Analog Four MK1 - Meh....?

[LyingDalai]

Oh, and by all means use the search on this forum, it’s full of hidden gems.

https://www.elektronauts.com/search?q=trick%20%23elektron-gear%3Aanalog-four

Example:

A4 Tips & Tricks

Couldn’t find a thread on this, so thought I’d start one. The reason being a cool thing I just found out, a lot of you will probably already know. If you hold down a note on the mini-keyboard on say track 1, keep holding the key, select track 2, hold a key on that, and then select track 3 etc, the notes from the previous tracks remain sustained as long as you keep holding the first note you triggered down, the second etc. Pretty cool if you want to create some intense sounding stuff. Nothing …

https://www.elektronauts.com/search?q=Synthesis%20%23elektron-gear%3Aanalog-four

Example:

Drum Synthesis Recipes: A4 Holiday Notes

Hi y’all, Spent the last week of Holiday with my new Analog Four, and dived into finding out how to sound-design drums and percussion. Had a great time analyzing different types of presets and acquired patches (how do people call that, backward designing or something), and sifting through tips shared here on Elektronauts. There’s lots to find here on the Forum, but it’s all a bit scattered. So I thought to share here my compilation of analyses and some tricks shared by others. I plan to print …

Cymbals and metallic percussions synthesis lab

Some brief previous discussions:

Let’s not forget the famous one, to read any time you think of A4 = meh

Isn't the Analog Four the most incredible and deep instrument from Elektron so far?

I recently got chance to get an mki and currently reading the manual and testing it so far, but isn’t the A4 the most incredible and deep instrument from Elektron so far? I currently own an octa mki, a machinedrum SPS1 mkii, a Digitakt, and a Digitone. Thinking about selling the Digitakt and staying with the rest tho I am so impressed by the many different options that A4 allows for sound creation, isn’t it? I am just blown away by it and sounding wise…love at first sight! What a tremendous syn…