My first track with Analog Four

I’m very happy I managed to find some time and do my first :elan: track :slight_smile: I was working on an other track for some time, but it was not really coming together - and I thought I will try something new and simpler.

It’s “played” on Analog Four and recorded as a stereo master into DAW. There I’ve applied a limiter only. It was really something new for me to play a groovebox in the real time - I’m more of a keyboard player :).

I know I overdid the effects and the mix could be better (and the structure is really simple), but I’m happy that I was able to do something that is worthy of uploading. I suffer from lack of time and procrastination :loopy:

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0:34 - this is already better than most anything I’ve made on the A4…

1:20 - wow! You really know how to make the most out of those 4 voices!

Excellent track, sir! I’ve had an A4 for off/on 2.5 years and you’ve managed to inspire me back onto the box with your first piece!

Thanks for sharing!

:slight_smile: Thanks - to be honest I’ve used 3 1/2 voices :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: One voice is only doing the “ping” sound in the beginning of the latter patterns. I tried to put more sounds there, but the mix was so dense there was no place for it.

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My ear’s lack of attention to detail might explain why I haven’t made better tracks. But, rest assured, they are good enough to determine what is good. And YOUR TRACK is GOOD! :smiley:

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Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, second-ing the view that this track is an excellent reminder that just a few voices can go a loooong way on the A4. Sounds lovely!

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Some time ago I wrote to a user that had a problem with Analog Four being a weird poly to treat it as a 4 mono synths.

But now I see that with preset p-locks it’s more of 4 mono synth tracks (not limited to one sound) - exactly like 4 channel trackers I used heavily many years ago. It helped with taking 4 tracks to full effect. And I found that the p-locked reverb send really helps with making the impression that the sound lasts longer leaving the track free to trig other sounds from the same track.

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Excellent !

I’d just want to add that I recently figured that the “interacive modulations” (Performence, Mod weel, etc) bring the synth even further, it’s an incredible little beast !

It’s my beginnings so I kept it simple - but as you write I used one Performance knob to do all the buildups - it controlled one synth track and the drums.

I admire guys that can control many Performance knobs and change the patterns and do other stuff in the same time :slight_smile: . But I’m sure it will come with the experience.

What a fun synth! :happy:

One question though - is there a way to “filter” trigs and see in the sequencer only the trigs made with selected sound from the Sound Pool? Or any other way to get a clearer view which trigs have the same presets?

In this track there are something like 6 different sounds in the drums track and it was hard to keep track of what is where…