote this for sysex kits changes.
Same principle for machines, maybe I wrote it somewhere, but there are also other users informations in the threads listed in the search link I posted above.
Midi kit selection? - #16 by sezare56
I even used midi processing for pitch correction ! @korpinen, maybe X.xx OS would have retained me to sell my MD !
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Kick flavours of Machinedrum’s BD2 
Like I said it depends on what kinds of kicks you like. I prefer these though I’m sure ST can do these too.
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Would love to see Elektron bring back the MachineDrum in modern format. Perhaps Syntakt, DT and Rytm are the closest we can get now for that sound.
The Machinedrum isn’t great because of the sound. It’s the 16 freely assignable LFOs, that’s what’s unique about it.
I don’t even use it much lately, but it’s my favourite drum machine because of that, It can make sounds that evolve a lot over time.
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and the weak point of the Rytm is limit to 1 LFO. But at least Octatrack allows for multiple LFOs.
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But you can plock the destination, speed and shape for each step. That’s some power, still.
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IMO the best thing that could happen to the Rytm would be freely assignable 12 lfo’s instead of an extra one per track.
It would make it absolutely endless for creative exploration.
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