I’m sending mine back to the store i’ve bought it from! They will send me a new one.
It’s just too expensive to let this slide, the synth is great though, love it!
Justus
I generally like it but you asked for issues so here goes.
My JX3P from the 1980’s sits beside it and has 6 voices with 2 osc per voice and a sequencer, and I have to say I am amazed that 30 years later this new synth has less voices. However it has much more of everything else and sounds awesome in comparison.
The CV track is useless for me, though some find it useful if they have old gear. I would prefer if it was a MIDI track.
And finally the polyphony runs out way too quickly on every pattern I start.
So all in all I like it as a synth for one sound at a time but it falls far short if you expect to make any real useable pattern on it or song on it. It needs a bit more polyphony for that.
^ maybe you have an issue with the bank e thing! I’ve never seen it on my A4 so can’t comment about AK but the rest is user error… I’m not sure how you can regard the features of this synth issues. Why buy it?
the bank thing is not a bug.
use the trig buttons to switch banks
“The CV track is useless for 99.99% of users and has more to do with worrying about sales of the Octatrack than making a great Analog Keys.”
lol @ complaints about CV. It’s hilarious it’s called the Analog Four and people cannot see a use for control voltage parameter locking/sequencing
A ton of opinions float around about Elektron’s methodology, but I do think they included CV for very good reasons, and has been very useful to me sequencing/syncing outboard gear without midi.
I suggest borrowing a friend’s synth that has trigger/gate inputs and give it a whirl before speaking for 99.9% analog four/keys users- this kind of generalizing will not yield happy/clear responses from the users who do use the functions you dismiss as sales/marketing
I have been looking at a friend’s Prodigy who wants to sell and now I am seriously giving some thought to it. And at least I will at some point take my AK over there and try it.
I would prefer MIDI there instead, that’s all. It is not there and so I will get an Octatrack!
the JX-3p is severely limited compared to the A4, only sawtooth and square PW wave, only one digital ADSR, one digital LFO, and in reality needs the separate programmer PG-200 module to deal with the damn thing and its arcane no knob LCD…
Oh, back in '83 the Jx-3p cost $1395, about $3300 now in 2014.
@wavestrike you will love it man!
I was lucky to get the A4/OT at once, and had a microbrute/minitaur for a while that I was sequencing via midi so upon arrival I immediately started CV sequencing with the A4.
Sh-101 style step sequencing into the microbrute is heaps and heaps of fun. I can key in a bunch of notes and then sync via CV clock/step time with the A4.
Minitaur can also work like a CV to midi converter so I hope to get some crazy modular sequencers and slave the A4 in the future to my eurorack
the JX-3p is severely limited compared to the A4, only sawtooth and square PW wave, only one digital ADSR, one digital LFO, and in reality needs the separate programmer PG-200 module to deal with the damn thing and its arcane no knob LCD…
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But I do have the PG-200 and always have!
You are right, the AK is superior in every way, and to call the thing in the JX3P a “sequencer” next to the AK is a stretch. I guess it wins on one count, the number of oscillators!
Certainly the cheesey sounds of the JX3P seem to pale next to the AK, which has the best presets I have ever heard.
Thank you, it worked. I have edited my post accordingly.
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use the trig buttons to switch banks
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If you edit out a whole point without any sign its been edited, it makes - EDIT - some of the replies not make sense…
Hi! I’m new here.
I just got my Analog Keys on Monday, and noticed that it didn’t stand even on my table, so I put something under the front left rubber foot.
But now I have placed it on another even surface and it still doesn’t stand even.
So is it a clear case that this is a build issue, and that my AK could be replaced by a new one? But that’s gonna take months, no?
Who should I contact, my local dealer or Elektron directly?
I have the same issue, i’m in contact with the store at the moment.
The place you bought it from is always a good start i guess.
Justus
I think it’s a good idea to let Elektron know about it in any case. This seems to be effecting a lot of the AK’s mine included.
I contacted support and was sent some instructions on how to remedy it but haven’t tried it yet.
They gave me and my local dealer the advise to gently press the two wobbly sides.
Tried it (gently), but that didn’t do much.
The gap is too severe on my unit, don’t want to damage it either.
What was the advise they gave you tsv?
Justus
They told me to try bending it over a table because it’s just that the case is a bit soft and might have bent in shipping.
It totally worked my AK is now perfect.
Yeah sounds like the same advice. I need to try this today. I’m glad it worked for you!
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They told me to try bending it over a table because it’s just that the case is a bit soft and might have bent in shipping.
It totally worked my AK is now perfect.
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I don’t think discrepancies with the rubber feet are making your units wobble; it’s irregularities in the casing.
I had an A4 that wobbled. I fixed it by gently flexing the whole unit a bit over the edge of a wooden table. It totally fixed the wobbly unit I had; it was completely stable afterwards. I’d be careful applying pressure as to not damage anything, but I wouldn’t think the little pressure needed to straighten out the subtle flex in the unit’s casing would pose any real threat to the unit’s internals.
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Ha, it’s Elektron official now.
Yes indeed. Nice one!
I guess my AK needs a chiropractor!
Same for me, I’ve been doing it little by little. Not perfect yet but seems to be getting better.