A4 Tips & Tricks

[LyingDalai]

Just got A4 and it sounds amazing, but it was an insanely hard decision to buy it

When I had my A4mkII, I used that CV-sidechaining trick together with the «CV-kick» trick. I used a fast audio-rate sinewave LFO1 on the CV-track, modulated its pitch with LFO2 configured as a one-shot envelope, and also modulated the amplitude of LFO1 with ENV2. Then I routed that from CV-A back into one of the external audio inputs. Massive kicks on the CV-track without using any of the 4 synth tracks. Finally, I used ENV1 sent as value out of CV-C back into CV-in, to add sinechain-ducking t…

Can’t believe I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet.
Awesome tricks, thanks

Found a former post with precision’s regarding parameters values:

CV outs back into Inputs or Expression input

While I’ve found the A4 Synthesis to be severely lacking in terms of subbass, there is a trick I’ve been doing with my techno tracks that gives you that great bass to layer under kicks and such with the added caveat that it is it’s own track not consuming any synthesis tracks. The CV LFOs go into the audible range so that is the basis of this trick. I got this from an old thread on either this website or elektron users but I figure many new people here so: Cable from CVA to Input on A4 Set Vo…