Thank you!
That is the same sound tuned to different notes on multiple (4 or 5) tracks. The sound itself is a sine wave with the LFO (ramp) on volume to soften the attack. That pattern is in my liveset, so the sysex will lay it all out (and I can elaborate in text as well once I’ve taken a look at the settings). The pattern came up totally accidentally. The glitchiness, I think, is the combination of how “overlapping” notes and the delay interact - kind of like voice stealing but I’m bad at explaining the technicalities of it. I remember vividly coming up with that pattern - entirely accidental! I just placed random trigs on the pluck sound tracks and had an interesting 16-step thing going right away. As I was working on something for this challenge, I changed the pattern length to 50 steps, and just added the pad-like chord sounds on saw wave.
I’ve always just loved the way the MD sounds. It can be pretty much as hard-hitting as you like but I think it excels at slightly softer and glitchy sounds. For me, interesting and evocative, melancholy sounds just keep flowing from the machine. Technically speaking I think the most noteworthy thing for me is how easy it is to make melodies (or even chords) with it thanks to the Elektron sequencer and p-lock capabilities, which became even easier to accomplish with the unofficial X.04 firmware (i.e. TONAL tuning, which implements a quarter-tone equal tempered tuning scale) earlier this year. Add to that the fact that you have 16 LFOs to work with, plus all the goodies of the X.04 and X.05 updates.