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I have bought and used so much gear since getting my monomachine (and machinedrum) years ago, and yet I always come back to these two boxes. They feel like home.
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One more IDM-take on Monomachine and Machinedrum on the classic silver boxes for my next EP / album.
Live recorded in a single take on 1010 BlueBox using individual outs on MnM and MD. Reverb added on BlueBox.
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owned my mono for a while.
found out last night in song mode the bpm per row can be set from 20-500bpm.
500bpm!? 500. 500 beats per minute.
max 500 of em. in a minute. that 300-500 range of bpm is new territoryā¦
you think youāre ok and getting on with life, then something like this happens and flips your world view.
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Ooo imagine a track that oscillates wildly from 20 to 500ā¦ what a ride 
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Lovely stuff!
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With 500 bpm and the arp set to the quickest speed this could become an audio rate oscillator in its own right. I tried this with the Syntakt retrig function but itās not quick enoughā¦
Nice idea. The LFOs will be faster tooā¦. Iām excited to trig the md at the higher speeds. (I know this is possible via computer but keeping it all silver is more appealing).
Iām interested in the design reasoning to keep md and mnm capped to 30-300 in pattern mode.
MD song mode rows are 30-300.
But mnm song rows are 20-500ā¦.!?!? Why. But also. Yes.
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Episode 96 of the Tape Op podcast features Geoff Stanfield interviewing musician and producer John Vanderslice:
Near the end (35:40), Stanfield asks Vanderslice about the 2024 album Street View by Google Earth, his collaborative project with James Riotto:
Q:
And so tell me about making the record and then finishing it post the revisit after you put it in the can. Was this a project that you just were just doing for fun and not really thinking about it as a ā¦ ?
A:
I never feel like I hang out enough with Jamie (James Riotto), so was like a way for me to hang out with Jamie and then once ā¦ You know he really is ā¦ heās more responsible for the arc, for the structure, for the end result.
I think that the record is good because of his involvement with, like pulling into something that makes sense. You know, we would start everything, like for instance the song āJJOLTSā which is the third song on the record thatās pretty much just a live performance of us improvising and thereās a couple things that it would be ā¦
He has a Machinedrum and a Monomachine and I have the same thing so thatās really most of what that song is: just one pass of us live playing these two, maybe the most underrated pieces of gear Iāve ever seen in my life.
If I could give anyone any advice today about anything thatās gear related, it would be to just get a Monomachine, no matter what. People will look at the price, theyāll be like āOh my god! Like four grand, 3500?ā Doesnāt matter! If you have to go shoot someone in the street to get it, I donāt care, like, I will absolve you, whatever you ā¦ whoever you rob, whatever bank, it doesnāt matter.
Iāve never used a piece of gear thatās been more unknowable, more irritating and also yet, on the backside (once you figure out this hellish menu tree), like itās the most generous and loving and ā¦ present instrument Iāve ever used.
I donāt know who the fuck made this thing; I donāt how they made it. Iāve done nothing but obsess over instruments and synthesizers my entire life and thereās nothing like a Monomachine: itās really remarkable.
So I think, in many ways, the Google Earth record is like Jamie and me expressing our love of this fucked up piece of gear, you know, and figuring it out together and then overdubbing on top of it to make it work.
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the ābuy buy buyā energy is weird to me; never have had any plans to sell my MNM but I wouldnāt buy one at those prices either 
some interesting tracks on that album though, and happy for him to feel so inspired by a cool piece of gear thatās also close to my 
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agreed, i also found it extremely peculiar as well.
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I imagine that Vandersliceās remark was in jest.
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haha, this people. ^
why yāall so seriousā¦the dude said the following immediately after:
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obviously heās being facetiously hyperbolic with those particular comments, Iām more referring to:
āIf I could give anyone any advice today about anything thatās gear related, it would be to just get a Monomachine, no matter what.ā
which he does seem to mean in earnest, although perhaps it is not translating properly via transcription
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itās a joke, but i get it.
the design is awkward and loosely tuned, but the flexibilityā¦ and when it hits, amazing.
I love finding new things to do with the raw building blocks, and hope to unlock more using machines currently less interesting to me.
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Serious commitment to the machine!
Although the DN2 is so much ābetterā with all the bells and whistles (and probably ānicerā sounds), I return to the silver combo so much more often.
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MM is great. Can barely see or hear it here but yeah im digging it. Matthew Gonzalez's Video - Sep 30, 2025
Next IDM-sketch for my forthcoming EP/ album by the end of this year.
First time I used both Monomachines in parallel:
SFX-6 used for melodic content (and FM-percussion sounds),
SFX-60 for drums, percussion and DigiEnsemble pads.
The SFX-6 joystick is absolutely awesome!
All tracks directly recorded from individual outs on 1010 Bluebox in a single take.
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Hi! Dont know if this was posted elsewhere, but this guy released a series of EPs under this alias, made exclusively on a Monomachine. Quote from release notes: āThe whole EP was made exclusively using the beautiful synthesis of Elektronās hallowed Monomachineā.
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Aborted my two decades with the SFX6 Monomachine only release project - those 20 years were somehow getting in the way of the output.
Rather than see the work go to waste I made a trio of MNM, MDUW and E-Mu modular and spent a weekend or so melding the patterns into oddball tech-wonk.
Maybe Iāll return to the solo project upon 30 yearsā¦
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