Haha, great idea. Have to try this tomorrow morning!
Thanks for sharing 
this video sold the a4 to me 
holy crap.
thanks for bumping this thread from 2013. this was before I had an A4
that trick is phenomenal!!!
Brilliant. Cheers Void.
Thanks Void, for not only giving us ājust the tipā, ā¦but video too.
(āSee what I did there? Hello? Is this mic onā)
Anyways, just post giving thanks!!!
Thanks for this awesome tip. Iām still a noob at this but i just tried this trick and it has opened up a whole new avenue of possibilities!
Cunningly devious, or maybe deviously cunning! 
I had to test this in midi mode on the OTā¦ and it worked!
With this in mind iām wondering whether these machines were designed to work like this or whether its a happy accident?
Amazing! Thank you so much.
Iām still a noob with Elektron gear, i donāt even know if it the OT has trig mutes (the same as A4). Instead of the trig mute I just used a note trig then deleted it after the arp started, works great!
This works on the OT. Nice technique.
Forgot all about this! Thanks for the bump!
this is S T I L L over my head ā¦ will figure out in 2016 hopefully ā¦
Itās not hard to do, just a pain to program. It would be so much better if it was possible without having to rely on the arpeggiator and the trig mutes.
Did anyone else notice the A4 getting really buggy when doing this though?
Thanks for posting this. I have a pattern I wrote about a week ago that does this. Itās 64 steps and one channel alternates every 32 into something completely different, and it takes two full runs (128 steps) for it to recycle back into repetition, but itās really just one 16 step bar repeated four times. It was really late when I wrote it and up until reading this I had no idea how I did it even after pouring over everything page by page. I thought it was something with the LFO that was making it do that, even after verifying it couldnāt be that by subbing the targets out. Turns out that it is using the same technique just with different values plugged into the arp page. Thanks a lot for verifying I am not crazy (at least regarding thisā¦).
Iāve had this instrument for about three months now and I feel I still havenāt even scratched the surface of its potential. I guess thatās to be expected. I had the Machinedrum for six months before I even messed with anything more than simple P-locks and a couple of the CTRL functions.
Just discovered that this works with infinite notes as well!
Perfect for drone sets. No need to use the ARP or trig mutes at all. Just set the VCAās release to INF. Start pattern, mute tracks, change pattern, unmute tracks one by one. Fantastic.
Impressive stuff. Makes me feel very oldā¦
My own biggest problem with doing this kind of thing is when I return to the projects and delve into each bank/pattern days/weeks/months later, I have so far not evolved any way to remember what the hell I did on each track. Even finding favourite patterns amongst the banks is tough. I at least decided to always relate key to bank (e.g. bank A is always going to be in Am, bank B in Bm and so on), which helps, but how do people usually remember all this stuff? Maybe I make too many patternsā¦ just canāt stop though.