It seems like an easy feature to add and it’s pretty irritating to not have a individual setting for the Arp and the Arp isn’t effected by the main swing settings either. So no funky shuffled Arps to dance to. This is going to make me by a midipal or something and hope the A4’s arp responds to a swung midi clock.
The alternate time signature options for swing sound really interesting but it looks like you have to generate the clock elsewhere and then it runs through the Swynx to add shuffle to the midi clock. So I guess you’d have to generate the clock with another device or somehow set the A4 to both send and recieve midi clock which might not be possible.
I’m still not sure if the A4’s ARP would even properly respond to a swung midi clock. It looks like someone else on this thread is doing something similar but I wonder how the ARP would be reading clock divisions with all the SPD options of the ARP.
Yeah, the Swynx definitely doesn’t provide it’s own midi clock so something else will have to feed it. Given their target market I can see why they left that out since there’s probably not a lot of people out there using a CR-78 as their studio’s master midi clock.
The MIDIpal might work, and is actually a little cheaper (and open source/modifiable.) Although like you said I have no idea if the A4’s arp would even be affected by a swung midi clock.
A friend of mine has a Swynx, so I might see if he’ll let me test it out with my A4.
I’m still not sure if the A4’s ARP would even properly respond to a swung midi clock. It looks like someone else on this thread is doing something similar but I wonder how the ARP would be reading clock divisions with all the SPD options of the ARP.
…sure it does…i do this all the time with my SND Acme 4…it produces a solid clock and you can define own swing-patterns beside the standard ones…the a4 runs flawlessly with the swinging clock without any dropouts…
every time I get condescending, snide remarks, when I say that it is laughably ridiculous to omit such functionality.
I stopped asking.
Good luck in getting any helpful result out of this request
As a solution, you can clock the Elektrons with anything that outputs a swung clock, and that swings the arps.
Or, select faster arps settings, and mute certain steps to approximate “swing” settings. Experimentation can be rewarding here, albeit technically it’s not the most direct way to get swing.