1 synth techno setup

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.

dhunterrr · 2022-10-29T19:47:59.281Z

I nominate an op-z stuffed with @darenager mc202 samples. Wrote this on the bus, and walking to/from work the other week.

ki_cz3d · 2022-10-29T20:33:01.218Z

Surprised I haven’t seen the MC707 mentioned, so I’ll throw it out there.

Inakito · 2023-03-09T09:52:39.728Z

Thinking about that recently, I am pretty sure my favourites would be, along with the nordMicromodular, AR, A4, and Cycles

Starscream · 2023-03-09T09:54:06.379Z

One box to do it. Me suggests TR-8S.

cLAss85 · 2023-03-10T00:37:05.308Z

Perkons! Here’s a hot slice of techno served up Perky:

blurrghost · 2023-03-11T19:28:38.043Z

For me either;
-Korg er1
-M:c
-Rytm
-Blast Beats could probably do it too but I’m not there with the workflow yet for use in that context.