Slower LFO Speed

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
1

This may have been addressed already, but I didn’t figure anything out based on the searches in this thread.

I am trying to make an LFO period span 32 triggers. It seems I cannot get it to be slower than ~16 triggers. Anyone accomplished this?

2

i think the factor of mult and speed needs to equal abs(64)
e.g. Spd 1 Mult 64, Spd 4 Mul 16, Spd -2 Mul 32
just make sure you don’t retrig the lfo though

3

It would be great if there was smoother interpolation of the Lfo speed when sweeping from low to high if the multiplier is set to a high value.
Don’t really understand why they have it the way they do.
At least this is now possible with overbridge using midi automation of Lfo speed.

4

Thanks guys. It’s working. It was bit hard to get my head around :joy: :+1:

5

So speed and mult need to be a factor of the length of the triggers?

6

The factor of Speed and Mult is the only relevant number - let’s call it SpeedNumber

SpeedNumber = 512 / (number of beats)

so if Number of beats is 8 (your case)
e.g. 2 bars i.e. 8 beats : SpeedNumber = 512/8 = 64

1 trig = 1/4 beat : SpeedNumber = 512/0.25 = 2048

you can basically use the mult to musically subdivide or multiply the lfo whilst keeping sync to tempo

7

fwiw - the random LFO doesn’t cycle as such, but it changes value 16 times faster than a regular LFO cycles once
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if a bar long normal LFO cycles once for 128 speednumber (i.e. 512/4)
then a random s/h style shape will change 16 times i.e. once per step

8

so yeah , you just set the Multi to x1 and the SPD -63 or +64 the closer to 0 on the SPD the slower the LFO . Thats on the Analog rytm and Analog 4/ keys .