Treat External In monos as two channels to add fx separately. Just as in Digitakt’s External Input Mixer OS update from June 2021.
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Would appreciate the ability to toggle the Control-All feature on and off in some way (7.5.3 in the manual). Let’s say you accidentally hold TRK instead of FUNC, and then change the tuning knob on a Track, and the whole project goes out of tune. And in your panic, you reset the Track tuning knob, so then getting the whole project back to the original tuning becomes relative to the value displayed on the knob - quite frustrating.
The whole “touch the wrong button and your project is ruined” aspect of all Elektron boxes I’ve used is honestly nerve-wracking. How hard could it be to offer a few steps of undo, really?
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I was fantasizing about some kind of menu that allows you to disable shortcuts of your choosing so you don’t accidentally botch something with the wrong key presses while jamming or recording. Specifically I’d like to disable FUNC+STOP so I don’t have to have a heart attack every time I accidentally clear my entire pattern 
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Louder, more present reverb or maybe different almost.
The reverb seems very quiet compared to A4.
Second filter or base-width eq for analog machines.
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Has anyone seen what the new minifreak can do in terms of percussive sound design? Its half of a syntakt. Why is it more versatile and capable than my dedicated drum machine?
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Have you tried to make drums with SY machines, Dual VCO ? (Lfos exp as envelope)
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Of course…the Dual VCO is nice but you have pretty limited sonic territoity, compared to sone digital stuff.
Exp/log envelopes are a must for percussive sound I just don‘t get why the Main envelopes still don‘t offer those simple option.
Sy machines are cool, not all is bad. But to many weak points.
There could be endless little machines, open it up or sell them but don‘t leave it where it is or bring just one as a christmas gift.
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Yes for new machines and more envelope settings ! I just tried SY TONE, you can make huge kicks with it !
(Would give me a link of the Minifreak drums you heard?)
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Can we get an actual distortion please. Vast majority of the sounds can come across to weak as a result of this missing.
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Sadly I did not find a Video where there is only drums. Just percussive Stuff here and there in al those demo videos. But you have a very flexible timbre and those envelopes can do all sorts of snappy and exp/ lin /log stuff …
I mean I am ok i f they don´t build full fledged synth engines into syntakt but the timbre side of the micro are also just little machines with a few parameters. Put an amp env on it which is flexable and voila…but just Attack/Decay/Release… Sad
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Even those woody stabs at 1:39:56 the syntakt is not pretty good at reproducing but should be.
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I thought it was just me! It is quiet isn’t it, even if you crank it up in the mixer section. I guess you gotta turn everything else down, but you shouldn’t have to 
Crossing my fingers for some kind of proper polyphonic machine. Chord machine really doesn’t cut it for contrapuntal duties
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Agree, it needs to be cranked up way more then one would expect.
Have no comparison to the other digis, but compared to the reverb on the A4 it’s rather shy.
Digitakt reverb can be cranked up louder. To me it sounds like Syntakt and Digitone both have a lower maximum reverb level. But Elektron never confirmed that afaik.
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I love this feature in Ableton - Modulation instead of automation.
Let me try and explain - Having dynamic parameter locks that change the locked value.
Currently, if I have a sequence for a bass sound with filter parameter locks on each step, the filter cutoff knob becomes useless, as it only affects the ones that are not locked.
This + parameter lock slide as seen on other devices would make syntakt 10 times better for me
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I think there are two schools of thought with P-Locks. Some times you want that sound to maintain the exact value of p lock so that trig stays the same as you modulate other parameters. Other times it would be preferable for the modulation to add on top of the p locking. I think elektron chose one method and stuck with it because the interface for choosing if a thing is a p lock or a p lock with adjustable values would be challenging and confusing for users. These digi form factor boxes are a real fine balancing act of features and immediacy/understandability. Coming from using the octatrack for 6 months and still sometimes it just stops making noise and it takes me 15 minutes to figure out why, I can appreciate the balance elektron has struck with these devices.
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Of course, P locks as they are, are a great tool for many reasons, and without doubt it has become an inseparable part of the Elektron Sequencer.
Maybe while P locking, pressing an encoder down can change the P lock type from a static lock into a modulated one? And the display could change from a filled background color, to a one with stripes.
I just think the p lock modulation can add great value to an already diverse and powerful list of devices.
If not this, can we at least have the parameter slides?
With the latest update adding in legato, I dont think this would be hard to do. Also considering that this is already a feature with Octatrack, A4 and other “flagship” models.
Have a good one!
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