Analog Keys/Four Sustain Pedal Workaround

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
#1

Hi,
this is my first post in this forum, and I’d like to share with you my workaround to implement a pedal sustain in the AK/A4.

You will need a pedal sustain plugged in an external midi keyboard.
The sustain in every MIDI environment send signal to the CC 64.
The CC 64 in AK/A4 is used by the performance knob F.

All you have to do is to configure the F Performance Knob with the release of the Amp envelope, giving it a +127 depth ad assigning it to the track you will use for the sustained sound.
Now if you connect AK/A4 with the external keyboard via MIDI or USB the sustain pedal will do the job! Excellent!

I know that this is not a perfect solution because you will need a second gear to obtain this trick, but I read some people complaining about the lack of pedal jacks in these awesome gear and if you necessarily have to use a sustain pedal to play some polyphonic organ/piano style patch this is actually the only way to achieve this goal…
I hope somebody will find a simplier way.

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#2

Hi ravenden,

thanks for that tip. The A4 is ordered. This was the last contra i’ve got till i read another tread about this problem. The performance modulation for Sustain is enough for my needs.

cheers

#3

Super helpful. I thought i was going crazy that there wasnt sustain but there it is :pray:t4:

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#4

Hi, so the Analog Four mkII doesn’t currently respond to CC64 messages from an external Midi keyboard? I was hoping that the Analog Four mkII would work like the Digitone in the sense that it interprets CC64 messages as delayed note-off messages (incl. recording the delayed note-off message to the sequencer when live recording).

#5

Can’t it be done with an expression pedal ?