I think you’re both correct. It’s not FM though, it’s a wavetable created using additive synthesis. See also @Ess ’s post on the Mode:Cycles’s Chord machine. There are multiple threads in the M:S topic where he explains more about the Chord machine, which I think you can extrapolate 1:1 for Syntakt.
Same here! It’s deliberately designed to evoke the same relationship as working with a TR-606, MC-202 etc… Simpler, direct instruments but with a depth that is larger than the sum of its parts. (Although the Cycles is a lot deeper than that stuff)
Like for example, some say that the MC-202 has “one sound”, but when you start finding little loop holes in that structure - for example the resonant filter keytracking, how intricate that is - it’s exciting and you also realize how each little explo…
Edit:@Ess on the Chord machine
The CPU is a Coldfire MCF5441 with up to 385 dhrystone 2.1 MIPS @ 250 MHz … Same one as in our other current lineup of products sans the Octatrack. (But before anyone asks - no that doesn’t mean we can run anything on everything, it’s a general purpose CPU and it does very different things across all machines.)
All DSP is done in assembler. Our process for this project was that first I made prototypes in Max which I made Max4live Devices out of and sent out to all my colleagues. We then collec…
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