The bang for the buck.
Will make you sell back other machines.
Very good strike from Elektron on this one, to make it quick : if you need it then just buy it.
Pros:
- Sounds great, big and heavy out of the box, but clean enough to fit any sound system, productions or genres.
- The parameters are very well thought depending on the selected sound engine (called machines), meaning there is no sweat spot on the sound design side : only good sounding spots and amazingly sounding spots. You wont tweak it four hours before finding something that fits the rest of the track, and will quickly be able to do what you have in mind. Only efficient
parameters are kept so the sound design is very very sweet and inspiring
- You can use till 4 Analog Rytm (analogue) engines (including a dual VCO engine) so don't need to buy one
- You can use till 4 Digital Synths very good engines so you don't need to buy other 500$ like external synths. Yes there is FM engines.
- It's fully Overbridged, including the audio input. It means you can record all the 12 channels separately via a simple USB cable connection to your laptop.
- The sequencer is to notch, and you can also sequence other gear with it
- The MIDI sync is top notch, if you send midi to an external synth and route it back (stereo) into the Syntakt input, you wont hear any difference with the other internal sounds playing.
- The learning curve is not that high, within a week of youtube tutorials (like 6 hours of your precious time), you will be able to adapt the machine potential to your needs even if you are a beginner with the Elektron machines : just start with this one, as they are updating equally their other machines in terms of workflow, so it's a very good first machine for anyone.
- Slave it to other master sequencers like Torso T-1 works perfectly
- Play live with it without fear
Cons:
- A little expensive
- Warms a little bit but it's related to the analog components and Elektron are working on it.
- Not battery powered
- The master FX bus is a serial master FX bus... so you have to carefully choose what you send into it. If distortion is activated, then everything you send to the FX bus will be distorted thru it, and it just makes no sense, as you will hear mostly a big distorted thing (can be useful for the noise heads around still) : would be nice to improve the routing of this master FX bus, so you can send some drums in the master distortion but not the synths and so on...
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