Analog Four MKII - Comparison with MKI + How to set up pedals 

Thank you so much Leon! Much appreciated! ❤️

Thank you so much! I had a focused week the other week, and decided to bring stuff up a notch. It'll be a bit experimental, perhaps, to find a good rhythm. It takes more time, but I wanna do it, so it's worth it!

Thats such a lovely comparison!

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Happy patterns...

now you're talking! I think a lot of people are too focused on whether or not it's a replacement. Hell, buy the new one and use both together!

Thanks! ❤️

ur welcome! This vid really helped me. I think I'm gonna go with a Digitone. I just saw ur stream vid, gonna watch it. Any opinion? I know they're quite different, but I like FM synths and the 4 tracks as well as 4 midi tracks aspect seems really nice. Thank you!

+Clayton Wakefield thanks mate!! Yeah the sampling of the new Rytm will be a real game changer for making this machine work computer free. I suspect it’ll work just like on the Digitakt, but I have yet to see it in action.

Yeah I don't know anything about the Rytm MK2 yet other than the product announcement a while back. Sampling straight into it is a huge update though. And that quick performance knob is mighty useful. Eager to learn more about it!

I expect the Overdrive to be better on the Rytm MKII to.

+Tempo Element I think the overdrive on the Rytm MKI sounds really great as is. Let’s wait till we hear it though. :)

+Bibi thanks! I think the digital side is probably identical.

exactly what i thought, in/outs are awesome on the new one, but my mki is already so beaten up that its completely unrealistic to sell it, so i will stick with tha already great old one :)

Well.. it does and does not make sense. They're too different. But suddenly you're in this position where you want a new deep sequencer synth, and you like both A4 and Digitone... Then there's a dilemma. Ha ha..

Harrison Malone try a no interest, play as you pay plan, that's what I've been doing. Wish I'd discovered this year's ago. I've acquired a DIGITAKT and many other great gear through them, which I would have never been able to afford otherwise.

I'll look into that! Right now I'm just trying to get by with a MacBook Air with Logic Pro installed 😑 would love if you subscribed to my channel man I post stuff like this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yyyV-xpiwMU.html

SP-404 HypNodiQ SoundJunkie Actually that's useful, I didn't know you could do that! Lol

Dissonance Music yeah, i just found out by searching for instrument financing/ payment plans. Zzounds is the bomb!

+Uni Verse This is an Analog synthesiser. It plays sounds and tones modelled and generated by the synth. Digitakt is a digital sampler. It plays back snippets of audio recordings that you can manipulate, but it doesn’t generate any sounds without samples. You can sample straight into it, or send over samples from a computer.

WERK agreed. The MK1 sounds much better IMO

cuckoo I need you😢

You'll be absolutely fine with the MK1. It's great, and compact'ish. But if you absolutely can't stand the thought of not having access to this new Overdrive, the new buttons and screen, the separate outputs, the control inputs etc... And perhaps you prefer the more comfy and efficient, slightly larger layout of the MK2? Well then you might be regretting.

Thanks man! I think I'm gonna buy MK2 :))

Yep i would like to hear an AK vs MK2 comparison too, please

+setphaser hello! I think the sound design menus are well organised, and after doing it for a while it becomes structured, at least to me. But when creating modulations for performance knobs, modulations for velocity, pitch bend, after touch etc, that part is pretty tedious. I always improvise my videos and edit them afterwards to get a bit more efficient.

nah just looks like. in reality once you get used to it is completely fluent, like with all elektron stuff.

+Cave Way colour grading.. and Greek genes.. and exposition to sunlight .. and colour grading ;-)

Yeah I hear you. I think it's only natural that one's attention travels between equipment and instruments, and then settles in your own preferred style of use. I think the A4 thrives when used actively to the maximum. I've played whole gigs with the AKeys doing precisely everything. It actually works really well. But only when pushed to the limits :) And that is not for everyone. But I'd like to get everyone to open up to the sequencer. It's very powerful.

+BoBeats 4ever! =)

You are rocking a 4K camera now right? What do you use to keep a dslr in a 90 degree angle?

+BoBeats yes. GH5 here. It’s somewhat heavy. I’ve mounted a shelf above my table. On this shelf I’ve got a quick release plate mounted/ screwed onto it. The release plate has got several threaded holes to mount camera gear in. I’ve got a few arms and joints mounted to put the camera in different positions. I’m using products from Cinnevate. They’re good. But there are tons of options for this.

+BoBeats cinevate.com

+Discophone_ Yeah.. for me it comes down to the sound. I think the new Overdrive and filter is opening up for a lot of great sounds. I’m faster with the Analog Keys workflow, but since this sounds much better, I’m thinking of a midi keyboard and the Four MK2.

MKII for the sound, screen, Quick performance knob. MKI for the more travel friendly form factor.

+Dawless Jammin' thankss!

I think so too.

It's the sequencer, and all that Elektron performance depth. As a keyboard there are other genuinely great alternatives for sure.

two different thoughts on synthesis when comparing the peak to the analog four. I agree with cuckoo on the point that electron is giving you a sequencer and multiple channels of layered audio with a sound that can't be denied. To argue novation you'd have to realize the sound quality that distinguishes the peak from other synths. If you can hear the difference and you like it, okay, if you don't then go the other direction. I own the novation ultranova and there are pluses and minus for sure. All I can say is the peak is everything I wish the ultranova was. The peak can modulate every parameter and is true analog. Novation is really good at replicating real world sounds like flutes and organs and the kind of stuff you would get from an arrangement keyboard. the elektron's are mostly a synthesizer thing with synthesis at it's core. If you want synth + the option for non synth then you might consider the peak, otherwise if you're a hardcore synth nut that wants nothing but edm all the time go with the analog four. I've got this great flute patch I created on my ultranova that makes for a wonderful solo instrument, but then again I listen to classical music all the time and sometimes I want a variety of sounds. Bell tones and so on, etc. have a good one.

Clayton Brown I thought the peak was digital

That's the tricky part about their sound synthesis techniques. In usage of their superior bell tones it may appear to be more like fm synthesis but in fact they are offering true analog synthesis with far more levels of audio output. Still there's no sequencer and that seriously saddens me every time another synth comes out with no sequencer. I've only begun using sequencers within the past year or so and I really like the limits to improve creativity.

Clayton Brown it's a digital synth with an analogue signal chain. Is that what you mean? I love using hardware sequencers it's where creativity is found by chance :)