Analog Four/Keys OS 1.51: bug reports

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
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nothing active there

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When you lower completely the Reverb volume, does the reverb sound disappear?

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Yes in the FX track if I lower reverb volume it dissapears - and changes in reverb settings affect the reverb that Iā€™m hearing.

And Chorus / Delay send working as expected

If I loud another sound into the track it also works as expected :man_shrugging:

EDIT: fixed - was the second lfo page :sob:

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So classic. Thatā€™s how one learns :sweat_smile:

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True :sob: have spent many years eith Elektron devices - just my first A4 and hadnā€™t noticed the 2nd LFO page

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You meanā€¦ Youā€™ve just discovered you have 2 LFO pages?
Are you aware you have an extra ENV page as well?
:gift_heart:

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After a long hiatus (in fact several years) Iā€™ve started using my Analog Four MkII again, realizing what a wonderful instrument it isā€¦but hereā€™s one thing I am not sure if it is a bug or if I am doing something wrong.

I have connected an Arturia Keystep37 to the MIDI In of my A4mkII. The Keystep sends on the A4ā€™s AUTO CHANNEL, so that I can use the A4ā€™s TRACK keys to select which A4 track I can play via the Keystep. I use the FX and CV tracks to sequence two external MIDI synthesizers (Intellijel Cascadia and Korg ARP2600 M) an. I can play these via the Keystep as well if I select the FX or CV track.

So far so good, but: I can only get this ā€œMIDI Thru behaviorā€ to work for MIDI Note events. If I send MIDI Control events from the Keystep (e.g. Portamento Time CC#65), these are not routed to the Cascadia or KARP.

Please, can anybody try to reproduce this (or let me know where I went wrong)? Thanks much in advance!

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I am pretty certain that you cannot hear anything you are playing via midi unless it is recorded in the sequencer. At least on my AK.

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For MIDI notes it works just fine on my A4mkII ā€“ but not for MIDI controller data. The workaround would be to use my Conductive Labs MRCC toā€¦

  • route the Keystepā€™s MIDI out data to the A4, the Cascadia and the KARP
  • filter out everything but the MIDI Note data for the A4
  • filter out everything but the MIDI Controller data for the Cascadia and the KARP

ā€¦but that does feel a but heavy-handed, no?

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I think that youā€™re right (though I hope that youā€™re wrong). Last night I tried to use the A4 to play another instrument via midi, with no luck. It worked only when sequenced. As it stands, unless Iā€™m missing something, the A4 is not exactly a midi ā€œcontroller.ā€ Much better as a CV controller.

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I know that Iā€™ve done this before, via both DIN midi outs and Overbridge. Check your midi settings.

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Thanks! Figured it out. I had forgotten about the Midi Ext button down by the joystick.

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Iā€™ve found an annoying bug when using A4MK2 FX and CV tracks MIDI out.
I have connected to my A4MK2 a MIDI keyboard, Iā€™m sending MIDI to the A4 FX channel and it does not trigger anything. Iā€™ve tried using USB but still not working. The internal A4 keyboard works.
Tracks 1 to 4 receive the MIDI correctly and so is triggered external gear when they are used as midi channel. For now Iā€™m using A4 channel 4 to receive and send MIDI to external gear but it would be much better not to lose a track just to sequence external gearā€¦

I also mentioned this bug

And it would be very cool to have the ARP midi outā€¦ Iā€™ve read it works with CV, why not with MIDI, is this a bug ?

I hope an update is coming because itā€™s been more than 2 yearsā€¦ Iā€™m using 1.51C

EDIT: Iā€™ve just read Wolfgangschaltung comment. I can receive MIDI with the auto channel for track FX and CV. Itā€™s another workaround.

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Iā€™m going to call this a bug :man_shrugging:

AK sends Pitch Wheel 1 -8192 when itā€™s started up, so any synth downstream will be out of tune if itā€™s turned on before the AK

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