Poly allocation trick, used on one of preset patterns

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
#1

Took me a while to figure out, how one of the presets was managing to play different notes with a trigger which seemed to have no P-locks.

What it’s actually doing, is attempting to play a chord (2 notes) on the same trig. Then, the voice allocation is set up to cycle through the 1st 3 voices. Each of those voices has a different sound/patch.

Does that make sense? Confused me no end, until I worked out what was happening!

Shame there’s no mechanism to display what parameters are actually P-locked as some kind of list.

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#2

thanks for sharing, nice trick

#3

I’m not sure to understand…

#4

Pattern A6 (factory default) on the AK.

It’s not easy to explain. If it were easy to explain, I probably would have worked out what was happening much faster.

#5

maybe a video example???

#6

You can hold the trig and anything plocked will have an overlap. No list mode, but it’s not that bad to cycle through the pages.

#7

Yeah - I was looking for that indication, but couldn’t see it. What I hadn’t spotted, is that 2 key lights were lit.