Shouldn’t be that surprising, it has at least one distortion circuit similar to Analog Heat, on top of that are 4 analog voices and a CPU which has to do a lot more than the one in AH.
Those 4 analog voices can also be sent over USB audio if I’m not mistaken, which means there’s an extra A/D converter in there or a different one with more channels.
And the analog voices are probably always on, most synths tune their analog voices on startup.
All this in the same size enclosure.
Mine gets so hot that it’s able to warm my cold, cruel heart.
typo, 122F
This is going to be the new “OT audio quality” trope, isn’t it?
Indeed. Edited. Thanks!
not hot but a little bit warm. Not as hot as the Behringer RD-9 which kann heat up your room.
The Syntakt was a little warm after I used it for the first time for a couple of hours, but not as warm as I thought it would get after reading reports about this issue. If the warmth of the machine wasn’t mentioned in these threads I wouldn’t have thought twice about it.
Some Behringer machines can get pretty hot. My first mixer was a Behringer Xenyx 1202FX and it got so hot I was afraid it could become a fire hazard if I left it on too long. Apparently it’s normal for that mixer to run really hot.
I measured a high of 107° on the front bottom panel, using an Etekcity infrared thermometer, on my Syntakt. My Digitakt only got up to 87°.
Best described as “warm fart”….
Yes that’s normal.
Okay. Had a few boxes from Elektron in the past and never had this issue. Thanks
This one reaches 50*C on normal use.
Mine gets pretty hot like a laptop, I was a bit concerned but until the thing crashes I guess it’s OK, the case is a basically a heat sink by the feel of it so I guess it’s meant to get warm to take heat from the board and chips…
It’s not too bad.
Every time this topic surfaces in “Latest”, for some reason, I think, “My dog has no nose…”
typically analog synths need proper design for airflow and cooling since they have no fans or anything like that … maybe some heatsinks
also the spec may not be targeting “lap use” … so…
An Elektron engineer already told in another thread this is completely normal and expected, they know this runs hotter and should never be a problem under normal circumstances….
I’m hoping the Syntakt gets real hot and sizzling. I haven’t been able to light a joint properly since my BP-1 Power Handle was recalled.
I’m going to go in the ‘very’ camp, defnitely gets uncomforable when using on lap.
It’ll be interesting to see if it gets hot enough for anyone that’s using 3d PLA stands to start to get melty.