Minor point and not really worth arguing about, but at least I turn off my TV with a soft bottom on the remote or front panel of the TV. This bottom press is handled by software. I do not just yank on the power cord of the TV. OK for vacuums I just turn them off with a power switch, but at least my vacuum does not run any firmware.
I do not know about the schematics of the Syntakt but I am pretty sure the power switch just disconnects the power cord, just like yanking the cable out. (But correct me if I am wrong.) This just feels wrong.
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That is exactly the case. But these are designed with that in mind, so that even if you unexpectedly lose power, someone trips on a cord, etc, you never lose data.
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Yeah itās nothing to worry about. Iāve had a helix on my desk for 6 years and it has same type of on/off switch and itās never failed or done damage and iāve had other things with switches like these and no issues.
Not sure if this has been brought up, but on digitone you double tap one of the 4 track buttons and it would open preset list.
Iād like that feature for the syntakt too. Just double tap a track trigger and list opens up, but the list only has things thatās available for whatever track you opened. So if it was one of the 8 digital tracks you double tapped on then only presets for digital machines show up, but if it was a analog track you double tapped on then only presets for analog machines show up etcā¦
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Double tapping those buttons to open a menu wonāt really work since those are the same buttons you press to trigger the track. What happens when you want to trigger a drum twice quickly?
I like this. Simplicity is key. It is already quite complex with the different mute modes.
I think itād be enough if you could only solo one track at a time - to avoid brain meltdown, and cover the most common use cases.
Let us sacrifice neighbouring tracks to get SUPER MACHINES! 
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Would it be possible to enable the Syntakt Mixer page to send midi (like a midi controller controlling volume on external gear)?
Iām playing around with a setup with Octatrack + Syntakt and It would be excellent if I could use Syntaktās eight knobs (A-H) s to control Octatrackās volumes on each track (T1 - T8) ā¦ like a midi controller.
I know I can use a midi track on the Syntakt, but then itās only possible to control one track on the Octatrack per midi-channel on the Syntakt (if I understand correctly)
Or enable the eight knobs to send one midi cc of choice on eight different midi channels?
I guess the purpose is to make users be able to get popular sounds the easy way without having to learn about synthesis?
ā¦ SY BITS machine (in the Syntakt) can do PWM ā¦
All in all, I donāt see the alternative to Syntakt. Whereās the 12 part multitimbral dual vco synth for 1000 Euros in one box? I havenāt come across that.
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Paraphony to a machine would be cool.
Also, would be nice to set tonality-scale non-destructive and have a transpose knob to nudge a tracks notes within a scale up and down. (To bring more happy misstakes to the Sequencer)
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I need a damn arpeggiator. Seriously!
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You do it when itās not in keyboard mode or hit function + tap the track of your choice twice. Besides most arenāt opening the sound browser in the middle of a song so should be ok.
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āLearn about synthesisā - as a former lecturer on audio engineering and synthesis topics , I support any kind of learning - but what is there to learn about square wave and pwm on a machine that doesnt have a square/pulse wave ?
Going through different combos of dvco that sound the closest to square is not learning, its a chance.
You know what machine teaches synthesis? Tempest. 4 oscillators, all basic shapes, two digital ones, - this is the ultimate polygon for drum synthesis, unlike āmachinesā on Elektron boxes.
Adding 56 versions of two oscillators where one shape is, as Dataline said, āsome kinda sine, i am not even sureā is hardly a learning matherial.
As for Syntakt, I agree, although I really donāt need it, with Analog Rytm, Tempest, Machinedrum and Octatrack.
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I do wish Elektron would give us some more effects other than delay / reverb / overdrive.
I mean with some LFO stuff going on you can get vibrato, tremolo and other little things but Iād like some different delays and reverbs and chorus like digitone etcā¦
Heck monomachine has phaser, flanger, ring modulator etcā¦ Those would be great if added to the other boxes!
But since all boxes have dedicated delay / reverb buttons and pages, i doubt new effects will ever be added to anything existing right now. Unless they tossed new effects under some global setting as a tweak it and forget it type thing.
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I would like to have a BIA-Machine and a Desmodus Reverb as FX 
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That was exactely my point 
I was guessing why some of the design choices were made. That doesnāt mean I welcome those choices. Actually, Iād very much prefer just a few machines that equal traditional synthesis so itās completely up to the user.
But thanks to my knowledge, it doesnāt matter so much and I am able to get all the sounds I need out of the Syntakt.
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A new machine called SY MONO (?)
- based on SY BITS, but SRR and BR replaced with ringmod amt and perhaps a pitch-sweep for the lower OSC.
or:
- SRR and BR replaced with ringmod amt [like above] and a second balance: BAL2 = balance between the two OSCs.
With an Expandable Detune-Range via the Setup-Page. That would make the Syntakt an insane workhorse for really just everything.
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I wish we could get some extensive LFO routing like machinedrum
Each track on MD has 1 LFO, like for instance you have LFO 1 on track 1, but then you can take track 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 LFOās and rout them all to track 1 and have 16 LFOās on track 1 if you wanted! Or any other combinations you can think of!
Be nice to have such a feature for syntakt and all the other boxes too!
Example here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1uIgbMs-8
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Even if we couldnāt have a LFO routing option like machinedrum hasā¦
What about doing something like making each LFO have a LFO MATRIX PAGE or PAGES under the LFO page. It would be set up with every single parameter weāre allowed to modulate and have a check box beside each one where we can click YES to check each one.
Say you want LFO 1 to modulate parameter 1, 3, 4, 5, 8 on SY-BITS SYN page but also modulate parameter 1,4,6 on the AMP page all at the same time etcā¦ etcā¦
Yes all parameters in the LFO MATRIX would share the same LFO parameters for it, but can you imagine a LFO matrix and how funky things could get doing that?
This is one way where 2 LFOās can become super huge. I mean many LFOās per each parameter would be better, but this gives us an option to at least use 2 LFOās for many parameters at once.
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ARPEGGIATOR and LEGATO on the keyboard
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