I hear a lot about the great delay and reverb on the synth boxes. They’re great but a little goes a long way and imo the reverb is too breathy. I see them being carried over to the drum machines and that’s great.
But imo the real hero is the chorus. Fantastic for external devices. It’s great for updating the monomachine sounf. It’s great on eurorack too - makes a mono signal sound fat and wide without being blurry or distorted. Also, there’s no such thing as too much of it on a synth patch.
One day elektron will make an effects mixer and I for one want to make sure that the chorus is not overlooked.
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I like modulating it with LFOs or P-locks as part of sound design, but strictly speaking I prefer several VST choruses over the one on the A4…it isn’t particularly lush IMO. YMMV.
You can get some cool phaser type sounds with a short pre-delay & slowly modulating the speed amount.
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I quite often like chorus on synth parts but the Monomachine’s own chorus FX machine isn’t great IMO. Most often I actually use the Lexicon one built into my EFX series mixer. Gives things a really nice fat sound.
Recently I’ve been playing with making different chorus effects with the Aira modular effects boxes, it’s a modulated delay type chorus because I haven’t worked out if you can do pitch shifting yet… but you can get some pretty out-there effects with that.
recipe here
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…meant the a4 chorus takes the mnm from grating to stately. The mnm claims 24 bit but judging by the effects, it’s bits of broken glass. (IMO).
I’m this close to owning an Aira module. I wish they were less wide with more cv.
Ah yes I understand.
Yeah the Airas have so much power, potentially, the limiting factor is how many knobs / CV inputs you actually have to control the parameters of the internal modules.
Compared to Strymon / Eventide effects I tried (Timeline / Space), Elektron FX are not that good.
Some effects are efficient in OT, filters, compressor, comb filters…
P-locks, Lfos and scenes can make them really more intersting.
The chorus normally sounds a bit thin but I just realised there is a sweet spot with pre-delay that will add more low end
Hey RoyShade you got a good a4 chorus recipe for short bass sounds? I don’t really understand how to dial in the A4 chorus too many variables 
Or something that approximates to a Juno chorus ?
I admit I didn’t search sweet spots for long.
Chorus can sound better easily on some FX decices. I have to find better settings on A4 because it still interesting to add a little of it’s chorus