I’d love this for all the digi boxes
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Can’t believe that the analog noise machine on the Syntakt is the only analog sound without overdrive. Why?! Overdrive on the noise machine has always been an important aspect of how I designed sounds on the RYTM. You can get such great sounds with overdriven noise + filter. It’s a shame it’s missing on the Syntakt, and it’s so strange how it’s the only analog voice without overdrive.
Not sure if it’s possible with a OS update, but would be great to set this added.
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Agree, but I believe the noise generator is digital (page 17 of the manual), still I think there is an overdrive for the other digital machines.
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That’s fair to call out that the noise is actually digital, but it can only be used on an analog track and doesn’t behave like the manual says it should. The manual shows that the digital noise source feeds into the track’s overdrive circuit before the filter, which it does not.
[mod edit: @eangman?]
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Yes, it’s definitely a strange omissions considering the manual is stating otherwise. I agree, hopefully they will add it in the future.
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Latency compensation?
Just on a side note:
I was prepping/checking out the latest video by Akai for the MPC series, as the MPC one tickles my fancy (auto sample function, as for one: Sampling external hardware/vsts! Just like Ni Machine i believe can also do? in a SampleRobot-like fashion, the software predecessor)
But anyway, to my surprise they updated their MPCs for Compliant audio over USB (like Elektron) but in addition having 10 in/out !!! Becoming a multitrack recorder! (like a tascam or latest Zoom, but with additional functionalities)
In the demo it re-records the output of the MPC back in through a USB connected Tascam mixer, without latency (it seems, or maybe internal latency micro adjustment?)
Real nice!
Anyhow,
cheers!
Not sure if this is possible but can we get a midi cc value or midi note on the FX channel track for adding and removing tracks from the analog fx block?
I would love to be able to change this remotely some how other than a new patern
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8.1 of the manual states that the memory is a 1gb +drive. 
why didn’t I see this before?
So, imo asking for a sample machine isn’t such a stretch. If we don’t, all that memory may never get used.
I also wonder if it is/was available for beta testers already since some of those sounds on the initial album with all sounds from a new place were obviously samples.
The DN also has a 1 GB +drive. It won’t mean that it will get sample playback any time soon. The device would need a dedicated RAM memory for playing back the samples, just like the DT.
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Good point.
Both Digitone and Syntakt have twice the amount of RAM that Digitakt has.
That’s probably because it’s just easier to use the same parts for all of them.
That still doesn’t mean DN or ST will get sampling, but it’s not a hardware restriction.
they weren’t and it’s been debunked a few times in earlier threads
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CC86 (0=off, 1-127=on), but you need to send it to the track channel that should be added/removed.
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I’m not too much of a technical person, but I think you are mixing up things here. The ST and DN have twice the amount of processing power of the CPU in comparison to the DT, if I remember correctly. I don’t think we have any official word on the RAM for the DN and ST.
But apparently not a lot:
Sorry, I don’t know how to properly quote when using my phone on this forum.
I’m not mixing up anything, they have two of the same CPU + RAM pairs.
Not official, but we do have pictures of all the PCB’s on which the memory chips are clearly visible.
Each CPU has 128MB of RAM to work with.
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Ah nice, thanks a lot for the information and sorry about calling you out for mixing things up. So I guess the statement regarding the “not a lot” means that not a lot of the available RAM is leftover for playing back samples?
In any case, I hope the syntakt will stay a synthesizer. Imho, samples would only make it unnecessarily convoluted with all the sample/sound management adjustments that would have to be integrated into the ST.
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As a person who thinks it’s the perfect machine for her, but not having received the unit yet …
I NEED MORE DISTORTION
(like Boss HM-2 or Fuzz types! Because all the Bitcrushing, “Drive” (never enough) and Wavefolding yada yada doesn’t do it for me at all.)
Edit: … which I missed already on the Model:Cycles, and putting the whole output at once into pedals is not a good solution in the long run 
… the Elektron Model:Cycles is a junkyard industrial percussion symphony - YouTube
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I think the “not a lot” refers to overlap between the machines.
That could very well be software wise.
Although all these devices clearly share similarities and undoubtly also firmware code, that doesn’t mean that creating a “sample machine” to choose from wouldn’t mess things up.
If the firmware is made as a realtime OS, that would mean that every CPU cycle and calculation has to be accounted for. Anything that does not happen at the exact time it should happen would break the OS. Swapping synthesis algorhythms for sampling interpolation could very well have that effect.
The RAM thing is probably not the issue, the machine types shouldn’t take that much memory. But having free memory is not the only requirement.
I would like to see a sample player as a machine added to the ST, but only Elektron knows if it’s feasible.
If adding a sample player was planned (in the hardware), I can’t see a good motive for releasing it without that feature. To me, that means it’s far more likely we won’t see it. But this thread is all about dreaming 
I think the amount of (excess) RAM in the machines has nothing to do with planning or firmware.
I bet it’s just cheaper to buy 128MB chips, because who even makes smaller ones in bulk these days? Also buying one type of chip vs different ones for each machine stacks the discount on that one part.
There’s nothing wrong with dreaming about Elektron using all that memory for more machine types or sampling though.
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