Analog Four FM Synthesis Get Started Tutorial 

Your hair is especially magical today.

Funny you watch all these vids before you own elektron gear and then once you get one.....you gotta go back and watch em allll again....then your like...ohhhhhhhh! Lol this feature is so fun I love it. My new fav number is 32 ;)

Altough I own A4 already, you sold it to me, again.

Mate, you've just saved me a lot of money on buying an FM synth. I also think you've got one of the best instructional styles I've come across, really mellow and chill with time for the information to sink in. What a brilliant video, thank you so much!

What a talented and creatively inspiring human! Good man, keep up the good work bro.

Excellent video exploring LFO tracking. Thank you for always providing quality content.

so thank you again! I am still watching all the elektron tutorials made by you and learning lots of usefull stuff. reading the manual is dry. watching your videos so fresh and even more direct for me. THANKS

So I just ordered one of these and am waiting on it to arrive. This video got me even more excited, thanks for sharing. I can't wait to lay down some vid tracks with this monster in my studio.

Love it - giving me loads of ideas for things to do with the Analog Keys. Thanks!

Love the videos. You come across as genuine and entertaining in tutorials, which is hard to do. It's time I kicked down to you on Patreon; you have earned it!

Amazing, thank you! I need this. I am learning. Keep rocking them tutorials. Very nice.

This video really takes the A4 into new territory for me. Thanks so much.

Been watching your videos a long time, and I have an Analog Keys arriving next week. 19:40 has me so psyched.

I have to say I have no idea what you're talking about most of the time since i don't know much about synths and stuff but the way you're so passionate about it makes it interesting and great to see and hear all those crazy sounds. Keep it up!

7yrs later still very relevant video for analog four users thx for the bass ! I kinda got the rytm because if your super nice tutorial videos. Was curious for a long time and now i'm full on elektron analog line music making! Still very new to the analog four tho. I hope elektron will drop a big update for these 2 devices soon :D

I bought an analog keys because of this new feature. You're awesome dude. Thanks for the tutorials bro :)

oH yEAh ::: please more Analog Four Tuturials ... i just brought one .... and im so happy with it !!!! Keep up the good work ... Greetings from Berlin!!!

Love the tutorial. I just wanted to point out that the ladder-filter isn't flat when the resonance is "0". 4-POLE LADDER FILTER There is no way to turn the ladder filter completely off, but turning up the cutoff frequency will pass all frequencies through. It should be noted that zero resonance does not give the flattest frequency response - instead it drops some decibels both in the treble and in the bass. The flattest response is reached when resonance is somewhere around 25, which is also the default value. Keep it up!

This is no ' Get Started Tutorial' It's a brilliant 'Get Lost Tutorial'. Shows a totally different side of the A4. Love it!

Amazing! You helped clear up a lot for me. Also, after watching your videos I am finding I am using the real time recording mode more on my AKeys. I am getting some way better results than just manually stepping everything in. I never learned piano so it just wasn't natural for me at first.

@19:16.... Im with you on this brother. Feelin it. About to purchase the four in a couple weeks. This tutorial was quite helpful.

still loving it in 2022. it’s a wonderful machine.

Man is truly a wizard! Both in looks and magic skills ;)

Thank you yet again for another fantastic video

You just added more life to my analog keys I can’t wait to design some new banging sounds

Great tut! You must have been a teacher in your previous live! You can translate 'how' into wow! Thanks a lot!

Thanks Cuckoo your a good man more power to you!

I know this is an old video but FYI, at the 11 minute mark when modulating the oscillator pitch you are getting crazy modem noises, then wonder why it’s so weird sounding - the reason for that is because a feedback loop was created. The LFO syncs to the oscillator rate (hence keyboard modulates rate), then the LFO modulates the oscillator. That’s why there’s distortion and noise. Pretty neat trick!

Hey friend! Been going back through all your Electron videos this last week. Was sick from work and was a great thing to spend my time doing while healing. Inspired me to dig back down into my RYTM and O8. Analog 4 is next! I'm feeling much better now and filled up with Cuckoo know-how! haha Also. dang it.. now I want a digitakt!

