Syntakt SY Swarm machine overview // Creating a patch from scratch using the Syntakt 1.20 upgrade

In this Syntakt 1.20 upgrade overview, we show you how to use the SY Swarm machine to create a unique and melodic lead. We'll also cover what its parameters can do and how to save a sound on Syntakt.
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00:00 Hello!
00:05 SY Swarm Sounds
00:24 SY Swarm tutorial
02:13 Syntakt patch from scratch
05:56 How to save a sound on Syntakt
06:30 Where to learn more
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[@alexmax9832]

Arp Mode please

[@dzaxys4643]

Holy sh¡T is my birthday is it Christmas no! It's syntakt update I wasn't expecting Thanks!!!!

[@briannhinton]

I love the camaraderie at the end. Great review!

[@Jxnxdoe]

Love this demo thanks Mario for putting in the work at Elektron! I see you!

[@ginoco]

I love that you showed Sy Swarm, but then how to actually apply it. Really nice tutorial!

[@spot1119]

Broooooo! That was a cold ass beat on that thing. You made me even more glad I bought it! It just keeps getting more and more lit! Thanks for the video! 🙌🏼

[@GeorgeL909]

Yes! Oh man, I was panning two tracks left and right and manually detuning to get supersaws! Then copying the notes over to the panned track for each pattern. You guys just made my life sooo much easier. 😘

[@cryn]

I love the demo at the end

[@neilyounger7585]

Thanks! You really packed a lot into such a short vid.

[@AdrianBortignon]

Awesome tutorial. Great stuff

[@poxipaul]

Great sound demo!! Regards

[@mrnxgbrl]

need one, nice update and demo!(exactly what i’ve been asking for and more, for the DN 😄 SSaw, Basic WFs, RingMod)

[@acaposotta]

At 2:40 -> Emlyn Hughes International Soccer Intro sound (C64). Great video. 🔝

[@meilstone]

Love the Swarm, just made epic strings and church organ sounds with it on the Syntakt! 👍

[@zipnone1996]

sweet upgrade

[@organicfrequencies]

This little thing keeps on giving.

[@livetechsupport909]

I'm sensing a little competish between Elektron and Arturia to try and integrate esoteric eurorack OSC models into their respective much more immediately usable, standalone workstation platforms with effects and presets. SY Swarm has some modular vibes to it. So very happy with all this! If Elektron went ahead and reverse engineered the rest of the Noise Engineering and Mutable Instruments models and I'd pay for updates at that point!

[@kennymester]

We just need an Arturia DrumFreak next!

[@MrBoba-yn2uq]

If only someone would remember about modal cycles

[@latejuly432]

I would love some physical modeled string plucks, metal bars, etc!

[@conduit-seoir]

please add physical modelling I would buy it instantly!

[@latejuly432]

@@conduit-seoir Same, thats the one thing I am waiting on

[@distprod]

And a Wavetable machine!

[@rdean150]

For plucks and strikes and one-shots, seems like samples could cover those bases in a pinch via Digitakt or AR

[@CoffinNachtmahr]

New heat damnnnn !!!!

[@hirokoyamamura]

Yes

[@kennymester]

Mario we need an additional hi-hat digital engine! Maybe we can see additional percussion machines coming next?

[@robertgarvansnyder4665]

Agreed, the current physical modeling machine is the weakest of the bunch for my ear.

[@strangestrains.]

you could make som le really nice hihats with the BITS machine. but good is subjective haha.

[@hirudo881]

Insane! First glide, now apparently my favorite new OSC... if you could add an arpeggiator aswell, i would be loosing it.

[@distprod]

I’ve been using a synched Keystep to play and record arps into the Syntakt. It is really cool when you also factor in the ability to instantly change tracks on the fly with function button and MIDI Channel 1-16 on the keys. You can play different tracks on the Keystep without touching the Syntakt. Note that you can’t do this on a Keystep Pro because of the screen-based menu diving MIDI channel change.

[@tovermoran4360]

@@distprod I do exactly the same, so good!

[@hirudo881]

@@distprod I actually do have a Keystep... i should give it a go!

[@distprod]

@@hirudo881 right on, they’re a perfect match for each other. I wrote all of the tracks for this set using the Keystep and two Syntakts! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5STpGSgq6h3rsk

[@spot1119]

Dam it hadn’t even occurred to me yet to hook my keystep up to it. It’s my main key controller for everything I have basically for the same reason. Weird how simple things you don’t even think about. Haha

[@sketchdashaman]

your mind is nice!

[@jeepts4753]

I wonder what Lorenzo Senni could do with this...

[@PeterBounce]

genius!

[@woolseemusic]

Is there a way to configure live record so it starts on the first note played (as opposed to starting the sequence immediately)? Looks like that’s happening here but can’t find anything in the manual.

[@woolseemusic]

Also this beats hard, the syntakt is great.. good work Elektron, Mario & Ricky, that dap at the end about sums it up 👊🏻

[@strangestrains.]

activate preroll. hold FUNC+METRONOME you can set the metronome time signature, metronome level, and pre roll. hope that helped 👍🏽

[@woolseemusic]

@@strangestrains. def helps, thanks!

[@inputmonitor]

Why is there a decay parameter, when there is ADSR already in the AMP section? I feel like there could be more controls for those machines.

[@barityde]

what headphones is he wearing and how are they connected?

[@roughpeach2011]

Nice. What about model:cycles update?)

[@inkajoo]

Huh. Sounds like SuperWave from Monomachine.

[@pierrefitch]

I just tried to update my syntakt now I keep getting a error msg I can’t get back into my device it won’t let me factory reset it I tried FUNC and power on didn’t do anything so frustrating just got the device today how can I get back into my device

[@TheHmmka]

🍀

[@LudovicCoullet]

My monomachine is jealous

[@AveMcree]

it should be

[@adsick_ua]

does it sounds like flute? not at all

[@strangestrains.]

i said “kind of” 😂 it is a flute from the future

[@smalltown4855]

smudge pips and a water god

[@jsutton241]

How many voices is it

[@ModernDevotion]

Each track on syntakt is monophonic nothing stopping you from adding the same sound to a few tracks

[@jsutton241]

@@ModernDevotion ok thanks just wanted to know if it's mono or poly. Just letting me know it was mono would have been enough.

[@distprod]

@@ModernDevotion it can be done but it’s kind of a pain in the ass to play a single note at a time. Need a way to allocate multiple track voices to say 2-4 voices to a single Syntakt machine.

[@rdean150]

They should bring this super saw to the Digitone, it's got arps and voice-allocatable poly.

[@RockLobster223]

Wow! I can't believe in 2022 that we're getting excited by an £800 box that can now do a monophonic saw waveform (something synths have managed to do for about 50 years).

[@peladoclaus]

We miss Cenk!

[@motoboy6666]

Insaaaane not need for any more update after this and song mode. This must be the mosy feature packed Elektron device ever.

[@distprod]

Nooooo! We still need polyphony via track stacking/voice allocation. With 8 digital and 4 analog tracks, it is capable.

[@motoboy6666]

@@distprod well ok, if the swarm machine had been a chord machine i would have been totally happy though. Locked me up in my room for a year or so with the machine

[@Berus7777]

Never able to learn anything from this guy. His delivery is just problematic in a number of ways. Surprised he works for Elektron.

[@cardinal.666]

Lol wack

[@No.0.o.0]

Since we already have an envelope, get rid of the decay and give us a waveshaper