I wish I had a DFAM

[@matthewchidgey4254]

This is so good that my 92 year old Grand Mother jumped out of her wheelchair, leapt on to the dining table and started dancing.

[@IvarTryti]

😆

[@ToyKeeper]

That feeling when you realize the gear you want is basically just a subset of the gear you already have. Sometimes instead of buying more gear, people just need to turn off some features for the gear they've got.

[@IvarTryti]

Hehe, that's been the case so far with my slight GAS for the DFAM, Boog, and Minibrute 2s. I'll never get a 1:1 sound or workflow, but I've gotten close enough to save me some $ :D

[@ToyKeeper]

The DFAM sounds great, but it could really use a deeper sequencer. At minimum, 16 steps for one bar of 16th notes, plus another 16 steps to use with a "fill" button. That would make it a lot more practical and versatile. OTOH, other gear can get really close to that... like, you could do it on the A4. Or I could set up a couple parallel clips on my Force, assign some macro knobs, and use the crossfader as a "fill" button. And I could even set up multiple scenes to get more progression through rhythms and melodies. ... and thus GAS turns into inspiration. New gear is great for ideas, even without buying anything.

[@inf0tr8r]

@@ToyKeeper a reset alone would have gone a long way bad design

[@dylanleroysynth]

I have a DFAM and really do love it, but I must say you’ve come up with something here that sounds great. This Analog Four is much more versatile and is kinda creeping up my GAS list. Great job!

[@Kozza_]

i literally haven't been able to leave this video alone. It's such a great exploration of the A4. it's concise and creative. Big fan!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, man!

[@MilesKvndra]

This is brilliant. The DFAM looks tasty indeed but nothing you couldn't do with the A4 (proven here 😁)

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, Miles! Yeah, the DFAM looks a lot more playable because all the controls are right there, but after watching some tutorials I just had to see how close I could get on my A4

[@Space_pulse]

@@IvarTryti I hear that. Workflow seems pretty neat on the DFAM. I have also been tempted to pair my A4 with the DFAM. Trying to convince myself that the LXR02 is all the drum machine I need, though, and can supplement with the A4 as necessary.

[@aikighost]

This is great but the DFAM is a very different beast and does things in a creative and highly "HOW DID THAT FUCKING HAPPEN? ITS AWESOME!" kind of way that you tend to not get with the A4 without a lot of planning :) Basically DFAM is the master of techno & IDM "happy accidents"

[@IvarTryti]

​@@aikighost Yeah there was a lot of planning and preparation to get this sound on the A4. The simple controls of the DFAM are a huge draw for me. It's very limited to the A4, but I imagine I'd get a groove going way faster than I can on an A4

[@embazle]

I wish I had a A4 =P, but at least we got two great tutors - Miles and Ivar!

[@MaceOjala]

A pleasure to see someone so comfortable and sovereign with their instrument go. Good stuff

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! It may look like I know exactly what's going on, but a lot of what happened here was accidental and I was troubleshooting live a few times here :D

[@jordanhurst88]

This is that NuNu progressive house...just consistently laying down bangers on Elektron gear. So inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, Jordan :D

[@razvanion7]

Godlike 👑

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@liqwiz]

Channeling the DFAM workflow through A4, this sounds fantastic!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@the_smart_work_project1443]

Gate sequencer!

[@demolaishonwow]

you invoked the gods of techno pretty much

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks a lot :D

[@donmurowski9421]

Total banger!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@cohaagenup]

Jeeeez, what a BANGER

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@mikaelsundblad5381]

Dope

[@IvarTryti]

🙏

[@thernandez81]

Magic!!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@x0d-live]

The A4 is an awesome percussion synth.

[@IvarTryti]

Yeah it does really nice drums =)

[@kenb7540]

Great ! And very DFAM in style. 👏👍

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@deself]

😫Oh it sounds so good. Also love hearing some techno beats like this out of you.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@melkeveienofficial]

Helt rått! Denne videoen gav meg inspirasjon til å flekke opp både DFAM’n og A4’n 👌🏼

[@IvarTryti]

Tusen takk! Hehe, go for it!

[@BrunoWiebelt]

me 2 funny , was thinking this week it is the only synth I am interested in the moment

[@saintstinkmusic9654]

this goes sooo hard, thank you as always ivar!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much, man! :D

[@abge3960]

This is up there with the Dataline video.

[@joshuabanham2566]

Fire

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@mooseymoose]

Man you should hear this on my speakers! Very nice!

[@Nothepoleece]

This made me immediately want to play with my A4. This is so good

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad to hear it, man! Thank you :D

[@noizfun9661]

goodjob

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@hexwavemusic]

Love this, so thick 👍

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@MichaelToop]

Juicy 'n nice!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, man!

