Hm, it was the power supply that came with the unit and its plugged directly into the wall.
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Hey, Iām about to buy an S4 for live use, but I still have some questions:
can you safe all 4 tracks combined as a preset? Like a kit?
can you seamlessly switch between these kits while staying in Sync with the master clock from whatever device?
Right, if you had another DC12V ~2A center positive PSU to test with thatād be a pretty low risk option.
There is no notion of Kit ā¦ You can save 4 tracks as a Project/ Songā¦but changing projects , for now, is not really fluid ( not a thing that Iām doing a lotā¦). Thereās a gap and a sound glitch( at least between my projects)
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Seems like T1 was such a solid product, is it the difficulty from moving from a Midi to a more audio oriented product that was the challenge? Maybe some different engineering tasks involvedā¦? Just speculatingā¦.
Can you safe a sample with all fx settings, like a sound on elektron machines?
Nopeā¦you can save a recording as a bounced sample, or you can save a project with just one sample in one track with all the fx settingsā¦ no āelektron soundsā notionā¦ You canāt really think in the Elektron fluid way of doing thingsā¦ The workflow is moreā¦simpleā¦ You have a project with four tape tracks where you can apply some fxās and a lot of modulationā¦ you have no sequencer nor patternsā¦not a grooveboxā¦more like a modern 4tapeloopcassetteā¦ as I see itā¦ your project is the cassette with 4 tracks and you canāt chain cassettes, you must stop and change the tapeā¦ But as simple it seems, you can produce quite a nice soundscapes or tracksā¦assincronous loopsā¦ infinite sound on sound with different time and pitch on each track ā¦ hope it helps. 
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So itās more like a sounddesign tool than something you would record/ prepare synthloops on for a liveset.
Thank you, I might look into something else then 
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Well, Iām preparing a live set, maybe just S4 and a Octatrackā¦ It depends what you are looking forā¦ I would say that for the music I want to do in this project, kind of quiet, dirty, noisy, ambient, field recording, some melodies, some improvised looping, granular glitch spacy soundscapes, the S4 it is a nice machine. For a more minimal techno groovy set, i would use my Rytm and the Digitone 2.
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The S4 is (at the moment) a 4 track tape recorder with limited granular, quite a few other effects, available for each track.
Modulation parameters are abundant, it has no sequencer (I think within the goals of the machine it doesnāt need one).
These are the limitations and possibilities. If youāre looking for a digital version of a 4track recorder that you can manipulate live, within its limitations, this is your box. If not, there are other options.
Mine works fine, other people havenāt been so lucky. I hope that QA will improve.
Peopleās expectations of the supposed capabilities are their own, it is what it is, and beautifully so (for those with working units).
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I just a couple of tracks of S4 with stochastic mod on oxi one and is absolutely fantastic. It shines with an external sequencer. I love this machine for ambient soundscapes, you can spend hours with it and I hope very soon to make a live performance.
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New firmware?some news?
Yes, I had it and it happens to me often. The sad thing is that it damages the entire project and it is not suitable for reloading
Me too. Ruined four projects so far. Another thing is how it handles samples. It copies samples from the sample bank into the project, and they stay there - taking up much needed space in the drive. Seems like a strange form of sample handling. Iām used to the Digitakt, where the samples are in a pool per project. Saves space.
Beta 13 is out 
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Beta 13 is outā¦just for betatesters or everybody?
Only betatesters
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Boy, the new features will finally blow this thing out of the water. Canāt wait for a stable release ^^
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Donāt sleep on it for a minimal techno/ rominimal-esque live set. The textural backgrounds you can get out of it + the insane tweakability (even more so with the perform & temp in beta) give tracks so much more body & depth.
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