Maracas / Shaker sound on Syntakt?

Elektron Gear Syntakt
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Thank you very much!

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Yeah no worries, I think if you skip to around 3:45 in this video he talks about accented rhythms with shakers and that might be a helpful frame of reference as well.

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There is a ā€˜shakerā€™ sound on the sound pool but itā€™s not like a maraca or anything traditional used in house / Afro house music

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Instead of white noise, my suggestion would be the analog cymbals, which give the grainy texture of the real thing if tuned wayyyyy down (and have colour already).

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Thanks heaps Jeanne, great idea Iā€™ll give this a go as well! Cheers!!!

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three tests using analog cymbal track machines (quiet audio), the last one guiro ā€¦

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This video is also a great example how extremely different shaker instruments can sound!

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@OscillatorSink has a nice video on this topic.

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never tried doing shakers with the hihat/cymbal machines but looks like almost all of the machines can do the job with some tweaking, Iā€™m not sure if thereā€™s significant difference between the machines on rytm vs syntakt but I assume not that far.

some dry examples, adding panning/modulation/reverb can really make some nice stuff hereā€¦

HH BASIC

CY RIDE

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The HH Basic one sounds like a tambourine and shaker playing together - thatā€™s ace!

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I know, a bit OT, but this is how you do maracas with Drumlogue :slight_smile:
But in this case ihe user sees it as a problem.

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If you want to hear this idea in context on the Syntakt rather than the digitakt I use it on 3 out of 5 tracks in this video:

Song 1 Iā€™m using the analog noise machine to do it
Song 2 Iā€™m using the noise side of the digital Bit machine (which gives you some nice ways to shape the noise actually)
Song 5 Iā€™m using the analog Ride machine to do a kind of hybrid shaker/brushed ride thing that I think sounds pretty cool.

Edit: on closer inspection, the shaker thing on Song 5 is probably the digital HH machine, the Ride machine is just doing straight 8th notes, but they layer up nicely.

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Was about to post this, too šŸ«” while itā€™s on the digitakt the clever use on LFOs and Amp Env is the actual key in the video :+1:

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Excellent the analog noise machine sounds like itā€™s working well I might start with that. Thank you!

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Thatā€™s great Iā€™m keen to give this a go. Thank you!

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Great video Iā€™m gonna have a go at this see what I can come up with!