The Syntakt Feature Request Thread

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#1486

I wonder why is not possible to do retriggers with Midi tracks, at least a limited version without the decay parameter would be really handy.

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#1487

Am I crazy or is it not possible to show trig notes by hitting record button when the trigs are activated to show global mute tracks? I don’t have this issue on DT or DN, yet ST seems to behave differently. Is there a way to make it possible?

#1488
  1. Open Source Machine. Let the community develop machines.
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#1489

This! :100:

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#1490

I honestly don’t know why they implemented Velocity on all of their takt boxes when it’s only tied to volume and cannot be assigned to mod anything else. I do happen to use it to keep amp set and it happens to be on the trig page but it would be such an awesome thing to apply it to other parameters.

#1491

In the digitone and syntakt there is the velocity modulation page in the settings, and you can set 4 destinations. But yeah, not on the digitakt.

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#1493

Oh wow I totally missed that! So used to not seeing it on the DT I don’t know if I even bothered looking on the others! (Plus I use the DT the most so I probably just assumed).

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#1494

Yeah, it’s also a little hidden in the menus.

#1495

I’d like it if all 12 tracks could output basic midi info even if they are not set to use a midi machine.
there can be very little reason not to do this - it’s already sending out sync info etc

the workflow would be:
set the track to midi and make whatever changes you need - channel etc
then set the track to another machine

hook up another box and get that basic set of midi info

sorry if this has been mentioned above but the search on these types of forums is terrible…

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#1496

On the Digitakt ? :loopy:
…:meh:

#1497

More machines would be great and more more LFO would help to extend the sound design capabilities :slight_smile:
Im using currently digitone with digitakt together as it has more sound design potencial currently but if syntakt would get an update and the development goes towards machinedrum capabilities then I would jump to syntakt.

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#1498

First of all, thank you so much for adding song mode, portamento, sy raw and sy swarm! All of those are amazing additions!

And now lets get to my suggestions for future updates:

  1. Comb and formant filters available in both new and already existing machines (really important in the absence of sampling, which I’m fine with):

  • Sy String machine: even the simplest one with noise, comb filter, envelope, like here https://youtu.be/fxJPq__z9ao so we can get sounds of guitar, harpsichord, koto… amazing for lo-fi and organic house

  • Sy Voice machine: a machine with a formant filter https://youtu.be/CU52R8VheDg

  1. More physical modeling machines: hang drum, cello, things like in the steampipe https://youtu.be/jtgbif4FzT0

  2. MIDI machine presets (custom MIDI machines or whatever you want to call it) would be a HUGE timesaver

  3. Sending a sequence from one machine to others (both internal and MIDI) would allow much easier layering and free up tracks when sequencing external hardware

And a few more obvious suggestions, which were mentioned many times before:

  1. Arp
  2. Chorus
  3. Compressor
  4. Separate L and R mono audio-in
  5. Moving/rotating a sequence left and right
  6. 3-voice polyphony would make me cry from happiness, but if it’s not possible then I would settle for adding the chord functionality to as many machines as possible
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#1499

Post sequencer scale quantizing

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#1500

You can sort of do this by LFOing the speed of the other LFO, but then you lose a LFO.

#1501

I really don‘t want to start a war here but has anyone compared the first two machines of fors opal to the machines in Syntakt? Only the first two Are so damn flexibel that they wipe the floor with some or most of the Syntakt ones, that in itself are very limited.

Soooo…we need more machines :wink:

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#1502

Can I please have an option now that there is a scale mode to read notes as either/both sharps and flats? Trying to convert notes and chords between machines and DAWS/instruments get’s a real brain ache when we can only view them in #sharps

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#1503

Isn‘t it Syntakt anniversary sometime in may?

#1504

That’s not really being specific about anything in particular. There isn’t any comparison besides your opinion, unless your understanding of better is simply having more machines and more parameters.

April 21st

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#1505

I think „flexibel“ is pretty specific. It means you can create all sorts of sounds with only one machine of opal. In comparison one machine of syntakt is pretty limited, so in order to have variety, Syntakt needs many machines. So it would be fair to say…it needs more and not just one or two.

Seems specific to me.

#1506

Syntakt is also flexible, again, that’s your opinion and not pointing to anything musical in particular. Anyone who has dabbled in sound design on the Syntakt would disagree with you. It literally has more machine count and variety than Opal, but that doesn’t make one or the other better. Some of the machines on the Syntakt are also inherited from the Model:Cycles, which was designed by the creator of Opal.

If you want to compare the two then maybe talk about things that cannot be achieved on the Syntakt.

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