I was just playing around with the Cycles, this beat could use a lot of tuning up but the potential with this machine is certainly there. Lots of room for experimentation while still having a relatively limited set of (carefully chosen) parameters by the people at the Swedish legends Elektron. I have always wanted one of these machines ever since hearing about the sidstation back in the day. I wonder how much those are going for now? Anyways my first Elektron instrument is this thing and it's proving to be a lot of fun.
There is a design principle that states "Form follows function" and whie we can design a particular form to suit function, but forms are also a product of the environment in which they are shaped, and even by the very tools that shape them. It's sort of like the end product will be a result of the environment it was created in as well. And maybe it's up to us to tinker and tinker and tinker until we come up ideas to build upon, improve the works of others... Like William Blake said, Anything possible to be imagin'd is an image of truth, all sorts of things that we once only thought were impossible end up being doable once the paradigm shifts. Woah, Man! So what kind of a world do we wanna co-create today? š§
Audio is mostly direct from the cycles, I did a tiny 'compression' near the end with the delay feedback but yeah, it's pretty straight audio... sounds nice and full for the plastic-fantasic model:cycles š
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