abother noob question - what is the easiest way to hook up audio in? Let’s say, I want to hook up my microphone (one mono jack). I have searched this forum and stumbled upon the following:
Audio in on the A4 - basically you set the oscillators to L&R in, so you use one track as an external. Place an infinite trigger on step one and then use can use the filters, envelopes, fx ext for the external input.
The problem is, I set the oscillators on one track to L&R in, but when I tried talking to the microphone, no sound was coming out of the A4.
What does an “infinite trigger” mean in this case? Does it mean an infinite note length on step one?
indeed, significantly less, verging on no fun tho fx are v nice, at least it allows level checking before the good stuff, especially if a mic is being used inappropriately
so -set oscillator to input, put a trig of infinite length, open the amp up and use the filters 'n stuff for real fun
thanks. I’ll try both versions tonight. So, one trig in step one should do the trick, right?
one more question - what is the difference between INL/INR and WAWR/WAWL? When I set, say, OSC1 to INL, after a few seconds it automatically changes to WAWL (or something like that) … what does that mean?
it shows WAV before and after you stop changing the param (short for wave, you’re not creating a wave as such, but a sound source disconnected from keytrack)
Indeed!
You need to preamplify your mic , otherwise you will have the worst Signal-to-Noise Ratio.
Actually, a dynamic mic will not be heard at all
Condenser mic needs phantom power as already stated above from Jonah (and A4 doesn’t supply it…actually never heard of synth with +48V).
FInally…FIND a a preamp!!
Voice in the Filter section plus the Effects is AwEsOmE!
Then…you have the rest d^_^b
Each track including the fx track has wet/dry controll for reverb, delay and chorus. On the fx track you can control wet/dry for each incoming channel (left or right). Hopefully this answers your question.
I’ve only had my A4 for 6 days, so I am a bit of a noob to be honest. But I did make a kit where I used trk1 and trk2 - where I did the osc1 ext L input option on trk1 (and just panned that hard L in the amp section, set all the envelopes to just let the audio pass through), and the same on trk2 (only ext in R and panned hard R), set a key-lock (or whatever it’s called) on first beat of both tracks.
Then I set up the performance page to rotary A do the freq of filter one on trk1 and filter one on trk 2
Rotray B the resonance of filter 1 on both tracks
Rotary C to do the send to delay on both tracks etc…
saved the kit and the pattern to last open pattern on the A4, and now I can recall that to do both stereo filtering and FX whenever I wanna do some analog filters or external reverb / delay in my DAW (I use Cubase)
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, and it’s probably something you already know or can do better, but this worked for me at least
Just getting round to experimenting with the inputs/filters.
I cant seem to get INP-R (osc1, track3) to respond the same as INP-L (osc1, track1) even though all the envelopes and filter setting are identical.
Any help would be much appreciated.
** out of curiosity I added a sub oscillator to each input and found that when I do this, INP-L plays a melody while INP-R stays on a constant pitch, so there is something altering INP-L but I cant seem to work out what it is.
*** I see, the sequence trigs on INP-1 are tracking the pitch. Even though I copied the pattern to the track of INP-2… hmm… nuts, haha.
shift: Are you sure you haven’t got any trigs/p-locks left on the track that’s playing a melody when you tried the sub osc? Try clearing both tracks and set it up again with a trig on the first step. Note length: inf and Amp env: Attack: 0, Decay: 0, Sustain: 100%, Release: 0 and then just push play on the seq.
tho fx are v nice, at least it allows level checking before the good stuff, especially if a mic is being used inappropriately