They stopped releasing machines for the rytm so don‘t bet the syntakt will be full fledged…
Thats the beauty of the SDK, 3rd party machines and fx, it has been a massive boost for the prologue etc. There arew a lot of very cool 3rd party developers like sinevibes who will be all over this Sinevibes
Yeah but it just has one slot and the rest of the box is nothing really convincing.
Damn I mean what happend. The Machinedrum hat 16 tracks.
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Playing around with MS Paint. Would have been so cool if Korg had followed the recent multi-track sequencer pad trend.
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if it had an SDK layer on every track we’d be suckin’ diesel, so to speak
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Syntakt is out for half a year. Dont think they spent a physical modeling and a sample machine to make it whole.
And rytm shows that they don‘t patch their boxes to their full capabilities.
As long as my precious Tanzbär stereo clap is wide, I am happy. 
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The RYTM machines are all analog, so it is a fixed architecture, and adding adding new machines is hard without adding new physical circuits. Syntakt has some digital machines, so those seemingly could be programmed digitally to create something new.
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I know, but the architecture of the first three voices is pretty flexibel, so it would have been easy to add new stuff. Even a Dual VCO was possible.
So with Syntakt digital Architekture would be worse if they don‘t keep a flow of good machines. Like I said I would even pay extra for a legacy set of the Machinedrum ones.
I’m not so sure - remember its £520/$600 launch price (it will go down)
4 pretty decent analogue voices (you can even put a sample mixed with the analogue for attack like the RYTM)
Stereo samples - OK, not that long but long enough for drums for me…and it seems easy to load your own (it just shows as USB drive, no bloody file transfer app needed!)
1 SDK synth that can be ‘anything’ inc a full Polly synth
SDK fx that can be anything, not just reverb and delay!
Full electron style step sequencer and you can a different sample on each beat etc, P lock, motion record, probability, ratchet etc.
4 outputs (assignable)
I think that is pretty good value, maybe even more innovation and unique features than the Syntakt so far with that SDK track and FX.
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I am pretty critical these days because it seems to me its not about good design everywhere, its seems about compromises for pricing and not canibalising on other stuff (elektron)
Exactly, and they gave a lot of sound shaping options with the dual vco, probably milking it for all it’s worth. I certainly wouldn’t expect more from the machine. Analog drum machine voices aren’t usually that flexible, so it’s cool they were able to do that with the dual vco.
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Essentially, in terms of ‘engines’ there is-
4 analogue engines (with some digital attack options)
6 stereo sample engines
1 FM (2 op) engine
1 Noise engines with filter, bit reduction etc
1 Multiengine SDK (comes with full poly VA synth but you can load others)
I actually think that is pretty good to start with!
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But isn’t that exactly what the syntakt is doing?
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I reckon £469/489 street price probably.
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The Drumlogue has been teased for so such a long time that the Syntakt may have copied the Drumlogue
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I think that, due to chips and parts shortages, both have been in development since 1994.
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It sounds like the included fx include a lot of the prologue fx (which are great- shimmer, octave down reverb etc) and as I read it you can have up to 24 fx to select from per FX block - sinevibes have some great fx that can be loaded ( KORG - Sinevibes ) but there is alos a lot of great free stuff.
‘‘For each effect type (delay, reverb, master), up to 24 custom effect units can be loaded onto the drumlogue.’’