Analog 4 LIVE RECORDING issue

Hello,

just curious if this is a limitation of the A4 or perhaps something I am doing incorrectly.

Whenever I try to do a live recording, i.e. press record and start playing a melody on the mini keys the rythm never matches whether i turn quantize on or off. I have to keep the rythm very basic. Is the issue that I have the incorrect time signature? or is this just an issue with the A4.

I also have an op-1 and whenever I do the recording it’s dead on with whatever melody i’m doing. I’m thinking because the op-1 just saves my melody to a wav file or something whereas the A4 has to match what I play to it’s respective step sequence?

any help/clarification would be greatly appreciated.

thank you

Can you please expand a bit? Which time signature are you using?

I have no issues with quantization (using Track Quantize) if I have the Global option turned off. Nor if that option is on.

Especially (maybe i should read it back again) i don’t understand the issue about OP-1.

Hello thanks for the response.

the op-1 there is no issue I was just doing a comparison.

with the analog 4 if i play a melody the rythm is usually off. Is it because i have the wrong time signature set or is it independent of the time signature?

pretty much i play a melody and invariably notes end up missing and the rythm is not what I initially played.

would love to figure out the issue with this.

the A4 sequencer is a step sequencer, and it can record only one note event per step…
likely this is where your missing-notes issue comes from.

so if you play a melody with consecutive time intervals shorter than 16th notes, the sequencer can not store them all.

you can effectively increase the sequencer’s timing resolution by setting the master time-scale to e.g. 2x speed, which will give you 32th step resolution. for longer melodies you can then chain patterns.

other than that, if your quantization is OFF, it should record your stuff just fine.

make sure transpose is set to 0 as well. silly i know but sometimes you just forget, especially with all the excitement in the beginning

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ok…i’ll give these suggestions a shot. thank you so much.