I'm a chap from South East London, UK. Who's obsessed with making electronic music in my free time (in my shed). I've been into music all my life, different genres at different times, but only making music for the last few years. I'm still on a journey, and loving drawing inspiration from all the different music I've enjoyed throughout my life. All the gear I own has been paid for by me. I'm a long time G.A.S sufferer, but have got a bit of a handle on it recently. I'm not here to sell you anything, I'm here to make music. I do sometimes get a bit excited about new gear I buy, but I'm never going to directly sell you anything. I just enjoy making music on the best gear for my needs. If you enjoy my musical miscellany then that's amazing!
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@@LukezyM Digitakt is mostly drums and percussion. Textural stuff and maybe the odd synth sound. But Syntakt is everything else. If I'm using the MIDI Fighter Twister then it's controlling the MPC but I only really use that for a couple of sounds. Syntakt is doing the heavy lifting 😄
I love your music! I've been listening the past couple weeks and you're very inspiring. The sounds you coax out of the syntakt are the sounds I was hoping it could make. I'm thinking of getting one to use with my sp-404 and digitone keys
Syntakt is really great! It took me a while to really like a lot of the sounds I was getting out of it, but now I’m really vibing with mine. Syntakt and Digitone can really do everything you need.
@@jackkloster9548 🙏 thank you. Great to have you around. I appreciate you listening to my stuff. The Syntakt is by far my favourite synth ever (I've owned a lot), I do miss having polyphony though, but everything else is so good. It's deep and has so many sweet spots, but it's like bowling with the guard rails up. I love that you can't really go too far into unusable sounds (as the Digitone can in my experience). I think it would make a great partner to your DN and SP404. All bases covered. Like all gear, it takes a bit of time to understand it and to get what you want from it, but once you do, it's easily the box that consistently makes patches I really really like
@@Space_pulse totally agree. The Syntakt does have a certain sound but I think that once you understand it and know it's sweet spots it can sound like any synth you can think of. The mix of digital and analog is so good.
Ha cool. I like to make stuff that's just fun sound exploration. Not taking my self too seriously. I grew up listening to Mr Scuff and love that kind of quirky music. It's good to mix it up now and again
It's just 2 hi hats with short hold and releases. Think I added some bits reduction to crisp them up a bit. Glad you like it. Had a lot of fun with this one
Thanks! Yeah they're a great paring. The Twister is just plugged directly into the MPC at the moment. I've not tried anything else yet. It's so easy with the MPC as it has MIDI learn so you can assign knob twists and presses to a tracks parameters very easily. I'd imagine setting it up with the Elektrons would require a lot more configuration mapping MIDI CCs through the software.
Thanks you so much for saying that, it makes all the hours I spend justified (wellI enjoy doing it anyway, but it helps a lot that others enjoy them too). 🙌🏼
MPC is doing the piano sounding arps at the beginning (and throughout). Any time I'm using the MIDI Fighter Twister that's MPC sounds but pretty much everything melodic is the Syntakt
Dope track. Also... maybe try raising the Syntakt slightly above the desk to get airflow underneath? Can't see what stands you have underneath the Digi boxes but I found my Syntakt was a LOT cooler when I put it on a stand with a big gap underneath for air.
@@touchthatdial nice one. Yeah I've got all my gear proped up with little aluminium laptop stands, doesn't help my shed has pretty bad ventilation. I've got a little AC unit but it's so loud I can't really make anything with it on 🤣
The MPC is doing a couple of textural pads. Every time I use the MIDI Fighter Twister I'm affecting the MPC. I pretty much grew up in Brighton (in the UK that is, I know there's a couple of Brightons in North America but there's only one true Brighton 😊)
@@DanChippendaleMusic Haha, yep! Only one true Brighton. I've been here for about 15 years now. Great city. Do you sequence Syntakt directly using the Syntakt's keyboard (mode) / sequencer? I pretty much have the same setup that I'm playing with. Nowhere near your level yet tho 😀
@@kasparasg Cool. Yeah Brighton is a vibing city. Bet it's busy atm! I sequence the Syntakt with the folded keyboard (set to a scale) but also have a keystep under my desk that I can use to play notes on all three boxes individually. Just using the auto channels and a midi routing box. I've been asked many times to do a MIDI/Audio routing video. I'm going to try and do on in the next few weeks. Keep your eyes peeled. Keep on with the Syntakt, it's such a joy to use and once you know it's sweet spots it can make some amazing patches 🤘🏼
thank you for having a listen and the sub 🫶 appreciate it. My gear has expanded from Elektron to MPC (although have bought and sold a few Akai boxes in the past). This is a banger of a set up for me (I just wish the MPC One wasn't red and half the size 🤣)
@@DanChippendaleMusic To be honest, I've seen some very good looking skins for the MPC. You should look in to it. On the other hand, the red color does bring life to the all E-gear. 😀
Ah the Twister is only connected to the MPC here. I need to reroute everything to try and get it working with the Elektron boxes. But I find them hands on enough so might not even bother. This current setup is working just great 😃
@@pk3776 thank you! Glad you like it. yep, direct into an audio interface. I've never used Overbridge (tried it once but then it becomes more like work, I prefer just mixing before recording and then moving on). I just use a bit of Ozone once I've recorded my jams. Bit of soft clipping, limiting and some light EQ. I'm not one to linger on stuff too long. Can get lost in the minute details, just make sure the overall vibe is decent and not worry about perfection 😁
@@DanChippendaleMusic thanks for the info. Please do more jams. Perhaps do a video on how you construct your set for us beginners. Check out Mikes channel, he’s pretty good to… I hope you don’t mind me posting the link… Thanks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iChaH9YP5l4.htmlsi=cHuc3v05OPy9VWBT
Never thought I would get into the Elektron pool until I got the Digitakt I. I am ready to add more. Great vibes and thank you for performing. Stay safe!
