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Elektron Model:Samples and Model:Cycles now $250
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/09/21/elektron-modelcycles-modelsamples-now-250/
Somebody on the Elektron boards supposedly discovered a patent for a new product that sounds like a synth version of a Digitakt. (A Syntakt? I’ll find the link.)
I was dubious until I saw these on sale. Anybody have the Cycle?
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Ruismaker FM + Segments or Koala covers both of these pretty well.
Yeah Cycles is a ridiculous bargain, imo. Good to have at least 1 modern Elektron step sequencer in the arsenal (its sequencer is overall more powerful than the older silver boxes). Its simplified FM engines are surprisingly versatile. 6-tracks with P-locks, sound-locks (multiple instruments per track), ratchets/retrigs, probability and trig conditions per step, plus scale per track with individual lengths for polyrhythms and polymeters, and can copy/paste and p-lock multiple trigs at the same time. USB class-compliant audio+MIDI with the iPad.
Fugly though.
I have the Cycles. It plays pretty nicely with iOS / iPadOS especially after the last firmware update (prior to last firmware when set to listen to midi start it would always miss the first trig lol).
Honestly, it's more fun on its own imo. You can't really even use it as a controller for other stuff, not the knobs at least because they have fixed values (even though they are endless encoders, go figure...). I was amped to use it as a controller for Drambo but nothing seems to midi map and the fixed value encoders are a bummer (if I'm doing this wrong PLEASE tell me, someone).
I've an iPad 9 on the way that's gonna be completely overtaking anything Cycles could/would do. As a tactile standalone box it's fun, but me personally I haven't gotten a lot of mileage out of it when everything is just so much easier to do on an iPad.
I'm very tempted at that price, but I think I'll wait for the Syntakt.
Yeah, the MIDI CC values are fixed per encoder. The CONFIG MIDI section of the manual starting on page 43 shows how to enable/disable MIDI out, etc.
And the velocity-sensitive pads are crummy.
Here's a cheatsheet for what the FM-parameters do for each FM machine. (From Oversynth).
Link to the shortcut cheatsheet that works for both Samples and Cycles (mostly):
https://www.elektronauts.com/t/model-samples-key-shortcut-reference-including-undocumented-shortcuts/121683
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Man that’s cheap. £222 in the UK. It’s getting towards Volca prices. I wonder what they’ll be going for secondhand now 😀
I notice that it’s for a limited time only - from the Synthtopia site.