Elektron Machinedrum Recreated in the Browser
Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
A web-based drum machine study that faithfully recreates the Elektron Machinedrum. It offers 16 tracks per pattern, 16 steps per track, per-step parameter locks, LFO modulation, and a full FX section with delay and reverb. Keyboard shortcuts turn your computer keyboard into a step sequencer, and live recording with quantize and swing lets you capture performances. Patterns auto-save to the browser.
Each Pattern has 16 tracks, each with 16 steps.
- MomsAVoxell
Having a real Machinedrum right next to me, I jumped right into this for a bit of a play. It’s kind of accurate, but on iPad it’s a bugger to play like the real one.
One of the great things about the real Machinedrum is you can just kind of ‘swipe’ across the pads to mute things - this doesn’t really work in the web version, and its a pity because this kind of live dynamic interaction is why I still have the real Machinedrum for my use.
I also couldn’t work out how to dynamically change the drum set - this is another thing thats really nice about the real gear.
Would be nice to see multi-touch events handled as well, so that I can use 2 fingers to do things and have both actions register - as it stands now it seems it handles only single mouse events.
Still, a wonderful simulucrum for a bit of bopping around. Add a multi-timbral Virus emulation in a new tab, wire them up with a QY700 simulator as well, and you’ve got my holy trinity of devices for jamming .. ;)
- devin
This is pretty great. Having the physical knobs to do the step locking tweaks makes the experience a whole lot better, but the fact that this is exists is great. I have an MK1 and this is pretty darn accurate.
- LMKIIW
Elektron's been bought by private equity so I suspect their legacy devices will continue to gain popularity.