Ricky about to drop the hottest IDM EP of 1996

@christdolphin69

2 жыл бұрын

sophie used this for her ultra futuristic shit that everyone thought was the hottest idm of 2016

I *never* expected to be shouted out by one of my favorite synth youtubers, you've inspired me longer than I've even had this crazy machine! 12:39 is the first thing you realize when using the Mono haha

@Cloud_Lifter

2 жыл бұрын

ily pls upload more jams 🙏

“I have a delay somewhere, but I’m not sure where” -Classic Elektron User Quote

@danvandal4127

2 жыл бұрын

pff

@jay-cf8kd

2 жыл бұрын

Nnnaaanng nnaaaannnggg 😂

@lundsweden

2 жыл бұрын

I have the Elektron Model Samples which is great sounding and fairly easy to use. If people want to test the Elektron workflow, its a great way to get started. I'm not sure if I even want the Digitakt as its very expensive and a lot more complicated. I am after ease of use and inspiration, which I feel evaporates when you get bogged down with features.

@axonandon

2 жыл бұрын

If you ain't hitting stop twice as a reflex by now then I just don't know what to say.

@mqsv

2 жыл бұрын

Classic "I can ping the server, but I don't know where it is in my house"

The first rule in the Monomachine club is: ALWAYS turn key-tracking off for both the HP and LP. It makes this machine’s sonic spectrum much wider🤖👍

@djangofett4879

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. i struggle to get good sounds out of monomachine. as opposed to elektron four which is amazingly easy to get good sounds.

@ThizOne

2 жыл бұрын

@@djangofett4879 I’m glad to help. It took me a while to notice this as well, it’s a complete game changer and level’s up the Monomachine quiet a lot.

The one piece of hardware I can only dream of having. Actress and Sophie did some awesome things with it

@domachondri

2 жыл бұрын

And Autechre too!

@i-never-look-at-replies-lol

2 жыл бұрын

@@domachondri I heavily considered getting rid of everything for a Monomachine + Octatrack combo...sometimes I still look at my studio and think I have too much gear

@difflocktwo

2 жыл бұрын

@@domachondri Autechre don't count. I don't write the rules. Don't shoot the messenger and so forth.

@domachondri

2 жыл бұрын

@@difflocktwo I’ll take this to mean their compositions transcend the gear itself🥰

@tren-della

2 жыл бұрын

I saw a Monomachine for 1200 just a couple weeks before Sophie passed. I’m sure I never will again.

this is why i enjoy your channel Ricky, its like we are discovering stuff together...unedited and genuine :)

That crazy random bass hit on such a cool run two times! Awesome tour around a seldom seen piece thanks!

Absolute favourite synth. When routing to a bus, you need to create a trig on the BUS track. Sound is only passed through to the effects when trigs are on. If you want it wet all the time, you can leave a trig on the first beat and then have max decay.

This video is amazing. I think it’s one of my favorite ones you’ve ever done man. Love seeing just the pure joy on your face at the end. Cheers

@RickyTinez

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the support Jbrunel!

Super cool unique instrument, thanks for the show and tell on this Ricky!

This is a great one, RT! Listened on my work commute, had to rewatch now that I'm home. Always love when you end up geeking out too hard and struggle to keep it cool 🤣

1. When you heard that bass and immediately got hype, we were also hype. 2. "Attack on the flange?" You're getting crazy with it haha! 3. Toot Elektron's horn man. The clunky, quirky workflow and modular routing makes those machines very special. Cool video as always! Cheers.

Neighbor tracks are super useful on the Octatrack. If you're using two effects on one track, you can route it through a neighbor and slap more effects on it. I use it to put a Dark Reverb after a chain like bit rate reduction and filter or filter and delay.

Another great video with a nice vibe!

I’ve just purchased a MD - I think there is a LOT of interest in these old Elektron devices currently - so thanks for the amazing demo!

Thanks as always for the inspiration.

Have 2 of the MonoMachines MK2 (non keyboard). They never fail to disappoint. Thanks for sharing the keyboard version!

I’ll NEVER sell my monomachine

I own the "trinity", mnm, Machinedrum and the first Octatrack, but mnm is on the top. great video, great music, and lot of pleasantness. thanks Ricky

SPS1-UW OS X.05 just dropped and its kinda nuts, really brings it up in line with the MNM

probably my favourite video of yours. Nice job of explaining some of the interestingness of the Monomachine!

This timbre of the sounds in this beat are so good

I have a MNM... love that thing. Good to see you sitting down with the mythical beast ... cheers Ricky

Seeing you have so much fun with the Monomachine makes me realise I should get back to making stuff with mine again. Love your enthusiasm!

