Musicality? Who knows really. That certain something, a balance of…
Vibrancy? Range? Brightness? Harmonics? Colour?
Would you say a grand piano is more musical than a felt piano?
Not more musical, just different.
However I do think in these terms when talking about music production tools.
Some mixing tools for example are more musical imo than others. Meaning they are more expressive and pleasing and less engineer-oriented. Go figure. 
Which of these fruits are fruitier and why?
Mango
Apple
Grapes
Oranges
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Mango. It has the most textures flavour wise.
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I agree firmly. I’m lucky I could afford a bunch of really special monos a while ago, and even luckier to get my 106 when they were much cheaper (because I’d probably get a Sequential or a DNK instead). I get that other people may have a range of reasons to want just one “all things to all tracks” type synth.
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I would say that most of these qualities are fairly ephemeral and subjective and more a result of synth settings and sound design and can apply (or not apply) to about 90% of gear depending on how it is used and by whom.
Nope.
Different tools for different needs.
I could see an argument that a grand piano is more musical than a prepared piano, but then we’d be getting into subjective discussions about taste and modernism that would take us a pretty long way from trying to measure the A4’s musicalityness.
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Durian is the most powerful fruit.
Beans are the most musical fruit.
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For me “musicality” / “musical-ness” are the ability of the performance (recording/track/song/whatever) to evoke a reaction in the listener and performer.
Mahler has a score which includes a line for a hammer falling on a wooden box. It sounds like a shit snare, but no-one’s gonna step up to Mahler on “musical-ness”.
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I think the OP is asking if you can make music for a musical with the A4.
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I’ll have a go.
Come on.
Dig the fucker up, let’s have it.
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This is the inspiration my “commitment to releasing something in 2024” was looking for…
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Might as well be for the banality and pointlessness of it.
You can’t really compare apples and oranges.
Yes you can.
Apples are awesome, oranges are shit.
Would one describe industrial, dark, grungy, metallic as “musical”? I would say most online demos for the A4 gravitate towards this in particular when compared to other synths.
Yes.
Why wouldn’t you?
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E = A4
The theory of Elektron relativity.
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No I wouldn’t. I would say it almost leans more towards percussive than musical.
And percussive isn’t musical?
Sorry, not trying to be a twat.
music is so musical
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