Dateline....I'm gonna buy your 4. This has made my mind up. This elektron product has the right amount of balance for my immediate needs. Recently, some robber stole all my equipment from my street corner studio. This will help me get back on my feet again....thanks, and I wish you well.
I went big and bought the A4 and the Octatrack....sold some other good analog equipment to get it, but it's worth it. It's the functionality of the WHOLE system that sold me.
After owning and using A4 for a few weeks I start to understand what Dataline is doing in this video. I suppose I was convinced to buy one originally after seeing this particular video, but back then I had no idea what he was doing with knobs and buttons. :) Some properly produced tutorial videos from Elektron would really be nice!!!
+Lukree Industries Your comment is a year old so you've probably learned everything that he is doing in the video by now. If not, however, in about about two weeks I'm going to post a complete, chronological description of literally everything that Mr Dataline does to create the first pattern. Keep an eye out on the Elektronauts forum.
+Justin McCamish Heh, yes, after a year of practice really makes the difference! Still having my elektrons (A4 and Rytm), and while those are every now and then a bit quirky, I'll stick with them! Awesome machines. Cannot approach Dataline's Elektron Ninja level, but at least I'm not slaughtered on first level anymore.
What a joy to watch a man who so knows his instrument, such a delight to listen to a man who can do music on it. What a pain it must be wearing strap on binoculars to read that screen at the same time . .
Just came to this video today. Trying to learn something while eating lunch. Issue is that every time I look away, so many changes happen within seconds :D. Great Vid! Very inspiring!
OMG, this machine looks like the best box ever built, thank you for putting out such a high calibre demo, that's sounds like an LP to me, this pattern is outstanding, thank you for the vibe!
This features by itself makes this little beauty a must buy ! I'm not even talking about the sound quality which is superb, as well as the effect. A4 is a bomb !
I just received my Analog Four on Friday. Thanks for getting my creative juices flowing. Just the ablity to take a monotone track and change it on the fly is very cool. All the other parameter locks that go along with it. :) Edit: I just created a track with a combination of created sounds, stock sounds, and one note rythems tweeked to perfection. This is really awesome!
real nice presentation here. I can't wait for mine to show up with the mail person, she needs to hurry up with it LOL! I ordered one over the weekend and can't wait to start using it in the studio. This vid only gets me more excited, wonderful tune!
You know, in the end, you're gonna have to own both ;) I started with the Analog Four, but ended up getting the Octatrack too, and I don't regret any of them, they're giving me so much pleasure and fun !
Great video! Really nice to see someone at work that clearly knows their instrument very well. I just picked up an A4 and am really looking forward to getting my teeth into it :)
Really great video. Sounds nice to me. Does this have swing or swing per sound and is there any way of quantising the stuff you record using the mini keyboard? Also have an idea how parameter locks work but say i wanted to program a filter sweet over 3 of 16 steps how could i do that so it sounded smooth like an automated rather than step sequenced filter. Is this fully automatable in a DAW too? With the fx is it say one global (eg.)reverb for all tracks and then you just send and return Thanks.
Thank YOU for this video! You are my electron HERO! very nice programming of the sounds - great sequence - it gives me so much inspiration! please make more such a kind of videos! THX MR. DATALINE ; )
This is very interesting if only you could go through it step by step for us beginners. You are the master of these instruments. So please again can you do some step by step videos for us!
Your demo's are SO great... one thing I'd love to hear you do is make some really messed up dark-tweaked sounds and use them in a less predictable & non-grid (or multi-grid) manner to really show how free-range/form the sequences can get - a machine consumed with consuming itself... ;) If anyone can do this, YOU can. :) Thanks for all the fab examples.
Hi! I am trying to figure out the A4 and was trying to mimic this video. At 3:48 how does he get that snare sound? Is it possible to get multiple sounds on one track?
Sweet. Do you find you wish it had more fx per channel rather than just sends? Really lovely stuff. Can get not far off a finished track with just this one piece of gear! Is all the automation recorded in your DAW or can it be so you can edit your performance later?
Am I correct in thinking that as of the new os update, one would not need to use this method of tuning each oscillator to create chords? Now you just press the different notes simultaneously?
The Analog Keys was polyphonic out of the box. The Analog 4 became polyphonic with an OS update. It's possible to tweak the polyphony used for each track. The detune trick he used allows you to generate a chord with just one voice, and thicken it with FX. If you play with more than one note, you will get a thicker sound, but lose polyphony. Not a problem if you're just using the A4 or A Keys as a sound source, but a problem if you are using it as a multi-timbral sound module.
why do i count more than 4 voices in the first patch? the chords, the melody, bass drums, open high hat, and another voice for crazy modulation thingie? does the A4 come with built in drum synth? or (more likely) is it p-lock changing patch on every step? thx!