Damn, lotta routing possibilities! I can see where the DNA of the OT and the Analogs came from. These are great, but seriously don't sleep on the A4, especially the MkII. It's pretty much a very odd 4-voice semi-modular system, and it's eurorack integration is perfect. That, and convenience of Overbridge make it a keeper for me. Would love to see Elektron revive some of ethos behind the MnM in their next synth, though

@RickyTinez

2 жыл бұрын

yea the routing, combined with trigs, AND P-locks is mind bending. Its fun to go back and where it all began

@J1M0TEE

2 жыл бұрын

@Nkozi - would you say that the Syntakt revives the MnM? They seem very similar to me.

the mono’s are some of the most powerful and flexible synths of all time. a lot of sophie’s work was made with it… just listen if you wanna hear some of the craziest sound design you’ve ever heard

@ARP_2600

2 жыл бұрын

Which Sophie? Can you provide links to some of her work?

@MrJvandal

2 жыл бұрын

​@@ARP_2600 kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4qXlbxmkqqcddI.html This one I'm guessing. She passed, sadly. Can't promise you that this track was made using a mono machine... but it's dope.

@cunty

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrJvandal yup, apparently the lead synth in faceshopping was made using a monomachine too.

@sudbenzer6603

2 жыл бұрын

@@ARP_2600 kzread.info/dash/bejne/goxl2bmPhtfXmM4.html&ab_channel=osea

@difflocktwo

2 жыл бұрын

Why do we see these same comments posted in every monomachine video? Do you have multiple accounts? There is an other comment in this video almost identical to yours in content and structure. Someone paying you?

I have one from the original batch way back when. Got the desktop version since. Still a beast!

Nice vide and cool vibe! Thanks!

beat kinda reminds me of the earthbound soundtrack "battle against a weird opponent" when he ricky started adding the chords

Love my MK1 mono. Takes a bit to get your head into it, but it really is a one off.

Thanks man! This thing is crazy as hell. You do a sample pack for us?

Monomachine prices are going nutz, I’m so happy I kept my MKII unit a time ago, still re-discover something new every day ✅🔥⚡️

@navboi12

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I paid over GBP 2000 for mine but it sure is a keeper!

@muchhustle4982

2 жыл бұрын

How do you both have one, + Ricky’s borrowed one, + John Lozzo, + whoever = I’m confused as I thought there was only 3 of these things sooooo……. What’s going on? EDIT: Ah, ok. That makes sense. 🙏

@gartersnake1919

2 жыл бұрын

@@muchhustle4982 Theres only 3 of the Mk2+ with the built in keyboard i think.

@electronicanimals

2 жыл бұрын

Mine is MKII tabletop version ✅

@mindexpansionpuzzles

2 жыл бұрын

@@muchhustle4982 There's only 3 MM Mk.2s with keyboards. The MM Mk1 and Mk2 without the keyboard shows up for sale from time to time but over the years the price has risen.

I don’t know on them saying it doesn’t have any liking to D takt or tone. How is this not the predecessor to the digitone keys in it’s form factor?

every video i want to sample ur demos hahahh

Love it, thank you!

The silver elektrons are still the best ones.

@ninqeninqe797

2 жыл бұрын

a video covering the MD and it's new firmware, maybe even the Megacommand would be really superb!

@VincentsVideoVisions

2 жыл бұрын

The Machinedrum UW mk2 is my favorite machine of all time. I'm still so devastated that I sold mine and now they are absurdly overpriced.

@outerdead

2 жыл бұрын

And the most jittery. Great if you don't need to sync it with anything.

@VincentsVideoVisions

2 жыл бұрын

@@outerdead Weird. I had my silver Elektrons connected to everything else and had no issues at all. The only problems I had were a couple of pots/encoders that eventually started acting up and i had to get them fixed.

@hiiipower3005

2 жыл бұрын

@@VincentsVideoVisions did you ever use the 12 bit sampler sampling more than just drums/ one shot hits...id like to here songs other than techno been made with there potential

Reminds me of Jive Rhythm Trax! Very dope machine!

can anyone tell me whether the Monomachine SFX-60 + MKII or whatever the best iteration of the Monomachine is if not that one can do polyphony on all 6 tracks? i know this early one can't but i heard later ones can. i have an opportunity to swipe one on the cheap but i consider this a dealbreaker

I have no clue what this is, or what you actually do, but it sounds good.

Wow! The sound of Autechre

what? i've never heard of this. thats so cool

Such a beautiful machine indeed! And those sounds!! So amazing indeed! What kind of headphones are those?

