I was p________________ed that I couldn’t get the Opsix when it was sold so cheap (because shipping only to US). However, I got a Digitone last week so I don’t even think about it anymore.
Anyway, I’ve connected my TD-3-MO with my Syntakt and made a acid techno jam. Incidentally, I sketched this out on the Digitakt a while ago. Enjoy
yea digitone is fkn cool. used to have one (two together actually). had a bit of s love hate relationship with it. I dislike the core sound it has this sorta glossy chorusey vibe to it which I don’t vibe with (I’m probably doij it wrong tho . i prefer the opsix core, seems more neutral n flat, tho DN can sound amazin when pushed into noisey territory.
It’s actually really easy to remove the keyboard from an Op6. Just disconnect the ribbon cable and then chop off the panels on the side that normally hold the keyboard in place if I remember correctly. So if you want an Op6 module, you can kind of get there.
Using a Roland JU-06a for now! Been playing with them together a lot and it’s been great fun. Might swap it for a beefier module polysynth in the future or my Reface DX as I get better at sound design on it.
Can’t believe I’m writing this, but I just bought a Syntakt. Sonically, it’s the least interesting in the holy trinity (to my ears), but the price was too good to pass up on and I figure it’s worth giving it a spin.
Aside from playing around with it as a proper drum synthesizer, I plan to explore some more exotic/ambient territories with it.
I’ll still use my beloved MPC for making the full songs and rather consider the Syntakt a key ingredient for making those songs more interesting and fun to both work on and listen to in the end. We’ll see how it goes.
One thing I would like to see them implement - because Elektrons tend to sound fantastic when layered - is an easy / streamlined way for one track to trigger one other track as well as itself (unless there is a way to do this and I’ve missed it). Just to avoid having to reprogram rhythms after you’ve layered them but want to change up the pattern quickly.
I feel like the Syntakt is almost begging for this to be a feature…so much layering is possible with 12 tracks (same with the Rytm, but at least that has a sampler).
When you press the Lips button, this menu shows up. Bottom right is the layer feature. By turning the H encoder, you can choose which Track(s) to layer. In this picture, you can see that T1 is triggering T2 and T3.
Ids anyone using syntakt as a master compressor / saturator / driver / slimmed down heat at the end of their chain??? Ive got an octatrack as well. Wondering which people would recommend to serve that purpose since I don’t have a heat…