Monomachine.

[V-F!]

Hi just wondering if any of the SP-Fam has ever used a monomachine. I kind of am intrigued by it right now. Wanted a Octatrack but kind of got side-tracked with the idea of a monomachine.

[cartesia]

what you want to know? I dont own one but I have used a friends a bit, and watched/read tonnnnes about

[KOMSAT]

Had one, sold it a couple years ago.

Each of the synth voices is pretty thin so you usually wind up using the sync (or whatever they call it mode) where all the voices combine into one. Really good for bleepy bloop video game sounds. Can't recall having made any good basses with it but I was shit at bass back in the day. The vocal synth is super rad, my fave, and if you sequence the Monomachine with external MIDI (like from an MPC) you can do some really crazy cool realtime knob tweaking stuff. I kind of want one again now that I know a lot more about resampling and more about the sounds I want. The MM can be almost overwhelming if you haven't used many synths before, and it's kind of a slightly different paradigm from most of the others. I didn't use the internal step sequencer that much but its fairly easy to use, the effects are fairly good (though very digital sounding) and the performance was pretty good although I had mine glitch out on me a couple of times.

I'm really curious about the Octatrack (especially for live use) but it seems a bit gimmicky. Like it's made for techno heads who have a ton of other shit but want "ableton in a box". In an ideal world I'd have like, what, $4500 to blow on all three (Mono, MDrum, Octa) and the fluffy bunnies would visit me daily with a garbage bag full of dank. Realistically if I had to get any one of them and I had other samplers I'd go for the Monomachine over the Octatrack.

[Stuff Linear]

Loved the MMmk2 !
sold it because i didnt like the linear way of stepsequencing.
but songmode makes it a lot more interesting.
now i want to buy it again to sequence it from Max.

[V-F!]

Thanks guys, decided to cop a Rhodes instead