Are you using Overbridge or the single-outs to apply different Reverb/Delay to the individual tracks or are you processing the stereo mix?
BTW, very nice tracks!
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thanks. I sampled each track dry one after the other and applied those effects to the sampled material.
I used overbridge to record.
These are more than only 4 A4 tracks, it’s 7 to 8 including drums.
The arrangements were just unpracticed jams by simply muting unmuting these loops in maschine…
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Nice quality of sounds here, thanks for sharing. May I ask what your settings were for the bass in track 1?
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thanks! I deleted it but from the top of my head:
- Osc 1: TRP wave, level around 90, PW around -20
- Osc 2: off
- Filter 1: FRQ fully open, RES 64
- Filter 2: FRQ around 30-40, RES around 40, TYP LP2, DEP around 10-15
- Amp: No attack, full sustain, little release
- Env: No attack, Decay around 40, sustain around 20, little release
- LFO: 10-15 DEP on filter 2 frequency, random wave, MOD set to HLD
Oscillator Drift and resonance boost turned off, Legato mode and some velocity mod to the cutoff of filter 2
I use these kind of settings often, that’s why I remember
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Lovely, and thank you for sharing.
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I would say two filters should be a must 
One to shape the sound and give it character, and another one to exclude frequencies from top or bottom part of the spectrum when needed, or even to get rid of certain unwanted frequencies that may perturb your mix.
Awesome. <3
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I posted this in the latest purchase thread, and I hope it’s fair that I post here, too.
The kick at 0:20 and the hihats are from the Syntakt, while everything else is the Analog Four, recorded in one take.
It takes time and effort ot set up the performance macros, but it’s very satisfying to perform with a handful of well tuned macros!
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I love all your stuff but this is one of my favorites! Sooo sick
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Thanks a lot, man! 
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Ah, that explains some things I heard in the tracks … was really surprised how clever the voice management on the A4 is 
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yes, just was meant as a sound demo not a standalone demo.
A8 or A16 would be quite a dream
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absolutely great. Trent Reznor would approve it
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I’m slightly envious you have that to come. 
I’ve found there’s a lot of things on the A4 that have had a ‘clicking point’ for me where it suddenly makes sense and I appreciate it all the more.
Setting up q-perfs were definitely in that category, and I think Overbridge gives the best overview and way to learn it.
I’ve been loving the power of pitch bend lately… I very rarely use pitch bend itself as an effect, but being able to assign 6 parameters to it per Track on the A4 has made it take on a new meaning for me.
maybe yes 
I used the A4 in a liveset as drum machine and there they were very handy for decay and noise on several tracks and reverb and delay send macros.
But such macros feel always like planning things out. Same as scenes on the OT. Great if you need specific performance effects but I‘m probably just not a performer, more a track maker 
And this is were I just want to punch in melodies and rhythms quickly and prepare as less as possible
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What makes you think like this?
Monomachine doesn’t even have some quick Kit or Sound reload…
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I got an AK last year after having the DT/DN pair for a while, and the screen and UI/UX both made it a lot less fun to explore than I had considered. I just had a more difficult time getting a quick sense of where everything was - especially with the envelopes - than when working with the Digis.
More recently I discovered how much using OB unlocks when engaging in sound design/exploration. Having the visual feedback, and a view of all of the parameters so close has been super helpful for me in building up intuitions about how sounds can be crafted with it.
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Don’t sleep on Perf…
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There is your mute mode.
Monomachine is also slower to access the different menus.
And you can’t load a Sound patch you’ve already created, which makes it harder when you’re improvising: you have to setup your sounds from scratch most of the time.
You can’t reload a track’s sound, only the full Kit
And of course no such thing as Sound lock on MM.
I love both synths, but I find them equally hard to improvise with, mostly because the sweet spots take time to find, especially when modulations are involved… At least Sound loading on A4 is a convenient shortcut.
To me, after 7 years on both, A4 is way more convenient.
And yes, Perf macros are the place you want to have fun once your pattern and sounds have been polished. With some copy/paste you can reuse previous configurations, but hardly while improvising.
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