Introducing Syntakt

[warpigs330]

I really wish these photos were good enough to read all the little analog chips.

[Encephalitislerthargi]

sorry if this was already posted, but these recordable modifiers and fx block muting/performing are really something special:

Syntakt Round-Up ! A Casual Conversation About Elektron's Newest Synthesizer & Drum Machine

and new filter shapes! very exciting stuff

[plragde]

Thanks for posting this; I haven’t seen much on the modifiers. (I have strong opinions about which of these two is into quality bud.)

[Encephalitislerthargi]

@naturestudy

It does indeed. And as a workaround, one could use multiple MIDI tracks assigned to the same MIDI out channel to create chords with more than four notes polyphony, though it’s kind of awkward in practice.

It’s my only complaint, but therein lies the basis of my love/hate relationship with the Elektron way of doing sequencing. Sooo good, with a sprinkle of WTF on top.

they really need to combine the 8 note polyphony of digitone midi tracks with the 8 midi track layout of the digitakt. i dont see why the syntakt couldnt do that, but that may be me getting greedy

although im not opposed to buying an elektron box purely for midi sequencing (as i did with the digitakt and my fourth digitone)

[pidgeo]

“what is that? like… children on the chord generator?”

[fenixsong]

Maybe a Granular Synth but not DT sample playing/mangling!!! That would be cool… use the drive for samples for Granular Synth. Or Wavetable serum files? Oooooh! Getting myself all worked up over nothing. lol

[fenixsong]

LMAO… there is a chip on there that says
NANYA…
as in: NoneYaBizness!!! hahaha

[bruin]

any news on an mk2 version of this box?

[0mega]

Now I want links toread

[shroom]

@bruin

any news on an mk2 version of this box?

Yes, it’ll come with a bigger screen but everything else the same

[rtme]

@Encephalitislerthargi

but these recordable modifiers

So live recording those modifiers become p-locked steps, then you can choose totally different parameters with the modifiers, jam/tweak a bit and live record these too as p-locked steps.

That is so awesome

[Octagonist]

@Dr.K

I wonder if the Syntakt can be turned into an Octatrack via future firmware. Or at least into a SP-404.

It lacks multiple in/out, a crossfader, and pads, so I bet on “no”.

[eangman]

Unfortunately I can only give a boring evasive answer on this one, since we for several reasons don’t want to go in to details about the hardware in our boxes. The generic answer is that all devices have a +Drive big enough to hold all the data needed for the device. The reason it is mentioned for the Digitakt, is of course, that here the user can add large chunks of data (samples) to the +Drive.

[Roger]

Holy moly

I haven’t seen a board with so many IC’s since looking inside an Apple IIe.

Is that all for the analog stuff?

[vblr]

You’d love Syntakt PCB - #33 by vblr

A lot of the components seems to be for analog stuff yeah, but obviously parts of it is for the digital stuff as well

[Roger]

I guess a lot of it is also just D/A and A/D converters

Somehow I thought they figured out how to do it at the transistor level, big custom integrated chips.

Just assuming here… don’t see how the digital stuff would need more than 3 or 4 chips

[Dr.K]

It was a joke

[mynewcolour]

@Dr.K

I wonder if the Syntakt can be turned into an Octatrack via future firmware. Or at least into a SP-404.

And make perfect pancakes.

[Dr.K]

It definitely gets hot enough for it.

[djst]

Lots of mentions of it getting very hot. @eangman, without going into details about the hardware, can we be fairly certain that the Syntakt is built to last for years, despite getting very hot and potentially being used in fairly hot environment (think: bringing it out for an outdoor jam in the sun like Andew Huang did in his video)?