Isn't the Analog Four the most incredible and deep instrument from Elektron so far?

Spent some time/thoughts to built a (to my ears) convincing acid patch. Shared a few sounds over here:

Let’s hear what you say! :innocent:

The long read

A few details about design choices made that may be of interest:

  1. All 303 demos I looked at had a steeper exponential volume curve when using accents, which is most likely due to the distinct circuits for vca and accent. I tried to achieve a similar behaviour with two envelopes and the steeper one kicking in when increasing velocity.
  2. Saw wave is actually TRI with PWM set to max either left or right. This makes a little dirtier sound than just using SAW.
  3. Square is OSC tuned +12 and uses only the SUB -1 OCT. Simply because this is a more symmetric square wave.
  4. You could easily use filter 2 set to hi-pass to reduce bass frequencies a little, but I came across a different trick that sounds nicer: Set filter 2 to 24db hi-pass leaving it completely open and crank up envelope DEP to around 32.
  5. There’s some meowing possible but hardly any of the fierce dog’s bow wow. :crying_cat_face:
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