Elektron Analog Four, Full Reference Manual

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THE SEQUENCER
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EDITING A PATTERN
Analog Keys offers two main modes of inputting trigs when editing or creating a pattern, GRID RECORDING
mode and LIVE RECORDING mode. In these modes, two types of trigs can be entered: note trigs and trigless
locks.
TRIG TYPES
Two types of trigs exist, note trigs and trigless locks. Note trigs trig notes while trigless locks can be used to
apply parameter locks without trigging notes. Note trigs are indicated by full-bright <TRIG> LEDs and trigless
locks are indicated by half-bright <TRIG> LEDs. Read more about parameter locks in section “PARAMETER
LOCKS” on page 40. The two types of trigs are entered differently depending on whether GRID or LIVE record-
ing mode is active.
GRID RECORDING MODE
GRID RECORDING is a method of composing where trigs are added by using the [TRIG] keys.
Enter GRID RECORDING mode by pressing the [REC] key. A lit red <REC> LED indicates GRID RECORDING
mode is active. Select the track to which you want to add trigs by pressing the relevant [TRACK] button. Place
note trigs on the sequencer by pressing the [TRIG] keys. To add note values to trigs of the synth tracks, press
and hold a [TRIG] key while pressing a key on the KEYBOARD . To add a trigless lock, press [FUNCTION] and
[TRIG] . Add micro timing to a note trig by pressing and holding the [TRIG] key while pressing [LEFT] or
[RIGHT] . A micro timing pop up menu will appear, showing the note offset.
If the pattern contains more than 16 steps, switch to the pattern page you want to edit by pressing the [PAGE]
key. The active pattern page is being indicated by a fully lit <PATTERN PAGE> LED.
Press [PLAY] to listen to the sequence.
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All trigs of a track can be shifted forwards or backwards on the sequencer. While in GRID
RECORDING mode, hold down [FUNCTION] while pressing the [LEFT] or [RIGHT] arrow keys to
perform the trig shift.
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Preview a note trig, complete with its parameter locks, by pressing [TRIG] + a key on the KEY-
BOARD .
LIVE RECORDING MODE
LIVE RECORDING mode is the second method of adding trigs to the tracks. In this recording mode, the KEY-
BOARD , or an external MIDI keyboard connected to Analog Keys, can be played in real time to input trigs to the
tracks. It is also possible to enter parameter locks in real time. Trigs input in LIVE RECORDING mode will be
placed on the sequencer in a micro timed fashion, meaning the
µTM parameter in the NOTES SETUP menu will
be locked accordingly to more accurately reflect the input timing of the trigs. This makes LIVE RECORDING
mode record note inputs in a more expressive and un-quantized way. Micro timed trigs can be quantized, which
is done in the NOTES SETUP menu. Read more about the
µTM parameter on page 37. Quantizing is covered
on page 38.
Hold [RECORD] and press [PLAY] to enter LIVE RECORDING mode. The sequencer will start to play and the
<RECORD> LED will start to flash. You can now enter trigs to the active track in real time by pressing the keys
on the
KEYBOARD . For the synth and CV tracks, note values according to the KEYBOARD key presses will be
recorded. In order to activate quantization of the LIVE RECORDING, do as above but double-press [PLAY] .
To real time erase all trigs from a track, press and hold [TRACK] + [NO/RELOAD] . All trigs hit by the running
LED of the sequencer will be erased from the active track. The trigs of more than one track can be removed by
pressing several
[TRACK] keys simultaneously.
To stop both the recording and the playback of the sequencer, press [STOP] . To exit LIVE RECORDING mode
while keeping the sequencer playing, press [PLAY] . If LIVE RECORDING mode is active and [REC] is pressed,
GRID RECORDING mode will be entered.