The Ultimate Syntakt Beginner Tutorial

A Syntakt beginner tutorial to show you how to use many of its functions and get into making noises and music as quickly as possible.

many many timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:34 Powering on and starting a new project
01:25 The Function button
02:06 Digital and analog tracks
02:44 Basic sound shaping
04:15 Loading presets
06:52 Changing synth engines
07:22 Setting tempo and metronome
09:01 Changing pattern length
09:47 Step sequencing basics
10:41 Live recording
11:48 Project saving and accidentally erasing
12:48 Filter and amp envelopes
15:20 LFOs
16:51 FX
18:44 Muting tracks
19:07 Parameter locks & advanced step sequencing
24:00 The final four buttons
24:46 Mixer
26:06 Reverb and delay editing
27:31 How to sidechain on the Syntakt
30:26 How to update firmware and load presets

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[yourcitysleeps]

This is the best walkthrough of an Elektron piece of gear that I have ever seen. I feel I'm finally ready to take the plunge. Thank you so much Gabe for your channel and for sharing the knowledge ✌️🖤

[smalltown]

You sir are magnificent. I learned so much. I’m in the early days with Syntakt and already got good results before learning all this useful information.

[sebastiencliche]

I wanted to refresh my brain round Syntakt functions. Best Tutorial I've seen so far. Straight to the point. Excellent structure.

[Thegingerwolff]

Dude this video is amazing. New skill levels unlocked!!
Thankyou

[xdetroit]

thanks for making a very good tutorial had this unit over a yr and learned much appreciate it

[Teleken]

You absolutely earned a sub from me for this one. Got my Digitakt 2 a week ago and I quickly fell in love with the Elektron workflow, to the point where I’m getting ready to order a Syntakt, which is what brought me to this video. You did a great job presenting at (to me) a perfect knowledge level.

I’ll be watching for new content from you going forward.

You could have easily called this “how to get around Elektron *takt devices.” :)

[Sequencer_JY]

Gabe - Appreciate this very clear intro to the Syntakt!

[pesto]

very nice demo and basic explanation for us newbs!!

[joshuadanger]

I just bought one of these. Thanks for the video. It will help me tremendously when I unbox this thing later today.

[Sociotube]

Very useful and accessible primer on a somewhat intimidating machine. Thanks!

[ericvernooij]

I don't own one of these, but I do have a a Digitakt, have had it for a while, and you've just answered some questions I had about the filter page.

[irisheyesb]

Thank you for taking the time for this tutorial 😊

[BraindropOfficial]

youré a legend.. thank you for this detailed video ! saved me from scratching my head for months :D

[nyanko]

Very informative video. Thank you very much for your time. I'm still on a fence of buying one actually. But your video pushed me more into the direction of purchasing the thing :)

[unclemick-synths]

8:25 well I'm glad you made this video. It's giving me a better idea of how the Syntakt works from a user perspective. People say about a learning curve but it seems pretty logical to me. If only the MPC plugins were like this!

[DaveS-Ace]

Your vids r excellent mate, such a big help and so easy to watch, subbed 🤘🖤

[xkr]

Thanks for the excellent video! - One question: Why did you have to save the project as a new project (at 11:50), given that at the very beginning you started out by creating a new project? Was it not an option to save the project you created at the start?

[shannontravis]

Off topic:
but would you consider the TR-8s and the TR-6s to be “beginner-friendly” grooveboxes..?

[arearecs]

Thanks for all your amazing videos. I am very curious to seeing you make some tracks on the Pioneer DJS 1000. Please do a video with that .

[jantuitman]

This was such a good video! Because the Syntakt has so many screens I have a hard time getting into this device and remembering everything, so even though everything is labeled pretty nice it is very helpful to see a walkthrough. I hope you will do a follow up about song mode, copy/pasting patterns, and muting non globally, because I am not using much of that functionality right now, because everytime I want to I already have forgotten too much.