A4 "silent grid recording"

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
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Couldn’t find anything in the manual or in the forum about it:
Is there a way to enter notes in grid recording mode (via MIDI keyboard or A4 keyboard) WITHOUT having the notes played by the machine?

Edit: I saw now that with the internal A4 keyboard the notes are muted as intended. Only incoming MIDI notes are processed in a different way. I’ve sent a feature request email.

During live sets I would like to be able to enter/add/change notes on a track while this work stays silent. Being able to play live on a muted track is fine. I would like to have the option if the entered note in grid recording mode is being played or not.

All workarounds I have thought about seem to be quite complicated.

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Kit save, Track Level = 0, record, kit reload

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Thanks @sezare56, that’s a good solution for the case where muting the track is fine. If the track should play and I would like to add notes, I only see live recording as an option.

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What about Trig Mutes, FILL TRCondition ?

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Could you elaborate what you exactly mean? In which way is this helping to avoid that the entered notes are heared?

Now I saw that the notes are not heared if I use the internal keyboard. That gives at least the possibility to do it with that. (I edited the initial post)

I will bring it in as feature request that the incoming MIDI notes on the auto channel in grid recording mode are muted in the same way.

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I think you meant Live Recording mode. :wink:
Very different !
I can hear notes with my A4 keyboard. Special setting ?

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Grid recording, hold trigger button to enter note.

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Ok, my bad ! :slight_smile:
I understand, feature request indeed.

So Mute Trigs and FILL TRC make sense.
Place Mute Trigs or set Fill, hold and enter notes, remove Mute Trigs or activate Latch Fill…

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I think I understand now.

  • Letting a track play with the current sequence.
  • Add trigs silently in grid rec mode. Mute the trigs via Mute Trig (this is probably easier and quicker) or (not)Fill cond. to keep them muted.
  • edit these trigs as long as desired (!)
  • unmute these trigs at the time when you decide it via according method

That’s another inspiring step in my live performance I haven’t thought of until now. Thanks for the insight!

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:slight_smile:
FILL doesn’t seem practical. I found easier to place Mute trigs, enter notes/chords, unmute.

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Is there a way to delete all trig mutes in one track sequence with one button combination? If not, using fill in addition would give the advantage to switch on and off several trigs at once.

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Couldn’t find. I tried Page + Clear, it clears trigs, not trig mutes. :sketchy:
Interesting thing : Fn + arrows works. It shifts trig mutes. If you don’t have trigs on even steps (2, 4, 6, 8 etc), shifting trig mutes 1 step equals unmute everything.

Edit : You can reload the saved pattern, to remove trig mutes , but you loose new trigs, unless you save and reload the track. :thinking:

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You can also enter notes in grid recording mode with encoder A from the note page. Each new trig will default to whatever note you have the root set to, but if you hold the trig button while turning the encoder, you’ll change the note without the keyboard firing the gate.

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Thanks. Entering notes with the encoder is even more fiddly than using the A4 keyboard in a live situation for me.