Mysterious new AR picture

Thanks Anigbrowl but I’ve read the A4 manual already and am also quite familiar with Elektron gear and their sequencing (user since 2004). You’re a little bit all over the place with your comment there (i really don’t see what piano roll has to do with my remark) but I agree with the desire to go with OT-style multipliers and to answer you yes what I’d want is specific quantize values such as 1/32 & triplets. I know the resolution isn’t the problem it’s just you’re limited to hard 16th and the 0-128 quantize strength doesn’t really speak to me. Like you said it feels sort of like doing math and just isn’t musical. I do remember that on the MD on I forget what parameters the 0-128 values would sometimes switch to 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 etc… I’d wish they went more into this direction especially on timing based parameters. On a related note I hope the Retrig roll function will also allow to latch on 1/8,1/16,1/32 etc… and not just 0-128…

To be fair I still have my MPC, Tempest and Maschine. It would just be nice if I could play the AR in the same way I play all my other gear with pads :([/quote]
tbh if i was going to seriously bang on something i’d want to use the cheapest option and MIDI it in. :slight_smile:

i see this as being more like a (potential) advancement on SP style. im not really a finger drummer, i like pads mostly for doing track mutes/pattern switching/real time arranging. i have a MIDI drum pad for when i really want to beat on stuff. :slight_smile:

there are a lot of ways those pads could be used to speed up step programing or make it feel more intuitive though. like hold multiple trigs and tap a pad to lock velocity and/pressure.

or if you could use the pads to record real time automation without note events? that’d be fun. tap to place accents, or do rolls. pressure on pads to lock parameters would be like adjusting tons of knobs at once. smaller pads actually works much better if you wanted to be able to press many at once… or how about a slide that starts as soon as you press the pad and ends when you release?

this would be pretty great for things like ghost notes and stuff that i don’t see/haven’t heard regular finger drumming pull off without a lot of time consuming prep work in making the kit, setting up articulations, mapping samples and so on.

so with any luck it might make step sequencing feel “better” to finger drummers. you still might want to lay down the initial track with something you know and like, but playing on top of it could be a whole new enjoyable thing.