Introducing Analog Four & Analog Rytm MKII

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#1370

I did
I love it to work with one machine only, at least for the basis (mail elements) of a track…
Always enjoyed the mk1, But didnt like the sample implementation…
So I focus on synth… sounded too much too rytm all the time…

Since i use Digitakt, I start to love sampling… opens up my entire sound. … especially with single cycle waveforms, also with things I record from fm radio, spotify, vinyl Or YouTube… even sampling from synth tutorial is Nice… brings me everywhere…

Now I wanna go for Digitakt on steroïdes…
With synth engines; song mode, perf and scène, and direct jump, Analog filters, Analog voices…

Really looking forward
Hope I fan ditch both Digitakt and heat after buying…
But I am afraid the compressor and distortion dont win from heat…

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#1373

I think they look pretty good, though I’d prefer that they all have the color scheme of the OT2.

#1374

Weird. I have an AR2 on preorder through Sweetwater and was told they would start arriving sometime in October.

#1375

+1

#1376

Actually… Since writing this I’ve found a semi-usable soundpack for the A4: 1991 on the Elektron site. The Mini FM pack is very small but quite workable also.

My eurorack is partially disassembled at the moment so I’ve actually been using the A4 in more depth than previously. It is wonderfully deep and capable of sounds that aren’t weird FX but aren’t exactly traditional either. I feel there ought to have been a way to highlight this to potential customers (and impulse buyers who are deciding whether to keep or sell).

I feel that replacing the presets, organizing them differently, and providing more support in the form of first-party sound design tutorials (for usable, musical purposes) using a set of well-curated presets as a jumping-off point would help drive retention.

This machine is truly a marvel, I don’t think it gets the respect it deserves because people start making assumptions about the sound it makes based on what it does the moment you switch it on for the first time.

I’m roughly half done another EP of music. Every time I take the A4 seriously (due to some other gear constraint) something good happens.

Sounds great with my newly-acquired Heat too.

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#1377

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#1378

My distributer says:
Rytm mk2 is expected at the first week of december
According to information that comes from elektron.

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#1379

havent pre-ordered and wont order it at all. DT showed me what i always missed :slight_smile: Never really liked the Sound of the analog Engines from the Rytm either; just not contemporary enough for my taste. Still interested in its new Performance Features though (Quick Perf Controls). Switching back and forth between Mute and Perf-Mode was yet another letdown on the Rytm for me.

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#1380

I preordered the Rytm Mkii for the sampling upgrade and for the new screen. The old screen is terrible. The first one i got had this ghosting effect that got worse and worse over time. I sent it for warranty and when I got it back, the new screen was even worse, it was super dim and faded. As soon as they announced it mkII, i sold it.

Why does my monomachine have so much better of a screen than Rytm? They cheaped out.

#1381

Idea: the Rytm would really come alive going through a stereo UA 2-610 …

Machinedrum’s synthesis bassdrums really went next level when i played them through a mono 610 about ten years ago. Difficult to explain how much better the sound was, without seeming to exaggerate.

although there is a setting for Mic and phantom power, there is also the option to run the preamp as a valve driven line signal amplifier. Essentially when the gain voltage is heightened to the glass tube, an organic kind of compression and multiband eq is applied by the process, with subtle warm harmonics being supported.

any subtleties in the drum machine’s sound and vibe either synthesis or sample is enhanced and widened.

maybe this is off topic slightly but anyway…

#1382

I wonder if the new AR2 & A42 releases will contain new sounds, or if there will be new sound packs available to coincide with the release?

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#1383

Greetings

I just spoke with Sweetwater and they are saying it’s delayed til January. Elektron’s site is sayin November. Any word from Elektron??

#1384

I guess the word from Elektron is November…

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#1385

A4 Mk2 comes with the MK1 factory sounds

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#1386

I thought they redesign as well the sounds… ok anyway that to US to make our sounds initially

#1387

The MK2 factory sounds all have the same names as the MK1 sounds. I’ve only played with a couple, but they’re the same.

Now. With the Mk2, they do sound different in character

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#1388

Are there any plans to re work the filters on the Rytm MKII

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#1390

2047

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#1391

Then we get the MK13

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#1392

Really interested in this, or any other modifications to sound on the Rytm MKII. Not that there is anything wrong with the MKI filters or anything else. But the developments implemented on Heat for example are great, particularly the filter.