Thank you Ponchy! i was having real problems trying to figure out how to set this up properly, copying and pasting setting from one track to another, playing three separate tracks as a chord, and thinking, "its got to be easier than this!"
I'd really like to buy one of these but 4 voices for the whole synth is just too little. If it had 8 voices/tracks I could see using 4 for chords and the other 4 for other elements... I guess that's why they made the DN.
yeah for sure. To me it's a matter of whether you are going for that analog sound or not. This vid was a long time ago and actually now I would call it paraphonic because it reminds me of the Moog Matriarch. The unique part about the A4 is that you could have a different sounds on each track and play chords that way which is kind of interesting.
You can either record the sustained chords in live recording mode and then it will be exactly the length you play or you have to adjust the release on the AMP page.
So if you use say the full 4 note polyphony and tie up all the tracks, if you then go and mute 1 of the tracks, will it mute one note from the chord? (i'm going to try this myself tonight)
No it won’t unfortunately. The “chord” is tied to the track that you laid trigs on. However, if you start adding trigs to another track, it will “take away” that note from the chord trigs and play the other tracks sound and trigs.
@@Ponchy cool. Makes sense. I think my overall strategy to deal with polyphony will be to use all 4 voices and then sample it into my digitakt ;-) so I've got all 4 tracks again...
@@Ponchy So, can you just send it MIDI chords? or what is the maximum voice limit? it says "Up to 4 notes of polyphony", but is that truly any four notes, sent from ableton as an example?
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Thank you Ponchy! i was having real problems trying to figure out how to set this up properly, copying and pasting setting from one track to another, playing three separate tracks as a chord, and thinking, "its got to be easier than this!"
No prob! I know what you mean so I’m super glad it helped!
"Gee, I wonder if there is a video to help me better use the polyphony on my A4?"- sure enough, Ponchy to the rescue! ;-)
You know it! Glad to help!
I'd really like to buy one of these but 4 voices for the whole synth is just too little. If it had 8 voices/tracks I could see using 4 for chords and the other 4 for other elements... I guess that's why they made the DN.
yeah for sure. To me it's a matter of whether you are going for that analog sound or not. This vid was a long time ago and actually now I would call it paraphonic because it reminds me of the Moog Matriarch. The unique part about the A4 is that you could have a different sounds on each track and play chords that way which is kind of interesting.
Tysm!
I’m curious how you would get it to play long sustained chords instead of short stabs like that
You can either record the sustained chords in live recording mode and then it will be exactly the length you play or you have to adjust the release on the AMP page.
Thanks for the tutorial, what I don't get is how to input a chord if it spans more than one octave, let's say G2 C3 Eb3.
Yeah as far as I know, the only real way to do it is with an external midi keyboard where you can actually play the notes simultaneously
@@Ponchy I see, that makes sense. I'll try that. Thanks, and thanks for taking the time to answer my comment, and making these tutorials.
So if you use say the full 4 note polyphony and tie up all the tracks, if you then go and mute 1 of the tracks, will it mute one note from the chord? (i'm going to try this myself tonight)
No it won’t unfortunately. The “chord” is tied to the track that you laid trigs on. However, if you start adding trigs to another track, it will “take away” that note from the chord trigs and play the other tracks sound and trigs.
@@Ponchy cool. Makes sense. I think my overall strategy to deal with polyphony will be to use all 4 voices and then sample it into my digitakt ;-) so I've got all 4 tracks again...
@@Ponchy So, can you just send it MIDI chords? or what is the maximum voice limit? it says "Up to 4 notes of polyphony", but is that truly any four notes, sent from ableton as an example?