Another new found love for A4 - animating the FX

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#1

I have had more ups and downs with my A4 than with OT, but the other day I tried something new (I realise not new to many of you). I had done a midi sequence for my sub37 but I wanted to do it in the A4 instead, for a live gig coming up - unsure if I want to bring my heavy sub 37 with me. To compensate for the awesomeness of the classic fatness in a moog bass I added some chorus as I usually do on a quite basic patch on the A4 to thicken it. I quickly realised that it wont ever compare to the moog sound so I ditched the idea and decided to embrace the A4 sound fully.

This is the first time I’ve actually put modulation on the FX! 2 LFOs with 4 destinations, all to the chorus. HOLY CRAP, it sounds just awesome! Of course not the same as a bread and butter moog bass line (which I still love), just something completely different. This surely comes off as trivial to some, but to me, this was a revelation in sound! Just wanted to share this experience. I’ll upload a sample of said found later if anyone wants to have a listen :slight_smile:

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#2

thanks i will have a go at this!

#3

Don’t tell anybody about that secret weapon :wink:
I use it with modular signals into the A4, even the sends and the panning of the input mixer. And don’t forget you have envelopes also for the fx parameters.

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#4

Ooh that’s right! Have to get those envelooes involved as well!!! Thx!

#5

Defo will try this one out. Cheers.

#6

Would love to hear your modulated chorus sounds!

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#7

sure, ill upload tomorrow!

#8

I’ve been holding back on pushing the FX to the limits, but this sounds too good to pass up.

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#9

have you tried parameter locks on the FX track as well? live recording your chorus/delay/reverb send amounts is a lot of fun

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#10

Some chorus/flanger-ish, raw and naked :slight_smile:

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#11

Awesome!!
I would like to try with digitone.

#12

That sounds really nice, congrats. Care to share the modulation approach you’ve followed? Also, what envelopes are you referring to? LFO exp shape used as one shot?