I love the Digitone, but I’m from Chile, and it hasn’t been available secondhand for a while (plus, it costs around $600-$700 used here and MS20 abour 350U$). I also have to admit that I’m very interested in analog synthesis and learning about modulars, so a semi-modular synthesizer becomes interesting. The Syntakt also seems like a very attractive option.
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What s better, 2 DT MKI or a DT MKII?
I love the Digitone, but I’m from Chile, and it hasn’t been available secondhand for a while (plus, it costs around $600-$700 used here). I also have to admit that I’m very interested in analog synthesis and learning about modulars, so a semi-modular synthesizer becomes interesting. The Syntakt also seems like a very attractive option.
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I thing is a good idea a drum because you can hace 16 channels, that coul be intwresting to do easy transitions and more complex productions, no?
I miss warm acid bass, analogue synthesis, semi-modular option, keys, polyphony, more chanels, FX and parallel manual control
1000% a dtII if you can afford it
not only would consolidating your setup into one box be most ideal, but the dtII can do a lot of things that even 2 original digitakts cannot – and elektron will very likely update it for years to come
as @claid mentioned, you can get a lot of mileage from sampling soft synths and even just youtube demonstrations of your favorite pieces of unobtainable gear – the process of reworking the audio (especially with the new slice machine) is incredibly gratifying and takes away the pressure of having to program / sound design lol
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great post, very solid advice.
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I don’t think you are going to find all of that within your price range. The only thing that comes to mind is Pittsburgh Tiaga keys wirh the empty slot supplemented with some effect modules.
Perhaps prioritise what is most important to you?
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TD-3 (50e used around here, great value even new) and/or Bass Station 2 (around 250e used) will go a long way with the type of genres you mentioned.
There are really no semi-modular analog polys around. Some digital options offering deep sound design capabilities with keys: Argon8, Cobalt8, Modwave, Opsix (these seem to go cheap at second hand market, 300-400 around here).
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my vote would be get OsTirus up and running and sample it through effects or dry.
then you basically have a virus TI to play with.
spend a few hours sampling/resampling into the DT and you’ll have yourself some really nice samples to play with.
this - DTII upgrade would be way more worthwhile than anything mentioned in your list in my opinion!
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If you’ve an experimental itch to scratch and want to keep the budget low I’d suggest a MicroFreak.
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I’m considering the Behringer Grind, as I didn’t really gel with the digitone. These are quite cheap (the Edge is cheap as well) and have quite a variety of sounds.
In NL you’ve got an Edge and Grind for €333 new… pretty funky. I sample VST’s mostly but do like some twiddlin & tweakin sometimes
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I know i can t have everything, but is difficult to choise. I hing it coul be interesting center of the sound quallity and syntesis learning
Yeah i love the DT II but for now is to expesnive for me, and I wanna learn about synthesis
I don t know the grid 
Hi guyz , im quite new to elektron (grabbed a syntakt one year ago ) and as the first boxe it was a pure pleasure , workflow is superb and Elektron philosophy clicks with me .
I garbbed the syntakt because of the fact that i wanted to stay away from mouse and computer and also because using Maschine NI , having zillions of samples makes me eiether lose time or go straight to the same spots …
The syntakt had limitations , an dthe biggest one was the monophony but at that tiume it was paired with a minilogue XD module (a deadly combo for people around imho)
I then neeeded a better synth (more capable soun design wise) and was consideing the digitione 2 but seeing some overlapping with syntakt i grabbed an Idirium Core (superb combo guyz) …
But i do miss some real sounds in production , so i know ordered a digitakt II to pair with the syntakt (still nto there yet) but i start to think that i might jump in square A since i will have to struggle with sample managemen,t and browisng instead of having an immidiacy like the syntakt …
Anyone with syntakt can comment on the combo option : Syntakt +Digitakt II versus Syntakt +Digitone II (digitone 2 : i have the sens that i will miss the organic real world sounds of sample , but will; gain imiidaicy and no browising)
Thks guyz !!
In which case +1 for Digitone for reasons already mentioned.
I’m going to chuck in the Uno Synth Pro or Pro-X. It will give you three VCOs, 2 filters, a sequencer, effects, note entry and paraphony. In the EU these come up for around 200 euros. Easy to learn synthesis on too.
Limited availability and higher prices… ugh. The model D is nice and a good base for learning. It can do a lot of typical psy and techno sounds but has limits, the B brand has semi modular synths that fit the bill better and they can be run independently from a rack. You will probably want to expand it with utility modules but you can do that very cheaply by getting unpowered modules and mount them in whatever box happens to be around.
Digitakt fills the role of a drum machine but you could use it for longer samples and pair it with one of the RD’s but they are less flexible than DT.
You could let availability on the second hand market decide.
A side quest could be to learn how to repair simple electronics by picking up (slightly) broken synths and get stuck in.
Also, there are DAWs.
i had syntakt and thought that it took a lot of useful things from cycles, machinedrum, analog four digitone and kind streamlined and simplified them - very good and very sweet next to a dt1
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