The Analog Four is the best of two worlds. The power of analog synthesis is enhanced with precise Elektron sequencing for a machine par excellence. This is an analog synthesizer for the modern age.
Analog bliss:
The Analog Four unlocks the door to a world of warm and gritty analog sounds. Deep basses, piercing leads, mellow bells and haunting drones. The 100% analog signal path ensures the most organic sounds imaginable. It just sounds right.
Suited for the stage:
Portable and capable with plenty of powerful performance features. The Analog Four was born for the stage. Feel, play. A direct user interface in combination with the straight forward sequencer encourage creativity and improvisation.
Modular control:
Not only a splendid synthesizer, the Analog Four can also make other gear sing. Thanks to the CV/Gate and DIN sync outputs, external analog gear can be controlled in great detail. Make any modular synthesizer rig come truly alive.
Overbridge enabled:
Overbridge is the easy way in. For the first time in history analog synthesizers and drum machines can be seamlessly integrated in DAW environments. The magic of using an Elektron Analog instrument as a fully featured VST plugin is a breakthrough experience.
I love this little synth, it sounds very clear and creamy, very well built in sweeden. It is an advanced synth so you have to read the complete manual and play with it some time to get to know it. I am using it for making techno music and the sounds i get from it are fantastic, its a fun instrument , buy it !
Yes, it is on a pricey side but what you get is a really good tool for music production. In every composition you make you can use FOUR analog synthesizers (each one has 2vco 2subs). All sound settings, all automation, all effects can be saved and recalled instantly.
When purchasing I read a couple times about lack of "fat" in the sound of A4. People were complaining about clinical sound. When you open A4 presets sometimes sound quite clinical but for example they are still much warmer than Nord A1. It is possible to make sounds very fat/analog with use of very good quality filters, sub oscilators, oscilator drifting (!), noise generators.
All in all its a perfect tool for contemporaty electronic music, hiphop etc.
The instrument is amazing.
The sounds are live ( as analog ought to be ) the modulation possibilities are vast and this gives you the ability to create complex sounds .
The build in fx are also good , and perfect for live gigs .
You find yourself creating interesting sound patterns right away..
The interface is ok and you will get accustomed to ti quickly.
The build quality is very good with metallic case
I certainly would recommend this instrument to anyone looking for a good fully-featured analo synth.