1 synth techno setup

OverneathTheSkybridge · 2022-10-17T20:52:56.208Z

The question really should’ve excluded all Elektron boxes. That aside I’ve seen some cool videos of people using just a Korg Monologue. The Wavestate is also another good one.

J3RK · 2022-10-17T20:58:09.094Z

Blackbox.

AdamJay · 2022-10-17T21:07:27.932Z

I’ve done a lot of single box techno tracks.

But I gotta give it to OT.

P-lockable master compressor. Transition looping for live playing. Plenty of LFOs, stereo samples, disk streaming, the ability to mangle anything from a single cycle or a 10 minute stereo wave into something new and interesting. Kits!(Parts)

It ain’t cheating, but perhaps I am cheating when I use both OTs and a Heat

Microtribe · 2022-10-17T21:09:12.884Z

EMX1.

Failing that

M O N O T R I B E

Dr.K · 2022-10-17T21:22:59.848Z

Digitakt

lesstalkmoredisco · 2022-10-17T21:52:15.481Z

AdamJay:

Transition looping for live playing

Do/did/would you use transition looping when using OT solo?

For some reason recording loops has always been a Thru-track kind of thing for me, at least until now.

Habit_Reform · 2022-10-18T05:50:32.351Z

Syntakt. I can only comment on what I have, and it is a Techno box.

At the moment I require slamming it into the Digitakt compressor, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed they add a master compressor in future updates, and I really won’t need another item to make Techno which is ready out the box.

cane_creek · 2022-10-18T08:46:46.588Z

Syntakt

cane_creek · 2022-10-18T08:48:28.578Z

I think the Perkins looks great and sounds great, however I’m not sure if the sound palette is a little limited and after a lot of use it may become a bit samey, I do hope I’m wrong.

cane_creek · 2022-10-18T08:50:51.924Z

First thing I did on the m8 was a little minimal techno riff late 80’s transmat vibe, great machine however I’m all over Syntakt at the moment.
For techno on the go M8 can’t be beaten, I work away a lot and I have small earphones in the M8 case, it’s a extremely powerful tiny studio on the go solution which take up zero space in my suitcase.

J3RK · 2022-10-18T18:55:04.169Z

God damnit…

I thought I had gotten the M8 out of my head a while back.

Jerk.

This would be the perfect device for exactly what you describe.

Hmmmmmmmmm…

chaocrator · 2022-10-18T18:56:02.044Z

Syntakt.

Potr · 2022-10-18T19:16:31.800Z

Monomachine or Digitakt if a sampler that can be a synth is allowed.

Joe_b · 2022-10-18T19:34:27.917Z

…oooh, I really wanted that to go on a bit longer

lesstalkmoredisco · 2022-10-18T19:47:23.875Z

I like Syntakt a lot for its versatility and formfactor and big sweet spots. Yet for a one synth techno setup I would want to be able to use it live, and for that the UI of Rytm (Mk2) with the big pads is best for me. Plus it’s sound - ST can make things sound a bit EDM if you don’t watch out, Rytm is just automatic dusty techno for me. Plus you have synthesis ánd samples.

cane_creek · 2022-10-19T10:09:14.797Z

Yeah as a travel companion it’s zero effort, everything I want is in its case just grab and go, other solutions just seem to have effort attached to them

cane_creek · 2022-10-19T10:11:14.501Z

Yeah my only wish at the moment is for the compressor in Digitakt to be put in Syntakt

I remember in one of their machine updates they undone some hidden memory, imagine if there’s an analog compressor circuit already in there just ready to be unleashed with a firmware update, as that fx block drive page looks looks rather desolate with the 7 empty boxes.

Magicmix · 2022-10-19T15:31:58.991Z

What’s the best 1 standalone box for techno?
(Answering “Octatrack” is cheating )

But answering anything else is incorrect.

mreilly · 2022-10-20T14:17:35.337Z

since the question was synth and not sampler… and I am going to assume we are not recording into a DAW so it’s got to be multi channeled/voiced… So my list

Rytm(though really works with samples layers… This basically is why the octo is out)
Syntakt
LXR-02(though I feel like the techno is going to start to sound the same)
Roland Groove boxes - TR8S(though again really only work with samples)
A4
Digitone
309 Raveolution
pretty much any good drum machine that allows sound design(and again sample layer really helps)

I am sure I am forgetting a tone of stuff too… like the electribe ER-1 for example

cane_creek · 2022-10-21T21:43:44.329Z

170 seconds 118bpm techno thingy on Syntakt tonight.