Best Groovebox: Syntakt vs Digitakt

[Jacob]

Good tip. I still haven’t tried randomize after owning various Elektrons since 2017 (I forgot it was there) so now I know not to go over 4-5. On the other hand, I don’t want to steal your style so maybe I’ll go 6-7

[OldmanChompski]

Syntakt is the better groovebox, Digitakt is the better overall device.

[DJSpaceP]

It bothers me psychologically, but in practice, I don’t reach that limit either.

It’s a blast when I’m really in a heavy “synth” mood to hook up a MicroMonsta 2 in bi-timbral mode to gain up to two tracks of 6 voice poly-synth goodness that I can route back in through the FX block, at the loss of maybe a digital track or two on the Syntakt. Decent tradeoff when even with the lost tracks, the Syntakt is STILL like a Model:Cycles on steroids + 4 tracks of analog synth (sort of an A4-meets-AR lite?).

I normally run my various HW units side-by-side, but I’m tempted to get a little two-tiered stand as a workhorse because my usual core setup is either two of the Digis (which ones depending on focus) or one of the Digis and something else like the MM2 or a Circuit Mono Station.

Side note, after a ton of time focusing on just the three Digis, I’ve been pulling the MM2 or CMS back into the mix again. Crazy what you can do with just ONE Digi box when you give it a complementary playmate to take up the sonic slack.

Besides any two Digis together, some other great combos include:

Digitakt and MM2
Digitone and Circuit Mono Station
Syntakt and … anything.

[depuratumba]

What’s that below the digis?

[sezare56]

@depuratumba

below the digis

Samson SM10

[sezare56]

@cogsy

I’m sure there’s a good workflow for collapsing chord machines across multiple tracks to a single track,

Plock parameters on each track, copy/paste trigs to the main chord track.
Or use several midi tracks, different notes and CCs, record on 1 audio track.

I prefer to plock or record on 1 track directly…

[warpigs330]

I find myself P-locking 8 notes for the increments of my scale and then pressing func+yes to figure out a progression I like. I really wish there were a way to save variations of a patch and record a performance of those into a single track. My idea for the modifiers (making them four variations on the current sound, a bit like scenes on octatrack) would make this possible. You could also do thinks like condense the kick and snare down to a single track, or get a bunch of hi hat variation on a single track.

Anyone using modifiers?

So I have said it before, but I’m gonna say it again, because I want people to get behind this idea. I think modifiers should act a little bit like a mix of scenes on the octatrack, and sound pool presets. So each modifier button could be held down and a knob could be twisted to set that value to that modifier, like scenes on the octatrack. This way you could save four different variations on a sound. Then you could press the modifier trigs while the sequencer is in live record mode to record …

[m0ld]

@DJSpaceP

I normally run my various HW units side-by-side, but I’m tempted to get a little two-tiered stand as a workhorse because my usual core setup is either two of the Digis

This is what I did. Makes the ST/DT combo feel like a cohesive instrument.

[Tchu]

That’s why I built a Stand with 2 levels that can accomodate 4 Digis (DT, DN, AH+ and ST). It makes things easier.

[Stickhit]

Syntakt is best during the winter months.
Digitakt is best during the summer months.