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  • Those original Elektron machines are just amazing, as are their current devices. This is great!
    by hdb2
  • I love Elektron gear, I have a Syntakt and it is the piece of gear that I'm the most productive with.
    by polytely
  • I'm really liking this, I used to own one back in the day. Is this reverse-engineered from the original Machinedrum firmware? Any plans to develop a VST/AU plugin?
    by tab8000
  • I have a UW (user wave) version. It doesn't look like they implemented some of the more interesting parts of the MD. I wonder if this was a firmware R/E effort? I don't see any details on what's behind this and I can't read the non-english parts of the app. Anyone have more details?
    by dnewcome
  • Elektron's been bought by private equity so I suspect their legacy devices will continue to gain popularity.
    by LMKIIW
  • This is pretty great. Having the physical knobs to do the step locking tweaks makes the experience a whole lot better, but the fact that this is exists is great. I have an MK1 and this is pretty darn accurate.
    by devin
  • Having a real Machinedrum right next to me, I jumped right into this for a bit of a play. It’s kind of accurate, but on iPad it’s a bugger to play like the real one.

    One of the great things about the real Machinedrum is you can just kind of ‘swipe’ across the pads to mute things - this doesn’t really work in the web version, and its a pity because this kind of live dynamic interaction is why I still have the real Machinedrum for my use.

    I also couldn’t work out how to dynamically change the drum set - this is another thing thats really nice about the real gear.

    Would be nice to see multi-touch events handled as well, so that I can use 2 fingers to do things and have both actions register - as it stands now it seems it handles only single mouse events.

    Still, a wonderful simulucrum for a bit of bopping around. Add a multi-timbral Virus emulation in a new tab, wire them up with a QY700 simulator as well, and you’ve got my holy trinity of devices for jamming .. ;)

    by MomsAVoxell
  • For people asking for details here are some other links:

    There's at least two vst options in the works, one extracts just the voices and one emulates the whole machine interface

    https://youtu.be/nY0bRaKWLmk?si=nhi4O6gx8Ld-RMuP

    https://github.com/joelanders/gearmulator-md-mm/releases

    There are other diy projects on github.. honestly with the GitHub links below and modern AI tools you can get something functioning in a day.

    A lot of this work is made possible by the following. As well as people hacking on firmwares for current devices like digitone song mode hacks etc

    https://github.com/mischa85/elektron-firmware-tool

    https://github.com/dsp56300

    There is MAME support for the relevant CPU/DSP and hint MAME archivists are also good at rom backing up...

    Also look at the usual suspects and gearmulator for more digital music device emulation

    by gravitronic

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