Polyphonic Machinedrum | EFM-CB
Here's the second part of my polyphonic Machinedrum explorations, this time using the FM machines. Who needs a Digitone, right? Well, I for one would love a Digitone, because even though you can play a Machinedrum polyphonically (and it has a very nice sounding FM engine) it's a bit of a mission to set it up in regards to tuning.
There's a tuning chart floating around on the internet for various MD machines, but sadly the EFM cowbell is missing, which is my favourite machine for melodic stuff. So for this performance I had to tune each note manually with a tuner, and sadly the tuning isn't perfect, which is just the nature of the Machinedrum. For this piece I've tuned each of the 16 machines to notes in the F minor scale, and played them via midi on my Analog Keys. That brings me to the second drawback of playing the MD polyphonically. Once you've tuned it, you're stuck with that particular scale, unless you create multiple kits, but even then you only have two octaves to work with.
But limitations breed creativity, right? Let's find out together.
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