Elektron Syntakt: 10 tips on how to create and perform a live set
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- Hello techno, synth and groovebox lovers!
The Syntakt has become one of my favorite pieces of gear to create techno and house performances because you get great results really quickly, but you can also dive deep and get lost in sound design details and step sequencing.
Enjoy 10 tips on how to create a Syntakt live set and feel free to download the complete project on gumroad to support this channel!
Thank you!
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A wonderful groove box.
Thanks for sharing these tips 😊
Cheers. I hope you got something out of this.
interesting. i just discovered a few of your techniques last night. What I've learned was : Don't be Lazy. Don't be afraid to turn some knobs. Take risks. It's all there right in yo face. Do it!
Hello Syntakt-fam!
If you're interested in the patterns with all the melodies, sounds and effects I used in this performance or you just want to support me, you can download the full project here:
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Thank you sir!
You are very welcome!
Love this! I have a Syntakt and haven't really seen a lot of these super practical tips before for a performance.
Good to know this video was helpful :-)
Love this kind of tutorial videos as well as the more detailed ones such as the breaks/drops video. Looking forward to more - keep them coming plz. 👍
thank for share! very useful and inspiring. Blessings from Uruguay
Wooooow absolutely impressive ❤
👏👏👏
The claps coming in sounds great🎉
Cheers! I like to layer my claps with a snare drum and put a high and low pass filter on them...
@@wolfgang_grows Oftentimes I find claps annoying but you handled them perfectly.
@@wolfgang_grows Aha! Great technique.
Perfect format of video bro 👌 Thank you so much, now I know how to prepare live for much more easy and fun performing
Glad you got some value from it!
Thats great
Thanx for sharing
My pleasure!
Hey thanks, these are great tips! Giving yourself a note in the name is a great idea to keep you quick and on track, and I like the idea of arranging the progression left to right from patterns 1-8.
Superb video! WIsh someone would made same construtive video for Octatrack!
They’re really useful,thanks!!!
Great! Good to know!
Thank you good work !
Great tutorial that shows the cool stuff you can do on this machine when you know it well & also how to arrange music.
I smiled when you mentioned that you could always remove the cheesy chord stabs if the people don't like it. Are they gonna send you angry e-mails? lol :D :D :D
Thanks a lot for this video.
😂 I imagined being in a live situation when I wrote about the cheesy chord stabs.
The best way you get instant feedback on TH-cam might be a live stream, though.
Anyways, glad you enjoyed my video!
Nice tracks and tips, thank you! even I’m totally not into multiple pattern tracks on the Digis. The copy/paste orgy just to change a sound in a track is just a pain in the ass. How do you manage it? Would be interesting to know, maybe you can convince me to give it a new try.
Glad you like my music and tips. I enjoy your Elektron techno/dub techno videos a lot. For some reason, I don't find copying patterns annoying because it allows me to make changes per pattern that wouldn't be possible in clip based work stations like the Akai Force or Ableton. Plus it's good that you found your own workflow. I just want to show some possibilities, but I don't want to convince people to do it exactly my way. Greetings to Switzerland and keep on making techno! Maybe we can have a collaboration in the future...
you can save and load sound presets on the syntakt, it can help with that I guess (I don't know if a sound based on a preset is updated when the preset is in another pattern anyway, have to try it)
@@Arkansya info? Iam curious
@@wolfgang_grows what if you want to lets say filter some track, you have to copy it everywhere right?
Great tips. Thank you
Very useful, well explained and really nice tunes. Thanks a bunch! ❤❤❤
Glad it was useful and you like my music, too. That's the purpose of these videos.
Thanks, I learned a lot!
One Question on production.. How do you reorder your patterns? Is there an faster way than copy and paste? Sometimes I need to switch pattern positions or shift a whole sequence of patterns (eg if I need a another pattern in between break and drop). I find the pattern arrangement the most challenging on this device.
Cheers
Glad this video is helpful. I'm afraid that copying and pasting is the way I do it, too. It's a little cumbersome and needs some strategic planning, but if you've organized your patterns the right way, you can jump back and forth between them without having to rearrange them again.
❤!
Cringed on the explosions VFX :D
But in a good way. Great vid!
Thank you for this. But how do you duplicate one pattern to the next? I find I have to copy over every sound parameter and it's just not convenient at all
Func + Rec is copy pattern. You can switch to a new pattern and Func + Stop to paste. You can also do it on the fly without leaving the current pattern by holding PTN, then hold the + new pattern trig number, then hold Stop. It will come up with a dialog box ticking down, wait for it to disappear and you've pasted successfully.
I always use global mutes instead of pattern mutes because I never wrapped my head around how to properly "reset" pattern mutes. Do you just never go back to a previous pattern during a set, and then make sure that you load the project without saving?
@@rtemis-rho Hi, global mutes (green) cannot be reset. You have to push each of them again if you want to make a track sound after muting it. Pattern mutes (purple) can be applied after pressing func+yes. Then, as soon as you hit func+no, all the mutes go back to the original state. That’s the method I use with one-pattern-jams. When jamming with more patterns, I mostly use green mutes. Btw, sometimes I go back to previous patterns. If I do that, I hit func+no right at the beginning of the old pattern to make sure the pattern goes back to the original state after I previously messed around with it.
I always mangle the sound and after pattern change it parameter jumps... Wish it had kits system like MachineDrum
It's still there on some other Elektron devices - Analog Rythm and Analog Four. The Kit system.
But they've got rid of it for the Digi/Takt stuff.
I wish you could lock some tracks to Kits while using the Digi way for the others. Would be a very flexible way to work! But more flexibility is more confusion and setup, so I dunno...
cheating arp synth. There is no arp on sytakt. Missleading wording. i do not like that.
An arpeggio synth is a synth that does not play (chord) notes simultaneously, but as a succession of quick single notes instead. That's what it is and that's why I called it an arp synth. It's basic music theory and doesn't have anything to with an alleged arp mode that is not (yet) available on the Syntakt. You can easily program an arp pattern with the step sequencer of the Syntakt by the way. Anyhow, thank you for your constructive feedback and your kind words.
Great tips, well done 🎛🔥
Glad you enjoyed!
You don’t have a very nice looking banana but otherwise brilliant!🫵😸
Thanks! That was the only one I had at home at the time of the video shoot and admittedly, it has been lying around for some time😅