Hey everyone and best wishes!
I bought the MD few months ago and fell in love with it since. I use it on its own so I’m trying to learn how to make the most out of it. So my question is : what’s your favourite way to create synth for melodies on this beast? Using the EFM machines with long decay? Using a lot of LFOs on the sin machine?
For the moment my favourite way is to use the EFM machines but I guess it’s because it’s the easiest way 
There’s certainly a lot to explore on the MD, even if you didn’t use it as a drum machine. 
Lots of awesome ideas for that in this thread, for example. I for one don’t have a MegaCommand, so I don’t think you absolutely need one. However, it’s likely I’ll get that at some point.
Already read it and learned a lot with this one. The megacommand looks so good, I hope I will be able to try it someday
But I didn’t find tables to tune all the machines manually, for example the EFM CB or the EFM CY, so for now I just do it approximatively
My favourites are:
SIN machine. Also note the Amplitude Modulation frequency works the same at the same values as the SIN machine so you can AM a second sine wave to your original to make 2-notes, add a Harmonic, or make dissonant waves by placing them close together but different.
TRX-B2, distortion to 100%, filter closed, LFO envelope to filter, resonance and everything else to taste. This is how the MD909 makes a 303 sound. Lots of versatility with filter, dirt, AM settings
Any E12 machine with retrig rate set short, filter and distortion set to taste. Great for starting with a breakbeat and then speeding it up into a blur and then into a synth sound. You can do cool wavetable like morphing by adjusting pitch and start independently while keeping the repeat rate constant.
I need to find more options here as I’m working on a all-machinedrum live set right now. To make things sound good I find it helps to mostly stick to the same synthesis option in a track - hard to make SIN and BD2 sound good with each other as the pitch mappings are completely different.
Tonight I want to try karplus-strong with the delay engine \m/
Love how you can get karplus strong kinda bass horns and plucks out of the E12 machines, using the retrig.
Changing melody pitches by p-locking retrig parameters.
I miss my MD!
Just got a breakthrough on making in tune, 12-tone chromatic music on the MD UW - the sample slots PITCH parameter is exactly 36-steps to an octave, so 3 steps every half-tone. The first octave up and down remain in tune, after that things get a bit wonky the further you go, but that’s fine. I really enjoy the 16-tone SIN machine scale, but it mostly only sounds good with other SIN machine parts.
This’ll help me get a bit more range on my all-machinedrum set.
Oh, and my motto is Never Sell Your Machinedrum
yeah stacking multiple SIN machines can create some great melodic content with the MD.
Hey th0mas, thanks for all the tips in your first message !
I’m also trying to prepare a MD only liveset and I don’t have the UW so that’s why I was asking this question.
I just discovered that the EFM HH is great for dark ambient pads
And yeah I’m happy to have bought my MD before the prices gets mad, I will never make the mistake to sell it 
I tried to record some acid on the MD and ended with this : ACIMD2 by Amresis | Free Listening on SoundCloud
Pretty boring pattern but it’s a start !
How did I miss this jam, so incredible!! 
I hope I’ll progress enough to make the MD sound as good as in your vid
Hey!
So i tried to do more melodic stuff with my MD and recorded this :
I used the EFM HH for the melody and routed all the « synth » machines back in the MD to apply a filter on top of all the filter of the machines. Now I’m trying to make arpeggio with the same kit 
And any feedback is welcome !