@Jacob Completely agree! Both for the convenience, but also since adjusting track levels can affect the sound of the FX drive.
@Leonsarmiento is right, there is an option to set the levels globally or pr pattern (under Project / Global FX/Mix), but I’m not sure how it works. Maybe load up a blank project and make a test…
This essentially ties together all levels on the mixer page between patterns within a project. If you set this to global, the levels on the mixer page no longer change when you change patterns. Or to put it differently, all 128 patterns will share one mixer page. This can be useful depending on your workflow, and could potentially allow you to equalize levels partially within a project. However, it will also wipe out any relative levels between tracks in a given pattern (can’t remember if they come back correctly after disabling global mixer). This certainly isn’t going to solve the issue of pattern volume inconsistency in all cases. Some sounds and patterns will be quieter or louder than others due to sound design etc.
Jumping on this. Would love a “strum” feature to save tracks
My only feature requests for Syntakt would be a 909 hats/cymbals machine (obviously sample based) and a Chorus FX
I just can’t get away with the hats/cymbals on this device all the other machines are perfect.
Do you think they could implement a 909 hats/cymbals in the Syntakt?
Not really. The 909 hats are samples. Syntakt won’t have a sample engine. It may be possible to get close with a new kind of cymbal synthesis machine (if Elektron add this) but even then there would be an audible difference.
I watched this interview with an Elektron employee. He said that Syntakt was originally going to be a “Mini Rytm” and it was supposed to get sample support… But then Korg announced their now discontinued Drumlogue, and Elektron decided to go into a more grooveboxy direction instead.
Hopium/Copium maybe, but that could mean the hardware would be capable of adding PCMs to the digital machines… I doubt we will get custom samples though. Something like the TR machines on the MD would be dope
BD and SD acoustic refer PCM in the parameters. So maybe.
IMP (Impact) sets the level of the digital transient. The transient consists of a mix of PCM and noise.
I agree with this. I think something like @igors48 said, the PCM transients on the new acoustic BD/SD show that not only is the capability there, but Elektron has already considered and then implemented some sampled / waveform playback for machines. I don’t know if they have any desire to make a machine to emulate Roland hi-hats, however.
I tend to think most people would be happy with a new option on digital machines for more “natural” sounding cymbals, something that drops into a mix effortlessly, similar to a 909 in utility. Currently a lot of users have indicated they have better luck with white noise from SY_BITS or randomly-modulated chords than they do from the dedicated Model: Cycles cymbal machine. I think that’s a strong indicator of a “miss” for the sound range of the Syntakt. A decent alternative would make a lot of people happy even if it didn’t sound exactly like a Roland drum machine.
For those looking very specifically for a 909 hat, I feel like the answer is just to use a device that has samples (like the Digitakt 
).
no need for a sample engine, a low bit sample such as a the transient sound of the acoustic BD and SD would do just fine. one of them might be something resembling a 909 hat and they might be some more just to have alternatives. for cymbals i don’t know since they’d need to be longer.
I’m personally having similar challenges with both snares and hihats on the Syntakt. I can usually pull either one off after some fiddling, but they never just “fall out” of the device, it always takes some elbow grease IME.
I’d personally settle for track swap as far as porting stuff over from the digiII’s are concerned. That’s a godsend for prepping your pattns for gigs, especially if the pattns are complex and you dont have any spare tracks to juggle them around with…
Accidentally deleted my post somehow but the long and short of it was that I have a feeling that whenever we get a 1.40 Syntakt firmware, it’s going to blow the device wide open 
maybe wishful thinking but I just have a sense there are going to be substantial additions.
Track swap would be awesome, and I imagine it would be among those things that are more straightforward for them to implement from the newer boxes. The only hiccup being that they’d have to divide the tracks into 1-8 and 9-11.
I think I’m refining my ST wish list down to two things only after many hours of using the ST solo over the last month or so.
First is a chorus. This has always been top of my feature request list. I’ve gone through all the tricks (eg mapping LFO to the FX filter frequency) to create pseudo flangers etc but ultimately this device is crying out for a true stereo modulation effect.
Second is track layering like the DN2. Being able to stack several monophonic synth voices and play them as a single track would be incredible.
Comb filter+ on fx track, some machines/things unique to syntakt, not borrowed from dn2/dt2
Could this be done with an analog filter circuit? I’d love to have it, but they have placed a lot of emphasis on an analog signal path for the FX track, so I’m not sure if they’d be willing to add a digital filter type.
EDIT: This sort of tickles the topic that’s puzzled me since I got a Syntakt. The FX track being a fully analog signal path certainly makes one think they would make sure any future additions didn’t change this (at least not without giving the user an explicit choice first). So will Drive really forever be the only parameter on Syn? Did they include circuitry that could be used in the future for more analog FX? What are some of the effects that could be done? It’s a unique updating scenario compared to their other devices, that much is certain
That’s true, I thought of this after I made that comment.
This reminds me something I was wondering a while back - you suppose the fx track does filter FM? 
I’ve done it before but if they could add the keytracking LFO type from Analog 4, it would be a lot more fun…
FX per-track would be #1 on my wish list, too (chorus/phaser/flanger).
Then something like SY-RAW on the digital tracks but with PWM on one of the waves (more PWM!).
And three LFOs.
Linking adjacent tracks to play polyphonically would be good too but I have a feeling they’ll never do that.
Upgrades are what turn ordinary users into fanatics and evangelists. They also produce a whole load of new Youtube videos which is free advertising.
I certainly wouldn’t have bought a Syntakt with the initial feature set. The updates and new machines are what closed the deal for me.
This will be divisive I’m sure, but: Am I alone in thinking I’d even pay money for a big upgrade without having to replace my hardware (which is a big environmental waste apart from anything else)?
It would also mean Elektron can move a Syntakt II back by a couple of years and give their hardware product managers an extra “release cycle” for free.