For the next firmware, I hope they manage to circumvent the chip limitations in the Syntakt further. I’m trying to use it live in a workflow involving a DAW, overbridge and plugin effects for each track while recording all of them separately.
There was a big improvement with the last firmware, but still, if fully utilized, Syntakt UI struggles to keep up. It is most noticeable in the LFO section, trying to select destinations, but still, the whole system lags substantially.
I’d love a way to reorder the tracks freely, both analog and digital. It’s so much easier to keep track of different projects if the kick is always on track 1 and the snare is always on track 2, etc. I find that it’s difficult to keep track of which songs use a digital or an analog kick for example.
All that’s needed is a simple abstraction layer that allows you to reorder them from their default of 1-8: digital and 9-12: analog. A simple UI/screen that lets you reorder the tracks by simply pressing the corresponding trig in the sequence you want (hit left arrow to go back one step if you made a mistake). Then hit Yes to commit and the tracks are now reordered and e.g. your kick will sit on track 1 even if it’s technically track 9 internally.
This would allow you to keep consistency across an entire live set and never have to guess where the relevant bits are. I feel this would be helpful for both performing artists on stage as well as my fellow bedroom producers.
A simple swap function would work fine, but yeah, it’s critical that they free us from the hard-locking of where digital vs analog tracks are placed, or you won’t be able to keep organized anyway.
Agreed. Also this would remedy the annoyingness of browsing and pre-listening sounds, where currently you have to constantly switch between digital and analog tracks…
Was brainstorming performance concepts with the FX block this afternoon. One of the things I really found myself enjoying are FILL trigs on Track 13. It makes the FX block a hell of a lot more performative when it can be toggled with holds rather than being muted/unmuted. Also made me think, why doesn’t the FX block have a wet/dry knob like Digitakt does for its compressor?
EDIT: I guess that is kind of covered in the level knob
Sorry if this has been brought up before: when using song mode, it would be really useful if any midi program change messages are (optionally) sent half a bar or so prior to the pattern change, since Syntakt knows which pattern to change to. This would solve all the external sync issues with gear that can’t handle instant program changes.
The workaround today is to program p-locks in the patterns themselves, but this is not idea since you may be reusing a pattern at multiple parts of a song structure. In song mode, the sequencer knows where it is and where it’s going, so it should be much easier for it to stay in sync.
As I’m writing this I’m realizing that this should be possible even when manually switching patterns. When you press PTN+[trig] and it cues up the next pattern, why can’t it just analyze that other pattern, look for pattern change midi messages and send this in advance?
I’d rather compare it to Analog Heat Dry/Wet. I wish you could send tracks to FX TRACK and MAIN, in that case, FX TRACK LEVEL could have been used as wet level.
I guess this is more of an Overbridge feature request, but:
When printing Syntakt audio stems using the standalone Overbridge app, why couldn’t it automatically generate stereo tracks with panning information retained? It’s not a bandwidth issue over USB since it can still send the audio in mono over the cable. The conversion to stereo could happen on the other end, in the Overbridge computer software. Just take the panning data and use it to recreate the stereo panning.
Independently enable/disable midi clock in/out over USB or MIDI ports.
Example: I want MIDI clock in from my iPad, but not from my external synth.
Problem:
The two external clocks are interfering with one another. The clock on my external instrument (Yamaha Reface CS) [unfortunately] can not be disabled on the instrument.
