+Red Means Recording thanks! A4 got some great potential as drum machine for sure.

agree some of the preset drums sound amazing on the A4- I don't have money or space for both an A4 and Rytm so the A4 was the first choice and love it so far.

it was funny at end of video Bo is speaking Swedish and almost drops the nice A4!

@@GuitarsAndSynths how do you feel about it now?

Thanks my dude!!

+ArcAudios thanks mate!

thanks Jade!!

wait, is that a cat i hear at 07:51 ? :)

Its a displeased child :( (but mommy was there for her)

I am glad to hear, thinking you just got a cat.. that would be no good with poopy feet in the studio. :)

+Dan47839 got a big sound demo coming out this weekend as well. :-)

just picked up an mk2 for ~850.. cheers!

Thank you Henrik!! Glad to have you here

+Michael Smith its wonderul! And large!

It sounds really nice.

+Michael Smith it sure does

+Gianna Giavelli welcome!!

+Logan Borja no I have little experience with DSI. I have not owned one but tested a few. All I know is that the Tempest come highly recommended. But it is also not longer supported with OS updates apparently while Elektron just added more support to their lineup thru the Mark 2 units.

+Rephazer i am still working out what mics to use. Havnt really found one setup that I like. :-) I find it difficult to EQ my own voice and so on.

+Rephazer and now I am googling Miffy-book... if you compare to my live streams that mic works better for my voice but its usb only... check back next vid and tell me if it sounds more manly ;-)

Hate to add two cents to a criticism, but I feel the critique is valid, there are times when your voice is a little sing-song for my taste. Even in this video you can hear both this voice more at the beginning, and your more natural voice coming in towards the late-middle/end. It might be hard for you to hear unless you wait a few days/weeks until you listen to it again. I think it's the difference between natural/prepared speech which can be a hard habit to break. Cheers Bo

+Tyler Alan Johnson yeah I feel you. Its not always an easy task to get it to flow naturally when recording. I think in general I feel more comfortable on live streams compared to doing more scripted stuff!

Hey Bo, no worries mate and perhaps I am not in a place to give you critique and could learn a thing or 4 from you instead.. I would probably sound like the swedish cook, but it's also not my talent/goal and I rather annoy people with some tunes as a lonely composer instead ;) It was just meant as advice and yes pick up your 'live-stream-voice' next time, because I think you are really talented for this stuff and just for the record.. I enjoyed your first look a lot more compared to some other weird guy who looked like he found a new MK2 in the rubbish bin at Amsterdam Central Station.. Anyway, I am glad you found out about Miffy.. It's one of my favorites ;)

+bigdap100 dapster!!

haha, and now Cuckoo just uploaded his video.

Thank you JT!

+Anthony Niedzwiecki so different sound and synths... I do prefer the A4 overall tho because of the versatility

I'm just going to have to save up then, I know I would regret parting with my Moog. This has gotta be the perfect companion for the digitakt though! Im really looking forward to that video!

+Luca Maglio cheers mate!

+HalutioN i do think the sound is more crisp overall! It could just be placebo but... thats how I feel.

yea Elektron has stepped up their game to create the Apple ipod and iphone Mac user experience for their gear.

I just wish Elektron would include a full proper manual with the gear instead of just a quick start guide and also hire better tech writers.

Indeed I learned Elektron on a friend's old MachineDrum and the new ones are easier to work on. Love my A4! Some beats I put together kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5mdaZZ5mJ2bgps.html

Got to agree about the price increase, plus the hidden significant extra cost of overbridge. Not a good trend for Elektron. I own a keys and Rytm, don't think I will be buying more anytime soon.

That's a valid point too. I remember seeing one video where they said it would always be free. I had an A4 and Rytm at one point and used Overbridge heavily. I'd be really pissed off if I'd used it for a year or two and then it was taken away and hidden behind a pay wall.

Overbridge will never cost anything for the mk1s though. Just for the mk2s

I actually prefer the black older model looks BUT the features and screen are vastly improved in the new MKII models.

daikuone lol okay 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Sure! All Elektrons play nice with eachother :-)

Not sure I understand the question :) there are a number of shift commands. Almost every button has a secondary layer for accessing deeper parameters or additional menus.

No

Oh I dont remember the number but a great number! Should be in the online user manual

no unfortunately the online manual do not show

Ah a shame. Well there are hmm, 2 or 3 banks I think with presets. Maybe 4. Not sure how many sounds a bank contain tho

Sure. Use say Digitakt. Enable send transport/clock. Also if you want the patterns to sync enable sending program change and make sure program change channel is the same for both devices. Now on a4 you should enable clock/transport and program change receive I think. Should be all. Oh and disable midi channel input on a4 so the digitakt doesnt trigger the sounds on a4. Unless u want to

BoBeats Thanks dude! Appreciate you

+Andrew Brooks your friendly neighbourhood gas trigger!

+Derek Jones really? I cant say I have any issues with the Digi screen. This screen (well UI) is a bit different. Wether better or worse I cant say.

quite a few peeps on Elektronauts have the screen issue - let's hope it can be fixed with firmware as I'm having too much fun to send it back for a replacement :)

Sad to hear that Derek!

Derek Jones May be because of the OLED technology. OLED is very sensitive to static images and may suffer from burn-ins.

