You know, those are the 2 things I rely on the music in the music I make. Likely a large reason why I don’t get along with the A4 (yet?)
Yes, when I program an analog synth I do try to get warmth out of it more often than not-and when I see a analog synth this fully featured I guess I just have a hard time accepting it isn’t going to sound “Poppy” or “Ghostly”.
It is, after all, a monosynth, and the dark/sterile kinda sinister vibe of the A4 is not out of place in the realm of analog monos. But it just feels like it should be more of a sound designer than it is.
When I (or most people) go up into my brain’s internal sample library and think “analog synth”, I usually hear the two chords at the beginning of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” or Vengelis or “Born Slippy” before I hear Bass lines. Poly Analog sounds are more iconic to people who spent their formative years listening to them, probably (people born in the late '70s and early 80’s- born in '83 and the sounds of Oberheims and Prophets were likely burned into my subconscious by the time I was 2 years old.