A4 mk2/MKII OS 1.30B : Bug reports

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
#1

You encountered something wrong in A4 mk2 OS 1.30A or 1.30B and want to check if others can replicate it ?
Here is the place.

Doesn’t replace a support ticket, of course, but you might want to check if it’s not a feature before declaring a bug :wink:

Please report all bugs via the Support Tickets section on elektron.se if they have not already been confirmed below.

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#4

Issue with Accents. Posted this in another thread:

A4mkii accent value bug?

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#5

Here are some of my little troubles… I would appreciate if you confirm observing these, so that I can declare them to :3lektron: support.

  • on the 4th track, I have noticed that the first time I Live records notes from the mini-keyboard, some notes Velocity are locked to 48 instead of 100. Don’t know why velocity is locked in the first place, but this value of 48 is really weird.
  • I encountered some pb with voice stealing. Kit Allocation set to Reset or Unison // 4 voices checked, I observed that I could hear the sound of the other voices.
  • on lots of menus the Press+Turn -> fast dialing behavior is not available (still have to make this list)

Weird thing about the 2 first points is that I don’t reproduce this always : at some point I was able to have proper Unison for instance.

Please check and report, reproducing it or not :slight_smile:

#6

Anyone else have any issues with their a4mk2 outta the box? I am experiencing a few and wondering if i should return due to faulty parts or whatever.

    • Seems like the “push knob to remove p lock” feature doesnt work on all the main knobs.
      2)- The note value being displayed on the “key bed” for specific notes doesnt show the key i pressed

Is anyone else experiencing this? I know elektron’s customer service is pretty awesome but figured i would ask just in case before i jump the gun and send mine in.

#8
  1. is a known bug acknowledged by Elektron.
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#9

Ah thank you. So now I just have to wrry about those pesky encoders :smiley:

#10

About #1:
Sometimes I cannot adjust the p locked parameter, don’t know why

#11

oh no!

My #4 sequencer is not white back led, but yellow!

#12

and is this a bug?

When I plock a sound from the soundpool,
and then I press the sequencer step with the p-locked sound
then on the display, I always see the soundpool list

This, I only need when turning the soundpool selectrion knob…
Now is hiding my settings, if I want them to re-p-lock them to a different parameter setting.

#13

This issue is what I was talking about in your other thread.

Also, none of the parameters are lit, active in the sound lock state

#14

Two more

  1. fine tune encoder on OSC1/OSC2 pages doesn’t stop at 64, but runs over and starts again from -63 when turning encoder B to the right, after returning to center position, oscillator is out of tune

EDIT: Elektron got back to me on this one, it is by design. Rolling over influences the tune value. I should have had coffee first.

  1. ENV/LFO retrig controls on NOTE page don’t work (they don’t react to encoder turns) and their UI is inconsistent with other switches in the UI

EDIT: checked the manual (should’ve done that first). Here goes: “µTM, ENV, and LFO settings can only be changed when parameter locked”

Support tickets opened for both.

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#16

Doesn’t a yellow trig just indicate a p-lock?

#17

What you mean is a trigless trig, but that’s not what @wouzer is showing (if there were one on the yellowish step, the “frame” of the button would be lit, too and recording mode is off).

#18

I’ve noticed on the LFO Depth parameter, pressing and turning makes value selection slower or ‘more accurate’. Since the new encoders are pretty fast anyway, I have to say I actually prefer this erroneous behavior

#19

I am noticing that Control Input 1 (have not tested on 2 yet) does not honor its setting on restart. In my case: the MODE will show CV but nothing will have an effect until I open the Control Input 1 settings page and then close it. On closing the page, the settings take effect, even if no settings were changed

#20

I didn’t see a thread for A4MKII bugs, so I thought I’d kick this off. Here are a couple of things I’ve encountered in 1.30A:

  • Accent function: FUNC + ACCENT, shows large number (typically 8192) and can only be adjusted down, not up.

  • Keyboard LEDs: lighted LEDs don’t correspond to selected note(s). For monophonic sequences this is not an issue (you can simply view the p-locked note on the screen). For chords, it’s a PITA.

#21

I believe both bugs have been acknowledged by Elektron. There was some talk about both of them in some other thread, but it’s good to have it consolidated here.

#22

Ah, looks like I’m not the only one seeing this stuff. Suggestion to mods: retitle this thread “MKII” instead of “mk2” so it shows up in search when using the Elektron naming convention.

#23

Have you considered updating to 1.30B?

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#24

Good grief, I totally missed this update. Looks like both of my bugs are in the fix list, downloading now.

Update: Accent function and keyboard LED bugs are indeed squashed after updating to 1.30B!

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