Introducing Syntakt

It seems like Elektron is a fan of the Access Virus line :wink: anywayz new machine looks really interesting, I think it pairs well with a Digitakt, my Digitone might has to go :frowning:

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I wish I were square, but Iā€™m more like a thin fragile line.

Even with a MD and a MnM at home iā€™m lurking on this one.
The only thing iā€™m a bit disappointed is to have only one cymbal machine for the 8 digital tracks and 12 cymbal machines a single analog track. Seems a bit unbalanced on this point but the rest is :heart_eyes:

drives me nuts that after all these years the OT is still the only one that can do retrig with MIDI, but pretty stoked about the scales! will save me having to use a quantizer if I use this with eurorack via my FH-2.

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So are any of the machines brand new, or are they all from Rytm and Cycles? Seems very un-Elektron to cannablise old products :thinking:

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APPENDIX D: UNISON AND CHORD SETTINGS

These are the unison and chord settings you can choose with the MODE parameter if you select the SYChords machine. For more information, please see ā€œA.2 DIGITAL MACHINESā€ on page 82.

ā€¢ Unison Ɨ 2
ā€¢ Unison Ɨ 3
ā€¢ Unison Ɨ 4
ā€¢ minor
ā€¢ Major
ā€¢ sus2
ā€¢ sus4
ā€¢ m7
ā€¢ M7
ā€¢ mMaj7
ā€¢ Maj7
ā€¢ 7sus4
ā€¢ dim7
ā€¢ madd9
ā€¢ Madd9
ā€¢ m6
ā€¢ M6
ā€¢ mb5
ā€¢ Mb5
ā€¢ m7b5
ā€¢ M7b5
ā€¢ M#5
ā€¢ m7#5
ā€¢ M7#5
ā€¢ mb6
ā€¢ m9no5
ā€¢ M9no5
ā€¢ Madd9b5
ā€¢ Maj7b5
ā€¢ M7b9no5
ā€¢ sus4#5b9
ā€¢ sus4add#5
ā€¢ Maddb5
ā€¢ M6add4no5
ā€¢ Maj7/6no5
ā€¢ Maj9no5
ā€¢ Fourth
ā€¢ Fifth

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Read some philosophy to attain depth.

Viola! The line becomes a square!

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As someone who missed out on the Machinedrum era, Iā€™m very excited to try this thing out.

Huge bummer on the white LED screen though. The yellow looked SO good.

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Everything I am reading/seeing/hearing leads me to believe I would easily have at least a thousand bux worth of fun with this thing.

Iā€™m even enjoying the Baseck video!

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Cycles is not in the same price category.

Rytmā€¦still has sampling/playback. But definitely edging on itā€™s territoryā€¦

ā€¦as mentionedā€¦slices, bits and piecesā€¦lend ur ears to some examplesā€¦some slices of itā€¦
by no means an exclusive term to little audiosnippets in some sort of sample/audiofileā€¦

and for my partā€¦i couldā€™nt be happier, that syntakt has nothing to deal with any sample mangling/managingā€¦too much to twiddle and sounddesign already in thereā€¦

and goshā€¦the list of sound machines feels already endlessā€¦while this is only the start of itā€¦

first two updates for ironing bugsā€¦but from the third on, THIS collection will start to growā€¦

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Good woe to behold :wink:

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Iā€™m asking about the machines. Are they new?

Holding fast on this one for now. If I got it, itā€™d really have to replace my Rytm Mk1 (and Cycles, I guess), but then I wouldnā€™t have the pad performance modeā€¦ and the additional models are either hard to fathom (wathing a few videos might help) or donā€™t really appeal. I like the idea of the AFX filter as a separate ā€˜unitā€™.

Iā€™d have been much more interested had it included some MD/MM machines, which I guess is possible in an update. As it stands itā€™s a hard sell for me, but I can see it being an amazing option for a first Elektron. I also expect a few Youtube sessions will start whittling away my resolveā€¦

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shame thereā€™s no chorus but man this thing is so stacked i feel like an idiot for griping about almost anything.

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Well you have a full synth voice on it now. So dual LFOs that can control the Chord macro, base width filter on top of the main filter, with a filter envelope, and a full amp envelope with different shapes available.

Lots of depth. Modulating the waveform, chord inversions, and filter all at the same time gives it fuller synth capabilities.

Aside from those machines, the newly created synth machines are excellent.

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Do we have a ship date?

In the promo they said there are some new ones. Also sounds like some of the M:C machines have expanded controls.

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Ah.

I canā€™t comment on the Cycles machines, but from a quick glance at the Analog machines, the names all appear to be the same. I read somewhere in this mess that they had been tweakedā€¦

Maybe @DaveMech or @AdamJay can commentā€¦

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