Something I really like doing is modulating noise, drive and compression with the random modulator, with 0 variations. It creates the illusion of new accents. When I get bored, I just move the variation knob until I find a new pattern I like.
I see people saying that everything sounds the same or turns into a wash with the S4, but I think it really comes to life when you start modulating things.
Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this on their S-4.
I’ve had mine for a couple of weeks and some of the knobs have a bit of movement if I wiggle them from side to side. The third one has the most play out of all of them.
Everything works perfectly though. The encoders respond normally and I haven’t noticed any problems when actually using the S-4. It’s just that some knobs feel a little more loose than others.
I’m trying to decide if I should return it and ask for a replacement, but I’m not sure if it’s even worth doing. Maybe this is just normal with these encoders and another unit could be exactly the same, or even worse.
For those of you who own an S-4 — do your knobs have some play as well? And if yours works fine, would you just leave it alone, or would you send it back for a replacement?
Just curious what other S-4 owners think.
Thanks!
I've got three buttons (Mod, Project, and O) all reverting to cyan when at half brightness, but two of them (project and O) change to white at full brightness, and back to cyan at half brightness, but only after a second or two. I think it's firmware related, as it was fine before upgrading to 2.2.0. Anyone else deal with this one yet?
just curious if anybody already started doing custom firmware mods like they happen for the elektron boxes right now
I’ve been looking into the S-4 for a while at this point and I just wanted to check in with people that actually use it if it’s worth it? I’ve seen a lot about firmware issues, where are the pain points that I should be aware of?
I mostly make ambient music with wave table synths and an OP-1 but I want to move away from a DAW for everything besides arrangement, mixing and mastering.
My current plan is to get an S-4 and then a Digitakt 2 once I’ve saved up again.
I know I could just watch YouTube videos but I’m curious what yalls input would be. Also I want to say, as much hate as this thing gets, I’m actually loving it and glad I ignored the hate. Seen the comment “it makes everything sound the same” and saw the rebuttal “it depends how u use it/what u make of it” and that person is speaking the truth. Everything I’ve done with it so far sounds great and it’s inspired me to find new use of basically abandoned samples and recordings