Hey Cuckoo, new sub here! I like your vibe dude, very original and full of knowledge :-)

Well I shouldn't have watched this video while I was debating parting with my Analog Four Mk1. Great stuff.

yeees, this was exactly the video I needed today!

Your tutorials are the best man! Thank you so much! =]

Also, I just imagined you and Dataline collaborating and that thought makes me happy, your adorable/sincere pop over his super serious techo as heck.

Was going to bed now at 03:40 but this one changed e v e r y t h i n g ! ! Amazing! :)

Love your ways man!

that bass sound on track 3 is delicious :)

Cool jam at the end 🤘

yr the best cuckoo. keep it up!

Still very enjoyable to watch mid 2022. (;

crazy inspiration! Thanks, man!

And please, more Octatrack! It is so easy to get bogged down by what it doesn't do...even though it does so much!

Wow cool thanks Cuckoo now I don't need to send my Analog 4 back and get a Digitone but I am tempted!

a big tutorial on 4 MK2 would be great !!!!!!!

lfo- low frequency oscillator: its just like your standard osc but too low (slow) to hear. an analog lfo is capable of being cycled into audio rate in which the wave cycles so fast that you can hear it....awesome when used to modulate a standard osc's pitch, pulse, filter, resi, etc... or FM : frequency modulation love you cuckoo! killin that A4!!

Excellent video

cool sounds

Cool vid and tips thank you kindly :)

Great tutorial Cuckoo. I really love the FM sound. Especially from YM2162 chip found in the Megadrive. It sounds like the analog four can achieve such gulpy bass, metallic craziness and tingly bells of that chip, would you agree? I've been on the fence about getting an analog four. Mainly because of the cost, but as I mostly program my sequences, I feel this is the unit would be a good centre piece to my current OP-1, PO's and Circuit setup. Do you recommend this or anything else? I'm certainly going to pick up a Volca FM though! 👍🏼🌴🚗💨🎹

Thank you Cuckoo, I’d like to donate when I can.

good work. useful

Inspirational!

oh yeah thanks a lot for video!

thank you for teaching me how to make baselines 😎😎

the sound cool you find at 12.00 is ALIASING 😊 like any numeric stuff do, like my rs7000 for example! 😒

Brilliant ! You're getting better and better man. I mean, it's really complete ! You nailed it ! Using the volume to explain everything is smart :) Now I understand where I was failing ! Can't wait to try... One question : LFO2 depths is not on LFO1 destination list, is it ?

True wizard!

cuckoo you're my favorite

You’re the best

like that hairstyle ;D gonna let mine grow and be freee again too

Hey Cuckoo. I'm trying to trigger a TM-2 drum brain with the A4 cv/gate. I've seen a video from AdamJay that does exactly that, but, he doesn't know how to get velocity out of the brain, just triggers at maximum velocity. I'm having a difficult time finding the voltage range than piezo sensors put out, and how to simulate that voltage via CV, rather than trigger on the A4, any recommendations?

I have the A4, but really do need a new shaving mirror!

Very cool tutorial, and super cool haircut as well. By the way, are you australian? you sound a bit like an australian friend of mine. 2000 hz for an lfo? or did I misunderstand? Thats awesome!

can we see more of the po-20?

Do have any idea why, in realtime record, the portamento is not recording? Its non quntized and set to 1/8 scale and over a large amount of steps so that I can have a long sequence that has lots of silents space inbetween the notes. It doesnt play back the way it sounds when Im performing it. Its as if its not recording the sustain to produce the sliding portamento? The notes are pretty close together in the melodic phrase. Any suggestions as to why this is happening? Thanks

10:30 modem sounds, awesome! haha

When you modulate the volume with a hi-lfo, it's am modulation right? I love Fm and have used this trick ever since I stumbled across it. Love your videos btw ❤

"it goes a bit crazy" :-D yes for those with headphones be aware :-D thank you Cuckoo this is really helpful to me! kind regards

Makes me wanna buy an A4 !

