Elektron Syntakt 12 Track Drum Computer & Synthesizer

Elektron's Syntakt is a powerful and versatile 12-track drum computer and synthesizer, offering a unique blend of analog warmth, digital precision, and intuitive sequencing capabilities.A Sonic Fusion:Syntakt boasts a hybrid sound engine, combining four analog and eight digital voices. This allows you to craft anything from classic drum machine sounds to complex, evolving textures and experimental sonic landscapes. The analog section delivers the punch and character you crave, while the digital side offers vast sonic exploration with wavetable synthesis and FM capabilities.Expressive Creativity:Elektron is renowned for its intuitive sequencers, and the Syntakt doesn't disappoint. The 64-step sequencer, combined with features like parameter locks and conditional trigs, unlocks a world of creative possibilities. You can program intricate rhythmic patterns, create evolving soundscapes, and add dynamic variations to your music, all within a hands-on and immediate workflow.Additional Highlights:High-Quality Effects: Shape your sounds further with a comprehensive suite of onboard effects, including delay, reverb, distortion, and filters.DAW Integration: Seamlessly integrate the Syntakt into your existing setup with its USB connectivity and MIDI compatibility.Compact and Portable: Despite its impressive feature set, the Syntakt remains compact and portable, making it ideal for studio or live use.A Few Considerations:Learning Curve: As with any powerful instrument, there is a learning curve involved in mastering the Syntakt's full potential. However, the intuitive design and numerous online resources can help you get started quickly.Price Point: The Syntakt falls into the premium price range. While the feature set and sound quality justify the cost for many musicians, it's important to consider your budget and needs before making a purchase.Overall, the Elektron Syntakt is a remarkable instrument that caters to a wide range of electronic music producers and sound designers. Its powerful sound engine, intuitive sequencer, and versatile feature set make it a true creative powerhouse, well worth considering if you're looking to elevate your sonic explorations.

This is my first Elektron instrument. It's built like a tank - the case, the buttons and the knobs should stand up to way more abuse than I'll ever dish out. Listening to the included samples, the sound is luscious, and pro quality, which you would expect at this price. What attracted me to this sampler are the Parameter Lock and Trig Condition features - because, on a per-step basis, you can throw probability percentages, ratios and if/then qualifiers into the mix, and make even a single short sequence sound (potentially) different with each run through. Really cool, and really powerful!The cautions I would raise are - though this is supposed to be one of the 'easier' Elecktron instruments, it still has a pretty steep learning curve than compared to something like the Korg Electribe sampler for example. With practice and study, the workflow does make sense, and the device seems more and more like a musical instrument to me, but that was after a lot of reading, YouTube video watching, and trial and error.That said, I love my Digitakt.Addendum - The beauty of Elecktron's workflow finally dawned on me (some may call it a "duh" moment). I had the chance to work with an Analog Four Mk II, and realized that I already understood much of its operation, because Elecktron keeps things (screen navigation, knob layout) pretty consistent from one instrument to the next. Smart!

There’s a long learning curve if you never tried dawless stuff. This piece of gear sounds amazing but you need patience and dedication to really understand what you’re doing. I’m still trying to figure out things but I like it so far.Feels sturdy and it’s almost like a piece of art.

After about a week with this machine (luckily I’m on a 2 week paid vacation) 3 full days of which I spent installing my own samples and reading info and watching tutorials, as I heard it wasn’t an easy machine to wrap your head around (which it is pretty easy to wrap your head around) I must say that I am fully impressed. The sound is phenomenal, the automatic pitch correction algorithm is lush and warm, the sequencer is dope, the sound locks, parameter locks and conditional triggers are dope. Basically it’s a dope machine. I was up in the air about this and the MPC Live, and DO NOT REGRET MY CHOICE ONE BIT. It’s my first, of undoubtedly more elektron machines. Digitone is next. Just buy it. I do think all the familiarization I did by reading and watching tutorials put me on a fast track to getting comfortable with the machine. It’s a polyrhythm, parameter locking slice of heaven.

This is one amazing product! It takes some effort and patience to get comfortable, but wow it's worth it! It gets you thinking differently, and I would describe it as a unique digital musical instrument. For me it was the perfect hybrid of hands on tactile sample mangling, with deep sequencing, and rhythm composition. Plus the Overbridge 2 Beta (the software to integrate with a DAW) was a really nice surprise. It worked great with FL Studio, and it's really fun sampling over USB of anything you can hear from your computer. Oh and it sounds incredible, that helps :)

No time stretch makes this otherwise modern feeling sampler feel retro but not in a good way. Also all samples are mono, there’s no stereo sampling or sample playback. This is less of an issue than the lack of timestretch but the much cheaper sp404mk2 has stereo sampling, more effects and time stretching. The elektron workflow is amazing and I enjoy making tracks on elektron boxes more than almost anything else but the digitakt feels incredibly limited in 2022 especially since the recently released Syntakt corrects some of the issues that digitakt has like adding a proper scale mode while also being more competitive with similar boxes.