@el_dani

2 жыл бұрын

Audeze LCD-X (cheaper then a Monomachine in the states)

Insane elektron hasn't made a newer version of this or the machine drum

@milk_bath

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is become very obvious the market demand is out there.

@cymbolic_space1832

2 жыл бұрын

@@milk_bath i pray every morning for elektron to wake up to this fact

What an awesome piece of hardware. What's going on with the weird framerate drops in the overhead shots though?

@walterclements2

2 жыл бұрын

I figured he had to sync the camera to the refresh rate of the screen or something

@RickyTinez

2 жыл бұрын

lost the SD cards day of shoot, used an ATEM with slow SSD to capture 2 4k feeds. haha. had to do what i had to do! hopefully didn't take away too much of the vid for you!

@iancain6647

2 жыл бұрын

@@RickyTinez I think it's kind of cool

Besides my rusty 101 the MonoMachine is the only piece of gear that will never leave me. Was surprised at the end of your clip that you got so much movement in the track and you didn't even use parameter locks (which were first introduced on MonoMachine).

@arkngle

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the MachineDrum had plocks first

@Loony69

2 жыл бұрын

@@arkngle correct, somehow I thought the MnM came first

I've got two of the SFX6s. MnM is my favorite electronic instrument and the keyboard version is just lovely to play.

@Stadtkind32

2 жыл бұрын

I am looking for one to buy :-)

This is pretty cool

yo ricky, that track was ridiculously dope!!!

This video perfectly captures the fun of jamming on the MnM. The keyboard version would be great in a studio. The desktop is perfect for couch & headphones. Too bad they never offered the joystick on the desktop version.

@djangofett4879

2 жыл бұрын

monomachine doesnt have velocity sensitivity so the keyboard is a bit useless for how much space it takes up. i hooked up a midi keyboard to my monomachine and immediately went back to just programming it from the knobs.

@jamesmcn0000

2 жыл бұрын

@@djangofett4879 Keystep 37 does a great job of flooding my Elektrons with MIDI.

I don't even care about or want one of these, but I love this channel so much I am gonna watch this review!

I’d kill for a monomachine...I cried the day I sold my machinedrum

The two gotchas with routing audio are 1. You can only buss tracks from top to bottom, ie you can’t feed the output of a track to a lower numbered track, and 2. you have to trigger an FX or thru track to hear it.

@lying-dalai

2 жыл бұрын

This! Using neighbor tracks is also a good thing to automatically trig the FX from the previous track. + let’s not forget to plock the FX for extra funk! :D

I picked up a mint monomachine about a month ago. I have to wonder where the price will go from here.

Dope 🔥👊🏼😎

Thought I didn’t want it or the MD UW anymore… Paid the price to get them back… Never will we part like that again. Endless discovery and rediscovery of gold.

Can you make some old school minimal on a machinedrum?

Great maschine! What headphones do you use in the video?

super sick

The world has gone crazy. I bought a used machinedrum for 800 and thought it was too much. Just saw the prices today and wondering what are people smoking?

@djangofett4879

2 жыл бұрын

i bought machinedrum for 800 and sold it for 800. sometimes i wish i hadnt sold it but my first impression of it was that it just sounded bad. i still have my monomachine but im still holding on to it even though i find it barely more inspiring than the machinedrum. Elektron Four and Rytm are the way to go. especially the four.

I love my monomachine. Definitely never selling it or machinedrum 🥰😉

I had one of the SFX6 MNMs and a MDUW+....my fav synths ever. No other synths sounded so ho-hum but at the same time none others rewarded you as much with trying to figure out how to come up with new and weird ideas as these two early Elektrons. These two machines were definitely products that had a very identifiable sound and style, the newer Elektron stuff didn't float the boat like these. Unfortunate Elektron stopped making them. You didn't borrow this from a guy in Vermont did you?

Yeah that feedback gets really out of hand if you turn it up. Same on the Rytm. Does this als have a master track option like the last track of the Octatrack being able to function as one?

@0Fdigital

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda. You can set track 6 to a thru machine or an effect and run all of the other effects through it. Not strictly a master track, but it can function like one. The benefit of it is that you can choose which tracks are used as inputs for it, unlike on the OT.

Very generous of Daniel to let you borrow it 😀

I DOES exist....without the keyboard tho. ;) I've got one. sick beat....sounded like you emulated some good old school scratching at one point. very cool.

Arpeggiator to BBOX LFO to Arpeggiator Omfg!

Make Tracks with it please! Awesome!

Goosebumps for life

I would love to see you cover more vintage gear on loan. Machinedrum, ASR-10, SP-1200

Have you checked out the Isla s2400 yet?

