I’m really struggling with this. For a long long time.
I’ve clicked the do not quantize live button and want the analog 4 to just play exactly what i play. The rythm always comes out off. Can’t figure it out. I’ve tried recording myself with the built in metronome, tried with pre-bar count in, tried playing along to a drum track. Tried adjusting the swing a bit to make it less static.
Really puzzled by this. Any tips on recording.
For instance, when i would do live recording in my OP-1 it would be seamless. Not sure if maybe the analog 4 does not record live “riffs” as easy ?
One thing you can try – and I’ve done this many times – is to “clean up” your timing a little by using the micro-timing functions on each of the trigs. Even when I think I’m playing right on beat, when I look at the micro-timing values, I can see that I’m a little off the beat at times, or that I’ve held a note too long or not long enough. You can fix that.
The other thing is, not everything sounds the same when it’s recorded as when you’re playing it. I’ve played things, thought it was spot on, but the sequencer told a different story when I played it back. You’ve just got to keep trying.
If you have to, record a note at a time, inserting a new note each time the sequence loops back around. I’ve done that, too.
THIS IS SO USEFUL! I just came out of lurker town and registered an elektronauts account just to say thank you for this tip![/quote]
Welcome to the cult…er…uhh… Family… I mean forum. Club. I once read somewhere, that you will learn something new everyday if you come to this forum…everyday of course.
Thank you everyone. I got my analog four a few weeks ago and am loving it. I’ve more or less got my head around the main functionality. Now it’s just little tips like the one above that I’m picking up pretty regularly.
I’m really loving the A4. My only complaint would be that a lot of the patches that come with it aren’t terribly “musical” if you get what I mean. This just means that I’m gonna have to get my shit togeather and im improve my synth programming skills.
Anyhow, great to be here, and I look forward to bothering you lot with dumb questions that could probably be handled by reading the manual.
just use the search function in this forum, read the manual a couple of times, try out everything. dont try to do a whole composition right away. you will loose your saved stuff. period.
imho
starting from scratch 100 times will give you a fairly decent result at 101 … no go play grasshopper
My typical way of constantly losing the songs i make is that either i hit FUNCTION + clear thinking im clearning a track and it clears the whole pattern? under what condition do you clear track vs pattern?
also, i’ll forget to save my kit. So if i have a bank with maybe 4 sequences but one of the sequences has a different kit I always end up losing my kit.