@@krazywabbit they're so solid when used together. Think the DT and ST are amazing together. Had the Digitone a couple of times, it's great but far more complex and takes too long to get it sounding how you want it. Well that has been my experience anyway. Wonder if they'll ever release another box in this range 🤔
yes - i pre-ordered one of the first run SidStations back in the day.. ive had quite a few of their boxes, now only the Rytm - btw its the best peice of hardware gear ive ever owned, out of like 100s of synths and drum machines over 20+ years
The DT was my Elektron gateway drug. Now it sits alongside an A4, RYTM and DTone. Often thought about replacing the A4 and RYTM for a Syntakt, more compact set up. Maybe one day…
@@DD-te6oj I'm pretty sure this is just factory sounds in this video. I did copy over a load of samples a few days after it arrived but I'm not a sample hound and rarely sample anything, I just mangle what's available on the device.
@@ronsone8373 I used to own an MPC One, Live 2 and Force and sold them all in my gear progression. The workflow was always pretty poor. I'm now just using mine as a multi timbral synth which is working well for me right now. Not sure if the firmware improvements will bring much to me but will see once I've upgraded
really nice music. I never owned an Elektron device but I have a force, live 2, sp404mk2, push2, maschine mk3. Im thinking of adding an elektron device either syntakt or dt1 or 2. I also play house music. What do you think i should get?
@@vergellim7361 thanks 👍👍 sounds like you have a lot of gear and have a lot of bases covered already. I guess it boils down to whether you prefer sampling or synths. I really love the Syntakt. Such a fun synth to programme and if you spend enough time with it you can make so really great patches in no time at all. I couldn't say which would be best for you. Might be best to write a short list of things you feel you need for your set up and see which one fits best 👍
@@DanChippendaleMusic I dont need another sampler but I like the digitakt sampling - sound design - sequencing. At the same time I like to have the sound presets of the syntakt and just tweak without worrying about sampling
@@vergellim7361 yeah was going to say, you have sampling covered. The Syntakt could be the one then. My only negative is that it's monophonic. Obviously you can copy patches between tracks and make polyphonic sounds but its a bit annoying you cant play chords. But i still love it and wont ever sell it. The absolute best thing about Elektron boxes is the random button. Just randomise the Synth page and you get amazing starting points for patches. Anyway, whatever you decide to do, the Elektron way of doing things is so fun once you get used to it. Easily my favourite way of sequencing, and I've owned a lot of gear 😅
I have four of these. My issue with them is that they aren't high res, only 7 bit, 128 values. There's some fakery you can do to emulate higher res in the daw, but that only goes so far, and it's emulation. If you consider how it works, what it does is smooth out transitions, but in order to do this, it has to first get a notification that there has been a 0-128 change, and then it smoothes it out. So it's behind the actual physical movement. Does this matter in reality? Sort of, yes. It's misadvertising that they explicitly call them "high resolution". They aren't. Their other definition of "high resolution" is that if you hold down an encoder you have to turn it more to get an adjustment. Ha. This is not high resolution, it's a lie, just twisting language. If you pick these up used at a decent price they are a steal, but they aren't worth their price tag retail. Fadferfox ec4 can go 14bit. Intech says their cheap ones can go up to 10 bit "Yes, resolution can be set from 7-12 bit, although 11 and 12 aren't recommended due to the amount of noise picked up from the reading of control elements.". Having said all that, MOST hardware is still only 7-bit anyway, so works great on hardware. Just don't pay full price for one. But, having said that, there ARE more NRPN hardware synths coming out. Hydrasynth, for one, shows obvious shortcomings in inferior hardware controllers. I'm going to try out an Intech shortly, if no good I'll take the plunge into EC4, which is good value relative to Midi Fighter even without considering the encoder resolution.
Sadly there were no used ones when I was looking. But did get a decent price from a UK/Europe company that has no import taxes. I saw the supposed high resolution issue in a review. It just makes the movement slower but not more granular 😬 it's fine for me as won't be using it in a DAW but can see why this would be frustrating if you do. I think for me this is a sound investment (no pun intended) but there's better options for more serious applications
@@DanChippendaleMusic Yeah, don't get me wrong, I have four of them and love them. Almost every controller out there is 7 bit, and MOST people would never hear any stepping, let alone know what that even is. The faderfox is almost twice the price and I have my doubts that the Intech is legit. The Midi Fighter is at least highly functional and dependable, with no issue whatsoever with 99% of the hardware gear out there. And I'm plain wrong about not being worth their retail price. They certainly are relative to other controllers. Nice jam by the way. Subbed.