@cuckoomusic The new fm functionality will track the pitch even better if you activate the retrig function in the osc2 sub menu :p

When you modulate a volume (sound wave amplitude - DST VOL in analog4) it is called an "Amplitude Modulation", or AM. The AM overtones are not the same as the FM overtones, when you modulate the frequency of the oscillator, not the volume amplitude. The real limitation of analog 4 in terms of AM/FM modulation is that you can't modulate the amount of AM/FM modulation with a dedicated envelope that launches with a triggers\key pressure. The Fade parameter is kinda works but you can't tune the envelope parameters like its response and attack stage. In Virus Ti you can assign an envelope to modulate to depth of the AM/FM so you got those classic FM sweeps with each new note\trigger.

19:16 Holy shit! you might've hit the infamous brown note there...

Not an analog guy here, but in digital world FM means you regulate pitch (frequency) of the sound. What you did there is AM/RM (I always get those two mixed, one only goes on-off and one does on-off-negative value, but it's basically volume modulation at >20hz frequencies :) )

The thing you started with was AM Synthesis.. amplitude modulation :)

In the beginning you're playing it polyphonically / chords - I thought the A4 couldn't do chords?

After the 17 minute mark I was sold lol. Also quick question... am I able to load my own sounds/samples into this machine?

Keeps failing my OS update , sent from Live and sysex ? overbridge wont recognise, tried midi and usb routes

Great tutorial ! Still wondering how you make the reset at the minute 15:50 even I saw it 5 time at 0.25 of the speed :-)

Thanks for this. All the osc FM sounds you did sound very distorted, nothing like an old DX… but the filter FM sounds had more of a classic FM vibe. Can you comment on that? Did you manage to get some clean FM sounds?

I think the machine has potential for filter FM, but the LFO generation seems too low resolution. You can actually use a filter to create the sine wave, but then the LFOs can't keep up. But I've gotten some grungy sounds out of it, just not the pure FM sounds one associates with it. Good tutorial

I am confused. I thought this is a mono synth on each track? How are you able to perform chords ?

Sup Cockoo mate!? I absolutely love your analog four tutorials. As others have said, I too want to see more!!!! :) I just got my A4 last week. I would like to see a tutorial on the file structure of the machine. The way you move sounds around from the pool etc, saving patterns and chaining you know? Funny comment about the broken modem hehe :D Thanks very much for this.

Who rrrrrrrrr uu......awesome Video

I own the Analog Keys, and for some reason wish I had an Analog Four instead. Is that weird? I just find the Keys takes up too much room.

14:16 Sounds like Lil B - "Like a Martian"

Awesome! :) but the volume automation with another Osc that you used at first is actually AM! :D amplitude modulation, FM is Frequency Modulation

Sexy Synthesis... 'Sin Teases'

Sort of regretting selling it now... Sort of. I'll probably wait and see what they'll do next :)

that end xd

anyone managed to get FM bell sounds?

why don't I get any sounds out of my a4...?? i did factory reset but it doesn't help ...anybody help??? thank you

18:45 mmmmm bass

Yes 4 voyager fm voices I just bought a analog 4 on ebay for 600$

Takk! Snadder video

*cuckoo, you look like the spanish guy, don quixote de la mancha....* ;-)

i can hear that bass

Are you using Beyerdynamic headphones?

Not sure if anyone said this but it's low frequency oscillator not low frequency operator :)

I feel like this and a Circuit is all you need for an album

*i ask to my self, if this big trades, elektron, korg, roland, or other one, at least, say thanks to ppl like cuckoo, for the help they do to this onwers instruments...i dont see this trade employers or dealers teaching and show to us, things whe never know this instruments can do, like ppl like cuckoo show to us....i dont have a elektron, but if i have?i have to stay hours and hours, weeks, months, in front of it, if i have lucky, to do all the things this dificult machine can gave to us, ofcourse...like i said, at least, a "thank you" from elektron, and the other trades too, for ppl like cuckoo, in general!!!* ;-)