Fair enough!
I am frustrated with myself as well but also keen to explore more. Stuff I’ve made on this is interesting but not eye popping and I know it’s me.
So next step is to pair this with my MPC which I understand a lot more, so it’s good to hear someone having similar take.
Between the Syntakt, MPC and the Dreadbox Typhon
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Yeah, I can totally understand this “I made this track on just one kit”-approach, including pushing it to mastering quality by just tweaking it right.
There seems to be a collective desire to find a creative environment for music making that involves just you in one place, all the time, limited only by inspiration and ideas, and not having to reach for cables, boxes, fiddle with wall contacts or if you’re in the box, mess with updates, OS struggles or whatnot.
I’m a writer by profession and have been committed to the same tool for years, producing all my work in the same toolset environment with only pen and paper as additions. To have such a place for music would be heaven. But writers use words to build their worlds into anything, whereas musicians have ideas that need to travel through a lot more technology than words, before they become anything at all. And the more acquired your taste becomes, the less likely you’ll find all you need to write your music, in one tool.
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Yes the creativity gets pushed through a filter of endless possible permutations and knowing all the while whatever you produce may be improved by some random thing that’s just a tweak away….
It’s like gambling I guess though I dont partake
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Okay, that’s great. Thanks for letting me know.
Maybe not a bug as such but figuredf it was better to ask here instead of starting a whole thread.
My syntakt faceplate is VERY different to the digitone and digitakt. They have a soft powder look almost grey ish but the syntakt is just flat shiny black metal. Is it just me? The vids I’ve seen looks like they have the powdery finish. Side by side ith the digitone they look totally different
That looks odd to me, I’m not in front of mine right now but it looks to me just like a returned device might if it were cleaned up with the ‘wrong’ product.
It’s certainly not the end of the world or anything but it is very odd. I have a minagarie now with the grey OT and these two. All different colors lol
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Yeah mine is the same. Definitely blacker looking next to my digitone and digitakt
You can see it in my video. Syntakt is in between the two.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeHs0XOAHVW/
I remain on the fringes of GAS for a Syntakt. One thing I’m not sure about is the “effects track”
This track seems to consist of additional filter, overdrive and some automation for the delay, reverb and that’s all. Other than the overdrive, nothing here seems to say “effects” to me (the name makes me think of insert effects like chorus, phaser, bitcrusher, flanger, even a compressor).
I think I’m missing the point of this track, so what are people using it for? Sell me on it! 
No, you’re missing the amp envelope that can be reverted and act as a ducking effect, faking a compressor side chain.
And you can plock the filter, open and close its envelope with dedicated trigs, as well.
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I’ll add that with lfos the delay can be used as a chorus, flanger, and that the double notch filter can be used as a phaser, amp as a slicer, tremolo…
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Besides you can send a sound to the Delay/Reveb and not to the AFX bus, and vice-versa.
You can also send the AFX bus to the digital FX, or vice-versa.
One thing I like is having a beat and chopping it with the amp envelope.
I also enjoy the phaser trick @sezare56 talks about above.
There some room for experiments with plocking and using LFOs on FX, plus what offers the AFX track.
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It can be used for several purposes:
- You can use it as a bus track: Route x tracks through it and the filter / overdrive / reverb delay send are applied on those tracks. Heck, you can also only route the global delay and reverb through it if you like
- It has an AMP envelope which you can use to sequence a create psuedo compression effect on the tracks routed through it
- It also has two (sequencable) LFO’s on top of the LFO’s you already have on exisiting tracks for some weird other things
I use it now mostly to add three or four SYBIT tracks through it: With the separate envelope, filter, overdrive, reverb and delay send effects and LFO’s I created a “polysynth” on my Syntakt (with the help of Round robin MIDI of the Blokas Midihub).
In other projects I only route the external input through the FX track: Then I mainly use the filter and AMP pseudo compressor effect. And then it’s awesome that you can sequence the filter / envelopes / LFO on the FX track.
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Nice idea, as the delay is shared send effect, will applying an LFO to it effect all tracks going through the delay, regardless if they are routed into the effects track/block ?
As the delay is a (shared) send effect, applying an LFO to it affects all tracks going through the delay.
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Thanks for the replies, sounds like there’s some creative uses and options possible with the effects “block” (seems to be the official name for it), but it’s not acting like the per track insert MFX or master MFX like on the MC-101/707 or TR8-S
I still think the name is a little misleading, but I can’t change that
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I think fx block is fine wording for it… considering that effects definition " a change that results when something is done or happens : an event, condition, or state of affairs that is produced by a cause."
Doesn’t mention anything about chorus, flanger, phaser in that definition 
lol.
Just being sarcastic, but I get what you mean.
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What about analog fx bus ? 
AFX bus.
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