I really enjoy your demo/overview videos, they're always unique and I always pick up a new technique or tip. I love that you emphasize exploration and enjoyment. Good stuff.
Thanks, Sarah. Both for giving a good high-level of this device, but also for just 'using' parameter locks so I could watch without a bunch of explaining to confuse me (as has the case up to now). I get it now. Much appreciated all around.
10:26-10:37 reminds me of a robot straining to lift up something heavy, then comically tipping over. great breakdown; clear and educational. May pick one up.
I don't find time to watch full videos but I always love watching the music & exploration part of your videos. That first thing you did with playing different timbres across the keys is the best performance idea I've seen for an Elektron box in a long time! Can you also play them like that while the sequencer is playing?
Great Video! Once again, your fresh approach gives me new ideas for my gear (Hydrasynth, west coast stuff...). Do you prefer major or minor? ;-) Greetings from Vienna!
If you were looking for an overall brain most people would say Octatrack, but honestly they’re a HUGE learning curve and a lot of people give up. All the boxes in this form factor (inc Digitakt/Syntakt) are very much more immediately accessible and you really only need to sync them as they all have the same excellent sequencing architecture. The drum capabilities of this thing are making my Syntakt seem a bit redundant frankly
Digitone is just as good if you have any other sampler OG 4 trax and new up to 16 trax (you can sacrifice all sound tracks to use them as midi drivers) each of 16 notes polyphony. Otherwise get digitakt to cover ur sample + brain needs. (Octatrack if more advanced but I doubt you want to buy octatrack as 1st elektron device)
I had never owned an Elektron device till a week ago (owned many synths and simpler Sequencers). I bought a Syntakt and immediately fell in love with the workflow. Elektron devices force you to synthesize sounds in the context of patterns/loops, not just sounds. Sounds that are simple and not too useful on their own are suddenly transformed into something interesting over a single measure, thanks to the step Sequencer and it's parameter locks going to the filter and the direct hands on sound shaping. The sound design options are all very immediately accessible, which make it tempting to Tweak. After 3 hrs of the Syntakt, I returned it and bought the Digitakt II. It added 4 more tracks, double the steps, and sampling (including loading single cycle waveforms, basic granular synthesis, and basic wavetable synthesis minus the morphing). I use mine for drums, Rhythmic basses & Plucks, and drone textures. The digitone and digitakt would Sequence external gear well, both 16 tracks. I'd pick one based on the sounds you want to go with it (Samples or these synthesis machines). I'm tempted to pickup one of these to go with it as a glitchy noise machine...but I think that's GAS. The digitakt should be able to handle what I would use this for, with the exception of swarm spread & modulating oscillators to one another.
