im on the market for a machine drum mainly to just use through Ableton, would I need the +UW version to add extra samples? im really just after the sound/soul of the MD mkii, im thinking the +UW would be overkill as I would still use drum sounds within Ableton and I don’t perform live
+UW gives you all of the cool resampling tricks plus multiple snapshots (like projects or sets) so that’s another reason to go for it.
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Thanks, didn’t know that, the +UW seem to be twice the price will need to decide if it’s worth it to me
Perhaps a Mark 1 if it’s in good condition? UW or not - it has the same synth engines.
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+drive is definitely handy if you’re gonna do a lot of work on it. Though I worked on a mk1 without +drive for 15 years before moving to a +drive mk2, so it’s not a necessity.
UW is up to your taste. Do you want (very limited memory for) gritty samples and realtime re-sampling tricks? If so, get it.
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As you got an Avalon you definitely should sample an resample and resample and… You get the idea.
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I would like to add in regards to the sampling, reading on another post here, I feel I should mention I already have a mkii RYTM?
I don’t have a rytm anymore. But iirc the real time sampling is only possible on the MD not rytm
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That’s correct. And with OT, of course.
Some things to consider between MKI (unbalanced) and MKIi is (balanced) signal to noise ratio on the MKI is 91db. MKII is 100db
Happy tweaking