I’m working on getting better at quick MonoMachine programming, sound design, and exploration. Treating MonoMachine is a modular of sorts, running one voice, and bussing that to other channels for FX and further LFO automation only. For me, this is MnM’s greatest strength over the other Elektrons I own (Rytm, A4).
I can write whole tunes on each of the 3 boxes standalone, but I can’t get anywhere near as crazy with routing, or deep sound design as with MonoMachine. So treating it more like an insanely deep single voice instrument than a do-it-all.
The drill is this:
Start from Gnd-Sin. Assign other channels/bussing structure. Then spend 5 minutes programming. Then hit record and see what happens. Not trying for a masterpiece, just working on improving when focusing on the complexity of sound of a single voice.
Here’s the result of Drill #1:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7269379/MnM/monodrill1.mp3
If anyone else is up for it, I’d love to hear the results of this drill from others. I’ll start from other synthesis machines in other drills (Love DDRW).