Neighbours and feedback are simply amazing.
Great sounding by the way 
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A4 mkII is an absolute masterpiece of an instrument. It has so many real superpowers, and it’s a joy to work with. One of the best analog synths I have ever heard, underrated by too many. I have close to 150 custom presets on it, made since buying it a couple years ago, including some of the most amazing and charismatic bass and drum/percussion sounds I’d ever made with any gear in 20 years! I honestly love mine so much that I want to buy another one and keep it in storage… in case Elektron decides to discontinue it for this or that reason. I hope they do not. In fact I hope there is an mkIII with 8 or 12 voices - I would buy that the same second it’s announced 
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I want a second one - it’s on the radar! I’ve seen grey mk2’s going for £600, which is an absolute bargain for such ability
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I just grabbed one for £700 including postage, looking forward to jumping in! The A4 MK1 was my first Elektron but I didn’t spend any time with it as was so confused by it all. In a way it’s the only Elektron I haven’t had a proper ‘go’ on.
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Please explain me ’neighbour tracks’
Does this help?
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Another small, as far as I’m aware, undocumented shortcut which I find really useful;
[TRANSPOSE] + [UP/DOWN] to change octaves in the sound browser/manager.
When in the sound browser, you can preview a sound by pressing the mini keyboard. However it will only play the current octave the mini keyboard was in before opening the menu, pressing up and down will not change octave, it changes the preview patch. Hold [TRANSPOSE] + [UP/DOWN], and you should be able to preview up/down an octave without affecting the transposition of the current track, it just changes keyboard octave, much like [FUNC] + [UP/DOWN] outside of the sound menu.
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After re-watching these two videos:
- Analog Four — The Demon Who Wears Me
- Octatrack - A Machine That Makes Music?
… Hector! 
Here is a quick video demonstrating the A4 mk1 sequencing an ARP 2600.
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Already posted both in the current sounds thread, but maybe they serve as A4 demos here.
2 Jams only with A4 sounds (multitracked, reverb and delay from NI Raum and Replika).
No fancy sound design just simple sounds that imo sit quite nicely next to each other.
All sounds use filter 2 exclusively.
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These tracks sound awesome, got me curious about this filter 2 bit — any reason you’re only using that second filter here? Just personal preference? Whatever the reason, it’s working well!
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Yeah man nice… This is the way to approach the Analog Four. It’s a dam good machine that gets better with the more time you spend. Plus please Elektron build an MK11 Keys version I fricken love the Analog Keys! So much fun to program…
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Same as oscillators or modulations, you don’t always need to use everything ^^
And second filter sounds different than first one…
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thank you!
Just personal preference, I think it sounds much better.
I only use filter one if I want to combine both, usually using a resonant peak filter on filter 2 while using filter one just to get rid of annoying high frequences
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Filter 1 can sound kind of raw, noisy, lo-fi and less tame/clean than filter 2. But there’s a lot of character in both. (I know many will deny the A4 being full of character, but I don’t care. )
Plus: Real fun starts, when you combine both.
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Having the option of both is certainly a good thing! Need more companies to do this.
Which reminds me of not having made use of performance macros yet. 
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I rarely use them. They are nice, but I‘m a lazy person for that kind of setup stuff.
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