Fun fact I actually sold the Rytm a week ago after a couple disastrously frustrating sessions where my creativity just fell apart. Syntakt is bae now.

3:53 The knobs are set to 24 resolution by default but in the options you can change it to 32 resolution for a faster knob turn. Love the Machinedrum

This device gives off such a cool energy; I wouldn't care what it sounded like, it's simply a beautiful machine. Reissue when??

“Everything must be content” Dang. You are so real on this “influencer” stuff. Love your samples comment 😂

We all so waiting reissue of Machinedrum in 2024🎉

"You can send an LFO to any track? Why am I just learning this? Holy FUCK"> I loved this moment so much. So human!

Bunny is a rider is my favorite song and your version IS SO GOOD! it adds so much to the song, I would die for a full version of that on Spotify

I love the Machinedrum. Wild that you have the UW and didn't check out the RAM machines. I'm unfamiliar with the mkI so maybe it's not a function but I have the UWmkII and one thing I loved doing was resampling into the RAM machines on the fly and twisting up those resamples against the beat it was resampled from as the original source changes.

Loved the tracks. Good to see this back in action. Makes me want to go spend some time on my RYTM.

Amazing. The past couple years I got a Digitakt, digitone and now an octatrack largely because of guys like you. Thanks a lot, love the elektron content!

YOU KNOW SOMETHING WE DON´T

Love my machinedrum. Feels like an old school drum machine from the future! The red screen burns my eyes. The goggles they do nothing..

Epic machine. Recently found out about the megacommand unit that unlocks so many modern features. Would recommend finding one on ebay or reverb.

Love watching this process, and multiple times in that making of the third track you gave me musical stankface. So cool!

try to hold function and you will be able to change all tracks parameters at ones. go back by function+classic/extanded. Changing the sound on all tracks at the same time can lead you to amazing results. That's its main superpower

This is definitely one of the content videos of this device. Good job, Jeremy!

Tips on machinedrum? -It has a custom firmware -Try out the control machines (with parameter lock) -Press function button and change any parameter across all machines and revert (reload the kit) changes using function+classic/extended -Resample on the fly and destroy these samples with ram machines It's a wonderful piece of gear and there are a lot of routing tricks for nerds (like the lfo) Have fun!

There's an open source firmware for the machinedrum called Machinedrum X that integrates with a midi expansion thing called the MegaCommandLive. It gives you some modern comforts like microtiming and gives the MK1 devices 64 step sequencers, lets you use the machinedrum as a 16 voice synth with a midi keyboard, is a sample manager for the UW version etc. The list really goes on and on

Fun to get your take- and boyo jams 2&3 went hard! I dig the machine drum's character big time.

elektron cancelled Digitakt to come out with Machine Drum mkIII

1:56 it's cool that there's a channel for cognitive behavior, since there's definitely no other acronym you could possibly be referring to

Machinedrum was the first synth I truly fell in love with and I think it still influences Elektron

these tracks are siiick!

Best drum machine I’ve ever owned. I will never get rid of it.

I have the original, non-UW version. I mostly work in the box, so the one trick I’ve learned is to take advantage of the individual outs… I’ll track all of them into the DAW simultaneously and use that as a basic reference track. Then one by one, I’ll re-record each tracks from the MD, while performing mutes, p-locks, and other parameters in real time for several minutes. At the end of that, I’ll throw out the original reference tracks, and I’m left with a long, complex performance which would normally have required more than 32 beats or a whole lot of hands.

I'm so glad I bought an MK2 UW for so cheap like last week. Hope to fix it soon I'm so hyped!!!

THIS IS A SIGN. DTmk2 IS COMING, AS WELL AS OCTAmk3 AND REISSUES OF CLASSICS

Huh I never knew this existed. Thanks for broadening my horizon ❤

It’s truly impressive how you can turn out quality tracks while flipping through the manual.

Sick beats... is there any piece of gear you can't make do wonderful stuff?

I scooped up a MkII from the last batch when they were discontinued. I had used them before and was heavily using monomachines at the time. Really wish I had the chance to + upgrade one of my monomachines or had a chance to grab a UW machinedrum but thems the breaks. Two quickies: Function and Classic/Extended will reload the kit from saved, though good technique doing a load by hand, that's how you do on the MnM. You can do mpc style "pad erase" by holding down the trig button and pressing No when you want to remove trigs, when in Rec/Edit mode.

