Honestly I didn’t measure because I just assumed it wouldn’t fit, but It may be possible. It’s fairly tight in there - the control PCB rests ever so slightly above the MIDI jacks. Maybe staggering them in a zig-zag would provide the most plug clearance. The side-by-side approach is a little tight, but it was easy and I just wanted to get on with it.
Some people seem keen on a D-Sub connector instead of audio jacks, but the thought of milling out a clean hole for the D-Sub jack and then also having to make a project-specific cable/dongle to use it just seemed annoying down the line. I’d rather just use cables that I can use elsewhere or already have, and drilling circles is so much easier.
I still need to order the proper TRS jacks - I just used comparable Kobiconn jacks to test/measure. Chances are I’ll never use the outputs in stereo (I’ve yet to really do much with panning automation) but I might as well set it up proper if I’m doing it at all.
Actually, just reread your post and can say that 1/4" jacks are definitely out. You could get away with 2 side by side, but you’d have to cut the header pins off the main PCB that are situated in the space between the USB and power jacks. That’s a little too drastic for my preferences, so I just stuck with 3.5mm jacks
Without reading the rest of the thread, so have you “just” (and I use that word in the very loosest sense possible) tapped into the pcb and routed the four voices out seperately?
Now we just need to convince Elektron to make it so that the A4 input tracks can be sent to the FX independent of their through volume volume, essentially allowing the A4 to act as 100% wet FX loop for an external mixer!
I assume that using the Global / Routing page, and checking off “ROUTE TO MAIN” on each voice allows you to use the main outs as FX returns only, with all the voices only going through their individual voice outputs, 10 output/Analog Rytm style.
Not in front of my A4, but I remember the AK had this routing feature in the global section, and from the looks of the PDF manual, the A4 does too.
Yes, it does work this way. What I’d like is to be able to send other things from an external mixer to the A4’s FX and return just the 100% wet signal, essentially using the inputs and main stereo outputs as an aux send from the mixer.
that would be a lovely capability of the EXT in on the FX track! Adding EXT IN to the route to main menu should do it.
I suppose you could do that if you went through a voice / input OSC, but of course that costs a voice.
So far all is working well, the only thing is that if you use a mono cable in an individual stereo output, it shorts one of the L/R channels out of the main mix. So the outputs could stand to be further buffered, but it works well enough for my uses so I’m just leaving it as-is.
Why Elektron design the individual output as stereo ?
it is useless!!
In the manual of analog key part architecture, it seems that the individual are just the same signal splitted into two to have stereo individual output.
So do you think we can do the mod with only mono individual output ?
(with 4 mono output jack or two stereo like the analog rytm)
Yea, i was wondering about the stereo out part too, seems redundant. It’s not TRS connection? . Slightly off topic, was looking at the audio i/o pins of the VST in my modular host a few days back, i was noticing all the mono voices had stereo input pairs and thought, geez I hope they aren’t wasting usb bandwidth to send the same signal twice for each voice… Presumably it’s just split into two in the plugin for host compatibility reasons?