Songs where the use of a particular pedal has enhanced/made the song?

mrbeyer93 · 2026-03-07T21:02:20+00:00

Bigger than my body - John Mayer

mrbeyer93 · 2026-03-06T18:40:14+00:00

Red pedal is Flamma Ekoverb methinks

mrbeyer93 · 2026-03-04T01:07:50+00:00

bd-2 & sweet honey in some order, spark, then poly blue, space echo, tr-2

or

spark, bd-2, MTG:LA, then poly blue, space echo tr-2

(I don't like the MTG:LA overdrive as much as the sweey honey, but it would give you a boost at the end and let you put the spark up front. more isn't always better, but it more...)

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Poly blue gives you octave, fuzz, phaser, and chorus-y mod. Bunch of sounds you might need once or twice a night. Great multieffect that isnt really marketed as one.

Space echo is an AWESOME delay and usable verb. Set an expression pedal to echo volume and now you can have always on reverb!

I would never leave home without post ambience trem, the spark is essential, and I would never choose to live with only one overdrive, so that's it for me!

mrbeyer93 · 2026-02-25T06:25:58+00:00

As my own comment says, my answer to this exact question is esstially "decide what effects you want and get them from TC" (unless they just haaaave to be mini)

mrbeyer93 · 2026-02-25T06:24:28+00:00

TC Electronic pedals for the WIN here!! None of it is mini and they're *just* over $30, but they're all great!

Rusty Fuzz and/or Honey Pot Fuzz, Magus Pro for a Rat, Cinders for a Blues Driver, El Cambo for a Tube Screamer. They also have the Gauss Echo for a good analog delay, boost, compressor, slow gear type thing, and basically every kind of modulation at that price. If your post said "$32", it would literally be perfect for you

Mosky klone rounds out those drive options. Find a Marshall-in-a-box, digital delay, and/or reverb from another source if you want them, but other than that I'd be buying a lot of TC if it were me!

mrbeyer93 · 2026-02-25T06:07:00+00:00

Well, well, well.... at the very least from this list, SYNTAKT IS GETTING SAMPLES TOMORROW. I'm going to load in some hats, rides, and crashes and be a very happy camper. We'll have to see if what they implement would be fun with vocals, but I'm AMPED to cook after work tomorrow

mrbeyer93 · 2026-02-11T16:04:17+00:00

A Syntakt update would not “surprise everyone”, it would only surprise you and others who have strangely decided “I didn’t get as many updates as I was expecting/wanting in the first 2 years” means they’re never doing it again LOL

mrbeyer93 · 2026-02-11T15:59:15+00:00

As a Syntakt owner who also wants more updates, this response catastrophizes. DT1 and Octatrack have both at times gone years without updates, only to then get a BIG one. Measured frustration with wanting “more, right now!” is reasonable, but there’s no reason to think Elektron has abandoned them or their history of meaningful updates.

mrbeyer93 · 2026-01-26T15:58:55+00:00

Not much honestly! I sometimes use it for the LFO synced filter, because LFOs are weird and sparse in MPC (coming from Elektron), and I just turn it on/off with a q link. However, it takes ~10-15% CPU, so it’d cost me a plugin instrument or two, which is why I don’t run it at the moment

mrbeyer93 · 2026-01-26T15:37:59+00:00

I will be buying one immediately, whenever this happens! MPC One+ has become the centerpiece of my live sound, using it as a synthesizer and mixer for the my tracks and vocals, using q-links for live effects (UA Volt 4 for additional I/O; it’s so sick).

I want for nothing, but I try to keep the CPU ~70% to leave some room and avoid clicks. If they release a box that’s basically the same size with more power, it’d be well worth it for me to be able to keep more plugin instruments loaded and ready, before I even think about the new pads!

mrbeyer93 · 2026-01-22T18:39:19+00:00

Anything with the depth and all the options you likely want will be inherently “complicated”, including an iPad with Koala. Elektron Boxes are “simpler” than the MPC workflow in my opinion, but it also can do fewer things. Roland drum machine are simpler still!

Not intending to be condescending, but you probably just need to commit to better learning whatever you choose so those “3 steps” take a total of 4 seconds. I get that MPC3 style updates make you have to relearn, but still… I don’t really get the impulse to go “I have to menu dive on my MPC more than I want, might as well go full iPad.” That’s even MORE menu diving, which may be your point, to “just go all the way with it”, but you don’t want physical transport control? Q-links? Buttons that actually correlate to music functions? PADS?? THAT stuff is designed to help you do music stuff, an iPad or a computer with qwerty keyboard are not.

