ElektronDigitone 8-Voice Polyphonic Digital Synthesizer E25 Edition

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!

Pros: Magnificent machine. Fixed everything that was a problem on the original, most notably it’s now stereo everywhere and 16 channels.Cons: Overbridge isn’t ready yet, so no multitrack to DAW just yet. Zero cross calculations on sample placement aren’t in the same league as Octatrack, can’t manually place slices like Octatrack.

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.

Nicely built and designed drum machine. Easy to use

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.

The Digitakt is an amazing groovebox/drum machine/sampler/so much more. This was my second of the elektron boxes so I’ve been picking it up pretty intuitively tho still only scratching the surface of the hat this mean machine can do. Price has been steadily climbing but they seem to go on sale often or pick up a used one elsewhere.

A slight learning curve if you're coming from MPC or NI Maschine but it only took me a week to wrap my head around it. It does remind me of the SP1200 a bit which is a good thing.

Magnífico producto, el menú y el flujo de trabajo es súper intuitivo, todo lo contrario a Roland. La memora es mucho más de lo que se requiere, tiene sampleo en estéreo, modo canción, retrigs para rolls (puenteo entre coros y versos de tu canción), tiene efectos, 16 canales estéreo o midi,secuenciador de 128 pasos; simplemente la mejor máquina para sampleos y creación de canciones. Si estás entre una SP404 Mk2 o una digitakt, no lo pienses, DIGITAKT 2 100% Su procesador es MUCHO más rápido, su capacidad es mayor, la velocidad de trabajo es MUY rápida. Tiene soporte VESA 10X10. Elektron lo volvió a hacer!

Gran inversión

Antes que nada, dude un poco por que no conocía al vendedor, pero llego muy rápido y bien empaquetado.Les volvere a comprar algo pronto.Ahora bien, si ya conoces maquinas de Elektron te vas adaptar rápidamente,no es una maquina inmediata si no estas acostumbrado a la marca.Les recomiendo invertir tiempo con la maquina para sacarle mayor provecho.Me gusto el tamaño, los botones y demás son muy similares a las otras elektron,no sentirán gran cambio.En cuanto a los sonidos ,me encanto, aparte puedes crear mas sobre la marcha.El Secuenciador siempre ha sido de lo mejor de esta marca, tengan en cuenta que también pueden secuencias aparatos externos pero se comerán un canal o canales que vayan elegir. No es como la octatrack en ese aspecto.Para terminar, puedes usarla fácilmente in the box,todo el sonido pasa por el usb incluido, solo tienes que instalar el software de overbridge que viene en su pagina.Ojo:les recomiendo usar un puerto usb dedicado o un muy buen hub,minimo de usb 2.0.En fin, si tienen alguna duda dejen algún comentario e intentare resolverlo.

Excelente y gracias

Ho tutte le macchine elektron , mi trovo benissimo ho imparato ad usarle e sono indiscutibili molto prestazionali, io vedo tanti che le vendono che anno pochi mesi secondo me non sanno usarle e non capiscono il loro vero uso vogliono fare musica in pochisdimo tempo e non va bene!