I feel like I'm watching clips from the New Dance Show, from my younger days. 😎

wonderful beautiful show machine is nice...

Funny you bring up routing as this was a topic of interest on the modular forums when it came out

The end is very "drexciyan"

1 of 3 is insane! I have to ask what stacked synth stand is in front of you on this video?

@piewhitrasberry1044

2 жыл бұрын

Dsi Pro 3, Dsi pro 2 and Novation Peak

@mattpearson763

2 жыл бұрын

@@piewhitrasberry1044 sorry I maybe worded this poorly. Not the synths but the stands they are sat on

Make a sample pack with it please! 😁

Still my favourite piece of hardware many many many many years after the fact.

What headphones are you using in this upload?

Great video. Even at these prices, I'm still not sure I shouldn't just get one and marry myself to its terrible workflow and immensely awkward limitations.

Yes! Finally some ELECTRO!

I Love elektron gear so jelly 🙏

Having reverb/feedback in the synthesis engine is something I think the Nonlinear Labs C15 does. When I think about what synth I would spend 5K on, the list is only 3 long and that's one of them.

@danielmulholland5869

2 жыл бұрын

What are the other two?

@jamespingel8730

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielmulholland5869 Moog One, more as an object of industrial beauty than as a synthesizer, but I lust for it nonetheless. And then the Deckard's Dream (which after import duties, adding suitable ringmod/FX units, and an MPE controller if you don't have one, would be around $5k). I've heard some surprisingly dynamic playing of the CS-80 on old records before Vangelis used one, and it's a different kind of sound that I don't think a lot of people associate with the CS-80.

That’s some lovely smacked-up funk!👨🏽‍🦯❤️

Crazy

I feel like Elektron is the only company whereby the more you pay the more you struggle. It gets more unuserfriendly (real word?) I made tons of beats the first month on the digitakt then bought the octotrack and after a year still on beat number 1. Just not fun to use and truly the midlife crisis sampler hahah

@axonandon

2 жыл бұрын

Don't give up! After five years with the octatrack, it'll only be slightly perplexing when it refuses to sample, or refuses to play something, or just randomly catches fire and kills the cat because of some obscure setting you accidentally turned on six months ago. Weird thing is, after all the frustration I finally realised there's just nothing quite like it, and now I've fully got Stockholm Syndrome and can't ever part with it even if the encoders literally crumble into dust or suddenly one day fire spring-loaded metal spikes covered in human faeces through both of my hands. I'm just stuck with it in this weird abusive relationship forever.

@RemyGold

2 жыл бұрын

@@axonandon haha sounds terrible....I think I will stick to my mpc's rather.

Quiero comprar una monomachine 😍 ese sonido a 8 bits es joya. Min 22:47 jajaja a mi me pasaba igual los primeros días que estube usando la machinedrum exactamente esa sensación de no saber que carajo hace la máquina pero suena tremendo jajajaja. Las maquinas de elektron sin duda te fuerzan muchísimo a estrujarte mucho el cerebro para que las uses a full para sacarles el mejor partido de sus máquinas creo que es lo mejor que tienen a pesar de sus limitaciones.

Well the reason it’s become rare is because back in the day it was the least popular and sold the least, sure the keyboard version was more limited but not many had the desk space for it. It’s a curiousity sure but it’s value comes from its scarcity.

That's cool. Sounds a bit like M.O.O.N tracks

What headphones are u using? Great vid btw

The MnM is so powerful, I had a same similar reaction when I first got it but ones you get to know it better it opens up so many opportunities, it has a similar mojo to the Octatrack. Here’s a jam from a session: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqKM05SvhKi2n7w.html

Checking Reverb, BRB

@Kevin-hp2zx

2 жыл бұрын

I actually saw one of these on there a while back for like 6k

I have analog four, digitone, syntakt and digitakt but still want monomachine lol... and still want analog rytm and octatrack too haha.

elektron makes the coolest drum machines

just saw this on a second hand gear forum in my area :D i think it looks clunky though

Funky digitone ya got there😂

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Cool broo to bad you didnt finish that track

What an awesome and mind bending piece of kit! If anyone is interested then check out and it hasn’t been mentioned already, there is a cool demo of this by Cenk in a Sonictalk KZread vid.

@RickyTinez

2 жыл бұрын

oooo i haven't even seen that! Thanks for the support and suggestion Wayne!

Don't forget that you can lock the parameters for any of the individual 'steps' on the effects track!

Wow, you had the machinedrum and you hated it?!😱

Tha seems so uncomfortable!