I've been watching Model Cycles videos for almost a year. When I saw the ad on Instagram I finally pulled the trigger. Should be here tomorrow and I'm quite excited.

I didn't know about the conditional trig for fills, that's a very interesting feature. In addition to using only one pattern for your drums and fills, it also has the advantage of if you're live jamming and thinking "OH I WANT A FILL" but too late as you're already in the bar/pattern and havint to wait for another "loop" like on most grooveboxes, well here hit the fill button and it still works as it's part of the pattern. Defo wish more grooveboxes had that !

The Cycles is a mad box of tricks. I adore how it sounds and I get to a point in my jams where I’m basically jumping up and down. It’s rad as fuck.

I have a digitone already and I’m going to compliment it with the cycles. Just ordered one. I love drums on digitone, but it takes up Atleast 2 precious voices to get some good percussion that cut through the whole mix. Now I can leave my all my voices for digitone’s arps, pads, bass and lead sounds, while also learning how to do some serious performance on drums using the cycles! How awesome!

👏✊👊💪🔥 Good stuff bro. Your working your way to the top 5 GOATS in the synth channels. High five for Akai shouting u bro 👏🙏

I saw the sale and grabbed one. It just arrived today. Looking forward to getting into it 😎

I've really enjoyed all of your videos about Cycles and appreciate the time that goes into them. Years ago I really wanted a yamaha dx 200 but never found one (or never at a reasonable price) so Cycles is super interesting to me and to get my hands on an elektron sequencer would be awesome too (i have used an mpc for years for sequencing). That being said, I can't spend the money sigh. So I'm hoping with everyone buying these now at least some people are going to decide they aren't really what they wanted and they end up on ebay even cheaper at some point. Anyway thanks for another video making me want this hahaha!

Noob question from a noob who has acquired some synth gear and wonders if he needs a sequencer: What does it mean that the Cycles isnt polyphonic? Can it only play one track at a time, or one note per track? Love the content as usual

A whole video murdered today. Syntakt gonna do it

I’ve been toying with the idea of getting the Model:Samples, but this seems interesting! Gonna take in all your Model: Cycle videos before deciding!

A most intriguing music machine.

Novation circuit tracks is much easy to jamming... For me...

Sold my Cycles. Great drum machine but it made me want the Digitone so bad so I made the switch. I might get one again for the way it grooves.

I agree it's a steal, however, as an owner of a Digitone, there's no getting away the fact that the Digitone SOUNDS so much better. Where the m:c sounds like an old 16bit video game sometimes, the Digitone just manages to sound more deep, sonically rich and (subjectively) more beautiful. Not sure if it warrants a more than 2X price tag though, that depends on your intended use.

A loving suggestion for a nickname: Free “Wild Talkin’ Hands” Beat

Whats up free beat bro? You still in love with it?

Spent some time with one last night. Digging it. It and the Sonicware Liven XFM are pretty fun devices. It's tough to get really awesome pad sounds with both, though... because of the lack of the attack parameter here, and the layers/textures in general. The cold "metal" sounding drums are an acquired taste, for sure. Not usually my thing. But I had some fun messing around with the patterns for a bit. Still prefer my Model:Samples, though... for more sound-sculpting flexibility.... I suppose both of them pair nicely together. I get stuck with the mindset of doing stuff in the box, though... the free FM plugins out there (including Dexed) are really hard to beat. The strength with the Models is certainly the chance/condition stuff, though. Even if you don't use the built-in sounds. But I hate how each track is only monophonic. Such a huge price increase from this, to the Digitone, and the M:S to the Digitakt. Anyone reading this curious about how they compare--- as far as I know, the Digitakt STILL does not let you do different multipliers for the track pattern rate ("scale"). The M:S and the M:C easily let you set 1/2x, 1/3x, 2x, 1x, etc. And I THINK you can do different lengths for each track with the Digitakt, but come to think of it, I don't think you can. I think everything has to be the same length. Probably an easy fix with firmware, though... but Elektron's yet to do that. Digitone-- so, so expensive for what it does... no sample playback... JUST the internal FM engine... Ugh, the options / thoughts / ADHD always makes my head spin..... Back to the Cycles-- yes, I had some fun with it. The stock patterns are pretty impressive, overall. Thought the chord track would be really limited, but you can tweak the sound pretty nicely... so in essence, 5 monophonic tracks plus a chord track that can do up to 5 notes on it... pretty nice thing. Gotta spend a little more time with the Cycles... man, if Elektron could do like "Model:SampleSynth"... at a price point a little less than the Digi-series... think of how cool that would be. Sampler, sample player, FM synth or analog modeling... with the same design as the first two... just the "big brother" version (at $600 or so)... maybe some upgraded track pads... and at least ONE polyphonic track? That would rule. Find the need and fill it, Elektron............. :)

