That Syntakt Sound

Two sketches I’m working on. One monotonous ambient thing and one submarine sounding techno thing.

The last one probably won’t come through very well on phone speakers. Headphones or proper monitors preferred.

Both single take Syntakt jams with some post-eq and compression.


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Great set! This really shines :grin:

I love it. Feels cinematic. Recorder is so underrated

Second one is my favorite, drum sound design is :ok_hand:

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I get some demo scene / ps1 vibes from this. Super fun stuff!

Also digging the way that your guitar playing influenced the lead lines in this.

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Thanks shig! And yep, you spotted the guitar player here! I love the expressiveness of the legato portamento …

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Can the Syntakt sound like a Helicopter?

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absolutely sick. your SY chord only track you posted earlier was the main reason i decided to give the syntakt a chance, and those two really drive the point home. there’s a lot more depth to that instrument than i initually assumed.

that inharmonic/metallic hit that comes in at 6-ish seconds in the first one, is that SY CHORD?

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Thanks, I’m honoured!

Yeah that’s right, it’s SY Chord with some audio rate modulation applied. If you want to check it out in more detail, I posted a project file containing that pattern in another thread. I think it was pattern A01, here:

Have fun with your new Syntakt!

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Throwing another one on the pile. To challenge myself I gave myself 60 minutes to make a track, and this is it :slight_smile: Direct out of the ST, no additional processing.

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The only thing that I would like to have in the Syntakt now is more effects. I know it’s possible! Please give us comb filter and chorus! haha (and more chords)

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It sounds wicked, cool possibilities with the FX block and great to have analog and digital machines in one box. Loooove it

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After six fun weeks with the Digitone 2, I took a hard look at the Syntakt again to pinpoint what it can do really well that the Digitone 2 simply can’t do. This jam was what I came up with.

The Syntakt is such an incredibly fun analog synth! :heart:

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This sounds amazing! Another reminder that the user outshines the gear (although the ST is pretty boss)…

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Thank you! :pray:

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Solidly crafted as always! Cool trick running the ST back into itself, gotta try that :slight_smile:

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Well done mate, very good track!

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And what was your conclusion in light of the DNII?

Yeah that’s the question! :sweat_smile: Keep in mind that I’m always using one device at a time when making music, so for me the question has been which of the two is the most well-rounded and flexible one that I’ll have the most fun with.

On paper, the DN2 wins in the “depth” department since it has more tracks, polyphony, arp, chorus, more interesting synth tone machines, 8 bars of sequencing, etc etc.

But this tune above focused specifically on the area where the Syntakt really shines and where the Digitone 2 can’t compete at all, and that’s in those highly driven analog sounds.

So I think the answer, to me, is that I’ll keep both. I’ll probably make more music on the DN2 in the short term because there’s so much new stuff to explore there for me. And I think every time I pick up the Syntakt to make music, I’ll deliberately abuse those analog tracks and the FX Block since that’s the secret sauce it provides that the DN2 can’t provide.

In other words, I’ll probably make slightly different music on each of these two devices. I clearly love them both. :heart:

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I tried to help out a naut dialing in a specific FM bass sound using the ST/Rytm analogue engines… Failed. Only managed to get close with the ST digi voices… Anyhoo, had fun and found new sounds from my ST (going to flesh this out later - headphone mix from the Bebe)

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little funky idiotic pattern created with feelings from Wii game Munchables

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All sounds are made with Syntakt but heavily processed, resampled, chopped, pitched etc. I think this also might be my favourite way of using the Syntakt atm: As an incredible flexible source of raw material for later usage in the DAW.

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