C’mon guys, don’t kill this thread. Please! 
[there was a whole thread about how “easy” things are to implement… don’t find it atm, but I’m sure you’ll be happy there.]
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I’m not 100% sure but I think it’s more flexible than it’s presented on the global schematic. It has USB audio thus it leads me to thinking that there is a digital “processing room” before sending audio to the audio output amplifiers. MK2 has separate outputs for voices… it’s another reason that makes me think that there is that structure I’m talking about.
Sorry, man ) Do I discuss something wrong? I’m just discussing about the opportunities. I can be wrong about things that I write, I’m not Dev. If somebody will show me an article (or thread) that clearly shows this then It’s a profitable conversation, right? 
- Dimmable screen and LEDs
- Parameter lockable arpeggiator
- Two mod matrix slots in the noise page
That’s all I would ask for Christmas
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yeah, at least
Me too.
Pretty much covers all that’s missing for me.
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You nailed it. How come you assume it’s easy?
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I don’t get your point. If you’re deep in this subject then stick my nose in it (or don’t be rude, plz).
Not a processing room, whatever that is…
It has A/D converters. It’s really not a particularly complex task to convert analog signals to digital ones, doesn’t really require lots of extra processing stuff, just the converters.
But it doesn’t change the fact that the non-USB signal path (if you exclude the send fx) is analogue from oscillator to outputs, so nowhere to put a digital effect except the send fx or post A/D on the digital output(s).
Unless the manual is just making shit up, obviously…
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Found it. We’ve been through a lot of assumptions already. Not intending to be rude, though.
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Should I ask there about parallel/serial fx?
Sorry for boringness but as I’ve told earlier: you can choose “100% wet” for an effect. Thus the send fx serves like a regular “pass-through” fx.
And maybe (I suppose) these “send fx” can be made in a new flexible structure. It’s DSP anyway. Just think about it like a “VST/AU” inside A4.
Nope.
That isn’t how send fx work, certainly not on the A4.
Send a track 100% on the reverb.
Now turn the reverb down to zero.
You can still hear the track, right?
Because it’s a send, not an insert effect.
The fx levels on the track AMP page are not wet/dry levels, they’re how much of the track you want to send to the fx bus.
The send fx are on a parallel bus, you can never make a track 100% wet, just send various amounts of each to the fx bus.
So yeah, you could add SRR on the fx bus, probably, but you’d have to have it as a send, with only one between the four tracks and as a parallel effect.
EDIT
Just realized you can turn the track down while still sending it to the fx…dickhead…
I get where you’re coming from, but adding SRR x4 to the fx bus is pretty unlikely, I reckon.
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I disagree that it’s unlikely to tech. reasons.
Just hope that Devs will see this as an opportunity to make A4 popular again. Why not to sell these units more? Not everybody needs a super-small (by Elektron measure) Syntact (with all it’s limitations). Also they has different price tags AFAIK.
they could absolutely make it work if they changed the signal path so that both dry and wet can go to the digital stage, when SRR is enabled it just takes it out of the analog path
however i imagine the CPU is already pushed to its limit so you can’t add anything without taking away something else
If it’s really on it’s limit (we can’t judge here) then it can be simply a switch between Chorus and SRR. SRR will be taking less CPU for sure.
For A4 I would like to see page loop and 16 tracks arranged in 4x4 choke groups. Then let us play/select the tracks with the trigs.
Good way to keep the A4 attractive against the Digitone 2.
Assuming they even want to keep selling A4 …
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It definitely does. I mean, a suite of distortion effects akin to Octatrack that you can swap the Chorus out for would be great.
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Add ENVF Length and ENV2 Length to destination list for performances
Oh man. So I wanted to make a Perf for making claps. The way my patch works is the retrig phase is done by having LFO2 change the rate of LFO1 from fast to slow after a moment, and ENV2 keeps the volume static for the retrig phase using LEN set to approximately the same amount of time.
I wanted to make it more convenient to tweak the retrig count with a perf, but you can’t modulate Env > LEN with a perf.
So I’d really love it if that could be added.
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Given that we’re approaching the one year anniversary of the Rytm 1.70 update, it’s hard not to wonder whether the A4 will soon get the benefit of workflow updates such as page looping, improved parameter lock indications, etc.
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