The latter. You’re programming pitches above the note you’re playing… So if you program a C chord (+4, +7, and you play a C note), then play a C chord, each individual note is going to have a +4, +7 over it. Have fun with your polychords, Stravinsky 
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Yes you can set the key signature I believe… Idk if you can set the scale. I’m not at it and won’t be for a week so I can’t check.
BTW I put my MnM in poly mode all the time and love it. Really great as a standalone polysynth
I have a difficult relation with my MM. Have had it for about 10 years and it s been push and pull in many cycles. Can t bring myself to ditch this unique beauty though. I never really dug into poly mode. Will be next thing to try when i ll decide to give a go at integrating it in my current setup.
So can each step of a pattern then have a different interval setting essentially giving me different 4 note chords (standard mode not polymode) per step using parameter locks for each “part-2-4” of a DPRO-ENS machine?
I guess what I am looking for is to be able to freely play 7ths by just manipulating the parameters of the DPRO/DIGI-ENS osc parts.
Yes, you can parameter lock all the different interval tunings per step.
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Note that you can use custom waveforms that are chords already 
I usually plug a good quality FX stompbox on EF outs, some sounds that would seem a bit cheesy benefit a lot from this… Just saying
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The default empty kit SIN machine in poly mode, through an external reverb, sounds really nice.
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Also remember you can trig tracks off each other, so for the price of two tracks you can have a second voice e.g. pitched an octave lower, or a fifth higher, or just detuned slightly, to beef out a sound.
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A resounding Yes!
Skip around if you want. As I say, this is how you turn your monomachine into a poly monomachine
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This is exactly what I was looking for!!
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How heavy are the Digipro’s Machine’s kicks
nevermind - I found the answer… this machine is incredible.
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I’m a big fan of the bbox machine. It’s awfully lofi and downsampled, leading to a rather charming effect.
But it’s oddly flexible. The kick, snares and snaps are some of my favorite drum samples. Combine the drum with arps and their fx and also combining them with neighbor tracks (white noise, sub bass) and you’re cooking
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The g#7 on the bbox machine is one of my favorite hi hats of all time.
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Bbox machine is so good that sometimes i ask myself if i need MD at all (now that I have OT ).
#sirius
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hey peeps,
can i sequence chords in polymode? And if so, how? i can play chords with the trigkeys, but when live recording, there is just one note per step. Adding notes to a existing note/step in the sequencer doesn’t work either. Can’t find anything regarding this issue in the manual as well…
Use live mode recording in poly mode. I don’t think mnm is 1 note per step in poly mode. Page 57 of the manual I think.
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Yes.
See GRID RECORDING on pages 48-49 of the manual, and LIVE RECORDING on pages 49-50 (as stated above by @Cosmic; page 49 is the 57th page of the PDF version).
And page 69; make sure that you entered your chords in the active track.
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tried exactly that yesterday but it didn’t work… but today it’s working just like that, which is the way you would expect to do it of course. Weird that yesterday it didn’t work though. Is it common that the elektrons are that buggy sometimes?
Thank you!!
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Just to add +1 for the BBOX as possibly my favorite drum machine if all time and I am a current MDUW owner and I still think the BBOX sounds - better.
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