Love Machinedrum. Still has so much play.

The MD is still the best Elektron box, even if it's old and lacks the features of the new ones.

DOPE❤

Still waiting for Digitakt MK2 here :)

You just made these beats and sent them out to friends to make some bangers in time for the release of the video? :D That's crazy

I'm glad to see a vid from you on the machinedrum. It's a cool machine that unfortunately didn't get the MK2 treatment. Rytm is great but the MD totally has its own personality.

Take this video back Jeremy. I did not want to know of this. 😂😂

@RedMeansRecording your production and crossovers/collabs with vocalists are lava hot! + Classic RMR comments and workflow/thoughts make this video even more awesome

wiggle whippin zhiggidy goodness.

Please get your fangers on a Monomachine!

Awesome. Weird machine, fun sounds P.S. do you have pitch correction on your talking bits? Sounds spacy! Around 01:00 it sort of sounds like that

The Bunny is a Rider remix is doooope.

engaging the algorithm

Love how the third beat was channeling machinedrum the artist

Jeremy Blake, gettin' jhiggety wid' it.

If Machinedrum, then only Elektron🔥

Slaps!

yeah the LFOs being routed everywhere is the standout feature of the machinedrum in every demo.

If you guys like the machinedrum sounds but don't want to overspend on a edm hellbox, puremagnetic makes an Ableton pack/kit that has a lot of the good stuff called Elektrodrum for like $10

haha I could not belive when this popped! For a secons I thought the Digitakt MKII was actually the MDUW :D

21:52 - what trig locking did you do? it sounds great!

Sold Machinedrum UW mk2 for financing Rytm - never looking back

Almost got one when they were new, but ultimately got an MPC 1000 instead. Part of me wishes I would have chosen the MD back then. The MPC is probably the better MIDI sequencer though. I kind of wish Elektron would do a newer version of this, maybe reimplementing the machines with the higher fidelity that modern processors allow.

Damn I used to dream of getting one of those an embarrassing amount lol🤤

The knob turning parameters slow and then faster when held down is the same way in the digitakt- machinedrum might be slower knobs though idk

Personally, I'd rather hear about crusty old gear than whatever the latest hype is

The encoders work the same in all electron machines.

BBNO$ BEAT INSANE

This is the first drum machine/groove box I ever owned. I literally cut my teeth on this box. Mine was the basic model when I got it and at that time I had to send it back to Sweden to upgrade to user wave. I ended up selling years later for probably way less than I should have.

Great video. Yes, it's still totally worth it in 2024 but probably not for everyone. The MD is a brash, unapologetically digital drum machine that will punch through a brick wall. I have one because I bought it when Guitar Center was blowing them out for like $500 USD and that was a no brainer but I don't use it all the time. The sound is rather versatile but the workflow is clinical and kind of well.. boring but I'm yet to put it into a track where it didn't sound great. Seems to always sit in a mix well. Mine sits next to my Monomachine Mk 1 in the "autechre" corner and well, the two of those sort of occupy a sonic territory that none of my other stuff does so I keep them. P.S. The new machines are still "push-down-on-knob-to-go-fast" like this one. The main problem with some of the knobs on this is that the parameter doesn't always change the sound very much.

Maybe not a Machinedrum specific question, but how much of the performances was done outside of the Machinedrum? It seems like the vocals already had some effects on them. I really like how you use mute groups to essentially make a whole song in-hardware.

“12” usually SP12. But yeah all those classic machines mostly samples too.

Is it worth 3k though. Probably better to get a syntakt at this point right?

I wish they’d bring back the flexibility of the Monomachine. Syntakt is the closest thing to it but it’s still missing tons of features and sonic potential from the engines in the monomachine

I shouldn't have sold mine. Miss those clicky buttons :(

I had such crazy gas for this when it came out and I read the SOS review. I was doing everything I could to get ,my HR-16 to do anything I liked. Thanks 4 the video, it satisfied my curiosity and reminded me I have a lot of drum machines that are better than this.

