thanks for posting my vid here … wasn’t aware of this RYTM tips & trick thread … lots of great info here 
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Ain’t it the truth. I never got my ears correctly attuned to do compression–I can “feel” when it’s right only well after the fact, when the heat of the jam has cooled and I’m listening long after–“yeah, this one was good!” but I can’t tell why this or that setting is right for this or that genre or song.
Any favorites settings?
only two, sidechain on HPF and MUP on 30-ish, the rest really depends on the sounds, keeping all tracks on lower volumes helps a lot for busy kits, and if you use any external synths running into the ext in you have to take that into consideration too
I start with threshold on max 127 and only after I get everything going I go play with threshold/attack/release/ratio/mix, even on threshold 127 you can still compress, if you use something like bd sharp on default volume 100 on amp page and you add let’s say 20 distortion you’ll hear the compressor engaging, so by the time you add rest of the sounds it’s already too much, so I lower the loudest element (the kick) in such a way that the compressor is not doing anything and then proceed to the other sounds
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So you have bought the mpressor hw ?
haha no, I wish 
someome got the mpressor in both hardware and plugin and tried to see if they match, so I had a loop processed with both hw and vst and a dry one, so I tried the dry one with the rytm and it’s a good compressor, if you have a rytm worth exploring it as external compressor too…
doesn’t have any metering though…
that 500 series thread gave me serious GAS though for building a lunchbox… maybe one day
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The Lunch box GAS is real 
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did anyone tried managing working with single cycle wavetable samples?
I can’t find a decent method to utilize these, I tried to do a short loop, but if it’s too short it’s going into sonic territory of pitching loop and not the wave, I guess it’s maybe possible to calculate the wave length so it would match the 120 steps range and use like 10-20-30 etc. range for a single cycle, didn’t try it yet.
then if I try to scan the wavetable by moving the START I get crackles, and not the good kind… I guess the solution for this would be just to p-lock that START instead of scanning the wavetable…
just looking for some thoughts or maybe people that tried to do it too, I’d love to get single cycle waves with some range other then the basic waveforms but without loading hunderds of samples…
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@taro is the high captain of all of this kind of single-cycle and wavetable stuff. Definitely check out his work and his blog for ideas. Blog
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The demo version of the JMB sample pack contains several waveforms called morphing wave based on wavetable. The waveforms of the first and last steps of the sample are identical, so they loop without a click sound.
The morphing wave in this sample pack is 120 waveforms long. The first name of the sample is MW.
Some morphing waves are available as 120 scw.
Since it is impossible for AR to smoothly change between waveforms like wavetable, I have included pre-smoothed waveforms as samples.
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thanks! I’ve downloaded it, it works with spacing of 1, but unfortunately scanning the wavetable still introduces weird clicks (not the good kind) unless pitched down, when pitched down it becomes a nice weird effect… I guess with p-locking it would work better, but using this with a performance macro won’t always yield coherent result…
for example:
pitch at 0
pitch at -12
pitch at -24
I’ve missed that part, which samples are pre-smoothed? and yeah I was hoping someone might have figured how to scan smoothly 
Samplers like AR cannot interpolate between waveforms like wavetable. So, even if you scan like wavetable, the sound will still have a click sound.
The morphing wave is not a wavetable, but simply a looping waveform. My intention in creating the morphing wave was to sequence the sample by changing the starting position of the sample step by step. Or loop the entire waveform to create a drone sound. 
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Not sure if this is the right thread to share this, but I made a little video about combining pad scale, step recording and euclidean sequencing!
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It was nice AND neat - self explanatory, but only in retrospect now its been highlighted; thanks
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Guys/ladies…I need your advice.
I’m eying a Analog Rytm MK2 for some time, and I’m liking it very much. Now I have the chance to buy a new, sealed for €1499,- from a official shop. What do you think of this price?
pretty good price for a new unit imo, maybe people who visit shops more often then me can say if there’s a better deal elsewhere but I think it’s a good price…
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Thanks! I’m a bit hesitating because Superbooth is coming next month and maybe Elektron will introduce new hardware. Also the Rytm MK2 Black is sold out for more than a month now at Eletron, makes me a bit suspicious.
But the price of €1499, - for a brandnew Rytm MK2 Black edition is very tempting.
Is it possible to change kits back and fourth in a speedy manner? It seems like it’s not possible to copy and paste kits somehow, right? And when loading a new kit from the menu, you are automatically thrown out of the load menu, meaning you have to navigate back in order to load another.
Do you want to do it live?
You could copy & paste the Pattern a bunch of times, assign a different Kit to each one, and use Direct Jump to change Pattern.
If this is for exploratory studio production fun, you’re right… it’s fiddly and slow.
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I did something similar with a SSL bus compressor.
the sweet spot on the rytms compressor is not great but you can definitely Dial in a sound quite precisely
Was messing around tonight, doing things I couldn’t understand, things I wouldn’t understand, things I shouldn’t understand… until now! I present to you,
Ping Pong Looping on the Rytm!!mtyR eht no gnipooL gnoP gniP
Now, before you get all technical and lawyered up, no it’s not a full on ping pong looping mode, but you can definitely scan through a long sample as if it were tape.
The Set Up
Get a nice four bar loop where you can definitely tell if it’s playing backwards or forwards, like a synth arp. Infinite amp decay. Turn SRC all the way down and SMPL all the way up, we just want the sample playing. The START should be at 0, the END at 120. Turn LOOP to ON.
On the TRIG page, turn SMP to ON (default). Expand the measures to 64/64.
The Trick
On the track of your sample, place a trig on step 1.
Then, put a trig on step 9. Now, go to the SMP page, and for that step 9 trig, plock the START to 120 and the END to 0. For even neater ideas, plock the TUNE to +5, you’ll see.
Now play it… And as soon as the first trig hits, on the TRIG page turn SMP to OFF. The loop will go to the 9th step and then FROM THAT POINT play backwards, then forwards again when it hits the first trig. If you messed with the tuning, it will even rewind PAST the beginning point and then go forward again at regular speed.
You could do some weird fake record scratching if you mess with the tuning for each plock.
If you want, you can put a plocked SMP=ON trig somewhere and only have it trigger FIRST time through, etc etc.
Are y’all even actually trying these tips? They’re pretty fun.
If you look at my “16 Track Rytm” tip, you could take that idea and have 8 independent loops doing weird ping ponging back and forth kinda stuff, like tape machines being run forwards and backwards.
You could put the same loop on two tracks, pan one left, the other right, and then instead of plocking the TUNE to +5 you could plock the FINE TUNE to a value and have the two slowly drift in and out of sync. This would work good on like someone talking, I think, trippy and phasey.
EDIT: Here, have an example:
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