I had no idea you could copy and paste pages. This is a game changer for me my friend. Thank you for posting.
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happy to say i think i have a serious bite on my A4 thats for sale, I cant wait to get rid of this thing!
I have a fair selection of Elektron units, but sound design-wise, they’re no longer really doing it for me. I’m considering selling my Rytm and possibly even the Machinedrum.
For what I’m doing, the drum-machines cry out for samples since I’m finding the engines too limiting.
Analog Keys - I’m now sequencing from a DAW, but using it monophonic with spread unison.
Otherwise, when I take in analogue sound sources, I end up treating them heavily with effects either hardware-wise, or in my DAWs.
That’s one thing you could consider though - external effects, to spice things up.
Very much depends on the genres you’re working with and the sound you’re after though.
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i was never really happy with the Op-1 Synths in parallel with an Analog Voice except the Behringer Neutron as it has this flexible vibe and so many sweetspots that both of them compliment each other very well.
there’s was something off when a dreamy synth pad from the OP-1 collided with analog Oscillators.
sometime ago I had the same with the Rytm as it’s let alone or in the Elektron ecosystem a great hybrid for all kinds of music but often packed with such frequency’s that it was hard to play something externally without getting annoyed by one or two voices.
still a great sounding machine but I love the fact that you can trigger Op-1 drums, Open the Amp and Filter envelopes on the Neutron at the same time and process that bare bone sample thru the Analog path and as a Parallel synth voice it’s absolutely in tune.
I think your right. Just added Analog Heat to my setup. Seriously impacted my sound!
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I’m seriously thinking about it. Will let you know.
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two things that help;
First it seems to have a headroom issue. I find it sounds better if you back off the gain of the oscs to about 90-100 or so.
The real fatness of this box seems to live in the detune parameter. Modulate this with LFO, envelope etc.
I also find you can get a lot of movement using conditional trigs, and free running LFO’s mapped to volume and pan.
As far as sequencing, I only use the A4 sequencer when I want to sequence modular gear along with it. The rest of the time I am sequencing it from a Machinedrum or Digitone.
But the FX sequencer and transpose track should not be ignored.
Also check out the Arp page. You can’t Plock it (why?) but it has some cool tricks.
There’s actually a cool intro to the A4 Mk2 here by Cenk. Really nice to see him sculpt a super interesting sound from scratch.
World love to see more videos like this. So much easier/interesting to follow a video than to read descriptions in text how to sculpt sounds 
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Use one tack for percussions, with multimap and ARP. Just this is valid to have A4.
Everyone is raving about self generated something, this is very cool feature)
Also, you have to invest in presets buying
I have some amazing presets
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Any recommendations?
Over the years I had a lot of preset, lets pick 5…I like melodic techno, so I like bass, synth and organic instruments (mallets, metal, strings, etc).
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Taro A4 Mod Drums, for MultiMap ARP trick (or OctaTrack ARP + LFO). Just this can open it as Drum Machine.
https://www.kimurataro.com/updates/updatea4-mod-drum-patch-pack -
Movement (Elekrton web site)
https://www.elektron.se/soundpacks/movement/ -
Synthetic Deep House
http://www.plughugger.com/analog-four-synthetic-deep-house.html
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AK noodlings of the day, straight into OB to record…
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Please give me sys of that amazing massive bass, with saw and opening filter))))
edit: also overdrive i suppose
+1 on the bass, sounds really good
I’d also say on the A4/AK - just delete the preset patches. they’re 95% awful. Learn to use the units for their strengths, rather than trying to hammer them into doing something they’re not so great at.
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