Well basslines, arps and plinks since it that’s all it can handle polyphony wise. But it would be a no brainer if it could double as an analog poly but I accept it can’t.
I love what my A4 MK2 can do. I agree, though, with the OP that the limit of four voices/tracks is kinda dumb and pretty limiting. I mean, the MK1 came out 11 years ago, right? That likely means the basic technology in the A4 is 12-14 years old. I find it hard to believe that Electron can’t find a way to increase polyphony to eight voices after this amount of time. Moore’s law may not entirely apply to synth tech, and I do not know much at all about the bits inside my boxes, but chip capabilities have abounded in many other areas.
The four in PERfourMER is hidden, and the DSI Tetra is in Greek … Elektron’s mistake was that the “Four” in the name is too obvious. Shoulda called it the Analog mumble mumblefour
I think a lot of people are guilty of this. They write something off because it doesn’t do a certain thing they would like instead of embracing it for what it does do. So I will go with the flow instead of being closed minded this time.
I already have various polysynths. 4 mono’s feeding into a creative sequencer. That’s something I don’t have.