[@jaystink]

You are lightning fast on this thing! Loved it!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! :D

[@jimmac]

Sick sick sick!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@CoolDougLove]

Sounds great, man!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@lowbias]

Ridiculous. Great track!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@Unifono2012]

Sounds better than most DFAM demos anyway ;) DFAM is very fun though

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thank you unifono! Yeah, it looks really fun and not-stressful to get this kind of sound because all the controls are right there on the front panel :P

[@Unifono2012]

@@IvarTryti indeed. It’s very immediate und jammable. I sold mine but miss it from time to time. These moog semimodulars are really nice

[@gainvidE0]

Thank u for your vids man. You push the A4 into places I didn't know it could go.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! These "i wish I had a..." videos are a great way for me to reduce gearlust AND explore the gear I already have further =D

[@elekktrikk_home_video]

So great! Thanks a lot!

[@QuazarBar]

awesome and fun composition!

[@GeorgeL909]

That's so funny, I do this kind of thing all the time. My most recent one was "I wish I had a Lyra-8". It's actually great motivation to breath new life into old gear. Fantastic jam too, as always 🐻

[@IvarTryti]

Right? It's such a good way to relieve gear lust and do some deep exploration of gear you currently have at the same time! Thank you :)

[@gravityfreaksmusic]

Mega!

[@IvarTryti]

🙏

[@RobertAdachi]

beautifully done! you can’t have this kind of tight kick on the DFAM

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot!

[@JDVVV378]

Nice jam !

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@JuanAMatos-zx4ub]

It definitely has that DFAM flavor. Excellent stuff!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@Philodrone]

sick jam! dfam and a4 would make a damn good combo i believe edit: gotta love that syncopated techno patterns 🖤

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! Yeah I can imagine, especially since the A4 has a separate sequencer track for CV, complete with two LFOs and envelopes and 4 CV outs :D

[@Philodrone]

@@IvarTryti Exactly, that would be my setup in two years, for now rocking that DT! Best wishes for 22!

[@ModePhaser]

This is awesome!

[@Hostipal]

Who needs a DFAM? This sounds great. Think you've switched up my GAS haha

[@aemagana3152]

Always exceptional.

[@Matt-Horizon]

Sounds awesome! I love the sound of low basskick that starts at 2:08

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much! I also just realized I accidentally turned down the main volume reaching for the quick perf knob there :P

[@peladoclaus]

This is completely on point and impressive and dope! Thanks for sharing!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much!

[@RobbekenSynthMusic]

Maybe one day. Do you need one though? This is rad!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I likely won't get one any time soon. It's too expensive, even if it seems like a really therapeutic synth to play with.

[@Omnipotent645]

Really nice job dude. Not even my DFAM sounds that good 😂

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks a lot!

[@omni7264]

Amazing jam man! DFAM is a great machine, imagine what you could do by teaming up your analog four with a DFAM😉🙌

[@dzaxys4643]

i just sold my dfam to get an a4 i realy loved the dfam but needed somthing more versatile to do some synthy beats and parts an a4 seems to fit the bill but there's no denying the dfams electek beat making abilities i may even get another one one day when i can afford to have something so niech but well excited to get my a4 anyway this sounds great peace

[@hischuzzness551]

Yes the Dfam sure sounds tasty but this aint that far away ... Thanks Ivar 😎

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@thiagodezan333]

great as always man! honestly you are better off sticking to the A4, the dfam is very cool to turn knobs on the fly, but it would be just one track of what your A4 is doing now and you would end up having to pair it with another drum machine.. i used to have one, sometimes i miss it but it doesn't do anything i couldn't get from the digitakt + my small modular system. keep it up bruv!

[@jean-pierremartineau4136]

Sounds dope as f.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@GustavSandstedt]

Marvelous 😁👌🏼

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@Hypnocif]

Sérieux ça envoi du lourd! Bravo mec!

[@nathanbarriere9240]

veeery inspiring ! bravo

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@mmusic3579]

Get one

[@DrJ3RK8]

Love it!!! Excellent sounds and progression!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@ozzy3ml]

Skills

[@nkozi]

As usual this goes hard as hell! You're not gonna like hearing this, but with the CV outs and audio ins on the A4 you can do this with any modular voice and make that into a DFAM as well 😘

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much! Haha, don't remind me. I've been in a GASsy mood lately and have been looking at new gear *including modular*. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I needed a new laptop to replace my dying PC, so all my synth funds are tied for a long time.

