Hi,
Apologies if this has already been discussed. I looked around and didn’t see any other topics on this.
I’m brand new to Syntakt, but have been using Elektron gear for over 15 years. I was curious about the “class compliant” USB support on Syntakt. On an iPhone or iPad with USB, I found you can plug in the Syntakt and use it to simultaneously send midi to drive iOS synth apps, as well as receive the audio from the iOS apps back into the Syntakt to mix in!
This means eg: you can use something like Korg Gadget (or whatever) to play some polysynth chords, or trigger samples, control it from a Syntakt midi track, and then run the iOS audio back through the Syntakt FX block.
I noticed some latency when doing this, so a workaround would be to microtime shift the midi trigs a bit early.
I keep finding different abilities with the ST that surprise and delight, things that “just work” in clever ways. What a great machine!
Hi, that’s awesome that you’re enjoying Syntakt! I just want to make sure that you’re only singing it’s praises and that you don’t have a question? You started out kinda like you were about to ask something, but if not and I’m reading too much into it then otherwise you’re correct, audio over USB and the fact that these newer devices are class compliant audio interfaces is very cool.
If you did not already discover it, there’s a setting in audio routing menu which allows you to boost the USB audio up to +18db. It’s called USB to main and helps with gain matching to your internal audio tracks without blasting the source audio super hot.
Totally understand and definitely think that’s a good thing. There are similar discussions but most center around digitakt because people often ask how to sample audio over USB. If you’re interested I can link you to something surrounding that topic (some of the uses are interchangeable, just not the sampling part) but otherwise, I don’t see why there can’t be a topic about using syntakt with USB audio. Of course it’s not my decision to make because I’m just a forum member like you, but it has it’s own use cases (as you’ve discovered).
I’m not super familiar with iOS apps but there is a big thread about them which you might be interested in. A lot of people use something called AUM (for recording and audio routing) and I think it has some buffer settings for latency adjustment so you may find workarounds for the latency issue that you mentioned by expanding the apps which you’re using.
If you’re interested this is the topic about iOS apps.
If you have some interest in reading other users experience with digitakt and audio over USB let me know and I’ll dig up some topics (I have a decent memory for the topics that I’ve read) and always stoked to see people who were former elektron users forum members pop up and get into the new format.
I was still afraid of elektron gear back then so I’m a newer member but some of the old school crew are around here and there’s an “oral history of elektronauts” topic which was kinda ironically hijacked and turned into the “elektron users reunion thread”. I thought it was entertaining at least.
So anyways, thanks for showing respect to the forum, I know everyone appreciates it!
