[quote=“” Simon""]
I think one important point to take note of is that the Analog Four was never intended to be used as a center hub in a MIDI environment – unlike the Octatrack. The reason for this is that the product can have a much more defined feature set. It’s very clear what it is and what you would do with it. Of course this is a limitation, but with limitation comes definition.
However, the Analog Four has an Analog tongue, it speaks CV with other gear and could very well act as a hub in an analog environment. Do you see the reasoning here?
I am neither confirming nor denying whether there will a MIDI sequencer on the Analog Four. I am merely trying to convey the thoughts that went into making the design decisions during development.
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Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting Simon. I sort of see the thinking behind the A4 being the hub of an analog setup but, as I said earlier in the thread, I like to mix different types of synth sounds - analog, digital, sampled etc. The A4 when released was 4 analog mono synths and with cv/gate you could add… more analog mono synths. A bit coals to Newcastle 
To me, if you had to just have cv/gate in 1 Elektron box it would be the Monomachine so you can add analog to its digital sounds but really, any modern digital sequencer with a midi out port should have external midi sequencing if possible.
Also about the point about the A4 not being designed to be centre hub of a midi setup, ok but the Keys is different don’t you think? It is designed to be a centre piece being a midi controller. So you can play a bunch of external digital synths on it but can’t record what you’re playing on them in the sequencer. That doesn’t make sense to me.