Looks like you can have different presets for different steps too on the same voice? Can notes be copy and pasted too or duplicated to other steps too?
Why doesn't Elektron make some professional tutorials with narration of how to use the product? It is like they don't really want to sell it. The average guy is scared away by this complexity. If you look at Maschine there are tons of really professionally narrated tutorials which serve as a good example.
Just saying that Elektron doesn't cater to the average producer is all, thus why there's such complexity. It's a learning process and discovering how to use the gear is apart of it, that's all.
Intandem DJ Is discovering things from a professionally narrated video inferior somehow, as in the case of how I became an expert at Maschine? Should other companies trash their nice videos in trade for a rich experience of struggling along to understand it? No, what you are saying makes no sense at all.
Is there a way to turn the 'speed' of the rotary encoders up so that they take fewer turns to access the full range of a parameter? I want to buy one of these, but I don't like having turn a knob 50 times to achieve a filter sweep, etc...
How steep is the learning curve as far as creating and manipulating sounds from scratch? You were changing a lot of the parameters on the fly. Is it possible to record those moments alternatively?
can't express the words...fantastico !! currently selling a few kidneys in order to buy this the octotrack and machinedrum , I need some Elektron gear in my life truly outstanding equipment and musicianship :@)
I'm having trouble reading the screen... How did you get the snare/hihat sound on the bass drum track? BTW, your A4/minibrute/minitaur jam made me buy the A4.
Machinedrum is another instrument, it's mainly built for drums and percussion-type sounds, you have 16 tracks that can play all at the same moment. Analog 4 is much different, being analog having 4 tracks (that can trigger different sounds) and very beautiful effects (delay, reverb, chorus). Machinedrum also has effects but more digital and less sophisticated sounding
nice video. I wonder how can one record a chord in A4 to a step which is spread over more than the one octave. Is this possible with the A4 alone or does it need a keyboard? When in Overbridge, obviously the Keyboard linked to the DAW does play A4 sounds, but that can not be used to program them into A4s sequencer.
Great job. Enjoed listening to it very much. Allow me just one question: Is that bass sound original to the EA4?? It sounds sooo much like the old minimoog. I don't think it's sampled, is it?
I've been thinking about trading in my SE omega 8 which has been sitting in it's box for some time and using some of the cash for the elektron. From what I've heard I prefer it's sounds to the omega 8, it seems more aligned for my musical tastes. Is the elektron more a mono synth (though with 4 voices) than a true polysynth i.e. meant for baselines (or bleeps!) rather than multitimbral performance usage?
I also have an Omega 8. There are obvious differences between the two, and i'm considering getting the A4 or A4K in addition - but never instead of the Omega 8! The Omega 8 is a fat bastard in a way the A4 will never be. But the A4 has the sequencer and a much more complex modulation matrix. So i'd say that the Omega has a stronger analog tone but a more simple voice structure - while the A4 is a deeper synth, but its oscilators and filters are not in the same level as the Omega. Different synths for different objectives. I wouldn't give up the Omega so fast. Btw - do you have it expanded with the cs-80 filters?
Still the best thing I’ve ever heard on an A4.
Still
still.
still is the best example in 2022
still
Are you guys sure about that?
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Watching this 10 freaking years later and still going OMG at the ease you are banging those sounds out!
I agree
The best part of this video is from 0:00 to 16:55
Dateline....I'm gonna buy your 4. This has made my mind up. This elektron product has the right amount of balance for my immediate needs. Recently, some robber stole all my equipment from my street corner studio. This will help me get back on my feet again....thanks, and I wish you well.
it's amazing, before this video I never even knew I need a 4 voice analog synth!
That note sequence(A,B,F#,E) (IV, VI, ii, I) is infectious. I went to get coffee and found the sequence still playing in my head. Good work! :)
This is hypnotic shit. I had to order my A4 just because of this video :)
I bought one after seen that precise video!, but your the master of analogue four by far! best instrument ever made!
The video that made me get an A4. No regrets 4 years later.
The beginning two oscillator synth sounds like atoms for peace, the synth that plays the happier part in Default. Very professional quality.
I went big and bought the A4 and the Octatrack....sold some other good analog equipment to get it, but it's worth it. It's the functionality of the WHOLE system that sold me.
