I’ve been searching through the manual and diving through the menus, but it seems like you can’t apply swing to the A4’s arpeggiator. If so, I’m a terribly sad panda. Am I mistaken?
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the swing applies on trigs, so it can result in swung Arp
Or are you looking for something different?
I’m trying it right now, I have an arpeggiator on a pattern, with a single note set to infinite sustain, and if I adjust the swing percentage while it is playing, there is no change.
I’m trying it right now, I have an arpeggiator on a pattern, with a single note set to infinite sustain, and if I adjust the swing percentage while it is playing, there is no change.[/quote]
I din’t check it until now but i’m shure i’ve read somewhere on this forum that there’s no swing for the arpeggiator.
infact there is not…but you can achieve swung trigs - that is completely different from swinging “realtime” the Arp.
But you can get incredibly swung sequences by combining few things like the Arp setup ; Swing on trigs ; Scale setup.
At the end you can always erase Swing Trigs for every track but the arp one…
Elektron arps do not swing 
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Am I missing something here? I am confused as to why a basic feature like swing on the arp for Digitone, A4 is not a feature???
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One hack I have found to be a good way around this problem is to set my arp speed to 12, the equivalent of 8th notes. Typically 16th notes are what get swung in electronic music, so 8th notes tend to stay straight regardless. And I am a big fan of having an 8th arp, with a dotted 8th delay on it that creates a trippy 16th note sound. I usually set the delay time to 24, to get the dotted 8th rhythm. But if I set it to 25, that just a little slower than dotted 8th, I get a swung sixteenth rhythm out of the delay, which basically gives me a swung arp. It’s not as fine as the 30 degrees of swing you get when swinging trigs, but it still does swing. 26 works too although it’s very swung. 25 is already plenty swung. There’s no subtle amount of swing with this technique.
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