After hearing crunchy beats in this video I'm like: is drumlogue the Korg's low-key Elektron Machinedrum successor? Because the sound characteristic of this reminds of the Korg (or historically, it should be the other way around) than anything other than this, even newer Elektron stuff

Cannot agree more - it just doesn't feel good to use. Absolutely love the engines, but I've also found that I"m able to recreate the vast majority of them on the syntakt, FWIW.

Go watch the video where you wanna do things to Bowser... Okay, how on earth did I miss that one, I'm going to have to find that after this....

This thing is an absolute monster. It tends to sound a little thin though. I've been researching ways to get it to sound more weighty, for want of a better expression. Anyone have any recommendations?

I've been looking at one of these non-uw mkIIs for sale locally for weeks, 1600 maplebucks, but I just can't justify yet another sampler, even if it is that elektron sound and workflow, and a deluge would make more sense because of the cv

Classic Elektron Hype

How many times do I have to tell you; bowser is with me now and you gotta stop making it weird

Someone lend Jezza a MnM stat

Two different types of people laughed at the CBT joke😅

Where did you get that uwu sample from? very cute

I think those encoders need to be cleaned or replaced cause the encoders on my MD work fine. I do have a mkii tho which has a knob resolution setting.

classic vs extended was just the way to make it old people friendly, for whom p-locks was new fangled magic. do you people laugh at ramps for wheelchairs? I used mine in extended all the time tho. Plus, the open source OS is worth a video, and so is the hardware expander MCL

Very nice tracks ! You used the MD at 60% of it capabilities tho :) Next step is real time sampling/mangling with RAM machines... then update to X and go deep into Mega Command. Also, the combo function + classic/extended reload you previous kit as it was saved, so during a performance you can destroy the sound of everything and come back to the OG kit instantly. About differences between classic and extended mode : when you are in classic mode, you can load another pattern and keep the kit you are using. Could be usefull during a performance. Extended mode = a kit is saved for each pattern, so when you switch from a pattern to another, kits are following. Also, P Locks. Next tip : if you chase one, chase the +Drive version = it's like having 128 MD in only one machine (you can switch all the content of the MD, samples included, from 128 memory states).

this thing is wacky

Prices tripled during the last three years. I am so happy that I own one for ~10 years now. I always wanted a sps 1 mki as an addition and just for fun, because if it's lower functionality. Like in a team with a UW this would be super awesome. Instead I got myself a sonic potions lxr MKI. This is I think by far a superior drum machine. But I love the Elektron MKIs. Also owning two A4s. Never going to be rich enough to get a monomachine which kind of is the biggest gear dream of my life..

Fair effort punching all that out only having learnt the MD while making the video. Takes some talent. But if anyone thinks that a great demo can be made by only owning this for a short time then you are short changing yourself. People have already pointed out key items you missed, so i will not repeat them. People tend to miss a lot about gear from reviews. Its not until you own something for an extended period of time that you find out if the gear works for you. This box was made for 2000 techno in mind. And if you make techno, then I highly recommend the MD. Do not ask me for specifics, just buy one and push it to its limit. You will find out for yourself. When I hear standard tracks from the MD, truth be told, it bores me. Having every track in the mix sit nicely, is not what the MD excels at. But when making techno, its flaw, is also where the magic lies. One last thing. If people want a sampler, buy a Digitakt or Octatrack. The beauty of the MD is not in its playback and manipulation of samples. Its beauty is in its internal machines, where it takes you from drum machine, to drum synth.

mom come get me they're using vintage elektron gear i'm so scared (horny-scared) (leave me here)

dont like the background music… senseless

Bunny is wat?

One of the most over priced second hand pieces of gear ever. IMHO

furry musicians > musicians

Shout out for Erik from @lekholminstruments and *E*FM machines (:

I've had the UWs MKII for about 10 years. It doesn't get used much but I would never sell it. It's amazing how much different stuff you can do with it. I get that you couldn't want to get into sampling in the video but the real power of this machine is in the RAM machines and internal resampling on the fly. It just goes fucking mental when you get that going right.

🔥 have you just lit a fire jeremy? Or is this just a nod to one of the best drum machines ever made?🎛🎛