OK, I was just dreaming about Elektron’s potential benefits + our new possibilities. Somebody dreams about “making coffee” ;))
Initially it wasn’t about Open Source. I’ve meant about a collaboration with a group of selected enthusiasts. But if Elektron guys want to work comfortably in their “shell” then I don’t have a tiny bit against it. I just see some missing opportunities.
Beh already could clone any of Elektron’s machines but doesn’t try for it for some reason… They “love” Arturia ) Yeah, what a shame…
P.S. I’ve wrote my suggestion because tired to wait for updates for A4… Two years or more already.
Well, @JustinValer & @v-yadli reverse engineered the Machinedrum firmware to add features.
Maybe you can try the same on an old A4?
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No, I’m not a hacker 
The jack of all trades if to say frankly )) More about making music and 3d gfx (in past).
It’s never too late to learn.
And more efficient/less frustrating than simply waiting I guess ^^
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I plan to learn in RasPi direction to make some sampler/looper/fx-unit in one piece. It’s what I miss in the most of gear. Reverse engineering (RE) is the direction for those who really love this IMHO. I have some old ZX Spectrum ASM-code friends but they are far away from RE stuff.
Similar to how they added Eucliden steps to the Rytm, I’d like to see a Turing Machine or Shift Register added to note step entry on the A4. Double press the note button to access.
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save p-locks as presets 
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Subharmonic mode for sub oscillators 
And digital filters, because why not
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What do you mean?
I mean sub oscillators that can produce a sub harmonic off the root note, like the moog subharmonicon
Isn’t it kinda doable already by using the second osc as a subharmonics generator?
Or am I missing something?
Sub osc volumes would be a great addition.
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Yeah I guess, because you can tune the second osc the way you want, but it’s not exactly the same. Technically we can tune the sub already to a fifth, could be nice to have other harmonics too.
Sub volume would be great too
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Sub osc volumes would be a great addition.
+1 - came here to request that.
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Also sub volumes here. Personally I find the lack of volume control on the sub is the main thing with the A4 that takes it from an easy tweak-easy balance machine to a much more detailed tweaking machine as the sub osc’s are often far too powerful to get the right balance between osc harmonics and subs especially with the triangle wave.
From Rytm 1.7, Euclidean sequencer would be a dream I love it on the Rytm. P-Locks to sound saving would also be incredibly helpful on such a deep instrument.
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One of these all time favorite requests here.
Individual tuning of the Sub OSCs would be a dream come true, too.
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a dedicated sine wave
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Technically SubOsc is the same analog oscillator but processed via a much simpler circuitry (will not dive deep here). The frequency can be easily doubled down but no fine tuning. As it’s in the analog part then I doubt that it can be done.
This thing can be only digital. Not a bad choice maybe… But this can eat some noticeable CPU time! Also I’m not sure if it’s possible to toss into the analog filters.
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And volume control for the sub-oscillators would be great-I like them but would like to make them subtle-otherwise they swamp the sound.
This would be my number 1 request for the A4
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If there is no additional VCA for every SubOsc then we will not get the volume control for them. I don’t like to frustrate people. But I prefer to live in reality and understanding things “as is”.
Maybe we will get some AI VST/AU plugins that will be separating oscillators, subs, voices and will give the full control on them. I see this as a closest possibility. Then probably somebody will make gear that will bring these functions to make DAWless setups.
I’m just dreaming. Not sure if this will be possible as well.
I hope that Elektron will make wavetables (or even samples if there is enough memory/CPU for that) as sound generators. We have the noise generator. AFAIK it’s digital and it can be filtered by the analog filters. This means that some digital oscillators are possible here.
Since there’s a lot of digital control in that analog machine, maybe vca’s are digital too?
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