i wonder if there’s a way to loop the envelopes on A4 somehow? Like so when you press the key or trigger the note from sequencer the whole envelope plays over and over agan, instead of only sustain section…
It might be something obvious, but i’m still mostly confused by this machine, so if u know something, i’d appreciate it)
Oh, and if you’ll ask me why i need this, i frankly have no idea yet, just read at GS that there are synths which can do this and apparently it’s good for evolving ambient kind of sounds, so i thought such a complex machine as A4 surely has to have something similar…
Well if you are interested in shaping a sound repeatedly while holding or playing a note the LFOs are a good way to do this. You could mix the two LFOs with the same destination and different depths to achieve a custom contour shape, mixed LFO.
With the sequencer running looped envelope type sound is possible with trigless trigs in combination with ENV and LFO parameters on the Note menu page.
Create or edit the Sound you want to loop envelope on
Make a Trigless trig where you want to repeat your ENVs
Then go to the Note page and Turn on the ENV1 and ENV2 toggle switches on your trigs as desired.
(you can also do the same with LFOs in one shot mode)
If you want a looped AMP envelope sound, crank up the AMP page ENV so that it is open. Turn down both OSC volumes to 0 by default. Then use ENV2 for OSC 1 + 2 with Volume depth at 100.
There is something great about the looped envelope sound tweaking Filter and Amp/Volume decay together. You can create some really awesome syncopated sounds.
The A4 offers quite a bit in this territory because you can assign so many parameters as ENV or LFO destinations. As well as offset the retrigs of those on different steps.
By utilizing parameter locks and slides you can have the evolving ambient sounds of your dreams.
It’s like having 128 LFOs which will step or slide wherever you want them to on each of the 16/32/48/64 steps, it does take a bit more work than simply assigning mod sources to destinations but that’s some serious modulation control we have at our disposal.
very useful suggestions! thanks guys!
have to admit i didn’t use the sequencer for anything more then triggering notes and live-recording of the parameter changes yet, but as i suspected, that’s where it’s at…
