A4 mk2/ hearing lfo modulations even with depth set to 0

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
#27

apparently it doesn’t work yet on MK2s

#28

anytime the envelopes or lfo’s are set to modulate anything, i still get slight modulation even with it set to zero. i’ve noticed there is a range of effect between 0 and 1 on the encoders, most noticable when set to with OSC pitch as a destination. with some extremely delicate fiddling i can occasionally find the true zero setting which is shown as “(0)”. this seems weird and extremely hard to get to with the encoders. is this by design, or a bug? not very intuitive. i spent an hour trying to chase this down thru the many pages of modulation. try it yourself, turn on both osc tuned to same pitch, and put any OSC pitch as a destination on ENV or LFO. turn it up then set it back to zero. then turn the destination knob back to meta:none. you will hear a clear difference. strange that it would be so fiddly.

#29

just use function+encoder to set it back to true zero

#30

amazingly, this doesn’t put it to true zero! more like -+0.1, still takes a bunch of knob feathering to get it to true parenthesis zero “(0)”. if they want to keep it this way, they should show decimal points on the display, like with the filter freq. or better, make the fn+ encoder set it to true zero.

#31

hm, never had a problem setting it back to (0)…
MK1 or MK2?

#32

I had the same with the envelopes (not with LFO though). do a calibration. that fixed it for me…

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#33

and first doublecheck you dont have a perf macro applied

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#34

Exactly this for me too. Frustratingly the parenthesis keep flashing so I know I’ve gone past it, but without decimal display I dont know which direction I’m going and often I’ll end up back at 1 (and I cant easily tell if thats + or - one).

#35

no perf macros, and calibration didnt fix it! i’m bummed!

#36

it is a MK2.

#37

Was the machine on for about 2 hours before calibration?

#38

yes.

#39

did you try it again. i remember when i had the problem it also didnt work the first time calibration but the second time it was right.

#40

This is a bug that was acknowledged by Elektron a few months ago. They plan to fix it.

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#41

awesome! any chance you could point me to a thread where they acknowledged it?

#42

here:

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#43

now here/there …
…since moved to avoid confusion

plus a gentle reminder to everyone to try the search

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#44

Im having the same issue :frowning:

#45

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#46

Ran into this issue last week. Learned that my OXI could still modulate the A4, even when no patch was playing but I’m 90% (:slight_smile:) sure I didn’t have any modulation set up on the OXI.