My reason would be the analog engines on the Rytm just never impressed me that much.
Though if the pads are really good (and not just somewhat less awful) I may feel differently in a few months.
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Definitely looking forward to a few DT’s hitting the used market once these mkii’s drop 
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Apples and oranges really. The sampling on the RYTM, unless they updated the engine significantly, doesn’t give one near the control over samples the Digitakt does. The RYTM is an analog drum machine with a sampling layer. The Digitakt is a sampler.
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Analog/Digital
Direct jump
Song mode
Scenes
Performance mode
Kits
Midi
Master distortion and compression
Multiple outs
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Damn dude how’d it get stolen? I’m always apprehensive about carrying my OP1 in my bag in case it gets lifted…
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I would love a side by side of the sampling on them… I’ve heard that the analog filters automatically color the samples quite a bit and it ends up sounding more gritty over all and a little less hifi. I think more tests are in order I think it will come down to personal taste and if you want to take advantage of some of the unique performance features of the digitakt or the unique features of the Rytm. Obviously you got the analog portion of rytm and that is probably what drives its cost so much higher than a digitakt overall.
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I Live in Chicago. Long story Short My soon to be Ex-wife threatened to smash my gear! So I was in the process of moving my gear to a Friends house. ON the way there I stopped off another friends house where I jumped out the car and left if running to speak to said Homiee. Next thing I know some random Muthafunka jumps in my Car and rides off with All my Shit🤔
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That sux man.
You hear stories about peoples cars getting jumped with the owners kids still in the back.
That would be tough, but your gear? well that’s next level. That’s capital punishment in my eyes.
Feel for you mate. Good luck
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My Digitakt was bricked right after I upgraded to 1.03. It’s getting returned to Sweetwater. I’m debating on whether to have Sweetwater replace it with a new DT, or just wait and get the Rytm mkII.
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Keep DT, buy rytm when you’ve maxed the DT.
Try to keep your focus on the music.
God knows thats hard enough
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i have feared this happening, and yet… the car stays running occasionally. I have learned from you to stop doing this, so thanks for taking that for the team.
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You actually made me Laugh! Lesson Learned!
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Oh How I Wished:rofl:
Elektron said Rytm MK2 sampling is heavily based off of the Digitakt.
I bet it is pretty much the same.
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First post here. Greetings.
I’ve read your story and i thought “damn my life sucks but this guy wins the grand prize”.
But please remember, everything happens for a good reason.
Not saying that you are getting it right now because you deserve it, i have no clue about that, just saying that it might be raining today, but the sun will shine at some point. And when it does it’ll be one hell of a day because cold days and wet feet sucked so hard.
Good things exist because bad things happen.
Anyway i have a couple of TE POs (office, chord) a rack mixer, a rack patchbay and a nice old rack analog EQ (which crackles a bit if you wiggle the pots).
I don’t use them anymore and although I don’t want to sell them, i would happily give them away.
Pay postage and off they go
(the rack eq is quite heavy and bulky although only 2u, a few of the patch bay’s connectors are dodgy, not sure if they’re really worth the cost)
I’m in France
William
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So sorry that happened. Ugh.
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You’re awesome!
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Fair enough. Personally I’d just be surprised if Elektron totally integrated all the sample shaping options of the Digitakt into the RYTM MKII. Elektron’s MO has tradtionally been almost zero overlap between machines. While they are very different price points it could still potentially hurt Digitakt sales if the RYTM MKII did every the Digitakt did in regards to sampling.
Imagine if the Digitakt was $499 USD… many more people would buy it, and the fact that the new RYTM has the same feature wouldn’t matter, because it’s expensive as f*ck.
I feel like a sucker for buying the half-size lid for $50. Can’t believe they charge that much, when it’s half the size of the other lids. Ridiculous.
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I’m about 50/50 that it could happen.
The analog devices, evident in the kits/sounds sysex, support hi-res 2-byte values for all parameters already. It’s just that with most parameters the 2nd byte is unused.
Unless the higher res somehow would need significantly more CPU time to process, hi-res support for the sample playback parameters could be added - it’s mostly a UI thing.
About UI: MK2 display seems to be the same res as the DT one, so I guess we can expect a reworking of the UI anyway… plus, it gets the same hi-res encoders (tweaking hi-res params on A4/AR doesn’t feel very good/precise at all, guess it’s the main reason they’re not used often)
the DT sample loop modes etc is superior in every way…
the old behavior could be kept as “legacy” sample playback mode, we’ve seen this happen before with other parameters…
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