I don’t know if its user error or my Syntakt is faulty but I can’t get the fx block to act like a side chain effect. I have tried following various Youtube tutorials but it sounds like the AMP section fx block is having no effect on my sounds. Settings or a basic project share would be much appreciated.
Did you place trigs on the FX block sequencer? Did you increase trig length?
That was the thing that tripped me up day one with Syntakt.
I have placed trigs on FX block sequencer. I have my test sound trig length set to 1 bar.
Did you increase Amp env?
I did . I think I may have accidentally muted the FX track going to check this when I get back to my Syntakt.
Another thing that tripped me up early on with the Syntakt!
Try p-locking env depth on those sequencer trigs, to be sure it’s working, as well.
I do this anyway so that I can get different levels of ducking on each trig, makes it more dynamic.
And yea, muting the FX track is another pitfall.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and help so far!
Update Still no luck with getting this working
Are the tracks that you are trying to affect routed to the FX block?
(Que @Annihilation_Squares)
Had an issue in the beginning and couldn’t get it work. Mysteriously creating a new project did the trick for me.
Other things:
Have you routed the tracks to the analog fx section?
Muting fx section.
Amp trigger depth set to 0
new project did the trick thank you so much!!!
I would advise making a visual comparison between the new project that is working and the old one that is not. Reason being, if it happens again you’ll need a way to fix it, besides making a new project each time.
I had the same issue and comparing the two I realised that my FX block was muted. I’d suggest this was your issue too… Accidentally muting when switching pages.
Thanks dude it was that, green mutes actived on FX …
Thanks again
Of course happened to me too
Don’t worry we’ll get a compressor soon
Hope so!
Just keeping this alive. I had the exact same problem. I followed the youtube videos (perhaps the same one) - but I couldn’t get any sounds to change for the life of me.
This thread was 100% helpful as I had a GLOBAL MUTE on my FX Track. I usually use PATTERN MUTES - so no idea how this happened. But once I figured that out (again - thank you!), the sidechain ducking was working as expected.
This problem reminded me of a similar issue I had on my Digitone the other day where I was convinced I somehow lost 3 of my 4 tracks - except that there was a funny blue light on the track buttons. Although it was on a different machine (Digitone vs Syntakt), the root cause was the same. The GLOBAL MUTE had somehow been activated for 3 of the 4 tracks…
Getting to know GLOBAL and PATTERN mutes on these Elektron boxes takes a hot minute. But once you get it, they are very useful.