I want one so bad

I’ve been dying to play with a grove box, I have zero experience with them but I can really see myself getting sucked in. I can’t seem to decide whether I want to play DAWless or not, my main computer is an Ipad which is seeming much more limited than a laptop because it can’t run Ableton and stuff. I wrote by first little bit of song with Garage Band yesterday though and it’s so easy now that I finally figured out how to use it.

A bit late for a comment, but is it true there's no filter on the Model: Cycles? How do you work around that? It seems like a must for any groovebox.

$750 here in New Zealand, none of the budget gear seems to be 'budget friendly' here 😟

Freebeat could you pls make a video about the ysmaha reface cs its the synth people mostly recommend at the price 300 - 350 dollars (mostly at reddit). And there arent many recent reviews about it. It would be amazing if you could make a review about it. Keep making thees great videos.

that's a steal of course i just bought samples and cycles not on sale, i can confirm the samples in fun but ya can't sample in by line in have to load via software or app ;) for ios but cycles is just pure fun and happy accidents for a fact!!!!

Shoot I already preordered a liven xfm and that was my whole budget

How much of a learning curve is there for someone who's never used one of these before? Which one has better all around sounds the Samples or Cycles?

You are not helping us coping with GAS 🙃

Cool 😎 I was wondering how did you make your own freeboard sticker?

Too much button-pressing for my liking- yet I’m still drawn. Fortunately there are a few very good drum-based grooveboxes on iOS, and there you have the advantage of multi-outs. Will I resist? I’ll let you know!

Can you sequence changes in pitch for the Kick Drum?

At $250 each its a hell of a deal, if you find used under $200 grab a few :)

I recently bought a used model samples and I love it! but this sale is tempting me to pick up a model cycles as well. Would you say that the two boxes work well together? or would I be better off picking up a Volca FM and controlling it with the model:sample’s sequencer?

Is it possible only use the synth on all your tracks? I’m not interested in the percussion

I concur!

Incredible deal, you could cycles and samples and it’s kind of like getting Digitakt and Digitone “light” for half the price. Congrats on Akai reaching out to you, please don’t forget us….Lol

There is a point when talent defeats gear. GEAR WITH NO HEART IS JUST WASTE.

I just bought a second hand analog Rytm mk2, so I’ll have to skip this one.

The September sale price should be the actual retail price because at 299 it’s overpriced.

Ummmm NO! My 6 operator PreenFM2 for $190 brand new vs 4 operator M:C was a NO BRAINER especially as I already had the Mystical Elektron Sequencer in the form of a Digitakt. They need a Digitakt MK2 that uses ALL 16 tracks instead of 8 and 8 for external gear. Oh yeah my Boutique made PreenFM2 is also built like a TANK!!! And best of all, you just drag and drop Yamaha DX7 patches onto it and they work perfect. I had the Model Sample it was fun, the Digitakt CRUSHES it. Yes it is almost triple the price………….. Now things take a WEIRD left turn, I am in middle of trading away my Digitakt for some goodies and some cash…… is it due to lacking? No not really. I bought the ITTY BITTY 1010Music Blackbox Studio and it is NOT as powerful a sequencer as the Digitakt but the size and weight and 16 full tracks plus ability to use my MPC MultiSamples made it my EDC and the poor Digitakt just sits on my shelf in its case. The MC and MS for $600 is a pretty hot combo tho and gives you 12 tracks if I’m not mistaken tho the Dual LFO’s of Digitakt are SWEET! Currently staring longingly at the Generative NDLR and seeking out plugins that can do similar things like Cthulhu, Captain plugin, Scaler , Euclidean sequencers.

GAS

Stop with the hands, it’s not Apple ☺️ great otherwise!

Digitakt sale 🤣

Could have done without the first two minutes of rambling nonsense before actually getting to the point, but ok. Edit - THREE minutes.

If you're literally spending the first 2 minutes of a video shamelessly plugging yourself then it's really no surprise your subscriber count is so low. You obviously don't know how KZfaq works. Unsubscribed.