So turns out you can do quite a bit with it. It does a nice flute-ish sound, cool atonal bell-ish stuff, your basic percussion stuff. For melodic stuff you can sort of change the waveform a bit by pulling up the MENV a lot and keep the feedback completely down. 7x SD Basic
6x SD basic, 2 patterns (struggling a bit with the track levels(mix) on this one, but otherwise also pleasantly surprised by the versatility of SD basic)
Think I need more time to get the hang of SD Basic. Meanwhile, here’s a single track sketch with no FX block. This is on the cusp of the sound I really want, so perhaps something I can develop. As usual a long trig with 15 lock trigs for Inharmonicity, LFOs for MENV and MDFB. Some manual tweaking.
I’ve been working on this one for two evenings in a row now on different iterations and am not really happy with it. I’ve had problems mixing everything down properly, not that I’m very much experienced anyway, but somehow SD Basic has been harder for me. Then again, I noticed I had a notch filter active on the FX track into which most of the tracks are routed and did not want to start from scratch ;p
It’s 7 tracks of SD Basic, three of them are dedicated to the snare drum and nothing else. that and… one boring pattern ;p thank you for listening ;p
edit: adding the project file
rendered track is on pattern 6
I left all my further experiments on the project (patterns 1-5 on bank A) and re-listening now, there are a few I like better than the one I ended up rendering. the snare sounds better on some of them, e.g. on pattern 3
More of a proper pattern this time, recorded as a first attempt jam.
Still finding that the sweet spots, at least for my taste, are a little more elusive than with other machines.
Six tracks of SD Basic, some FX block mainly on the non rhythm tracks.
Thanks @sdkboi I put some time into the first version of it, but felt that it sounded anemic. That last effort with distortion and filtering made a lot of difference. It’s fun how you can transform the sound so much with few means in the Syntakt.
Re: your last track, I think you did a super solid job on the drums. Very tight, and a cool fundament for a DnB track. The snare has a nice “sheet metal” quality to it. The bass is cool too, though I guess it’s difficult to make it cut through properly without compression. You should do a version of this with external processing (compression and EQ), I think it has potential to hit really hard.
I often use the FX track single notch setting as an EQ, to remove boominess or make the mix tighter. It’s not super flexible as you can only adjust the cut frequency and the Q parameter, not the cut amount / dB. But quite often it does a decent job. The double notch is cool too, but sounds more like an “effect” than an EQ.
Snarebient. 8x SD Basic with lots of verb and delay and most of it going through the FX track. Different track lengths and probability so everything’s going out of ‘phase’ all the time and it’s a bit of a gamble what I get to record
Some EQ in post to tone down the mid hump resonances just a bit.
It does a nice flute-ish sound, cool atonal bell-ish stuff, your basic percussion stuff. For melodic stuff you can sort of change the waveform a bit by pulling up the MENV a lot and keep the feedback completely down. 7x SD Basic
