Monomachine Basic Pattern: Sine and Noise

[@anthonyk5496]

Every time the gear-lust starts (currently MicroFreak) I pull out the Monomachine and remember there's still so much more it can do! Been back to this video a few times, great work ! Would love to see more MNM explorations from you 👍

[@nalaeel219]

I think Max Marco died.

[@hesher2301]

More monomachine!!! This is greatest work

[@0Fdigital]

Some awesome sounds here! It took me a long time to realise that a lot of the Monomachine's power lies in exploiting things like gain staging, filters, etc in order to coax odd sounds out of it. This video is a great example of advanced techniques. I love what you did with the noise!

[@maxmarco]

thanks a lot man! Machinedrum has a lot of depth that way also, but Monomachine might be almost twice as deep in terms of the gain staging/voice complexity - I wasn't quite expecting that when I got mine and it has been the main thing I've been focusing on so far while I learn about MNM

[@patrizio7]

Amazing demo. So much you can you can get out of this beast of a synth. Looking forward to more.

[@maxmarco]

thank you! it's crazy deep, basically modular-lite, but in a very different way than Machinedrum

[@TravX259r]

Great video, I love exploring on the monomachine. Here's a nice trick that I'd like to see you explore; turn on the arp for each track, set to SID. Press play twice to trig the arp and pause the sequencer. It's a nice way to get different track lengths and randomization.

[@maxmarco]

thank you! that's a good trick! have read about that a few times while looking through the 'tips and tricks' Tarekith compiled for Monomachine - haven't dug into the arp at all though so far, I have been mostly focused on timbres and sound design when I spend time with MNM. Maybe at some point I will make a video on a few of the techniques from there that people tend to bring up - another one that gets mentioned a lot is using the arp on the BBOX machine

[@MeshMachine]

Excellent. I was hoping you would do more monomachine stuff. This is great. Thank you.

[@maxmarco]

I'm very new to Monomachine but I was immediately surprised by the depth of gainstaging in the voice architecture, I've spent most of my time so far with the MNM doing pretty much what I'm doing in this video :D

[@slamdunktouchdown]

this is awesome, love the sounds your generating. an inspiring video

[@dfreeman120]

Great piece of kit

[@francescopaolomollo614]

great video! would love to see more on monomachine

[@maxmarco]

definitely will be making more - it's a great synth for exploring lots of interesting sound design concepts - but as per our conversation on FB I have to balance the act of producing a video about it versus getting sucked into it for hours tweaking a sine wave :D :D :D

[@homophonia1570]

Bravo Marco! Master class!!!

[@maxmarco]

thank you :) just some fundamentals I've been focusing on as learn how to work with Monomachine

[@ritualsoundsystem]

Just found your channel, great stuff. Especially love this one. Never selling mine!

[@JohnLozo]

Likewise! This machine is a timeless, underrated classic. You'll see electronic producers using this synth for decades

[@Digiphex]

Hope in 2024 you are still doing stuff on the Monomachine?

[@BrunoWiebelt]

like this basic sound design video, ... quit relaxing after some hysteric superbooth videos. good work

[@maxmarco]

thank you! hah, I haven't been watching any of that stuff! Monomachine is actually my most recent purchase (about 6 months ago) and I already had too much gear then!

[@BrunoWiebelt]

@@maxmarco my lasting (year ago ) was the digitone and I love FM after that . amazing machine

[@maxmarco]

if I hadn't gotten the Monomachine I may have ended up with a Digitone, it sounds really good. I'm glad I held out and kept my eye on the used market though, the Mono fits my overall sensibilities a bit better I think

[@MetricNotStandard]

Thanks for another great tutorial. One of my biggest regrets in life is selling my monomachine 6 years ago. So I guess I’m doing alright, but still… wish I had the monomachine… and my space echo.

[@dfreeman120]

Wicked piece of kit.

[@badhombre2484]

Been waiting for this one. Thank you!!

[@maxmarco]

my pleasure! glad you enjoyed 👍 will definitely be making more Monomachine vids over time, super awesome box!

[@tally.klecko]

This sounds incredible... Wow.

[@LateNightBeatsOfficial]

Awesome video!

[@AdamsBrew78]

You are fortunate to get your MnM when you did. Have you seen the price in the last couple months? I owe you a debt of gratitude for inspiring me to leap into the Elektron world. OT followed MD, and just now ordered an A4 on impulse ;) ... Most fun and inspirational experience I’ve ever had with hardware-and far easier to learn than I led myself to believe. It’s too bad Elektron are drifting away from their roots of appealing to power users.

[@chrisspeedvisuals]

More Monomachine videos please! :)

[@noramokaj2493]

this was very usefull and nice. Monomachine still be good.

[@ElektroNoiser]

Amazing! thanks for share!

[@chloecorley1125]

ur a genius dude

[@JalexWROK]

Thank you very much!

[@beathaven303]

The last minute or so the timbres are similar to early Aphex/Polygon Window.

[@maxmarco]

the way the filtered delay sends can interact with the reverb often tickles my brain in a weirdly nostalgic way - to my ears the reverb is fairly lo-fi but in a pleasant way that's frequently reminiscent of lots of older electronic music recordings

[@Claidheambmor]

@@maxmarco Much prefer working with lo-fi reverbs than modern expansive ones. The basic ones like on the MD and MnM feel like instruments in their own right with the gate and colour settings - modern ones are much better for realism and massive decays but lack the 'cosiness' of the older designs.

[@trevor4835]

You rock for this

[@rorykhanmohon]

Which do you prefer, this or the machinedrum? Thanks in advance for your input and videos!

[@maxmarco]

in features and function they are quite different and complementary, so mostly just depends on what I'd be trying to do. In terms of sound they are similar but somewhat different flavors, I find the MD a bit more 'raw'