hahaa…craaazy 
where can I subscribe to your A4 sounddesign class?
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cant wait to see thi shappening 
It is a great box but I have just put my Mk1 A4 and RTYM up on eBay as I just wasn’t using them anymore…had them both from new literally when they were launched and had a lot of fun, but no point hoarding stuff that your not using….I have way to much other analog stuff and for me my new Syntakt covers my needs and keeps me in the Elektron ecosystem.
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Just received mine MKII grey for a nice 900ish deal mint. Elektron workflow from M:S and Digitone/Syntakt prooves useful as it is very easy to navigate and start making, not troubleshooting. In this sense, the upgrade path makes sense from marketing, development, and selling standpoint. It’s really good shit, my guys. I really like the sound of this machine I would not say it is cold or anything. It matches my expectation. The whole self-contained ecosystem allows for quick and fast sound design that is complex yet very accessible. The build is great. I/O decent. The sound quality I would say very good. The internal FX is the same as on DN and to an extent ST… they give it a vibe. Waveform and OSC page is loaded. It feels like all the pages are loaded. There is so much to hook up and set up, make it interact with each other, and also write it down into the seq. to shape it further in unexpecting ways. If there is one company that is about innovation and great design like Apple is for computers. Then Elektron means that in the music industry. It is a feat of the craft of what is the human race able to achieve and do… a wonderful outer dimension sound analog box in a small, convenient, rugged package with a sound engine that really makes you smile the moment you turn it on for the first time. ARP is absolutely GREAT. I can imagine this in a live setting instead of going for Juno or something along those lines. The square wave actually sounds very great, it has it’s unique flavor.
Also it comes down to situation, preference and price. But I would say go for MKII. It feels like Macbook Pro when it was first released, compared to let’s say a Powerbook. More refined and more ease of use which really speeds it up and makes you make music instead of navigating pages.
5th subs and fine tuning with main OSC is so awesome, lol.
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MK2 Grey and Black editions same thing yeah? Was looking at A4 Keys and wondering if i should look out for a MK2 instead?
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Yeah same thing and different price. I like it and the LED stuff is actually pretty good, comparable to DN/ST. Gaming buttons on the machine are awesome as well. OLED display makes a huge difference to begin with when really playing this machine. These machines are about actually tweaking and playing them live with rec. on and coming up with unique combos that you cannot get elsewhere as I see it with a really huge studio full of vintage, modern and anything in between.
I was doing some research too. So yeah. Black MKII was roughly at 1,3-1,5k mint. I got a mint grey one for a price of a MKI. I believe it’s worth the extra cash even if you would pay up. It will save you a lot of FN + ? and the OLED makes making music life really nice. :-).
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Mk2 would be great, but there’s something I love about the more compact mk1 design. Plus they’re so cheap these days, I got mine for $800AUD, a steal really.
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You think it’s safe to pick up a mk1 in late 2022? They are incredibly cheap these days, just worry* about parts.
I bought mine in Feb and it was in almost perfect condition. They’re out there!
I prefer the mk1 design, but now I think about upgrading.
I fear that my unit finally will show its age and that it gets harder to having it repaired due to lack of support. Also not sure how long they will support overbridge for the mk1.
The mk2 looks better built, at least from the footage and will still be supported for quite a while
Beware if a fifth below (7 semitones).
Not the best choice…but you can tune Osc 7 semitones above to compensate…
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I just got one too! My first 2nd hand Elektron. I was gonna wait a few months and maybe sell something first, but I found a great deal on a grey mkii and caved in to my hoarder nature. Very pleased! It sounds richer and less brittle than Youtube makes it seem. The square doesn’t feel as hollow as I’d like. The voices blend well so you can make lovely textures with it! Gonna get into it slowly, standalone, I think.
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Congrats !
What does it mean ? Translation didn’t help…
try different pulse width settings. The default waveforms are not my favorite.
I use square with pw around -20 and for saw a triangle with pw set to the highest value
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Is it possible they would just all of the sudden stop offering OB for the MKIs? Or do you mean to say any future iterations of OB?
DN is glorius in unison mode.
try detuning a bit
It means “easy to snap”. Biscuits are brittle, wafers more so. Glass is brittle. Metal, and cookies aren’t. I’m using it here to mean there’s a quality I hear in YouTubes that makes the A4 seem like a sheet of glass holding up heavy objects… it might break into 1000 pieces at any moment. It’s stiff and hard… almost cold, but not quite.
Played through my headphones, it feels much milkier, a bit more rubbery. I like it. It’s not as round and scream-y as my MS-20, but it’s not … brittle like YT made me imagine.
(Of course, these are subjective daydreams based on little but poetry. You can of course create the feelings of rubber or glass with any of your synths with enough patience. And I’m not that good at it, I just like to find nice words for subtle feelings)
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