Model:Cycles Tips & Tricks Thread

Elektron Gear Model:Cycles
#166

I managed to create a pure noise source with the tone engine that can be useful to layer drums. Preset attached here

Pitch: 0 (+24 for brighter noise and -24 for darker noise)
Decay: 32 (adjust to taste. Short decay below 8 for drum click)
Color: 15 (grittier at around 1 and below)
Shape: 127
Sweep: 127
Contour: 0 (higher settings makes it more lo-fi/grittier)
Volume: 80 (higher for snappier sound)
Punch: off
Gate: off

LFO
Wave: Random (last one)
Mul: x2k
Dst: Pitch
Depth: 12.0 (affects the sound if changed).
LFO setting: 48 but doesn´t seem to affect the sound.

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White Noise
White noise hi-hats with M:Cycles?
Chord Machine sounds dull
#167

This trick can be used to build a 4 page Track/Pattern, from multiple 1 page patterns…

Page - Copy, Paste, Clear
To do these operations, you need to be in Grid Recording (play or stop) mode.

Copying a PAGE, copies the trigs, from one of the four pages of a track.

Then you can paste those trigs, to one of the four pages, of another track.

First, select a track to copy a page from, by holding down the TRACK button, and pressing one of the 6 track buttons T1-T6.

Then select the page you want to copy, by pressing the PAGE button repeatedly (short presses) until the page you want to copy from is lit (1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4).

Then press and hold the PAGE button down, and press the COPY(RECORD) button, then release the PAGE button.

To paste the page of trigs, into a page of another track.
First, select a track to paste a page to, by holding down the TRACK button, and pressing one of the 6 track buttons T1-T6.

Then select the page you want to paste to, by pressing the PAGE button repeatedly (short presses) until the page you want to paste to, is lit (1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4).

Then press and hold the PAGE button down, and press the PASTE(STOP) button, then release the PAGE button.

To clear one page of a track.
First, select a track to erase a page from, by holding down the TRACK button, and pressing one of the 6 track buttons T1-T6.

Then select the page you want to erase, by pressing the PAGE button repeatedly (short presses) until the page you want to erase is lit (1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4).

Then press and hold the PAGE button down, and press the CLEAR(PLAY) button, then release the PAGE button.

NOTE: I find it easier to perform these operations when the sequencer is not running (RECORD and STOP lights lit, not flashing), as it is easier to see witch page I have selected.

Remember you must be in Grid Recording mode, to perform these operations.

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#169

I wasn’t sure what machine you started with so I went with KICK and holy moly. These settings are fun.

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#170

I managed to create a pure noise source with the tone engine that can be useful to layer drums.

I mention the tone machine in the first sentence :slight_smile: Will try the setting out with the kick machine.

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#171

:laughing: oh no! I skimmed that detail! My bad!

On other machines these settings suit some industrial sounds pretty well (albeit accidentally due to my negligence)
Thanks for offering up the recipe!

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#172

I just got model:cycles two days ago, and scrolled through this whole thread thinking someone else would’ve mentioned this already… I found out that you can use a midi feedback loop (midi in to midi out, disable all sync in and out) to make one track control many (or all) tracks… This is awesome for making layered synth patches, and if you set the encoder destination to internal+external, you can control all the track parameters from the “master” track without using CTRL All… I’m gonna dive deeper into this to see if I can get multiple lfo’s working on a single track… Anyway that’s my contribution… I just used a stereo 1/8th cable to go midi in to midi out… This is damn fun little box…

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#173

Not gonna lie, my head exploded a little lol.

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#174

Whoa! Thavius Beck, no less.

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#175

Delay Time: 32
Delay Feedback: 100
Put delay on your rhythmic tracks (percussion & secondary melody)
Play them for a couple of bars then mute them

Enjoy your lowpass filtered rhythm!

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#176

did you ever make a video of this?

#177

I’ve been enjoying getting funky timing by tuning decay, swing, then using sweep to further get a nice spacing and groove before going back to decay.

Super basic process but messing with such a simple interface leads me to optimize for the right things and being able to better collapse “preset” design with rhythm!

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#178

Did anyone find some nice trick using midi loopback on the M:C?

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#180

I had already read that post. And tbh I did not succeed in reproducing it

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#181

I don’t understand this, why would one encoder control the parameters of ALL tracks?

#182

I guess @thaviusbeck was saying, with a midi loop back, decide (say) track 1 is your master, and set it to send on (say) midi 11, then set all other tracks (or, more interestingly, only some of them) to receive on midi 11 ?

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#183
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#184

I think I’m getting close? I love the noise, I just wish I could control it better

#185

Well, that was chaotic. I’m betting there’s a good use for that though.

#186

I still cant replicate this, I mean, I put track 1 midi out on from track menu, track 1 sends midi out to channel 16, tracks 2-3-4-5-6 listen to midi-in on channel 16. I connected a standard 5 pin midi cable from midi out to midi in of the M:C using Elektron adapters but still nothing happens in the sense that track 1 is not “controlling” every other tracks. Am I missing some config?

EDIT: Ok, I needed to disable midi through. Now it is working as expected!

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