Love it !!!
Yes, but only as in āstraight chordsā: all notes must have the same length and velocity. Thatās not really polyphonic in my book.
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they went for āreachā.
which is fair enough. but thanks for the shout.
iād like to have heard your line ups approaches too.
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Great to read that all tracks can be streamed individually and at once. Expected them to be mono. Because everything else is done in the mix. However, I am kind of glad somebody else bought the last item on the market at music store so that I have some more weeks to make a decision and free up money (mpc500s anyone? Or a snare-cured Volca beats? 
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āAutechre are on different planets nowā
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Well, it is anyway and there are plenty of channels for complex microadjusted everything. If you fancy long piano pieces you would send the notes via midi anyway from your Roland or Yamaha 88 DP. I am so happy that Elektron implemented proper step recording into DT and DN. (Hope ST has that, too). Itās so much easier to input sheet music and all.
I believe a good mix of demo types is good.
Reach 80%
Alternative 10 %
Local 10%
@license I guess no mailing address
I was being factitious natch
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I think the ST is so great, the more videoās I watch and the more content I read, the more I want to just fire up the OT and go town. Thanks Elektron for stoking my inspiration. All the demoās and people hyped out of their minds, should write a song about it.
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I think thereās something between block chords and fancy long piano pieces. I just donāt see a reason to restrict the MIDI machines for use with external instruments this way (other than editing might be more complicated/restricted.)
@AdamJay You said in your livestream yesterday that the Chord machine had a near-saw at about sweep 84. I put my Eurorack scope on my Model:Cycles (tricky because I canāt get below Unison 2) and it looks saw-like there. Thereās another one at about sweep 102 but with some higher overtones. Could be evidence that the wavetable is the same in the two devices. I donāt think Iād realized before how much of a difference one tick can make in that parameter. Iāll make time to explore the space carefully.
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My exakt journey. The initial one minute introduction video made me drool as I was listening to it with headphones. That pattern is dope! Then the 7 minute presentation from Elektron made me realize it was drums first, synth second, which makes it a bit less to-die-for to me. But it still felt pretty interesting. And then I saw Bo Beatsā video and it started to feel like an overpriced Model:Cycles.
I still have high hopes for the melodic synth engines but so far I havenāt heard much to convince me that this would widen my sonic palette (currently owning an Hydrasynth and a Minilogue XD). For whatās basically left, a drum synthesizer and the amazing Elektron sequencer, Iām not convinced this is an instant buy for me. Thereās a part of me that still wants an Elektron box in my life, but between this and the Digitone, the latter seems much more reasonable which at around half the price and offering seriously beautiful FM synthesis that go way beyond cymbals and claps.
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I donāt have insight into their unit economics, but Iād guess that the Syntakt costs less than 250 to manufacture (COGS, obviously sans software investments). So the marketing cost is more like 2.5K euro.
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Question for anyone who has the syntakt already ā¦ my understanding is the SY BITS machine has 2 oscillators, is it possible to manually tune them (like on the A4 for example) to create chords without using additional voices?
From reading the manual, Iām thinking itās not possible, but I thought Iād ask in case Iāve got that wrong. It seems to me that detune is available, but not to specific semitones, is that accurate?
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Complexity of code and UI maybe? 
This is sound advice (pun intended). If they donāt sound great to your ears, thatās already a deal-breaker. If they sound good, you move to the next question: does the workflow look intuitive/fun? If yes, does this fill a (real) need you currently have that no device you currently own can do (this is probably the hardest GAS question)? If yes on all three, itās probably worth it.
Wait a cpl of days, thatās the first thing Iām going to explore! Audio rate modulation
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So no polyphony for $1,5k is all good?
Speaking of Rytm of course
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This was the reason I stopped using Overbridge completely. I relied on pad automation quite heavily in my DT patterns and it felt silly having to meticulously reprogram those again once in the DAW. Given this limitation, I actually think it would be quicker just to record out tracks individually using the mains out.
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Letās just hope they add an arp at least. It can be thought of as the monophonic version of a chord and it boggles my mind that they excluded it from this machine. I guess the same answer may apply: itās drum focused. But it includes several melodic synth machines so to donāt think the āfocusā argument makes a lot of sense. Just add the arp and they would have sold this on me.
Nice tip!thanks!
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