Tips and Tricks for the Performance Mode

Not sure of what you mean, but you can’t assign any midi message to the crossfader in OT.
It only sends CC48.

On the A4 performance page when I touched a knob that was assigned to a track performance, say T1, I could also edit the level with the Level knob on the left of the screen, without selecting the track, it would just remember the Trk from the last knob I touched.
Then simply turning another knob to change track performance of say T2, I could also edit the Level of T2, without having to push Trk 1 or Trk 2 buttons on the right…now I have to push them to edit that Track’s Level…weird.

Anyone know’s how I managed to chage this setting? I can’t seem to get it back to where it was.

Cheers!

Are you talking about the Performance Mixer Page ?
In that page I have to select tracks with track butttons in order to change volume with the left level knob on a specific track.

Hello,
Not the performance mixer page but the performance page with the 5 “macros”.

Thanks for responding.

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The Performance Page has 10 macros, not 5.
In the Perf Setup, when you set the 5 parameters of a macro, the Level knob act as the corresponding macro knob in the Performance Page.
Maybe that confused you ? :sketchy:

Correct, I have only used 5 so far and my mind jumped to that number.
So in that PERF page with the 10 macros, if I touched a macro that is assigned to say Trk 1, without pressing Trk 1 button on the far right, the “Level” knob that is on the left side of the screen, would assume the volume control for that track.

Following that, if I touched a macro that is assigned to say Trk 2 (or 3/4), without pressing Trk 2 (or 3/4) button on the far right, the “Level” knob that is on the left side of the screen, would assume the volume control for that track.

I didn’t have to press “Perf” button to go to the MIX page of the performance mode and I never use that page anyway.

It was working as I describe above and the thing that I can only say has done something to change that, is when I went to Global > MIDI CONFIG > CHANNELS > and change PROG CH IN CH to MIDI channel 16, so when I change Pattern on the Rytm (which is set to the same MIDI channel), the A4 would follow the pattern/kit change, on the Rytm.

Now on that performance page, I have to press a Trk button for the encoder on the left of the screen, to take control of the Trk volume. I mean its no big deal, but it would be brilliant to get it back to what it was.

Cheers.

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Cheers, I have seen that video, I posted the issue I have, as a comment, yesterday.

This is a great video on setting up performance macros, my issue is more specific.

I get what you’re saying, never noticed if it worked like that.
Definitely trying it when I get home, this would indeed be really handy.
Do you remember if pushing the encoders vs turning them activates it?

I tried to reproduce what you described, usual behavior for me. I tried moving a macro with T1 only, with T4 selected. Level knob changed T4 only. Maybe I missed something…

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Hi, just got my Analog4 MKI and it’s amazing!
I’m now messing around with performance mode so I think I shouldn’t be out of topic here…

Here’s the thing: Let’s say I’m on pattern A1 using (Kit1) and I’ve just pumped tracks with delay, reverb and whatever through the knobs on performance mode and I want to move to pattern A2 (Kit2) which is different and more chilled.
So, after the previous build up, as soon as I move to pattern A2 (Kit2) everything gets more relaxed.
Now if I get back to pattern A1 (Kit1) I will find the previous performance mode settings still banging on and this is really annoying as I need pattern A1 to be set back to normal and not screaming.
Because the two patterns use a different kit how can I reload the kit on pattern A1 when I’m on pattern A2?

Does it make sense to you?:thinking:

There’s an Auto Reload setting after a pattern change.

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Hey thanks! That would do the job…
Where is that?

Global > Sequencer Config

You legend:100:

That’s a global setting, so it will affect all kits in the project, thus kits will always reload when you change to another one.

So be extra careful with saving when building patterns, sounds and kits. Easy to accidentially reload a kit with auto reload on losing changes you made.

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:ok_hand:

I wonder if anyone has created a usable macro-voice yet?

Meaning that you map your macros in such a way, that you can make drastic changes to your synth voice…but still keep it in a usable realm. If that makes any sense.
Basically a quick way to try out new sounds without changing parameters on 10 different pages. Similar to the OP-1’s 4 “macro” encoders per synth.

I would love to see some examples of this, if it exists.

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Is there any way to reverse direction on the performance macros, i.e. when you turn up macro A it would turn down the parameter (instead of up)? For some reason I assumed you could just like Ableton’s macros, but I can’t see a way yet

Yes you just set the amount to negative amounts, you could for example turn reverb send down whilst increasing filter cutoff.

A simple trick I use is when you go to edit the performance macro turn it up to it’s full amount and then edit the controls so you can set the maximum amount and hear it straight away. Can get some really drastic changes this way.

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