Analog Four teaser trailer

  On 9/29/2013 at 12:21 PM, th555 said:

This thing would be an amazing polysynth.

Just get a MIDI-hub that can split incoming notes and distribute to 4 different channels, and it is.

syncing patches between the voices is important tho.

well this happened

https://co.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=userlibrary&type=0&ulbr=1&plview=detail&patchid=13357

looks nice, but, yawn.

shenanigans:

  On 10/1/2013 at 6:22 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

well this happened

 

https://co.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=userlibrary&type=0&ulbr=1&plview=detail&patchid=13357

 

this looks so badass . . stop making me want an a4

found a neat trick using the arpeggiators and made a tutorial for it:

I'll just leave this here:

fucking awesome

now make a physical interface that looks like that! 123 go!

hm what do you mean, like a box with 5 motorfaders? or something like Lemur..?

i mean, the look of the interface is not so important imo, it's the MIDI stuff under the hood which is what this is about....

in the video, the faders and sound sources at each end are controlled via MIDI from a Machinedrum... BYO physical interface :]

not sure if I understand... does this picture imply that you want to use a box like to control the app?

because this is easy:

on MIDI channels 1-5 (A4 tracks 1-5), CC 20 = sound A, CC21 = crossfade, CC22 = sound B.

or that the app itself should be contained in a box like this? I can see the appeal of it, but this would limit everything a lot.

you could tape the iPod touch which hosts the app to the back of that Kenton controller if you're into the illusion of a "hardware-only" morphing thing.

  On 9/29/2013 at 5:07 PM, psn said:

 

  On 9/29/2013 at 12:21 PM, th555 said:

This thing would be an amazing polysynth.

 

Just get a MIDI-hub that can split incoming notes and distribute to 4 different channels, and it is.

 

I can recommend MIDIpal for all sort of MIDI hardware tricks like this: http://mutable-instruments.net/midipal

seriously considered getting a midi pal just for ease of use without the need for a computer to do tricks with hardware, you recommend it?

Yep it's easy to use but you can only use one mode at a time which is somewhat limiting.

having a blast with shit.

this synth, this synth.

what you see in the reaktor pic with all the buttons and the whole layout

lets have an actual physical box with the same layout and all those buttons and switches!

physical knobs and buttons are overrated.

  On 10/21/2013 at 1:45 AM, phling said:

I'll just leave this here:

 

is something you're developing as a potential iPad app?

i think you should leave the interface exactly as it is right now. skeletal black & white. looks awesome.

both of those videos make me very jealous. shit! is the first one preset morphing? 2nd one sounds more semi random automation.

they both do essentially the same..

currently the app works like this:

- you send a backup from the A4 to the app. (A4 OS does not respond to requests, so you have to do this manually)

- the app then assigns 2 sounds to each track, one left and one right, and the fader interpolates

- whenever something changes, the 4 sounds & the FX settings are combined into a Kit sysex message and sent to the A4

- the kit overwrites whatever kit is stored a its position in the A4, and is loaded by the A4 instantly (if you send the kit to the currently loaded kit's position)

- this happens at a rate of 60 kits per second, allowing sweeps between kits & sounds.

the difference between the 2 videos is that in the first video, sounds from the sound pool are used, and each track is controlled individually via MIDI channels 1-5. In the second video, there's no individual control over each sound, but all 4 sounds from 2 kits are assigned to left/right respectively, so there's interpolation between kits on MIDI channel 1.

the cool thing is that you can change anything at any time... you can switch between modes (off/kit/sounds), assign kits for channel 1, or sounds for each channel, and move the faders, all via just a handful of simple MIDI CC messages:

 
            channel | controller | range:
         |          |            |
 mode    |    0     |    24      |  0-2 
 kit A   |    0     |    20      |  0-127
 kit B   |    0     |    22      |  0-127
 sound A |   0-4    |    20      |  0-127
 sound B |   0-4    |    22      |  0-127
 faders  |   0-4    |    21      |  0-127

sequencing all this from a Machinedrum is quite fun.

But any MIDI controller will do.

forgot:

 target  |    0     |    23      |  0-127

automates where the kit is written to.

love this piece to... pieces.

kept me company on the tour bus... filters are absolutely mental, works amazingly as a cv sequencer. I only wish it had more cv channels!

  On 10/22/2013 at 6:20 AM, digit said:

 

  On 10/21/2013 at 1:45 AM, phling said:

I'll just leave this here:

 

 

is something you're developing as a potential iPad app?

 

i think you should leave the interface exactly as it is right now. skeletal black & white. looks awesome.

 

yea... tho dunno if the Kit Morph will make it into the app as seen here, gotta see, it;s likely gonna evolve into something else....

but yea, planning to keep the UI style reduced... skeletal is a good word :]

just finished up replicating the A4 sequencer in the app. It's running synced/slaved to the A4 and works with actual A4 pattern data... in short, it gives you MIDI sequencing.

By the way, Elektron gonna show new machine:

http://www.elektron.se/news/night-of-machines-%E2%80%94-an-elektron-launch-party