HAHAHA 
Wobble wobble wobble.
No wobble
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“Don’t die on me now damn it” my new mantra when doing ctrl all tweaks on M:C encoders 
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Ah gotcha, I know the kind of feeling you’re talking about with that little bit of turn before the action. Kind of like an old vehicle where you can turn the wheel a bit before anything mechanical is actually engaged. Do you remember if your samples knobs felt like that at the beginning? Guessing that Elektron would be using the same part for samples and cycles, for obvious reasons. Now I’m knob-talkin too!
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Yes, that’s how I think about it too. I think my cycles will get a lot of use and there is a 3 year warranty so when the encoders survive this (and I think they will) then everything is fine. And if they break right after the warranty ends I will finally have a good excuse to have a look inside the unit. 
I don’t have to think back and remember.
After a couple months use, they don’t even fill that way now.
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that encoder play IS your friend it stops accidental nudging - call me strange but I kinda like it, it allows you to touch the value, see it and then change - it falls into the space between less resistance and more - plus like I said, nudging won’t suddenly throw your chosen chord over into a jazzy one
whatever else is said it has nothing to do with quality or longevity, these parts are just not top drawer ones or it may be partly by design - work fine
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But accidental jazz is the my other techno-industrial side project’s whole Brand ™
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I actually prefer a little encoder play too. Compare that to breathing wrong on the OTmk2 cross-fader and the sound flips.
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I’m still waiting for that one video to sell me. It hasn’t happened yet. With the videos of the DFAM, the Division Department drum thing, and the Pulsar-23 I was hooked in the first few seconds (obviously they’re pricier). This however is sounding likes it’s lacking mojo. I loaded up a drum kit on Ableton’s Operator for the heck of it and got the mojo I want to hear in the M:C. But then again everyone seems to love the M:C, like the kick, for example, so maybe I need to just buy it and fiddle with it when it’s finally available again instead of relying on videos.
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It definitely will tell you if it’s for you or not. It’s the entirety of the box and the feel and sound through headphones or monitors that gives it that certain something. I love mine.
If you’re not sold on what you’ve already heard, don’t buy it. I’ve made that mistake before!
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Yeah if you’re not stoked on it already, ignore it.
I was super hyped for the arturia drumbrute a while back… until I heard it…
What other people think about product x is irrelevant really.
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I totally agree. With the higher tier elektrons, we can always hold a menu page button down to see our param values numerically. Sine the models dont have this, the only way to know what numeric value a param has is by touching it. Therfore it makes sense for the encoder to not respond lightly.
Its actually a feature
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Somebody on GS made a parameter map of the cycles and iterated through the parameter space algorithmically, creating this sample with kick machine variations (600 of them according to the poster)
Says the sample is public domain. But also notes " no, this aren’t all the kickdrum sounds the Cycles can do so you’ll still have to buy one yourself to hear the rest of them 
"
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lol I tried to do something similar with the volca drum but it probably would have taken 500 years, and the results would be mostly very similar
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He used a software called Synergy (some sort of MIDI tracker) and some feature called CtlMorph for making the iterations.
Here’s a link to the full post
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quick question: do the settings, undo, LFO and preset/machine buttons light up?
Mine dont
LFO and machine button should light when they’re p-locked.
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Another quick one, any way to set the trigs at default 127 velocity, instead of 100?
new Ricardo Villalobos track sounding awesome
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