Finally finished this track. Klick for Hoover, Acid and distorted Kicks. (Special shout-out to sezare56 for the tip to fm my squares with squares instead of sines for hihats and to Fin25 because I like him so much, I printed a portrait photo of him onto a CD.)
Banging
Lol, I was doing something the same recently to relax after work.
Tuning a proper kick and hoover is a bit of challenge from scratch though.
Any tips for tuning osc to sound like Juno? Just square + pulse with no sub-osc and send to chorus?
I’m a sucker for brutal hoover sounds like this. Well Done!
This is sick as fuck
The 106 has PWM for its square wave, a saw and a square sub-oscilator and noise per voice. They all have level controls, which you wont be able to fully replicate on the A4 as its sub has a fixed level (presumably that’s why you said “no sub”).
The filter goes very resonant if you push it all the way up. It’s bright, perky, not as creamy as a Moog, but not as screechy as an MS-20. It can key-track and is stable enough to play melodies with if you’re careful with settings. The high pass filter’s lowest setting is actually a bass boost/resonant bump. You can get the A4’s mixed mode filter to do this easily but I’ve not tried to replicate a close copy of it so I can’t suggest settings. Another quirk of the HPF is that it only has four fixed levels, which maybe you could replicate with the CV track if you wanted it to vary during a performance.
You can disengage the envelope from the amp (so it only drives the filter); you can invert the envelopes. The oscillators are DCO’s so you’d probably want to disengage the oscillator drift setting.
I’m not sure if mine has its internal levels set wrongly: I find I can distort going into the VCA if I use med-to-high levels of all the waveforms and play chords. I’m 50% sure it only started after I got replacement voice+filter chips. It’s crunchy and not always pleasant. I doubt you can get quite the same effect from the A4 (it seems to have more headroom internally). The Juno lacks oscillator sync and it only has one LFO, which is shared by pitch, PWM, filter and VCA. The A4’s LFO architecture wont replicate this limitation exactly, so you’ll have to copy values between LFO pages and time your PWM just so.
It has two poly modes, but I’m not sure which A4 modes they map to. Its unison mode sounds like garbage ;-). It has portamento (and I suspect the A4 might not have an equivalent porto behaviour).
My 106’s chorus hisses a bit 
Woah, thanks for so detailed explanation. I did some sort of hoover, but it’s quite off during the actual sequence
damn good
To everyone that ever stated that “A4 sounds thin”, this track is a slap shouting “TRY HARDER”.
Thanks for all the kind comments!
Sounds great, 1990’s vibe
Nice! Yes, I did some detuning, but in different way and 2 sub-oscs were totally wrong (added mud).
What could be more relaxing than live gabber improvisation after hours… for yourself and your neighbours…
coincidentally, I’ve used the second Filter as a low-cut on the acid line to make it thinner, so the overall lowend stays fat and uncluttered
Interesting, can this sort of thing not be done natively though!?
Just came back from the local music store after having a test, and to be fair didn’t really feel prepared at all as wasn’t entirely sure how to use it, but had some great fun with bass lines, kick drums, and general playing around.
Why are the presets so bad though!? Really feel like they don’t do the box justice, hearing some of the other better output.
Yep. The presets and especially the demo patterns are awful
Various sound packs and personal sounds are fantastic tho
Not only the factory content, many soundpacks seem to have a lot of underwhelming presets, but the best of them are quite something. There is another factor: A4 is really four coordinated (and highly p-lockable) monosynths, even though it can do 4-voice polyphony. Sometimes using several sounds together that are underwhelming on their own adds up to something great, because they fit together without one dominating or unbalancing things, and you don’t discover that until you use it for a while. It’s not something you’d notice while trying a unit in a store.
No native paraphonic possibility.