Analog Four/Keys OS 1.50A: bug reports

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
#32

One day I’m sure I will figure out how to route a audio signal through a envelope after the filter stage. BUT… I’m trying to route it to both filters of a voice. In certain scenarios it would be neat to send, let us say, oscillator 1 to filter 2 and oscillator 2 to filter 1, but that would be difficult to do in a analog synth and the usefulness of that possibility is really not that big of a deal, especially since if I wanted to do that very specific thing I could just use my VA synth, but in reality the Analog Keys has a much better sound quality, so that outweighs the minor benefits in sound capabilities my VA synth has in certain areas.

AM modulation with external inputs certainly sounds fun, wish I could try it. but yeah. Like I said, tried setting the oscillators to be external inputs, held down keys, ran a sequence, no sound. Might be a issue exclusive to the analog keys and not the analog four MKII. No idea. I’ll mess around with it more later to see if I can get it to work.

#33

A friend of mine found that in pitch bend modulation setup, the display of the pitch amount on the left was bugged.
The level is set to -64 and doesn’t move with the pitch bend, while the pitch bend is perfectly audible.
I confirmed this bug with my own A4 mk2.

Do you too?

Other thing: I just can’t seem to have AM to work.
When AM1 is on, I understand OSC2 should affect OSC1 amplitude, whatever the volume on OSC2 is. At least that’s how it used to work. Now both AM seem to be off.

Do you confirm too?

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#34

Yes, I can confirm that, in pitch bend setup, the pitch bend meter on the left, starts out at -64.
It will reset to -64 on all tracks after each reboot. This happens on both MK1 and MK2.

AM is working fine.
The easiest way to tell is by starting with the INIT patch and doing the following:

  1. OSC2 (common page) - AM1 = ON
  2. Sweep the pitch of OSC2 up and down; also, modify the pulse width

The changes can be immediately heard.

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#35

just checked AM and it is working for me, maybe you just need to move the pulse width a bit

#36

While we’re at it…

A4 MK1:
The display of “full-range” controls is clipped on the negative side.
For example, see the DEP parameter for LFO1: the control is supposed to go from “-128” to “127,” but the third digit will get cut off, resulting in a display of “-12” when it reaches its negative max.
This happens to the envelopes and LFOs: anything along that right side of the screen.

#37

Yep, was brought up in 1.40A thread too.

#38

Ah, ok. I thought it must’ve been brought up at some point.

#39

mine A4 surely messes up the polyphony and the lfo.

#40

Bug, Analog Keys: On the CV track when I try to access the CV settings of the „B“ slot it brings me to the „A“ slot when pressing shift+button.
I can only access the settings by going to the „A“ slot and then pressing the button for CV „B“ without pressing shift (already in the secondary function submenu)

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#41

it’s not a bug, but it absolutely bugs me too (frequently), it’s been that way since the beginning - it’s very annoying as a user interface - you’re only meant to use fn+ once but it’s counter intuitive - i’d be interested to hear what they say if you report

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#42

can someone confirm that trigless trigs won‘t affect anything when holding down notes either with the mini keys or anything like a midi keyboard controlling the voices externally!?

i just want to play poly chords but having the track(s) modulating just some parameter changes…not to complicated I guess.

someone? :cowboy_hat_face:

#43

it’s not supposed to work, so is not considered a bug.
but there are some interesting workarounds…

#44

So I’m using the CV and FX tracks on my AK to play and sequence external synths and if I hold a note on one of those tracks then change track the note latches until I return to the midi track and press the key again. However, the latching will return if I play another note and the only way to stop it is to press stop twice to end all midi note messages. This didn’t happen in 1.40 so I’m assuming it’s a result of the midi forwarding introduced in 1.50. Is anyone else able to replicate this and is there a way to turn off this midi forwarding if that’s what’s causing it?

TLDR midi notes getting stuck when changing tracks.

#45

Anyone else see the bars:beats in the upper right of the Edit Song Mode screen exhibit major swing while playing back a song? I don’t think I have any global swing set anywhere. And playback is (thankfully) rock steady. I just thought it odd.

#46

This is old, so you probably figured it out. But if you’re in Song Mode Edit, the Song Mode button actually has two shades of blue: light and dark. You can toggle between them by pressing the Song Mode button again.

When dark blue, everything works as expected. But when light blue, song mode is disabled and playback won’t move to the next line.

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#47

Helpful thanks

#50

Here’s a video of some errant knob behavior interrupting my ability to map a mod destination on the Modwheel page:

This sort of behavior has been present on a few different screens (macro mappings as well as occasional jittering of perf macros on the macros page).

#51

Have you checked in test mode? Could be a faulty encoder

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#52

This doesn’t look like a bug, but a hardware problem (my A4 doesn’t behave like this and I haven’t seen any similar reports here).

I would contact Elektron support.

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#53

In test mode, there’s occasionally a single additional step that occurs following releasing a knob, but not constant shifting as seen in the first/ destination mapping clip:

Ah ok, hmm.

The reason I thought it was a software issue is the fact that this errant behavior isn’t present on all screens.