True!
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Definitely the most underrated Elektron box! Buying a 2nd hand mk1 for 500€ today is one of the best bang for bucks you can find on the market.
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I don’t want/need another Track, four tracks is fine, but if the A4 had 5 or 6 voices total it would elevate it massively… I think I could/would do away with a few of my polysynths.
Obvs this can’t happen with the current A4’s, maybe an Analog Keys mk2, 6 voices assignable across 4 tracks, 49-key keyboard… sign me up. 
For your listening & viewing pleasure, an Analog Four-only techno groove (with some Heat for saturation):
Many thanks for @DaveMech for his input and feedback!
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It was my first hardware synth well at same time as my Moog Sub 37. It still holds it own years later with more expensive synths.
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Sounding great, I’m liking it 
… reminds me of Lumines on the PSP for some reason 
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Nice! Like the bass and kick in here. The vamp has a bit of that Manuel Göttsching/Sueno vibe to it too.
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Nice work! Have to agree that it has that mid to late 00s Q Entertainment sound, which I’m a big big fan of. Think it’s about time I dust off my own analog four….
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Thanks! I don’t know those games, but I’ll check them out. What did help spark my interest in electronic music generally, though, was the soundtrack to Wipeout XL on the Playstation, which I encountered in college about a kagillion years ago.
Much appreciated – I regret not really knowing much about Göttsching until his death last year, but as a guitar and synth enthusiast he’s become a big inspiration.
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Actually, if you use all of the A4’s CV outs, then it can do 6 voices! I currently run 5 with my AK but I could easily add another.
4 normal tracks + pitch and gate to two separate synths = 6 voices.
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That’s not what I meant… I always use my AK/A4 as a single sound/track in poly mode, so can play it as a 4-voice poly from within the AK/A4.
I would love to be able to play a lot of the AK sounds with 5 or 6 voices, it would easily challenge my Prophet 6 then and I might be able to sell it!
So I meant having 6 voices across the 4 internal tracks would be amazing… imagine being able to have T1-T3 as mono tracks and T4 as a 3-note poly sound for example.
Even better, if there was a way to link 2 machines together and control 8 voices I’d be over the moon.
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Gotcha.
flipped to “in stock”
Just saying…
An 10-year celebration Analog 6Keys or even 8Keys would definitely make my day…
Isn’t it time for the Anniversary Edition AK?
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Isn’t there a loopop video explaining how to play each oscillators independently using a midi box or something like that ?
With Midipal and Event Processor Plus actually.
I probably used same principle as Loopop, but applied it to notes splitted in 8 channels, then to 4(x2) paraphonic channels.
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Just took my third plunge into the A4 MK1. This time I’m treating the synth engines as icing on a very nifty cake. The sync options for my dinsync gear, cv control for the Grandmother and audio processing is more interesting to me this time.
That being said I’m experiencing a weird issue with the synth engines I was wondering if anyone else has? I’ve emailed Elektron but thought I’d ask here too.
Track 3’s filter 1 is acting strangely; specifically how it reacts to the f/env. If I have an identical sound with a snappy filter env on all 4 tracks, track 3 sounds decidedly “smooshy”, like the attack is a different setting. I can’t imagine a digital envelope could go weird so I suspect it’s something to do with filter 1 as filter 2 acts normally with the same envelope.
I’ve run the calibration routine multiple times but no luck.
Any ideas?