I wonder how tall a stack of nori it would take to hold down that button. It’s so light it would be impractical.
I second cheese.
Now what’s the most dense cheese we could weigh the button down with while maintaining the smallest footprint?
A standing stick of string cheese?
I was just thinking that as felt was a material which was suggested to protect the face from contact damage, soon after replaced by sliced cheese, that we needed a non-dairy option for the vegan, the Syntakt conscious, and the lactose intolerant to middleman the space between the heavy greasy cheese weight of preference and the delicate faceplate of the Syntakt. I thought perhaps Nori was a nice, organic, cruelty free solution!
My apologies. Excuse my rudeness. I’m too much a cheese fan and I missed the point of having a healthy and moral option.
Ok.
Fried tofu?
It’s pretty dense. I can relate.
No need to change the material of the weight, I think the syntakt just may prefer a material between direct skin to skin contact with the cheese.
Agedashi tofu might be a bit greasy when coupled with nori, I don’t think it will stick to it’s duty the way a thick hunk of cheese will, it might slide it’s way on down and accidentally start muting trigs.
Ah yes, the dreaded tofu mute. That’s tripped me up in the past.
A good option would be to put a layer of rice between the magnet and the nori - actually it works best if you roll it like sushi. Just make sure you remove the magnet before you eat it (or you could use a little cube of cucumber instead), and remember, soy sauce can only be applied after you’ve removed it from the Syntakt!
A nice sharp pecorino would work well, I think.
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What I use is the Delta Midi Computer rack extension in Reason to sequentially change the output channel after each pressed note. On the Syntakt I make a sound and then copy it to each other track so they are all the same. I have one combinator in reason saved for either the 8 digital tracks, or another for the 3 analog ones. Then I sequence from my Keystep Pro, through reason, and i can also record midi into reason to then play it back. My Syntakt is then audio routed through Digitakt, which I use for the glue compressor and drum machine, into the iPad through USB, where I apply other effects in aum and record into the koala AUv3, this also goes further into my interface (from Digitakt outputs) which in turn lets me record the full stem back into reason. Meanwhile I can also use any desktop or iPad synths as much as i like and push them through this whole set up.
There is a way to do it just with the iPhone/iPad through Drambo (midi to poly unit), but you are limited to 4 note polyphony.
If you just want to use the Syntakt, you can get the RK-002 cable and map one of the tracks as midi back into Syntakt.
Could this be a feature request?
Some key combo to lock Track key on/off?
Lick and stick.
I already posted this in the request thread previously. Would be great if you could assign voices, or group tracks with a “controll all for each group”, but this defeats the “business plan” for the digi boxes I think. Just a software enabled latch for the controll all would be wonderful though.
I have to say, even without this, Syntakt is a great, quick and fun poly synth, but some set-up tinkering is required. If you have your templates prepared for everything in the chain, it’s basically just turn it on and play situation. The no controll all latch does get annoying, hence the magnet question 
You could go totally overkill and get a switchbot, then automate if with a home automation script script.
I have two that turn on my two power conditioners that turn on in an off state, as part of my home automation. One smart wall switch turns on all my studio equipment and LED lighting in sequence (using Home Assistant automation), and turns it all off in sequence when I’m done. Saves me hitting 20+ equipment power switches every time…
Just strolling through this thread, whistling, quietly to my self
Sounds cool. I have always loved tinkering with anything that can be tinkered with. Sometimes this stands in the way of productivity, but in the end, it is productive in and of itself.
CRTs depend on electronic magnetism for their function, I’m fairly sure that OLEDs don’t. Which might mean that there’s no risk with OLEDs.
Interesting, didn’t know that was possible! Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Buying an iPad soon so will definitely be giving this a go.
Woodworking clamps? 
I used to wedge a matchstick in the shift(?) button on my ER1, allowing constant access to the track mutes.
It would work, but I chose the magnet because:
To use the analog filter input on my waldorf rocket, you have to keep the “launch” key pressed down, and honestly I was using a square scrabble letter tile with some blue painters masking tape over the top to keep it held down. I know the desire to find a better solution for this is strong, because I wish that there was a better way for me too. Maybe a magnet is the answer for me as well, you’ll have to let me know how it works out.
Technically I could also send the rocket a constant “note on” command sent from the computer to keep the filter open, but I don’t use it hooked up to a daw, I just use it as hardware so that doesn’t change anything for me.
