Hi people! This is my first post as i felt in love with Elektron few months ago,which changed my way of making music: no more computeur, only hardware. The set up topic has been discussed a lot here, so i already got few answers. I have a MD, A4 and Microbrute. WHAT is the point to have the MD out in A4 in? I mean why, what is the meaning(sound’s quality,technical facilities…) to set it up that way (or vice versa). I was thinking the best would be one channel per gear in my mixer. Also how to link A4 and Microbrute with cv/gate (i will also need to learn what cv/gate consist of)?
How would you set up these 3 machines and why?
Hope to have many answers to improve my skills and knowledge
Thanks for your time and looking forward to help back one day
I do it when i travel to not need a mixer… Also you can drive the in audio through common filters,
for the CV the A4 has 4 out off of 2 stereo pairs. there for you need a tip ring splitter. then you can attach those 4 now mono cables to your front patchbay and or I believe the gate which is on the back panel. can remember the difference between the mini and the micro brute. in the A4 there are setting as to how you would like to effect and route the 4 lines.
this link might be useful
To answer your first question, if you have an external mixer with enough inputs then you wouldn’t need to put the MD or Microbrute into the A4 unless you wanted to use the A4’s chorus, delay, reverb, panning, etc.
Basically what the A4 is providing on top of everything else is a two channel mixer with effects.
This is great if you are jamming with headphones (only need to use the A4’s headphone jack) or are at a gig without a mixer or where mixer channels are tight.
Another thing you can do is use the inputs as a wave source on any of the other four tracks (see ANALOG FOUR WITH ELECTRIC GUITAR) section in the manual. This allows you to use the entire track (including effects, filters, lfos, p-locking etc) to affect the input sound!
For example you could imagine having a vibrato or autowah effect for a guitar coming in.