The SY CHIP brings a pseudo harp and PWM, unusual waveforms. I am not a chiptune fan and SY CHIP seems very interesting. Very fast arp isn’t an obligation. 
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It’s extremely difficult at best to do SID style “chords” (arps) with LFOs on the current ST machines. I think many of those sounds are flat out impossible right now. Sy chip on the Rytm can do some special things. So I think it does expand the palette a bit. But I concede it’s pretty specialized and won’t have usefulness for everyone.
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beside the arp with various sync options like hz/single run/tempo it has crazy good oscillators, it’s my favorite saw wave form on rytm (and it has two of them - sinesaw, saw)… also, it has pitched noise which is very cool without having to use samples, imo it’s the best addition to rytm 1.70 and if it gets to syntakt y’all gonna have a blast with it
also the animated waveforms are so cool!
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SY Chip would be nice, but I‘d prefer new digital machines tbh since there’s only three flexible analog tracks but eight digital ones.
When it comes to new machines, a digital hat machine that’s as good as the existing analog one would be my only request. Besides that, Syntakt already has all it needs and then some imo. Okay fine, a simple one shot sample machine would be great.
I‘d prefer to get some quality of life stuff instead that they introduced with DT II and wouldn’t cause any issues with the existing Ui/layout. Like for example more probability options or not x:y. Or that you can copy a pattern to another one while the sequencer is running without the wait time. If they find a way to implement stuff like probably and conditions at the same time or new conditions like last, also great. Euclidean and page loop plus LFO slew would also be nice of course.
But most important to me would be the performance stuff from DT II, like exclude from ctrl all (prio 1) and performance kits.
And then there’s some things that would make the ST more complete:
- second filter (like on DT)
- compressor (like on DT)
- arp (like on DN)
- chorus (like on DN)
The lack of these features hold back the drum and melodic side of ST so far.
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PMW ! 50 positions you can modulate. Randomizing the 5 animated waveforms is cool too.
So yeah, brings something new with oscs too.
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yes I agree with you, I would love these to be implemented, although it seems people are happy with SY CHIP into ST.
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I’d wish Machinedrum PI Cymbals style, any better physical modeling stuff.
A sample based basic drum kit à la Monomachine with BR and SRR
Wavetable with more harmonics than SY CHORD
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I don’t really like/need hats/cymbals that sound too metallic or „real“, I might even be fine with something that can produce noise and have slight nuances of body or harmonics without using LFOs.
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With the Rytm, I’ve never used SY Chip for Chiptune. You can do a lot more than that.
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I guess new analog acoustics machines (from 1.7 rytm firmware) could be coming on new firmware added, I’ve seen last video from dissonant witchcraft using an analog snappy snare drum never heard before on my syntakt, maybe I’m not a good sound designer but… sounding pretty acoustic… like acoustic machine on rytm 
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Your wish could be coming in form of analog acoustics hats machine from rytm
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Almost every sound that Dissonant Witchcraft creates on Syntakt I never heard from my own Syntakt 
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I’m not the only one guessing acoustics machines on her video, you could check it out.
Do you mean HH Lab ? Nothing sounding acoustic here. MD PI machines are more realistic. At least AR can play samples.
ACOUSTIC BD and SD seem more realistic.
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Maybe you’re right, but anyway I liked what I heard from HH lab on firmware’s rytm, better than the others hats machines.
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Not labelled acoustic in any case. 
Yes it seems interesting, not sure if it would be my favorite because you can’t modulate the 6 oscs with the 2 lfos…
Automation recording is possible of course.
Sounds like it will probably get all the new Rytm machines, which makes sense. In my view the sampled PCM transient sound on the Analog Acoustics is the kind of thing that Syntakt would benefit from… I think my other, perhaps biggest machine request is a new hi hat of some sort (Acoustic Analog Cymbal? Physmod?) but I’m not getting my hopes up - and getting the analogs would be sweet as is
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Analog Four
Cymbals and metallic percussions synthesis lab
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Happy to see we’re back on track with speculation.
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Now to play the game of investigating whether we’re hearing new machines in people’s recent Syntakt videos or if we ourselves have just never synthesized them.
Sounds like a lot of bits here, but so tasteful that I think I’m convinced it’s something else:
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