[@mooseymoose]

@@IvarTryti FWIW, I have been utterly thrilled with my M1 MacBook Air. Maschine has a memory leak currently but that’s the only hitch so far. Being able to run iOS plugins, Drambo and Loopy Pro is a game changer.

[@jordanhurst88]

@@IvarTryti I found the subharmonicon highly improvisational, which let's me just get lost for hours. P.S. Still can't believe how cohesive this track was from start to finish.

[@lying-dalai]

You could make use of A4 CV out directly into the audio ins to add a new voice (e.g. a kick).

[@inf0tr8r]

nice they gave the a4 v2 more balls this is much better than a dfam, but if you do get one, the a4 can control the shit out of it

[@vivavidaa78]

The grain is really good well done, but i think DFAM still sound a bit fat :D Such a crazy machine

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks! Yeah, the DFAM demos I've heard are really nice

[@andigoldberger5244]

Hey Ivar, this was as always a real pleasure to the ears and the eyes! I kinda missed the gritty saturation of the Heat though - what‘s the reason you’re not using it here if you don’t mind me asking?

[@lying-dalai]

I think there’s enough grit in this track, the Mello-Fi (still free on Arturia website) is well used here IMO.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much, Andi! The Heat sounds amazing, but it has been a bit inconvenient for my current setup. I put away my gear when not in use, so every time I use the Heat it means I have more stuff to set up. If I closed FL Studio while using the Heat as an audio interface, and I open in the next day using my Digitakt only, FL Studio gives me annoying popup messages saying it can't find the Heat. And vice versa; if I'm working on a track and I want to add the Heat, I have to go into FL and change the audio interface. The Heat also outputs very low volume over USB, so I have to add a 25dB boost when using the Heat. It's not a huge problem, but it does add an extra step every time I switch between the Heat and Digitakt/Digitone as an audio interface. I've tried using the Digitakt as an audio interface and the Heat's overbridge plugin, but it introduces a LOT of latency. For example, if the Digitakt is connected to the Heat's input, and I run a soft synth through the Heat overbridge plugin, the timing between the digitakt and the soft synth is way off. Fixing this with latency compensation makes it harder to perform live, because everything will have that added latency. I've also tried making a permanent place for the Heat on my desk so that I always use it. It turned out that I had a better time replacing the Heat with the Digitakt for three reasons: a) 8 midi tracks to control FL Studio with, b) always being able to sample the stuff I'm working on when using other hardware, and c) built in compressor that works on incoming audio. It doesn't color the signal like the Heat does, but I've been using a few saturation plugins that are similar enough to the Heat's Saturation and Enhancement plugins for me. And finally, there's a lot of money tied up in the Heat, and I have a dying PC in need of replacement. All that said, the Heat would have suited me much better if I had a studio and could leave all my gear plugged in and have them all propped up ergonomically. With the current situation where I only have a small desk that I use both for work, music, and games, there's too much extra work to include the Heat when setting up my music gear.

[@IvarTryti]

@@lying-dalai Thank you! I had to tame the low end a bit on the A4 to prevent Mello-Fi's overdrive from turning muddy, hehe. I also really enjoy what a bit of the wear knob does to the high frequencies.

[@andigoldberger5244]

@@IvarTryti Wow, thanks for taking the time to write this thorough reply! I can relate with both a small desk and a small budget, haha. Still - for my taste, your beats got even better after you got the Heat. It even made me check out the used market for Heats, even though I could and still can absolutely not justify spending money on it. So with your Digitakt always on desk - do you use a FL template with more or less the same midi settings for your plugins in FL while jamming? Or do you do that after making the beats? Have a nice evening man :)

[@IvarTryti]

@@andigoldberger5244 My pleasure, Andi! And thanks :) Yeah, I've made a template in FL Studio where I made a control surface with 8 knobs (to mirror the 8 knobs on the Digitakt), and mapped my most tweaked parameters from all the plugins to those knobs. I also mapped trig 16 to bypass the plugin chain so I can compare it with the dry signal. I have a "level match" knob to so I can match the loudness of the wet and dry signal to avoid tricking myself by making the wet signal louder. Trig 15 bypasses the "level match" knob so I can hear the full volume. These settings are always the same, so I can go from jamming on hardware to opening FL Studio and immediately start applying my favorite mixing/mastering plugins without having to click on the screen or configure anything. Mapping stuff on the fly can take a lot of time. My favorite instrument plugin is a piano, because all I really need is to map the sustain pedal and the volume knob, as opposed to synths where I'd like to control a bunch of stuff like filter cutoff and resonance and envelope etc. I use instrument plugins as little as possible because of this, but I am working on a template now that includes an orchestra plugin and 6 midi outs to control that plugin from the Digitakt. The goal is to be able to select instruments in FL Studio, set to taste and forget, then sequence and mix from the Digitakt. Not sure how this'll go though, I imagine I'm gonna have to start using the piano roll for bigger projects :P

[@deejaychainwallet]

did you get the mk ii because of the bass in the mk i?

