Well I just got my entry level Elektron and I’m kind of blown away by how powerful it really is… I just realized with sample chaining its fairly practical and easy enough to use parameter locks to set the starting point for up to 120 samples, then you have 26 actual sample locks. Which you could also use for sample chaining… which means you could have something like over 3120 samples in one project. Across 6 tracks, OfCourse you couldn’t use all of that in a single pattern but that’s still nutty. What a beast of a machine! Now I feel like I need more elektron… A Digifone at least, but since I am mostly a poor man maybe an Elektron model cycles instead. Which do you think plays the best with eurorack or if you were me what would be the Elektron you would go for? I like trying to make things on the fly in a dawless jammy kind of way and I enjoy live sequencing and performance…
MY other thing… which im sure has been discussed heaps before… the PADS… I feel like im going to break them when I hit them hard… but If i watch this guy
he makes it seem effortless… has anyone felt that they take some breaking in??? anyway im glad to be part of the team.
You can even double the samples per slice if you put them one forward/one backward on each slice.
If you have Eurorack, a second hand A4 mk1 might be a good idea, bringing Elektron sequencer to your modules, as well as being a 4 voices analog synth…
A second hand DT1 could also be a good idea, as they can be found more or less for the price of a new Model:Samples these days.
Oh, and don’t fear breaking your machine, it’s solid.
Hi NeonBlack88!
I’m new to Elektron hardware as well. Samples, IMO, has no competition (at the moment) when it comes to hand-on performance + sample manipulation, for the price. Well…I’m not aware of any samplers with so powerful sequencers, except Polyend (in its own way).
However, you should keep in mind that Samples and Cycles have been designed to offer access to famous Elektron sequencer features in the fastest way possible. Other (more expensive) Elektron machines require different approaches because of specific menu diving-workflow. Some people can’t get used to that. There are even people who love and extensively use Elektron machines, saying it’s a mystery box to them.
On one hand I find it intriguing because it suggests near endless possibilities, on the other hand it may suggest paying for features you will not use because of a too complicated process.
It all depends.
I may be wrong with my impressions, though, because I don’t have any experience with Elektron products other than Samples.
Thank you for the advice I’ll look into those units, since this I now have a cycles and a hydrasynth added into the equation also, I think I like the cycles even more. Hydra synced to the elektron models plus behringer 2600 and a custom eurorack, all recorded into and mpc.
I thought I’d want a syntakt but now that I have the cycles I feel like that’s a lot of bang for buck fm to work with and the samples can do the sounds the cycles can’t. Been having the most fun with the cycles though, slept on it way too long.
I still want a high end elektron but there’s so much out there, I really need to pick the right machine, that will fit into a live dawless workflow with my hydra and eurorack. I’m not sure how much sampling capability I need considering I have the mpc…. But I still caught the bug and now I want something like the octotrack or machine drum
Yes when I watched loopops video on comparing the samples to the digitakt it’s pretty cool how well they stand up with each. Other, both have their strengths and weaknesses
