Swarm is really instant Frankfurt Trance. EPIC breakdowns for the MDMA crowd. 
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Are there more Machines on the Way? Were those two just a tease?
Insta says more machines, then talks those two here, then says and beyond.
Is there something coming in the end of syntakt days? A big bang?
The teaser was saying the same thing before announcing the 2 machines.
So I would say, very unlikely for the moment.
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No bangerang on nov 30th. Oh come on. That would be a super duper bang 
It would be interesting to know what the limits are on the number of new machines they can addâŚ
I wonder if at some future point there could be more than can be stored and maybe users could then use Transfer to pick the collection of machines they want at any one time.
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Well, personally I donât care, I donât even own a Syntakt, Iâm just being realistic 
Iâd love an Octatrack update tho
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New machines is what I was hoping for the most. So Iâm really happy. The Syntakt feels now much more mature in my hands. I hope thereâll be a few more 
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The amount of machines theyâll be able to put on the syntakt will just depend how much space there is for the code, but having more machines on the device wonât tax it as no matter how many machine there is you can only ever play 12 of them at once.
Forget that transfer lark to load other machines that will never happen, that would leave us all with syntakts with different machines onboard and you wonât be able to swap and open other peoples projects if they didnât have the same machines loaded, Elektron wouldnât work like that.
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My Syntakt does connect to Overbridge anymore. It happened after the recent update. Had no problem before that. But right now, even Elektron Transfer cannot see it when I put the device in Overbridge mode. I have to switch to USB mode in order to connect to Transfer.
I also own DT and DN, and those two have no problem at all connecting to Overbridge. I swapped cables, no bueno. I uninstalled the latest Overbridge Engine; re-installed that, along with re-updating the firmware on the device itself. Still does not connect. Not with the App itself, and not with the plugins on Ableton.
Anybody else with the same issue?
EDIT: wanted to add that i get this message when the device is on USB mode. Turns to nothing when I switch to Overbridge mode.
I assume that you did update the Syntakt with the latest update including the 2 new Machines? Have you installed the new version of Overbridge too?
Edit : I see that you did install the latest version of OB (2.1.5.4). Do you have the Elektron plugins in the right Folder?
With sound locking, is there really a 12-at-once limitation? Iâve been wondering how it behaves if you trigger an instance of every existing machine.
It can be a different 12 each time, but on any given step, only 12 sounds (could be all from one machine, or each from a different machine, or any combination that adds up to 12, respecting the digital/analog divisions).
Thanks. Makes sense. But if each step had different sounds theyâd all have to be âloadedâ so Iâd imagine running up against some memory constraints if there were hundreds of machines to choose from and you used a different set on each of the 64 steps. Doesnât mean you couldnât have hundreds of machines to choose from, but perhaps an error or warning would result. Iâm just guessing.
The two constraints (not memory but how sounds are represented in the firmware) are 256 sounds [edit: 128 sounds] in the sound pool of the active project (a sound must be there to be p-locked on an individual trig) and 2048 sounds on the Drive+. Other than that, no limits [edit: at most 72 different parameters can be locked per pattern]. Itâs one of the great features of the Elektron sequencer.
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Sweet. Bring on the machines!
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Yes they are in the right folder. DN and DT plugins work perfectly both on Windows and Ableton.
Have you tried Overbridge with Syntakt after the latest firmware?
Yes, I use it everyday and had no issue.
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⌠screaming âswarmâ, shattering âalloyâ and hard kicking âtoneâ âŚ
after the update, Iâm hanging over my syntakt every day 
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âBut all Syntakt stuff sounds like Syntaktâ
Be more like Jeanne and put in some actual effort. 
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@rrodseth Another constraint (no doubt to limit memory/CPU load) is that there are a finite number of parameter locks you can use in a pattern.
Up to 72 different parameters can be locked in a pattern. A parameter counts as one (1)
locked parameter no matter how many trigs that lock it. If for example the cutoff parameter
of the filter is locked on every sequencer step, there are still 71 other parameters that
can be locked.
Same goes for the Digitakt but interestingly the Digitone gets 80. Syntakt feels like the most likely box youâll ever hit that limit with though⌠âonlyâ 6 params per track! 
It doesnât actually say in the manual whether or not sound locks have a limit to them or whether they have any impact on the parameter lock limit⌠as really a sound lock is just a parameter lock for every single parameter at once (26 on the Syntakt at a rough count, plus all the sound setup settings too), so in theory placing a sound lock on three tracks would be enough locked parameters to hit that limit which doesnât seem likely, so perhaps it is managed separately - if there is a limit then Iâm not sure what it is!
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