I could see why they wouldn’t add a sample machine to the ST before, but now the DT2 has stereo sampling I was thinking they might add a basic mono sample machine. Even if this was just a one-shot sampler player (no sampling, looping, stretching etc.). I think it would be a great addition. Additional bonus if they added the ability to layer samples with the existing machines like on the Rytm.
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I doubt it, but I love the idea.
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I can’t find any concrete information on if it has a plus drive the size of a digitakt or not. It has a +drive that can store exactly what it needs to (x amount of projects and y amount of sounds) but I don’t know if it actually has like 1GB of internal memory like the digitakt 1 has.
A sweetwater sales page says it has a 1GB +drive but I wonder if that’s accurate or copy/ pasted from the digitakt page, cuz no other site mentions that.
That would be the one thing holding it back, other than Elektron not wanting to compete with themselves. Though I feel a very basic sampler, basically Digitakt from 2017, wouldn’t be competing with Digitakt 1 or Digitakt 2. If all it could do was hold like 40 seconds of samples that would be enough for the use case here.
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i hope not. it’s a synth powerhouse and i’d love to do even more synthy stuff on it.
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But you’d be able to … not use it though, if it happened ?
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it’s development time and resources that could’ve been spend for something amazing that expands the synthesis possibilities.
there are tons of little samplers on the market.
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Right … but if you want to do it all within one box ?
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Get a different box then. Or put an old dt right next to a syntakt and pretend they’re one box
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If Elektron adds a sampling machine, then it won’t be a synth anymore. And all the people who bought it as a synth will have to sell. I’d rather them develop more machines like Alloy and the Chord Machine - sounds that are good for bread and butter drums.
If they add a calculator it won’t even be a musical instrument anymore! 
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kind of a silly idea, adding sampling to something labeled and marketed as a (drum) synthesizer. especially when they have sampling (or sample playback) in the OT, M:S, DT, and RYTM. should they add sampling to the A4 too?
yes, RYTM has sampling. but it was designed and marketed that way from the beginning (OK, the mk1 only played samples, didn’t actually sample). and adding sampling (or sample playing) to the ST would further blur the lines between the RYTM and ST, especially now that RYTM has some ST-like machines.
anyway… just seems weird to me. I would prefer that if they add to ST, they just add more ST style stuff.
Syntakt with a sampling machine is bad. It would ruin it. I simply wouldnt be able to resist using it, which I wouldnt want to do. You see what you made me do?!
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But those hats…
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As someone with a syntakt and digitakt that’s going out the door soon, I’d love for this to happen. But I’d be genuinely shocked if they went through with it.
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Sampling on Syntakt. Whats next, synthesis on Samplers? Do you really think they’re going to add filters and comb filters and amps and the ability to loop waveforms to a device like digitakt or octatrack?!
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Yes for a simple drum kit à la Monomachine !
And a machinedrum PI synthesis !
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We are going to be seeing threads like this right up to the point where Syntakt is discontinued.
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Probably will then release ST2 with a sample machine 
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Probably not - because of limited RAM and lack of storage. And much more complicated interface. Also I would not want a limited sampler, but single cycle or wavetable stuff could be quite a natural addition… It can occupy just some 10Mbs of data and would require only a new type of “machine”.
(but there was secret drive unlocked in some update, was not it?)
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Jokes aside, bd and snare acoustics from the Rytm update is just the amount of sampling that Syntakt could use. If there’s also a nice new cymbal capable machine and some others (hoping it’s as generous as rytm here), I think that could all round it out the way the latest Rytm update did for it, and then some.