Hello,
I play A4 with an external keyboard. Sound changes with aftertouch, mod wheel and pitch wheel work fine Hen i play live. But it seems to be impossible to record it in the sequencer.
Do you know why ? A4 cannont record external CCs changes ?
Thanks
I am trying to do this as well with a QuNexus via Midi Expander and also have tried midi keyboard with after touch and velocity. No joy and I realize one can go in and P-Lock this per note but since this is simply midi, is there a Global midi setting or something that I am missing as have scoured the manual and so came here for help. Thanks!
This must be possible, especially since I can do this with my Quasimidi Polymorph from 1999.
i’m a new elektron user and from what i garnered at an elektron demo last week there’s no recording of pitchbend and so on - having tried it myself, it does not record pitchbend, modwheel(cc) or aftertouch which is a shame because it responds so beautifully to those expressions … i’m crossing my fingers that this can be added, i can see it could be messy with all sorts of continuous midi data flooding the midi track but surely it can be handled - i hope it’s not a decision driven by the majority usage of the unit (ie standalone) … it’d be good to hear from someone at elektron as to whether this is a feature omission decision or is it somehow tricky to manage behind the scenes or are we just walking before we run ? it’s a no brainer in terms of expressivity, so why is it not recorded !!
anyone know whether the monomachine plays ball ?
It would indeed be nice to be able to record for example a lead by hand, where you could do subtle pitch bending, aftertouch etc. It would broaden the possibilities and make the a4 attractive to a wider user base (think organic, less grid’y music - which suits analogue well!), and probably wouldn’t cost much in terms of development/machine load (is my guess, but who knows).
I realise there would be challenges combining it with step sequencing (regarding blending vs replacing existing p-lock data, how editing a pattern would work afterwards etc), but it should be possible to come up with something. And even if it wasn’t possible to properly edit things afterwards, then one’d just delete and start again.
Had mine a week, i thought it was recording parameter changes smoothly on a non-steppy track … thought i’d give it a go as i figured it’d be easy to extend parameter twiddling recording to pb/at/cc recording [just trying now]… : - ( … okay, so it’s not recording parameter changes in realtime smoothly (thus the parameter slide option)
oh dear hadn’t quite discerned that on listening until now (eg it isn’t like the flux mode on the monotribe then)
it’s a bi-product of the design i guess, i just hadn’t noticed, the other benefits outweigh the downs, but i guess this answers the query somewhat to the likelihood of recording in expressive midi data, seems unlikely, unless it can be run in parallel - even an implicit slide mode (between all steps) for certain data would at least fake it as realtime expression recording
hmmm, it’s still far far far greater than the sum of its parts and oh so musical !