I like Elektron boxes, but always felt it lacks substantially in the effects department. Effects on newer boxes are quite ok, but there are so few. Only delay and reverb, or delay, reverb and chorus. Ok, there is also overdrive, but let’s put it aside fo a while. It’s really a shame and lame. There should be at least phaser.
Actually they could do somenthing like 4 send effects slots, and 10-20 deifferent effects to choose from. It would pump up possibilities a lot and broaden sonic terirory. It could be easily done with modern DSPs and memory bricks, as these goods are chep nowadays.
Why Elektron? Why to partially waste such a potential?
If the delay was just more flexible and could do real flanging and chorusing, i would be set. Flanger especially, is so cool on elektrons because of how much movement it can create in simple sounds.
It’s a notch and a band filter. But yeah agreed, which is why I mentioned …
There’s not much you can’t do with filters and delays, the more the better imho.
The point being the Syntakt is actually a step towards more effects, better than a lot of the competition and that modulation, filters and delays are more fun and flexible for creating effects than simply adding stock effects.
Had my first real play with this tonight, it’s quality.
Don’t know why but I always found making drums boring, almost a means to and end so I can get on to making bass lines and layering endless melodies where I found all my enjoyment. An almost “that’ll do approach”. But I’ve spent 3 hours in this just making drums and drum sounds and just made a “that’ll do” bass line so I could get on with playing with the drums. Total opposite of how I’d normally make tracks.
The synths are not as immediately inspirational to me as they are on DN (probably cos you can’t just drench it in lovely chorus …) so abit more work to do to get em sweet, but it’s somehow more fun.
DT and DN were like impressive tools to make electronic music I wanted to make, syntax feels less like a tool, it’s challenging me to do stuff I’ve never done before, really enjoying it.
Oh and I’ve really been enjoying the chord mode, watching the reviews I thought this would be me least enjoyed/used engine buts it’s probably my favourite just now, just so many ace sounds and again sounds that I’d never make or come across just using my DN.
Good video … no waffle … summarises everything well, not a moment wasted.
I did find it odd though that he wants to load his own wavetables, but he spends a minute or more near the end insisting it is not and never will be a sampler. For me there’s not a lot of difference between user-loaded wavetables and user-loaded samples for playback.
I think he was trying to be very clear about what the Syntakt is and isn’t - for people expecting something else…never stops us for asking for more though
I don’t know, I really hate making music with samples but I enjoy wavetable synthesis (I would really love if a future ST update would provide this feature), I know you can generalize them as the same thing but conceptually for me they represent two approaches to generating sound. But I get your point.
I understand what you’re saying in musical terms. What I probably should have said was: not a huge difference in implementation difficulty (so far as I can guess, not working for elektron). So if he’s asking them to add user wavetables, I don’t immediately get why he’s so insistent they will never add user samples.