Do you still have the A4 and the OT?
👍
This is best demo of elektron mashines on youtube :) when listening this demo i am realy high.The tonality is my home.
I also just bought an Analog Four because of this vid! great work! hoping i can make some nice textures also.
After owning and using A4 for a few weeks I start to understand what Dataline is doing in this video. I suppose I was convinced to buy one originally after seeing this particular video, but back then I had no idea what he was doing with knobs and buttons. :) Some properly produced tutorial videos from Elektron would really be nice!!!
agreed
+Lukree Industries
Your comment is a year old so you've probably learned everything that he is doing in the video by now. If not, however, in about about two weeks I'm going to post a complete, chronological description of literally everything that Mr Dataline does to create the first pattern. Keep an eye out on the Elektronauts forum.
Justin McCamish thanks! please post how to work with chain/song mode. and your thoughts on approaching this machine as a composing/performing tool.
+Justin McCamish Heh, yes, after a year of practice really makes the difference! Still having my elektrons (A4 and Rytm), and while those are every now and then a bit quirky, I'll stick with them! Awesome machines. Cannot approach Dataline's Elektron Ninja level, but at least I'm not slaughtered on first level anymore.
Did you post description ? If yes- could you share the link? Or write your name you use at elektronauts
I actually bought one of these after this video! :D!!
Mark Sweeney Me Too!!
+Mark Sweeney Same here!
Thanks for making this video, DL.
It was the main inspiration for me getting the A4 so many years ago- led me down quite a scenic path
this is so perfect. incredible timbres. what a beautiful box
What a joy to watch a man who so knows his instrument, such a delight to listen to a man who can do music on it.
What a pain it must be wearing strap on binoculars to read that screen at the same time . .
Just came to this video today. Trying to learn something while eating lunch. Issue is that every time I look away, so many changes happen within seconds :D.
Great Vid! Very inspiring!
OMG, this machine looks like the best box ever built, thank you for putting out such a high calibre demo, that's sounds like an LP to me, this pattern is outstanding, thank you for the vibe!
This features by itself makes this little beauty a must buy ! I'm not even talking about the sound quality which is superb, as well as the effect. A4 is a bomb !
This is the most fun way to explore and learn the Elektron gear.
Extrawelt Technology...
Great stuff, Dude
Wow. I love this music you're making. I'm buying an Elektron Analog Four in about 3 weeks. Thanks.
I just received my Analog Four on Friday. Thanks for getting my creative juices flowing. Just the ablity to take a monotone track and change it on the fly is very cool. All the other parameter locks that go along with it. :)
Edit: I just created a track with a combination of created sounds, stock sounds, and one note rythems tweeked to perfection. This is really awesome!
The beginning sounds like BoC. Ellerine saglik dostum :)
:)
real nice presentation here. I can't wait for mine to show up with the mail person, she needs to hurry up with it LOL! I ordered one over the weekend and can't wait to start using it in the studio. This vid only gets me more excited, wonderful tune!
what a beautiful sounding instrument
this is by far the best Elektron video I have seen. I love the sound. As I have seen under in some comment - are you Extrawelt?
This is enormous machine and really huge sound inside !
Wow, this is so cool!
Now i can't decide between A4 & octatrack...
Thank you for the great demo sir!
You know, in the end, you're gonna have to own both ;)
I started with the Analog Four, but ended up getting the Octatrack too, and I don't regret any of them, they're giving me so much pleasure and fun !
Laurent Cortier I am SO tempted to get an Analog Rhtm and Octatrack later in 2015 if I can swing it.
Just wow! That intro melody has blown me away
This video cemented my purchase of an Analog Four. Well done demonstration.
Wuaw, the A4 is def a filthy fine peace of equipment and great handwork my german friend
Wow..!! this sound is very deep and cool.. good job!!
Best thing I've ever heard from an A4.
Hi Cenk...Look forward to seeing you do something like this on the A4 MKII :)
the bassline sounds like "boards of canda - olson"
this is one of the best drumcomputer vids ive ever seen, thank you for this presentation:)
The Analog 4 and those Parameter locks are sick ya stick
Great car track. listen to it with the kids all the time. One of these days I'll have one.
Were liking this...another new toy for the writing of our new material for the album!
Man this is Decent! Great synth, demo and music/creativity...
Great video! Really nice to see someone at work that clearly knows their instrument very well. I just picked up an A4 and am really looking forward to getting my teeth into it :)
I have a U-He Ace and a U-He Zebra2.... :)
Is anywhere tutorial what magic is done on this video available? Sounds and patterns are great! But how is it done?
