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9. KITS AND SOUNDS
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9. KITS AND SOUNDS
Kits and Sounds are the basic building blocks of Analog Four MKIIs sound crafting. A kit is a collection of
Sound, FX, and CV track parameter settings. A Sound is essentially a synth track patch, made up by sub-
tractive synthesis from the oscillators through the filters via its various parameter settings. Each of the 4
synth tracks contains one Sound.
Kits and Sounds are separated, meaning kits do not necessarily have to use any saved Sounds. When
saving a kit, the PARAMETER page settings of the synth tracks, i.e. the settings that constitute a Sound,
will be saved together with the kit. The synth track PARAMETER page settings of a kit can be saved as
individual Sounds as well. When loading a Sound, it will become a part of the kit. Changes made to the track
Sound will not affect the saved Sound on the +Drive, only the kit. A kit is always assigned to a pattern which
controls the playback of the kit.
A Kit contains:
• Sound settings for the 4 synth tracks.
• FX track parameter settings.
• CV track parameter settings.
• LEVEL settings for the Synth and FX tracks.
• PERFORMANCE mode parameter settings.
• Polyphony settings.
A Sound contains:
• Settings for the PARAMETER pages of a synth track.
The screen graphics in the top left part of the screen shows the name of the currently active
kit. When you press the [TRACK] keys, this information briefly changes to reflect the name of
the track. The name of the track Sound will be displayed for the synth tracks.
Note that several patterns may use the same kit. Changes you make to the kit while editing
one of the patterns will directly affect how the other patterns sound as well. Remember to
save the kit to a new location if you wish to avoid this.
9.1 THE +DRIVE SOUND LIBRARY AND THE SOUND POOL
Sounds can be loaded to a kit from either the +Drive Sound library or the Sound pool of the active project.
The difference between the two is that the +Drive Sound library has the capacity of 4096 Sounds, available
to all projects, while a Sound pool is a part of a project and limited to 128 Sounds. The primary benefit of
Sounds loaded to the Sound pool is the possibility for them to be Sound locked. This feature is not available
for the Sounds in the +Drive Sound library. For more information, please see “10.12.2 SOUND LOCKS” on
page 46.
9.2 KIT MENU
In the KIT menu, commands relating to kits are found, most importantly kit save and load. Open the menu
by pressing [KIT] . Use the [UP] and [DOWN] arrow keys to move between the commands. Press [YES] to
confirm your selection. Exit the menu by pressing [NO] .
9.2.1 RELOAD KIT
Will reload either the active kit, reverting it to its saved status, or to all kits. Using the
[LEFT]
and
[RIGHT] keys selects whether only the active kit or all kits should be reloaded. [NO] + [KIT] offers a
short cut to reloading the active kit.