This guy is either ridiculously quick or faking pretty hard. I only had my AK a couple of weeks and some dataline etc performances blow my mind how quick people can do stuff but can anyone with deeper experience of A4/AK chyme in and let me know if this guy is actually doing stuff with all these touches or if it’s just for show? Looks like he’s barely touching controls a lot of the touches? Not trying to be an arsehole by calling BS, just trying to get a reslistic idea/target for performing with AK. Weigh up what can realistically be done in Realtime vs Song mode etc. Thanks.
This seems completely legit to me. He is in performance mode and so depending on how he mapped his performance knobs A to J he can get a wide range of subtle changes to his existing pattern.
Check this video to better understand performance mode:
Thanks for the insight. Haven’t even touched performance mode yet except mutes so that’s pretty cool to begin thinking about having that much freedom/instinctive quick control once I program it all in 
I’ll check the link too, thanks.
Performance control is one of the reasons why I will never ever depart from my A4.
Yeah, to be honest I was initially kind of disappointed to find the performance controls couldn’t be set/saved/recalled ‘per sound’ to +drive. But seeing it work in context of a complete track inside A4 it makes total sense. Still think a ‘per sound’ option would be great as well though, for times when using the A4/AK as more of a traditional synth/sound bank. But I understand that that isn’t really the idea behind the unit 
If you think about it it does make sense that it is Kit based and not sound based, because a performance control can be mapped to various modulations across tracks, so one knob can change say frequency of track 1 and frequency of track 2 at the same time.
To me that’s what is so powerful, because on top of the existing sounds LFOs that already create movement for each specific sound, you can add variation on top of it and that can blur all the track sounds in a massive evolving multi layered texture.
Plus since you can change the sounds on a specific track dynamically it just really creates plenty of exploration from what on the surface is just a 4 voices synth, but it ends up being so much more than that when you put it all together.
I deleted all factory presets plus some that I installed from time to time and now exclusively work on my own sounds from the starting oscillators and since I’ve done that I have completely fallen in love with my A4. It now is an actually instrument of its own.
Yeah I listened to about 20 factory presets then haven’t looked at them since. A lot of them sounded no better than my mininova 
but ive thankfully found that’s not at all the case once you start programming your own sounds from scratch, incredible sounding synth
Yeah totally agree with the performance macro thing. The only downside I can possibly forsee is if i spend a lot of time working on programming a ton of macros for a specific track sound that become kind of integral to that sound. Would be nice to have that sound + macros (& same applies to arpeggios…) banked and on tap in +drive for other songs/projects. But I’m guessing there’s workarounds with copy and paste etc if I ever feel I need to.
BTW,some people are very fond of using overbridge to set up their macros more quickly.