A4/AK lock all parameters?

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
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So I just received my AK and one thing I was really looking forward to were parameter slides on sound locks.

I quickly realized that I will have to lock all the parameters of a sound manually to have them slide to the next different sound. This means I have to go into every parameter page and click all the encoders…and repeat this for every step.

Is there a way to speed up this process?

Can you somehow lock all the parameters of a page to a step…or even better, “freeze” a sound lock in place including every parameter being locked?

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I don’t know if Parameter Slide works for Sound Locks, but you coumd try that

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sadly, that doesn’t work

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In that case, then yeah the sequencer doesn’t know what’s not plugged into it.

Just push the encoders on each page for each lock, and sound design normally.

Remember to copy paste trigs to cut down on effort

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This is a little janky, but you could speed this up slightly by loading the 2 sounds you want to “morph” between on 2 unused tracks. Then you could lock only the parameters you care about (which hopefully isn’t all of them) for one step on one track, then do the same for the other. The process for locking would be exactly as @Ryan said above, find the param and just click its knob to lock it. Then just copy the trig with the locks on one track into the destination track, and do the same for the other. The behavior might be a little funky if the parameters you care about are different for the two sounds.

If you don’t have 2 spare tracks, you could also do this in a “burner” kit on an adjacent pattern.

Alternately, you could use velocity sensitivity or macros to do the morphing in a more manual way. Obviously this wouldn’t play well with slides/automation (at least without external MIDI controlling the macro CCs), but it might open up some happy accidents. You could also spread the parameters between different macros to get even more precision/control. Might be fun.

If you’re set on real patch morphing, though, you might have a better time with Microtonic as this is one of its main features.

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Just wanted to say thanks for the knob-clicking tip here.

To build upon it, this was my workflow:

Create the base sound. In my case, it’s a long pad with rhythmic modulation bringing elements in and out, moving the filters via envelopes and LFOs. A dark, pulsing, sci-fi sound, but subtle and clean.

Save sound, set as Track sound.

Then I create variants that get progressively faster / stranger / distorted and save those as sounds too.

Load all into the sound pool

Adjust the track multiplier to 1/8th, set the default note length to 16 and place trigs.

Sound Lock the trigs that are going to use variants.

Hold down and release the trig while going through each page to see which parameters change, click knob on the ones that do.

Copy that trig to the other trigs with the same sound lock.

Enter Parameter Slide track and blue button every trig.

Now I have sounds blending their parameters

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