On a similar note to using velocity as a macro: The fact that every track reacts to vel/mod/at/bc control messages to abuse as performance macros is huge to me. I can’t wait to configure one of the 12 tracks as a midi track in order to control a bunch of the remaining tracks (all set to react to the same midi channel) via midi loop back. This is fun on the digitone, but seems much more flexible on the ST, because there are so many tracks to pick and control (or not).
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Nooo stop talking like that, my wallet will hurt so bad
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so i’ve seen a few people mentioning how physically hot this box gets. is this something anomalous to the ST, do the AR/A4 simply have better heat sinks?
I got surprised by how hot A4/AR ran in comparison to the Digis, I suppose this is not different.
My only gripe would be a lack of Chorus. I bet it’ll sound absolutely amazing on those DVCO tracks, or even to run the whole percussive section though. Since this works similar to DN or even DT, can anyone that owns this maybe help me out on this one:
Could you forsake stereo to have 2 mono out: L as a cue out, run it through external FX, reintroduce it through in, and have R as a final mono out for recording?
It would hurt to give up stereo but even if it’s just to add something to the synths alone I’d want to be able to do it
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Hello! Yes this is normal. Its average internal running temperature is around 50 degrees. Similar to Analog Heat.
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Thanks for that info.
Well, at least its a bit more flexible than the just the L+R.
Yep, totally. So the experimentation continues.
Or not. Didn’t get a confirmation on my pickup, actually. So maybe I pulled the trigger too late for this round.
I wouldn’t sacrifice stereo for that. If I understood the manual correctly, you can record each of the 12 tracks, the FX block, and the main bus separately via overbridge. I’d rather use the syntakt like that and apply chorus or any other effects afterwards.
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I wish elektron had thought about working with intech studio gear to provide some optionnal mpd like pads and other controllers with the magnetic interface you could just slap on any of the 3 slide panel available on the syntakt (as well as making some mk2 digitakt/tone with same feature). The square form factor of the digi boxes screams for that.
That box is definitely in my wishlist.
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I’ll give it a month… tempted, but initial demos all sound the same to me. Maybe I’m getting old 
If they haven’t cut corners with the internals then they’ll probably release a couple of major updates to the sound engines in the next 24 months and it’ll be a good effort.
Main gripe is the cost. I know there’s chip shortages and logistics issues, but it’s a lot more than the other Digi models.
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I just skimmed the Loopop video and watched the factory pattern section - I think it’s confirmation (if it were needed) that this thing is very flexible as a self-contained groovebox if you want to make music with a compact single piece of hardware.
I know there are a lot of “power users” here with piles of gear and complex setups, but I’m sure there are a lot of other users (like me) that don’t have the time, money or space for a big setup. I just want to sit down for an hour or two here and there and play around with electronic music and sound design - this single box would allow that.
Good work Elektron!
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It (SY BITS) is not, but it is quite capable of emulating it anyway. The basic waveforms are there (including PWM and noise) as well as sample and bit reduction to take the fidelity down a notch. Together with the ADSR and LFOs many of the old-school 80’s C64 tricks can be made, some of which I tried to use in the video. Much of my musical education came from using C64, Amiga and trackers so I wanted to see how close I could get.
One of those tricks was to rapidly switch sound or settings on every PAL/raster tick (50Hz), for example the toms which are made by one tick (20ms) of pitch drop, followed by a tick of noise burst, then followed by the rest of the pitch drop. That one was made using a combo of two LFOs, one for the pitch and one one-shot square that rapidly switched the SY BITS noise/tone balance from one extreme to the other.
Then, the SID has a single analog multimode filter, and that can be emulated by routing things to the analog FX block of the Syntakt and parameter locking it. However, in the ST each of the 8 digital channels also have two filters so it could in theory emulate a stack of C64s 
What is not there is things like the SID’s ring modulation, but on the other hand the DVCO can be used for such things. I might do some more experiments in the future, trying to emulate more advanced tracks including that, we’ll see!
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This type of breakdown is so amazing, I would love to hear more, especially about the toy machine.
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The SY Bits machine is fun because you can get many additional harmonics, that you can easily filter/enhance with the double digital filter.
So even for not 8-bit sounds, it’s very useful.
Very well thought, you can go pretty far with this one!
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They just need to change the OS.
I’ve had a listen to it on a few videos and gotta say I love the idea but I really don’t like the sound that comes out of this box, all the digi drums sound brittle and comb filtered, I think my PO-32 has more convincing sounds than this.
It sounds too plastic and metallic like a 90s virtual analog synth.
Let’s see how Elektron updates it over time, there’s no reason to give up my Digitakt for GAS just yet 
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funny, I love the sound. some of those basses in the soundcloud demos sound like my old Analogue Solutions Telemark
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EU peeps where do you order yours from? I’ll be on a 2 weeks vacation starting next week so the timing would be perfect to learn it. Thomann says 2-3 weeks so that’s a no for me
Had it in the cart on elektrons website but had other things to do so I missed it
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Hey I can finally open Elektronauts again 
I hope Elektron never realeases anything again - last 24 hours were lonely!
Hi everyone
PS looks cool, Syntakt. 12 tracks of flexible goodness in a small box. At some point I’m sure I’ll have one
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