Using the Analog 4 as a Drum Machine

Thanks, man! What’s the Roland Kit move? :smiley:

If you make changes to the kit being used whilst performing, you can reload the kit again to bring all the values back to their saved settings

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I don’t know how I misread reload as roland. I understand now, thanks!

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I’m working my way up to this. Sounds like it has so much potential for IDM weirdness :smiley:

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If you mean a altered sound you have loaded to track before : yes/save + sound.
I dont have a4( mk1) here, don‘t remember what about banks etc after that key combo and i want to name the sound anyway so use the long sound manager way.
Yes loading kimura taro sounds and plocking them is a great way to enjoy percussion synthesis, his small classic pack is also nice, druma of course, also some factory presets.

That takes you to a menu to save it to the +Drive, doesn’t it?

Just checked, and confirmed, that’s not what I meant.

I’d like it to just quick-save back to the sound pool. At the least.

It’s bad enough you can’t just sound lock to any sound in your entire library like on the Cycles, quite a chore to have to go into the sound manager and load to sound pool.

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Yes. Because plock happy accidents (from live rec or step plocking) are part of the pattern that means saving another pattern and saving and renaming another kit ( quite big, yes) operation for me.
I do it with copy- reload- paste to new pattern, save pattern, save new kit…

@pselodux Sweet, go for it! You can do a lot of cool rythmic stuff with the LFOs. My favorite shape is the saw shape tied to filter cutoff or amp level. It gives you an easy way to turn long bass notes into 16th notes, or “double” the hihat speed when the hihats have a long release tail that is chopped up by the LFO.

If you’re controlling the delay and reverb with a performance macro, it’s nice to have one macro that turns down the feedback and decay time. When things start getting too intense, you can tame in back down with this panic knob.

@Roger Yep, the fastest way to save sounds to the sound pool YES+SOUND, then LEFT and YES to view the sound pool, then scroll up to the first free sound slot and save as normal. At least, that’s how I’ve been doing it. It would’ve been awesome to have a save-to-sound-pool shortcut.

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i also find myself wishing i could save p locked sounds as “sounds” a lot

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I’ve just realized the A4 is a weapon with the multimap. Random drum on EVERY step!! I see glitchy stupidity in my future.

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I think i do this with sound locks

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You can pack a lot of glitchy stuff into a single 16-step pattern on the Analog Four:

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Here’s a drum pattern i’ve been messing around with on a single track of my AK (plus melodic arp thing on track 2)

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The benefit of multimap is that you can drive the A4 with randomized notes from an external sequencer. Is fun. :slight_smile: but yeah, basically the exact same thing!

This right here is life tbh

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Pretty awesome

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Screenshot of this gem of a tip !

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Thats amazing ! Can u share some tricks and tips for that glitchy sounds ? 🫠

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I’m pretty sure that one of it’s trick is… lot of work and practice :rofl:
Excuse my facetious humor.

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I should make a deconstruct video, it would be easier for me and for you.
Some of the sonic ingredients I use are modulating the attack and or release on some of the sounds, and messing with Karplus like patches with the delay settings.

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