[@alexwestconsulting]

Sounds great. I've got both and love both though the A4 can do it all (the trig conditions on A4 certainly get it pretty close). Try Ruismaker Noir on ipad to sequence anything (including A4) to get very DFAM-like.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks! I've seen a couple of apps that are very DFAM-like, but they're all ios apps and I don't have any apple products :(

[@ArminDressler]

How about an external controller, just to have more knobs for direct access? PS: sounds great!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I've been thinking about that, and it could definitely help streamline things. I'm worried it'll add complexity to my setup that makes me have to spend more time setting up and configuring stuff.

[@aSimpleChat]

Hotness. Just pure hotness.

[@j.shelton5147]

...but the self-discipline to limit yourself to 8 steps though. 💪 I'd be in every one of those 64 steps like "CAN"T DO THIS CAN YA DFAM?!?!"

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks man. Working with an 8 step sequence feels weird, but when p-locking the sequence live I'm glad I don't have 4 pages to flip between! It's been fun though, makes me want to play more with short sequences :)

[@BubbaSatori]

I wish had a Moog Studio 3, Matriarch, Theremini and something approaching your talent. Hey if you’re going to wish, wish big. 😁

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks a lot man 😁

[@eavolski]

DFAM doesn't have plocks and reload kit though...

[@IvarTryti]

It doesn't, but the A4 has four CV outs that I can use to p-lock a DFAM if I had one :D

[@aikighost]

That is a feature not a bug of eurorack gear in general :)

[@monomakes]

Great stuff! Could you reach more parameters with a midi controller?

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I'm sure that would work great once it's set up properly. I'm just worried that if I get a controller, I'll spend too much time optimizing what parameters to put where. :D

[@na-dj6ob]

I hear you on not wanting to deal with the analog heat latency or setup, but man would this have been a perfect case for the heat’s compressor like settings and extra crispiness from the saturation circuit. Still sounds awesome, but the heat is noticeably missing, when listening to your newer productions compared to the previous ones that had heat in the signal chain. Just an observation I notice when listening to your productions back to back on quality headphones. Hold on to the heat if you can! :)

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, man. I agree, the saturation and enhancement circuits add such a nice texture, especially on softer lead or pad sounds with lots of reverb. I've gotten better at listening to distortion/saturation from using the Heat so much, and I like to think my taste in distortion has been refined too :D. I don't think I'll be able to replicate the Heat's sound, but it has given me a lot of ideas I could try to apply with plugins. Sadly, there was too much money tied up in it, and selling it will help cover the cost of the new laptop I bought a few days ago.

[@mildeluxe]

🥇🏆🧛🏻‍♀️✌🏼

[@shunksounds]

i'm glad you don't have a DFAM or this wouldn't exist.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, man! :D

[@shamoose5573]

dirt!

[@IvarTryti]

🙏

[@shamoose5573]

@@IvarTryti proper dirt, well done bro

[@IvarTryti]

@@shamoose5573 Thank you!

[@TheCuri]

I also cannot wait for the behringer edge to be an affordable moog dfam as the behringer crave already is for the moog mother32

[@IvarTryti]

I'm also curious about the Edge. It doesn't look nearly as cool as the DFAM, but since it has midi I can send gate and pitch via midi and have 4 CV outs on the A4 to patch with :D

[@KiR_3d]

Are you a kind of a spider? O__o

[@zifudis339]

nice hat

[@darkdialect]

Well in this video you have 4dfams...

[@nth7485]

While this sounds cool in its own right, it sounds nothing like a DFAM.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@aardiie]

Sorry Ivar but get a taste of mylarmelodies gushing account of the DFAM youre tweaking gets close though and thanks

[@KR4FTWERK]

The problem with the DFAM is that its sound sucks. On the other hand it´s so easy to use that even a 3 year old child can make average sounding techno patterns with this random tool. Not for serious producers though. This analog four sounds so much better.

[@aikighost]

This is the opposite of how I feel. The DFAM sound may not be for you but it is fucking great. But you probably need to compliment it with something like a TR8s or other more traditional drum machine for jams to sound more defined.

[@na-dj6ob]

None of this comment is true at all lol.

[@KR4FTWERK]

@@na-dj6ob said the smurf that has the clue