You can set the MIDI channel of the device easily and then use it as a controller for DN or any other device. I have not tried the sequencer yet. But you can easily send individual notes, chords or arp notes from the J6 to any synth you want to. You can also use J6’s hold mode, which Elektron devices lack. You can also connect another synth or MIDI keyboard to J6 via MIDI in and then play its Arp, chords etc.
I am a bit disappointed by E4 so far. Scatter and reverb tend to add a lot of gain on values above 25%. Scatter also is way too intense imo. The sliders would greatly profit from haptic feedback for neutral settings - it’s very hard to deactivate pitch or formant without looking at the display. Would also be nice to have a mix knob, as is, you can only choose between 100% wet or dry with pitch, formant, auto pitch, harmony and vocoder. If any of these issues can be solved via the available interface, I am thankful for advice. Reverb also is not very good imo.
Agreed about the e4. I’m gonna keep it regardless, the price is just too good and hopefully there will be at least one update addressing some of the points you made- I agree with your observations.
Yeah just push fit, a little tight but go on easy enough.
The E-4 is probably the less useful of the bunch for me too, however I think it can be interesting if misused, and it has some handy utility functions too. But yeah, hope to see some updates in the future.
One thing which is a shame, but leads me to think a mixer may be on the horizon, is that mix in is not output over USB.
I’d love to see a management app for these, open up the J-6 for user sounds, backup patterns and loops from the looper etc.
J-6 is a lot more flexible than I first thought, the sequencer is to my mind right up there with the SH-101 and JX3p in terms of usefulness, and it goes a bit beyond with the per step, chords/arps or just single notes, very well thought out and pretty easy to use/edit.
I think these are probably one of the best bang for smiles gear I bought in a while, very satisfying in sound and use.
Totally agree with best bang for buck pleasant surprises in a while!
The j6 is super useful, but also a little too random for me right now. It’s hard to know what number does what style, so it’s a lot of twiddling knobs and experimenting (which is super fun too!)
But I do wish there were some more clues about what each number does in the style and variation knobs.
That’s interesting because it’s the only one of these three that piqued my interest. I’d love to experiment with getting some vocals onto my tracks, and this would basically be a way for me to dare take that step.
The more I dig into these the more I’m enjoying the simplicity yet also the nice touches, the sequencers on J-6 and T-8 are pretty nice with fairly good editing. I want to say the T-8 303 sounds a bit better than the TB-03, but I need to test properly to confirm.
I changed the white labels I made to black, looks better now.
I’m not sure - maybe it is just the fx, the overdrive in particular sounds a bit meatier. But, I would not put it past them to remodel a different 303 than they did on the boutique version, IIRC the TR-08 and TR-09 did not use the same model as the TR-8, because they were different teams working on them.
But as I said to be sure I need to test side by side before saying for sure.
Thomann B-stock is the way to go. I got most of the elektrons I owned for a really good price there and all were brand new aside from a few horrible patterns the previous users left behind.
