But it also illustrates an important point: The material you’ve released with various Elektron devices, Nords, Rolands etc sounds like YOU. Whether it’s with a ton of kit or just a Model:Cycles.
That’s what it means to really learn the inner workings of instruments and exploit their strengths to get one’s unique sound and vision across.
Listen to Ylva, R Beny, Blush Response, Jogging House, hell even Fin25’s stuff… they sound like them no matter what they’re using, despite the “sound” that their machines are known for.
To me, the key is to plock one or several parameters, of course decay but also some that impacts the color. Once you have a groove from your hats, they sound kind of different, especially in the mix.
I think it sounds great. As stated before, Machinedrum has a sound too, as does many other intruments including guitars and harps. I ended up getting a Model:Cycles because of the Syntakt. The rationalising behind that is… yeah. Actually who cares? Why am I even writing this? Does it even make any difference? Has the internet taught us that opinions are important? Do I have any more questions? No?
Hi Hats.
I make percussive techno, so Hihats are insanely important for me.
I can understand why people don’t like the sound of the hat machines on the St, but…
you can always layer multiple tracks… imagine layering 3 tracks, that would give you one track for a short transient, one for a sweep and one for noise. With a total of 6 lfos, and those can go into audio rate.
I think it’s kinda insane how good the hat can sound on this thing
I really love what they’ve done with this as an instrument, but after watching just about every video of it on YouTube, it’s hard for me not to be disappointed in the overall character of its sound, at least when used for dance music and hiphop. This is entirely a matter of taste, and I do feel that its feature set justifies its price, but it’s just too murky for me as far as making percussion-driven music goes. It’s obviously making a lot of producers happy though, and I’m glad.
However, the videos I’ve seen of it being used as an ambient/drone box have been very impressive. To my ears it sounds fantastic when transient-elements aren’t needed. I could easily see myself using this as an all-in-one jamming/ideation tool for beatless or near-beatless music if I had a little more disposable income.