The different MachineDrums?

Elektron Gear Machinedrum
#19

Hmm judging from the pictures, I think this is the non UW version ā€¦

#20

I would suggest you to search for some UW demonstrations (for how it can sound) and then decide if itā€™s a feature you cannot miss.
After seeing some Allerian stuffā€¦I was completely sold :heart_eyes:

But even without UW, Machinedrum itā€™s an amazing box of tricks

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#21

Yeah, I always reflect back to his Swiss Mountain Music demonstration when thinking of the UW.

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#22

Non-UW is still fine. Though it, by default, doesnā€™t come with the +drive, so youā€™re going to have to keep that thing near constantly plugged up to your computer midi interface for backing up because you donā€™t have any extra projects.

And with all the synth engines in that monster(and the unfortunate shortcoming of workibg strictly with lots as far as presets are concerned) youā€™re going to fill up all the available patterns trying things out and exploring(I say this to the favor of the MD)

Itā€™s a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Machine- and a non-UW is better than no UW at all.

But you will probably want a UW at some point. (Field recording percussion just sounds amazing running it through its engines and resampling really offers a whole world of possibility)

#23

UW MKI is missing. :wink:
It has 32 steps only. Not the same PSU.
It was made before MKII (non UW).
+Drive let you have snapshots, hence more than 128 projects.
So MKII UW+ is the best!

MKII non UW has 64 steps.
UW MKI has 32 steps. :wink:

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#24

Hey! Me too! :wink:

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#25

Hey! Iā€™m 14 and you?
I became father at 8! :crazy_face:

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#26

That soundsā€¦awkward :smiley:

Edit:

To multiply before you learn about multiplication

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#27

Thanks everyone for your replies ā€¦
I think I am just gonna try to traded it for some of the stuff I am not using

#28

Best idea!

#29

rarely works though :slight_smile:
They said no trades

#30

So is it a non uw mkI?
What is the price?
You can buy it and eventually buy an UWMKII+ laterā€¦

#31

Here

#32

Tabernacle! :wink:
Doesnā€™t seem a really good price if itā€™s US dollars. In France I saw some MKI at 450-550ā‚¬.

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#33

thatā€™s the Machinedrum SPS-1 MKII (2007)
Itā€™s canadian dollars and 450ā‚¬ is roughly 685 CAD :slight_smile:

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#34

I thought it seemed alright. Only 50 dollar markup from them going out of existence.

But 650 Canadian?! Iā€™m tempt to loan @khaled the money to get it :smiley:

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#35

haha :totes:
Well truth to be told, I traded my Phenol for a eurorack case last month and most of my cash have been going towards buying modules, most of which come next week actually ā€¦ thatā€™s mostly why I am hesitating but I think I am going to hold off for now and focus on my system ā€¦ maybe start selling some of the stuff collecting dust

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#36

MKII for 450 USD is much more interesting.
And it can trigger modular!

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#37

Iā€™m trying not to be too evangelical, but this is absolutely right- and the seller is a saint for letting it go for so cheap- I like to think of myself as a decent person, but I wouldnā€™t let a MK2 go for that little

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#38

and can be triggered by the modular! easy way to get around sequencer limitations of MD with the right choice of companion modules. Iā€™ve been meaning to set up a small modular to go with MDUW where it would act as master clock and sequencer, but it would receive at least 1 trigger stream derived from the modular so as to spice things up a bit

edit: and also can be trigger to MIDI converter!

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