新手入门

Rain is like the sound of trains outside your window. Looking out, you see reflections of the passing above- ground subway and crimson tail lights. Refractions in the lingering water droplet trigger memories. Off-world colonies and the rhythm of life, on our world and others, imagined or actual, exist at the edge of our grasp in a blur of light-speed relativistic reality. Bliss. The focus becomes your reality. Colors and beats create a musical tapestry in the life of the maximal metropolis you experienced. You go back to your automated coffee-bot, who greets you with a pixelated smile. The synthesis of emotion feels sincere, and you take the sentiment to heart. The vapors waft pleasingly to the ceiling when pouring and absorb into the climate control of your cozy complex. Now is the time. You sit at your sonic workspace and turn on the Elektron Syntakt. It breathes into life, and the glint of red light spirits you into action. Analog synthesis meets digital synthesis. A musical cyborg companion. Your pathfinder on a new musical journey, one both familiar and new. You begin turning knobs, finding pleasing and even unsettling sounds. The beat starts. Pieces fall into place like a dozen meteorites on a perfect trajectory into an unnamed expanse. Time crumbles, limitations blur, and it is just you and the machine. A message comes across your field of view in another space, not entirely grounded in our reality: We thank you for joining us on this adventure. There is much to explore. This is our collective step in the ethereal Ouroboros of a new musical epic. - The Elektron Team Syntakt User Manual. This manual is copyright © 2026 Elektron Music Machines MAV AB. All reproduction, digital or printed, without written authorization is strictly prohibited. The information in this manual may change without notice. Elektron’s product names, logotypes, titles, words or phrases may be registered and protected by Swedish and international law. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. This manual for Syntakt OS version 1.40A was last updated April 4, 2026.

Make sure you place the Syntakt on a stable support, such as a sturdy table, with sufficient space for the cables. Make sure to switch off all devices before you connect the Syntakt to other devices. 1. Plug the supplied power adapter to a power outlet and connect the small plug to the 12 VDC In input on the Syntakt. 2. Connect OUTPUT L/R from the Syntakt to your mixer or amplifier. 3. If you want to control the Syntakt from a computer, connect a USB cable between the computer and the USB connector of the Syntakt. 4. If you want to use MIDI to control the Syntakt, connect the MIDI OUT port of the device you wish to send data from to the MIDI IN port of the Syntakt. The MIDI THRU port duplicates the data arriving at the MIDI IN port, so it can be used for chaining MIDI units together. If you want to use Syntakt to control other devices using MIDI, connect the MIDI OUT port of the Syntakt to the MIDI IN port of the of device you want to control. 5. If you want to mix in audio to the Syntakt from external sources, connect the audio source to INPUT L/R. 6. Switch on all units. Switch on the Syntakt by toggling the Power switch located at the back of the unit.

You can find a number of preset patterns and sounds in the Syntakt. Follow the instructions below to get started exploring your new instrument. 1. Press [BANK] and then press [TRIG 9] key to select bank A. The screen reads “BANK A : SELECT PTN”. 2. Press [TRIG 1] key to select the first pattern of bank A. 3. Press [PLAY] to listen to pattern A01. 4. Press [PTN] and then press [TRIG 2] key to select pattern A02. It will start once pattern A01 has reached its end. Select pattern A03 by pressing [PTN] and then press [TRIG 3] key, and so on. 5. Press [STOP] to stop playback. For more information, please see “9.2.2 PATTERN CONTROL” on page 37.

To change the Tempo BPM setting, open the TEMPO menu by pressing the [TEMPO] key. Use the LEVEL/ DATA knob to change tempo. The [ARROW] keys [UP] or [DOWN] change the tempo in increments of 0.1 BPM. Pressing the LEVEL/DATA knob while turning it changes the tempo four BPM at a time. To tap a tempo setting, hold the [FUNCTION] key and tap the [TEMPO] key in a steady rhythm. After four consecutive taps the average tempo of the taps will be calculated. By continuing tapping, the average tempo will keep on updating. For more information, please see “9.1 SEQUENCER TEMPO” on page 36.

You can use the [TRIG] keys to play the sound of the active track (or send MIDI notes if you have selected the MIDI machine for the active track) in a number of selectable scales. 1. Press [TRK] + [TRIG 1–12] to select the track. 2. Press [FUNC] + [TRK] (short press) to enter KEYBOARD mode. A long press opens the KEYBOARD mode setup page. The [TRIG] keys will light up in a pattern that resembles an octave of a piano keyboard. Only lit keys are playable. 3. Play the [TRIG] keys. The sound will be pitched differently for each of the playable keys. Press the [ARROW] keys [UP] or [DOWN] to transpose the virtual keyboard up or down one octave. For more information, please see “7.9 KEYBOARD MODE” on page 24. KEYBOARD mode is an effective way to add musical variety to your beats. The timbre, tonality and impact of playing a sound chromatically depend on the character of the source sound.

You can mute any of the sequencer tracks in this mode. Unlike the KEYBOARD mode, it makes no difference which track is active when this mode is activated. You can access all tracks simultaneously. 1. Make sure a pattern is playing. 2. Press the [FUNC] + [BANK] keys to enter MUTE mode. 3. Press any of the [TRIG] keys or the [FX] key to mute the corresponding track. Press again to unmute. The light of the [TRIG] keys indicates the mute status. Unlit keys are muted tracks. Lit keys are active tracks. 4. Press the [FUNC] + [BANK] keys again to exit MUTE mode. For more information, please see “7.10 MUTE MODE” on page 25.

Each track has five PARAMETER pages. Press [PARAMETER] keys TRIG, SYN, FLTR, AMP, and LFO to access the different PARAMETER pages. These parameters affect the sound and signal in various ways. 1. Make sure a pattern is playing. 2. Press [TRK] + [TRIG 1–12] to select one of the twelve audio tracks. 3. To change, for example, the cutoff of the filter, press the [FLTR] key to open the FILTER page. The parameter labeled FREQ changes the cutoff of the filter. Turn DATA ENTRY knob E to change the parameter value, and hear how the sound is affected. Try out the rest of the PARAMETER page parameters to explore a variety of sound shaping possibilities. For more information, please see “7.5 PARAMETER EDITING” on page 23.