In addition to what @plragde wrote, which is pretty much spot on, is that there are a lot of ways to get creative with chord progressions on the ST. I would agree that the ST is not set a to be used for huge chords. But there are 8 digital tracks at your disposal, which can load the chord machine, so if you want to, you can make it sound like a wall of chords, all with different waveforms, inversions, LFO settings, etc.
This is far from immediate and requires a lot of knob twiddling to set up the chords. Sustained pads are certainly possible with the correct amp envelope settings. But it you are using only one track for chords on the ST, each new chord will cut off the previous one. So if you want a chord to ring out while another one fades in, you have to use two tracks (or get creative with the reverb and delay settings). Lots of other ways to abuse the other machines for chords with multiple tracks, but these are all workarounds. So if your main focus are chords, the digitone would be the more appropriate choice for you, imho.
Sustained pads are possible and you can get some nice movement when you start involving the LFOs. The big limitation you hit is that the machine is monophonic - although there are chords, there can only be one chord, so the next trig will kill everything. There are ways you can use lock trigs to mitigate it a bit but really you’d need to dedicate multiple tracks to a pad part if you wanted it to act “properly” I guess.
Quick morning Jam.
Syntakt only.
Exploring the 79.
Mathew Jonson / John Tejada style techno on the Syntakt
https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cc1Io6Flk8-/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Have since sold it. A little bit too harsh sounding for my taste. Both digital and analogue machines. FX track, ducking, overdrive etc didn’t help either. . Also a bit too basic. I liked the kick machine though. I didn’t like the Digitone as well so it’s definitely just me and FM sounds that don’t go along well.
OK. I’m officially addicted.
My first loop and I immediately managed to get ‘my sound’
Made a techno-y house-y quite swung thing using all 12 tracks, recorded in one take with mutes and fades. I’m not skilled enough to nail the timing at 135 bpm so there are some annoying early un-mutes. This is definitely a fun way to record but also very thankful for Overbridge.
Recorded stereo out to Ableton and used a couple of presets on Neutron and Ozone for balancing and compression.
If I had gone out via Overbridge I would definitely have changed some stuff. The kicks are too loud and the snare/clap are too quiet. Overall though, I am surprised and delighted at how quick it is to get from a default sound to something I’m happy with.
That was incredible.
And more plinky plonky from me (I’m on a roll here…)
Still to get “out there” with Syntakt but it’s nice plodding along with this sort of stuff for now and getting inspiration from some excellent tracks on this thread. Actually incredible how far some are taking things on Syntakt.
Used scales pretty much for the first time on an Electron with this one too (only took like a decade - seriously 
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Promise to change it up soon…
Thatˋs funny and I really like this vibrato sound.
Syntakt can do Theremin, fucking right! Nice Track.
My first go at the ST on its own, recorded straight into my phone
This is so good
Quite impressive what you get into one single pattern and smart muting. Fabulous work!
Exploring the 101.
Syntakt only.
Acidish
Some electro in the 90s style…
Just some woodpressor limiting added, recorded via iPhone
There you go!
There’s so much good music in here, I‘m almost ashamed of my little loop I recorded yesterday with some tweaking here and there. Recorded straight of my mixer into my smartphone, no processing in the mixer.