That Syntakt Sound

[Nils]

Some possble machines you could try:

SD FM, first recording:

Syntakt Science Lab #19: SD FM & SD Hard

@ElectricBear When we started out with the Science Labs, I wanted to make a drum n bass snippet for each lab. I fell off that quite quickly, but I’m happy to see you take the acid baton for the labs! Three snippets: Slow melodies, courtesy of SD FM. Tweaking LFO speed to match the pitch which is quite tedious but can give some pretty results. Almost Juno-like in the beginning. Three tracks of SD FM. Some 90s space acid or something? Bass and hihat through the FX track for some auto…

SY Chip

Syntakt Science Lab #2 SY Chip

One more attempt at SY Chip. SY Chip approaching 80s Roland pad machine? Probably not, but here’s an attempt Three tracks of SY Chip PWM, with LFOs at slightly different rates. LFOs to pitch, delay with slight modulation and long reverb. Finding the right notes without a keyboard doesn’t work for my head, so I used an external synth to make the melody. Sometimes I dream of a Syntakt Keys e25 edition along the lines of the Monomachine SFX-6 …

SY Bits, first recording

SSLS #3: Syntakt polyphony

Polyphonic control of the Syntakt is regularly requested around here, and understandably so. Many of its machines lend themselves well to polyphonic playing, but there’s no apparent way of doing it on the ST itself. So this weekend I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time - hook up a midi keyboard and my Blokas Midihub to the Syntakt, and test a few polyphonic patches. The Midihub has a round-robin style polyphony program that distributes incoming notes from a single channel to m…

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