I would like to know as well! He is doing a LOT and at such pace and ease
Master mastering the machine. Deep knowledge and deep sound!
A.
just got my A4 yesterday!
have the learning curve feeling bad!
this video is very very inspiring, now just let me digest it ;)
i'm buying one tomorrow because of this video
great work dataline…. thanks
digging your work and the box!
Has to be my favorite A4 jam. incredible stuff.
Went from b.o.c. to masivly orbital in that first jam. Like it. What a nice bit of kit
Sehr gut Schon der Anfang hat überzeugt den Syn. zu kaufen wer sich auskennt sieht wie schnell man hier zum ziel kommt
Really great video. Sounds nice to me. Does this have swing or swing per sound and is there any way of quantising the stuff you record using the mini keyboard? Also have an idea how parameter locks work but say i wanted to program a filter sweet over 3 of 16 steps how could i do that so it sounded smooth like an automated rather than step sequenced filter. Is this fully automatable in a DAW too? With the fx is it say one global (eg.)reverb for all tracks and then you just send and return Thanks.
Thank YOU for this video! You are my electron HERO! very nice programming of the sounds - great sequence - it gives me so much inspiration! please make more such a kind of videos! THX MR. DATALINE ; )
Glad someone is helping out. Thanks for that.
This is very interesting if only you could go through it step by step for us beginners. You are the master of these instruments. So please again can you do some step by step videos for us!
I hope you can show more videos like this. It helped me to get up and running quickly with the A4. And kudos. Nice work.
Did you finished this song, i really like it especially the beginning?
great video man, thanks for the tutorial, keep them coming they are very informative and helpful in learning this complex and amazing tool!
Your demo's are SO great... one thing I'd love to hear you do is make some really messed up dark-tweaked sounds and use them in a less predictable & non-grid (or multi-grid) manner to really show how free-range/form the sequences can get - a machine consumed with consuming itself... ;) If anyone can do this, YOU can. :) Thanks for all the fab examples.
Damn man! That second composition was sick😉😎.
Beautiful. Elektron should have you on their payroll.
I don't think a sequencer and a few voices is anything to be scared of, Mr. Fingers seems to have done pretty well with 'Can you feel it' ;)
Hi! I am trying to figure out the A4 and was trying to mimic this video. At 3:48 how does he get that snare sound? Is it possible to get multiple sounds on one track?
Sweet. Do you find you wish it had more fx per channel rather than just sends? Really lovely stuff. Can get not far off a finished track with just this one piece of gear! Is all the automation recorded in your DAW or can it be so you can edit your performance later?
This is absolutely wonderful
Am I correct in thinking that as of the new os update, one would not need to use this method of tuning each oscillator to create chords? Now you just press the different notes simultaneously?
The Analog Keys was polyphonic out of the box. The Analog 4 became polyphonic with an OS update.
It's possible to tweak the polyphony used for each track.
The detune trick he used allows you to generate a chord with just one voice, and thicken it with FX.
If you play with more than one note, you will get a thicker sound, but lose polyphony.
Not a problem if you're just using the A4 or A Keys as a sound source, but a problem if you are using it as a multi-timbral sound module.
This thing just sounds so damn good.
why do i count more than 4 voices in the first patch? the chords, the melody, bass drums, open high hat, and another voice for crazy modulation thingie?
does the A4 come with built in drum synth? or (more likely) is it p-lock changing patch on every step?
thx!
Very good video and really shows what the a4 can do ...
Looks like you can have different presets for different steps too on the same voice? Can notes be copy and pasted too or duplicated to other steps too?
Why doesn't Elektron make some professional tutorials with narration of how to use the product? It is like they don't really want to sell it. The average guy is scared away by this complexity. If you look at Maschine there are tons of really professionally narrated tutorials which serve as a good example.
you can't really compare maschine and this one since maschine is a software controller and this one is an analog synthetizer and sequencer lol
noob lol… this is for the pros, not the noobies, sorry.
Intandem DJ Who is the noob?
Just saying that Elektron doesn't cater to the average producer is all, thus why there's such complexity. It's a learning process and discovering how to use the gear is apart of it, that's all.
Intandem DJ Is discovering things from a professionally narrated video inferior somehow, as in the case of how I became an expert at Maschine? Should other companies trash their nice videos in trade for a rich experience of struggling along to understand it? No, what you are saying makes no sense at all.