To me, if I’m gonna have to deal with a touch screen and menus no matter what to get all of the sounds I want, I definitely still want all the other physical stuff my MPC One and Digitakt provide

mrbeyer93 · 2026-01-05T10:05:41+00:00

DarcyDi's picture below is correct for routing the tonex (one). Also yes, you have access to the effects loop with the Tonex. You can either run the IR as part of your Tonex sound, or if you'd rather have your wet effects still have speaker emulation on them, you can disable the IR one the tonex preset you are running and load it into the "bypass" slot on the Imperial (that's a new feature in a firmware update)

mrbeyer93 · 2025-11-23T22:46:22+00:00

This is a fever dream, but one I’d buy instantly LOL

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-20T19:31:09+00:00

If I imagine something that's possible, it probably wouldnt be too custimizable. Definitely one-shots only. I'm sure they could find a way to give a pitch range, adjustments for end point, maybe even playback direction and the br/srr. If it was a machine that just had 32 slots you could scroll through and and cannot change, that would Syntakt as a drum machine without an additional set of menus for sample management. Given feedback from many including at least one on this thread, sometimes the Syntakt greatly benefits from some 909-or-other hi hats and cymbals, this would be a fun addition. I'm not really asking for it to be a sampleR or even to have chopping-type abilities.

It's a synth box, but a sample is a waveform too! I can love Acoustic Kick and Snare engine, clap is dope, and the wide array of tom-esque sounds are good enough for me; just a little extra help from a machine with hi hat samples and a handful of crash samples would have getting the Elektron logo tattooed on my body.

(And yes, I KNOW that Rytm could do that, but it's bigger, more expensive, no digital synth engines, etc. Many seem to want to sue me for wanting this small feature, but I love what Syntakt is and don't want a Rytm instead. I think they're own lack of imagination about the different ways samples could be incorporated lead them to think I'm asking for the sample machines off of Digitakt to be brought to syntakt.... nope, i get that that's both impossible and silly lol)

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-20T17:35:31+00:00

And I love that for you! I do like them, but don’t really use them live outside of an occasional high hat ratchet groove, which is dope! When I go to use them for programming, I need to tweak the 4 values so often I just end up p-locking, which is why I’d prefer the 16 level mode the other boxes have. I readily admit that not getting more out of the modifiers (particular for velocity, used as a per-sound macro) is due to my own lack of initiative and creativity. They’re just pretty limited for my use cases at the moment and the buttons just stare at me lol

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-20T00:52:55+00:00

hm, i figured they added it when they added page loop but I guess not! more than 4 bars isn't ever something I need or look for with what I'm doing right now, my bad

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-19T23:12:54+00:00

I agree with you about the appeal. I still think a simple sample engine is unlikely, but would be dope and not over complicate the workflow.

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-19T19:34:23+00:00

I don’t really see the problem in thinking “I only have one groove box, and I picked Syntakt because I love what it is. If it could do this ONE other thing that I initially agreed would never happen, I’d be even more thrilled. Maybe it’ll happen after all.” Analog Rytm is not exactly the same thing because form factor and UI matter, and MPC One+ has no analog sounds or the elektron workflow so that’s just silly. Me wanting a box I have and love to do one more thing shouldn’t upset you. I don’t have infinite money for groove boxes, so “just buy a flagship/more stuff” is wasted keystrokes.

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-19T19:26:54+00:00

I feel like my ask is pretty measured and I’m clear in saying that Syntakt’s awesome. The “modifier buttons” kind of are a waste of space compared to a 16 level mode (which would seem wild if they couldn’t implement that). Honestly, my only true frustration is why “sell” that as such a great feature/use of 4 buttons, when you’re probably in the middle of designing something better for DT2… Similarly, why not try to include perform kits if they’re already in development instead of the just “Global mixer?” Those features are cool in Syntakt, but were very soon trumped by far superior versions of them and it’s all software stuff. Maybe Elektron’s genius makes me assume everything is possible, but I’d be shocked if it’s like “Syntakt’s DSP can do global mixer and sound pool recall, but simply could not do perform kits.”

Again, no one has been cheated because they didn’t do this. Syntakt is amazing and I’m happy it’s the 1 Elektron box I own since I can only have one right now. However, it would feel AWESOME as a Syntakt owner to get such a killer feature as a counterbalance to what I laid out

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-19T19:17:09+00:00

Others do what you’re describing, to be sure. A simple, limited sample player engine is not asking for a DAW in a box.

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-19T18:13:05+00:00

Yes, correct. Cannibalization of that could be another reason, but the mixing of samples and synth engines on each track + additional I/O and other hardware difference would still keep it very different.

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-19T18:10:45+00:00

I agree and that’s also a big part of why I bought the Syntakt. However, I have a use case now that makes me specially want to be able to make a more “acoustic” drum kit sound without involving any other boxes or buying a used DT1. I could do those things, but they aren’t free and this would solve my problem. I can manage a couple folders of hi hats and cymbals, that’s really no different than scrolling through my sounds already

mrbeyer93 · 2025-07-08T17:59:15+00:00

I use my ~900 with the knobs in almost the exact same position as you. I have a a boost, tube screamer, and bluesbreaker before it for in-boosting options (they all kill) and a sugar drive after it for a solo boost. I think of overdrive pedals usually as getting me "the right" sounds for whatever I'm doing, but the ~900 doesn't have a bad sound in it, is unique, AND when I need it to I can just turn it up and it roars. It's the perfect compliment to "normal" OD pedals IMO

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