So I have a video coming early May where I will showcase a eurorack unit which is perfect for integrating Elektron gear with eurorack!

Cool I look forward to it! Just spent a few hours learning how to use my new A4 MK2 and it is lot of fun and amazing synth. Right now I am trying to figure out how to create new patches and save them for recall to use during live performances. Does A4 let you create and save patches?

The fill is a trig (step) condition. So you set a particular step to either FILL UNDERSCORE or FILL. The first means that when you hit the fill button (either hold it or use the shift+fill button command) it will play those notes. The second means that the step/trig ONLY plays when trig is NOT active. (I might have mixed up underscore and non-underscore... its hard when you don't have the unit in front of you)

BoBeats what about probability? I have in mind the Winter-modular Eloquencer where you can set the probability that a note is played

Yes you have % based probably for the sequencer, FILL, pre (plays if or not a prev note has been played), you have a cond that works with another track, and you have 1st, as well as 1/2, 1/3 2/2 divisions etc.

+Chris DiGiuseppe i might sell it :-) I have tol much stuff anyway

Thanks Pete! They have tweaked a lot of things, among other things the overdrive. I have no detailed explanation of exactly what is tweaked but its been changed in many small ways apparently making the sound differ in the end. People seem to be able to hear the difference.

Not that I know of

+motoboy6666 poor family

Nah ill think of something, best things in life are free right? ;)

agreed

I do not know how it works in ableton but if you go into settings of the A4 and makes it so that the A4 does not respond to CLOCK or TRANSPORT it should not start when you hook it up to Ableton

thank you did not know if you could just use it as a straight synth not sequence just played by midi

I had that problem until I realised that you have to save the kit before changing patterns. I assumed it was like the Digitakt which would automatically remember track settings.

I got 3x INSTANT I uploaded :) I heard rumors about dislike bots. Thanks for the support. It has saw, square, some kind of strange square (can't remember the name atm..) and triangle. + Sub osc for both oscillators (its a 2x osc synth, with ofc audio rate possibilities in the lfo section for even more rich textures)

A 16 voice (or hell even an 8 voice) version with a sturdy keybed that had aftertouch would blow pretty much every standalone synth out of the water.

+Dan47839 elektron overlords are pleased!

Lol

+THOM AlphaXIII exactly!!! Perfect combo!!

BoBeats would be really great some musical videos or tutorials of how machines can interract with each others in creative setups

+THOM AlphaXIII I might be able to do one soon! Its a fun idea!

+THOM AlphaXIII i followed up in this and have actually already recorded a little matrix+a4 action. But need more testing and so to do a real video on it :-D

BoBeats cant wait To see it ! Thx ! Oh by The Way is it possible to séquence or modulate The waveshape of The A4 oscillators , for example to sample and hold or lfo so that it Can switch from a waveshape to another ?

+Craig Z yes!! Of that I am certain. Thats a video I want to make.

I will do a follow up video with more detailed look at sounds etc. And check Cuckoos new video as well, his approach is different!

Very hard to say man... I think the Octa MK1 is functionally very close to MK2, the A4 MK2 is a big improvement overall, and the Analog Rytm MK2 if you want the sampling capability otherwise I think MK1 will work just as well. I think A4 is the biggest improvement.

BoBeats Yes I see it similar , I will think about the A4 MK2

The medusa is cool but they are veeeeery different!

BoBeats yeah that’s the problem 🤦🏻‍♂️😩

Stephen Roldan dont, I ended up getting both, the medussa is my only ever total regret purchase

Its a 4 voice analog synth with digital controls, it is so incredibly feature packed with much deeper editing, more options for control of the sound (setting up macros for aftertouch etc)... Yeah its just a much more advanced piece of kit than the Electribe. But the Electribe is awesome too! :)

Thank you for the reply. I think I understand...these are made for professionals on the road who need power in a single box. For those in studios and those who are music hobbiests, I would think adding a MicroBrut, Korg Vulca Bass and a Korg Minilog to a Korg electribe2 would be money better spent. The combination of synths used individually or together would be a wider sonic pallet than just a single Analog4 unit.

Sell a kidney, it will be worth it.

+dahDougieBoy ahaha :D we got that in Sweden too

I havn't been able to A/B with an old A4. I know my AK is a little different from the A4 in terms of sound.. But the MK2 does sound best out of the three imo.

Now i wonder how do the pots feel like...? Are they slow or fast in response, do they have a 'bitrate' or do they act smooth like with a moog?

5 min 30 hmmm :)

they are not as smooth as a Moog, they have a digital "stepping" to them but are way smoother than the Mark 1.

They still have that pfff shame on elektron; even my M audio Venom (VA) has less to no stepping to it...

Probably because this was years ago and i didnt know how to handle cameras very well 😅

Who said a review can't be biased?

It´s fine. I´ll just look somewhere else.

i feel you... its not a review of the unit but rather the new features. Maybe I should make a review of it in its entirety?!

@@BoBeats yes why not? That would be really great. Someone suggested this is one of the most powerful synths out there under 1000 euros (used). And i am now searching about it :)

Its a super synth! Love it.

BoBeats this one or hydrasynth? Which one is more versatile or more fun to play? Can you compare the two in a video?