That 'Thunderous Kick' :)
Is there a way to turn the 'speed' of the rotary encoders up so that they take fewer turns to access the full range of a parameter? I want to buy one of these, but I don't like having turn a knob 50 times to achieve a filter sweep, etc...
Buying one today thanks to you. You just cost me $1600
you really have fast hands, dude. I got my A4 last week and only dream about mastering it to your level.
How steep is the learning curve as far as creating and manipulating sounds from scratch? You were changing a lot of the parameters on the fly. Is it possible to record those moments alternatively?
different patches(sounds) for each step! very cool.
wow...the machine is one thing, the other thing is to operate with...very good..
where is all the background noise coming from? does it originate from the synth?
Can you move notes off the grid to create more natural sounding sequences without having to play and record?
can't express the words...fantastico !! currently selling a few kidneys in order to buy this the octotrack and machinedrum , I need some Elektron gear in my life truly outstanding equipment and musicianship :@)
The high quality DSP reverb really adds big time on this box.
great sound! first part sounds like Orbital :)
I'm having trouble reading the screen... How did you get the snare/hihat sound on the bass drum track? BTW, your A4/minibrute/minitaur jam made me buy the A4.
I believe you can assign different sounds to each step. He holds down the note and selects the snare sound from the bank. I think....
Machinedrum is another instrument, it's mainly built for drums and percussion-type sounds, you have 16 tracks that can play all at the same moment. Analog 4 is much different, being analog having 4 tracks (that can trigger different sounds) and very beautiful effects (delay, reverb, chorus). Machinedrum also has effects but more digital and less sophisticated sounding
You are very familiar with this machine. And musically skilled.
nice sound!!is possible, with the routing of the midi tracks, to use the internal sequencer to play an external synthesizer, like a drum machine?
man i would play this track till im old. haha. the first track. great job.
nice video. I wonder how can one record a chord in A4 to a step which is spread over more than the one octave. Is this possible with the A4 alone or does it need a keyboard? When in Overbridge, obviously the Keyboard linked to the DAW does play A4 sounds, but that can not be used to program them into A4s sequencer.
You can with a midi keyboard connected
Hey, I don't understand how you recorded the main hook live? What key commands do you need to hit to get it in that mode. Right around 2:00
Ahhh, figured it out. I couldn't tell you hit play and record at the same time. That is a huge breakthrough considering I have an A4 and Octatrack.
Sencillamente BRUTAL! 🔊💫
it's brilliant ,send this song to warp records and will be famous
OMG...do you think that!?really!!!???afffff
Great job. Enjoed listening to it very much. Allow me just one question: Is that bass sound original to the EA4?? It sounds sooo much like the old minimoog. I don't think it's sampled, is it?
No samples. The Analog 4 has completely analog voices. The low pass filter is a 4 pole ladder, which is similar to the famous Moog filter.
Joshua Davis There is also an overdrive circuit, like the Moog Sub Phatty and Sub 37, although Elektron's overdrive circuit is an in-house design.
Nice! How did you record sound and video?
very nice work dude! i love this machine...it seems to be very powerfull and to offer so much possibilities....i want it now!
So, so good. Truly awesome.
What did you do at 8:08? (Sounded like beat repeat or something.)
I've been thinking about trading in my SE omega 8 which has been sitting in it's box for some time and using some of the cash for the elektron.
From what I've heard I prefer it's sounds to the omega 8, it seems more aligned for my musical tastes.
Is the elektron more a mono synth (though with 4 voices) than a true polysynth i.e. meant for baselines (or bleeps!) rather than multitimbral performance usage?
I also have an Omega 8. There are obvious differences between the two, and i'm considering getting the A4 or A4K in addition - but never instead of the Omega 8! The Omega 8 is a fat bastard in a way the A4 will never be. But the A4 has the sequencer and a much more complex modulation matrix. So i'd say that the Omega has a stronger analog tone but a more simple voice structure - while the A4 is a deeper synth, but its oscilators and filters are not in the same level as the Omega. Different synths for different objectives. I wouldn't give up the Omega so fast. Btw - do you have it expanded with the cs-80 filters?
i'm pretty sure one of those sounds was me shitting my pants.
You are not a very good person.
+Yury Est You are not a very unuptight person.
+unabonger777 No, that was just me shifting around nervously in my chair, craving an Elektron Analog Four.
+unabonger777 WTF???
hahahahahaa
Finally a video of someone who owns a piece of Elektron Equipment that doesn't make bland music.