Isn't the Analog Four the most incredible and deep instrument from Elektron so far?

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
4211

I love it! :green_heart:

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4212

Thank you! :slight_smile: So inspired by this synth atm!!

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4213

same :heart: :elan:

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4214

Feeding some noise into the filter/filters can create some cool textures as well when using the filters as carriers, as there are some cool options to it’s colour, structure and volume as well, all modulatable of course.

I’m currently experimenting with the vcf 2 as the main sound source and adding the first filter to it when something decent is going on.

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4215

This is beautiful!

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4216

Thank you so much!! :pray:

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4217

Hmm piano samples and OT will disintegrate in the way you imagine I would guess…

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4218

I meant being able to make the sound bend and melt and morph into something else smoothly. In my experience the OT’s controls are a bit too coarse for this as it doesn’t have the resolution needed for subtle variation of pitch like the DT has for example.

Maybe “disintegrate” wasn’t a good term to describe what I’m after.

As capable as the OT is for almost anything, the resolution of the A4’s modulation depth and using the FM approach seems to me the way to go about it.

Even the smallest amount of pitch modulation with the OT makes it usually too seasick sounding for me, so I rarely use it’s pitch mod for warbling stuff and instead create those moods with it’s FX.

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4219

I don’t really understand how the softsync works but can get some cool chippy effects modulating sync amount with the envelope.

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question: when i had the syntakt, i could use a slow-ish square lfo to pitch to have a voice randomly jump in octaves, without problems.
now i tried to do this on the analog four, but as soon as i adjust the lfo depth, the root note of that voice also changes as increase/decrease the depth.
is there a way to avoid this, so the root note stays as it is?

4221

You’ll need to offset the Osc coarse pitch to +6 to match the LFO’s Osc Pitch Mod, also at 6.00.

Or you could use both LFOs (with different speeds) assigned to a Osc Pitch Mod at +6 each, then you won’t need to offset the Osc’s pitch.

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4222

Unipolar option for the lfo’s would be cool, especially for the square waveform.

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4223

thanks, i tried offsetting the pitch yesterday but couldn’t get it back in perfect tune somehow. will try again with your settings later.

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I guess it could be possible to create a macro that offsets the oscillator tune accordingly against the lfo depth.

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4225

Did you also think about using the arpegiator along with the LFO too?

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yes but it doesn’t have the timing-randomness of a free running lfo plus i want to be able to gradually tune in the octave jumps (via lfo depth)

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4227

Yeah, would love unipolar lfo shapes on all boxes, would make so many things much easier and less frustrating to configure.

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4228

I’ve been using the A4 for dub chords lately and I love it. They only thing I can’t figure out is how to get a random LFO target the filter cutoff for each voice in a chord with the same random amount. Each voice gets a different cut-off amount when playing a chord. Is it even possible? On Digitone it’s the POLY M.LFO setting that gets the job done.

Sorry for being somewhat off-topic.

4229

Just do the chord on a single voice using the 2 oscillators and their sub oscillators, then they’ll be consistent.

Osc 1:

  • tuning: +7
  • sub osc: 5th

Osc 2:

  • tuning: +10 with sub osc 5th for min7
  • tuning: +3 no sub osc for minor
  • tuning: +11 with sub osc 5th for maj7
  • tuning: +4 no sub osc for major
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4230

Thanks. With that, do you also confirm that the level of the LFO cannot be synced across voices?