I have a question that’s been bugging me for a little while and haven’t found an answer. On my Syntakt I almost never use global (green) mutes, and I just generally prefer pattern mutes for almost anything. However, the Syntakt defaults to global mutes every time it’s turned on, so I find myself cycling through green to purple every time I use it after powering on.
Am I just the odd one out for favoring pattern mutes over global ones? And is there any hidden way I don’t know to change the default to pattern mutes first?
Yes, I’m very familiar with the double tap that’s what I’d like to get rid of, unfortunately. I was just wondering if there might have been a setting I missed somewhere that let me change it. I suppose my issue with it is that I almost never put the Syntakt into “mute mode” where the mute keys stay lit. I prefer to hold FUNC down and mute or unmute tracks from there. So to get the Syntakt into the state I want for playing / performance, I have to hold FUNC, double tap, then release FUNC, hold FUNC again and single tap to exit mute mode. If I could set the default, I’d never have to do any of that
I think that if you engage purple mute mode by holding func and bank two times, and then func bank once to get out of it, isn’t it in purple mode next time you hit func? I just tried it with digitakt right now and it worked.
I don’t use a lot of purple mutes so I wanted to check before saying anything, but at least then you only have to do the tap dance one time and every other time it should perform how you want.
If you power the device off though, it will go back to green mute mode on the first tap, but while still powered on it should stay in pattern mute mode as opposed to global.
Yeah that’s how it works on ST as well, at least until a power cycle.
I totally understand. I honestly don’t use mutes much at all, but I’ve never in my life wanted to use global mutes when I’ve needed mutes and also wanted to change patterns, so I do kind of feel the pain. I guess I just accepted that it is how it is, and never imagined the possibility of defining the default mode via settings.
I’m the total opposite, I feel like global mutes don’t get you stuck with a pattern with tracks left unexpectedly muted. If you had one or 2 patterns I’m sure it’s easy to manage but I’ll use 16 patterns chained together like an ape going oo oo ooo and global mutes make it feel more performative (for me).
It’s the opposite kind of tap dance, timing when things come in.
A lot of the time it stays like that up until I’ve firmed the arrangement, and then I start deleting parts of the sequence from various tracks in each pattern.
Embarrassed to say I just didn’t click with song mode.
That’s exactly how it works, yeah. And once I get changed over to purple, it’s not an issue for the rest of my session. I realize my complaint is super minor just wish there was a way to select the default behavior on startup, since it defaults to global mutes every time after a restart.
Glad I’m not completely alone haha.
I’ll send this over to the feature request thread then, thanks for answering my silly question
I think it’s promising that they added a customizable preferences section in the Digitakt II menu and since I’m not up to upgrading to the new model I only hope it trickles down to the older devices because that would be awesome.
It’s inconvenient that default mute behavior can’t be stored with project data. Even if it defaults to green, it should be able to save the status on the pattern or project level of whether you want pattern mutes or global mutes as a default.
that’s what I’d like to get rid of, unfortunately. I was just wondering if there might have been a setting I missed somewhere that let me change it. I suppose my issue with it is that I almost never put the Syntakt into “mute mode” where the mute keys stay lit. I prefer to hold FUNC down and mute or unmute tracks from there. So to get the Syntakt into the state I want for playing / performance, I have to hold FUNC, double tap, then release FUNC, hold FUNC again and single tap to exit mute mode. If I could set the default, I’d never have to do any of that 
just wish there was a way to select the default behavior on startup, since it defaults to global mutes every time after a restart.