I have no clue honestly. Just was thinking loud.
I could imagine it might be extra effort to keep future overbridge versions working for the mk1 line
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I thought the overdrive was different on the mk1, am I right ?
you are right.
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Though the mkII has both new and old overdrive behavior, I believe? Counterclockwise is mkI and clockwise is mkII.
Regardless, this does mean patches that use overdrive are going to require a little tweaking when moving between the two.
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Yes, the 2x overdrive styles are very useful as they are quite distinct from each other
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What is your source ?
I don’t remember anything like that, I think it would have been clearly stated from the beginning. Maybe I missed something !
I believe overdrive circuit is simply different for MKII.
MKI also have a really different behavior between clockwise/counter-clockwise.
Kind of offset as on AR…
I remember having read somewhere that counterclockwise mk2 was clockwise mk1 circuit.
I really like both mk2 overdrives. Love how you can change the sound in so many ways, when filter resonance is high or very modulated.
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Counterclockwise : mkI
Clockwise : mkII
I often prefer Counterclockwise.
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Same here bcs its smoother and more suitable for the sounds I’m after but its nice to have a quite aggressive one too, and on the same dial, interesting things happen when modulating it so that its alternating between them.
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What is your source? A4 mkl has also 2different distortion models I would say
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Absolutely.
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Another A4 = DFAM one (on one track, of course) 
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Source please !
2 different overdrive circuits ?
At around 8:10, he compares a mkI to a mkII :
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Oposite settings with MKII negative and MKI positive seem to sounds similar indeed, a bit short to compare though…
An Elektron official source ?
Didn’t they just inverted knob behavior or is it just more…mature ? 
A4MKI manual :
OVR (Filter1 Overdrive) introduces distortion in the signal path. In mid position (0) the signal is kept clean. Increasing positive values gives a clipping distortion after Filter 1. Increasing negative values also distorts the signal, but with a softer overdrive inside the filter.
Same description in MKII manual but in Cuckoo’s demo it seems inverted (positive values softer).
Something wrong in the manual ?
OVR (Filter1 Overdrive) introduces distortion in the signal path. In mid position (0) the signal is kept clean. Increasing positive values gives a clipping distortion after Filter 1. Increasing negative values also distorts the signal, but with a softer overdrive inside the filter.
So you’re telling me I have 4 DFAMs… on my A4… on top of my double DFAMs… no freakin wayyyyyyyy. I remember giving it a go once but this is motivating.
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I couldn’t find a statement by an Elektron employee anywhere on the forum. However, many well-informed users of MkI and MkII describe precisely these differences in the overdrive behaviour between the two Marks. Perhaps MkII beta testers were provided with some extra information?
@eangman
Is the description of the overdrive in the AF MkII manual correct, or was that text simply copied from the MkI manual?
I read this as saying that the difference is overdrive before or after the filter, which would make sense as an option. Am I interpreting that right?
Why is that? What’s the matter with the 5 sub? The waveform of the square?
sounds extremely close to the signature dfam stuff!
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