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Syntakt — At A Glance

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Elektron’s Syntakt is a 12-track drum computer and synthesizer—a sonic metropolis that melts analog and digital synthesis into one instrument of outrageous opportunity. All your sound crafting, sequencing and performance needs are fulfilled in an all-round music mega-box that fits in your lap.

Syntakt is a drum specialist, full of percussive possibilities, but its 12 tracks can be used for melody, harmony and bass sounds too. Experience epic sounds from the past, pulling others into existence from the future, using over 35 analog and digital machines. For the uninitiated, machines in the Elektron universe are special sound generators—synthesizers inside your synthesizer.

Affect the sound of each machine with the intuitive and playful graphics. Select and route your tracks and external inputs, through the FX track. You've got delay, reverb, analog distortion and filters, as well as a couple of LFOs to play around with. Run wild and free with the four expressive modifiers, unleashing your sounds with different velocities, retrigs and varied settings of other parameters. Access a variety of different scales via the keyboard mode—some familiar faces, and some maybe a little less familiar—helping you discover new places and enabling you to take things to another level. And last, but by no means least, the world-class 64-step Elektron sequencer lets you bring dynamic soundscapes into existence.

The streets of Syntakt are never-ending, the neon lights are never-dimming, its underground is fathomless. Discover worlds within worlds.
Elektron Syntakt Drum Computer and Synthesizer
Elektron Syntakt Drum Computer and Synthesizer
Elektron Syntakt Drum Computer and Synthesizer

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  • 12-track drum computer and synthesizer
  • Over 35 analog and digital machines
  • Use the intuitive and playful graphics adjust the sound of each machine
  • Select and route your tracks and external inputs, through the FX track
  • Delay, reverb, analog distortion and filters, as well as a couple of LFOs
  • Various velocities, retrigs and settings of other parameters
  • Variety of different scales via the keyboard mode
  • World-class 64-step Elektron sequencer

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General
  • Analog voices: 4
  • Digital voices: 8
  • Machines (analog and digital): 30+
  • Sequencer: 64-step
  • Synth (or MIDI) sequencer tracks: 12
  • FX track for effects automation: 1
  • Analog multi-mode filter per analog voice: 1
  • Digital multi-mode filter per digital voice: 1
  • Base/width filter per digital voice: 1
  • Analog FX stereo filter: 1
  • Amp envelope per voice: 1
  • Assignable LFOs per track: 2
  • Stereo delay send effect: 1
  • Stereo reverb send effect: 1
  • Analog distortion per analog voice: 1
  • Digital distortion per digital voice: 1
  • Sound storage capacity: 2,048
  • Factory preset sounds: 1,000+
  • Trig modifiers (retrig, velocity, mod A, mod B): 4
Inputs and Outputs
  • 1/4" impedance balanced audio outputs: 2
  • 1/4" audio inputs: 2
  • MIDI ports (in/out/thru) with DIN sync: 3
  • USB 2.0 hi-speed port: 1

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