Here is the release I made with a Syntakt only!
8-track EP + Sysex File of all the Patterns + Stem Recordings of All Tracks from Syntakt + Explanation Video. This is a HUGE download spawning over 4GB!
Download from Bandcamp or Gumroad
I bought the Syntakt at full price and spent like a week with it! I think it’s a nice box, very charming to have all those super sound sources from the past in a single package. I also like the new Analog Fx track. Not so fan of the ‘Drive’ it offers but to have another space to route selected tracks through another filter is very welcoming! Overall, I really enjoyed working with it and happy to be able to make such music in 1 box. The new Clap engine is very fine! And Overbridge in Standalone Mode worked like a charm, recording all the tracks individually. Yea, it would have been nice to have individual outs but at least there is a work around! Oh then there are the modifiers. However, I could not really find a good use case for myself. Maybe in the future.
The shortcomings are, I couldn’t really find anything new here, apart from the few new cycles type of engines. The sequencer is the same, sound sources are the same, the box is the same… Which makes me think about the marketing slogan, ‘new sounds from new place’
The Analog tracks are lacking that crucial second filter, which was surprising for me as the digital tracks have that. And finally, the Control All feature could benefit by allowing to disable some of the parameters from being affected. Especially the Chord and other synth engines with ‘tuning’ parameters. Currently, its very easy to fall into a wrong note while trying to carve out the power of that feature.
Enjoy!