Noob Sound pool Question

[jonasad]

Hi!
I just got my first Elektron gear (Rytm MK 1). Takes a while to learn but instant and growing love. Anyway, one thing I can’t seem to figure out.

I downloaded the New Blood sound pack and love many of the sounds it has in the demo patterns/kits. Therefore I’m trying to backtrack how they’re made. I’m I right to think they are tweaked versions of the synth sounds added in the 1.30 update?

When selecting the tracks, all of them are called “sound 1”, “sound 6” etc. But I can’t figure out where they are a) stored or b) from which of the sound pool or sound +drive sounds they are made (does it say anywhere if this is what the sounds are?)

Am I making sense?

[avantronica]

Takes a while to learn

yep - but start with the pattern kit sound +drive interaction - well documented here

e.g. for A4 (same principle)

I'm a Newb wrapping my head around a new A4

As mentioned already Sounds on the +Drive are permanent records of sounds, the only way to alter those is to overwrite one deliberately These can be used to populate kits whenever you need and to populate the sound pool whenever you need Think of the +Drive as being something outside the normal working area, you pull things in from it, and importantly, you save things out to it (i.e. sounds you create that you want to have and use later elsewhere) Sounds loaded into a Kit become immediate…

[jonasad]

Great clarification – thanks!

A few things still lingering:

1. So the sounds that I like in the New Blood kits (with names like “sound 4” etc) aren’t necessarily saved anywhere? I thought they would be in the sound pool. But rather specifically made for the active kit, and that’s the only place they are to be found?

2. I take it then, that there isn’t either any good way of backtracking how the sounds were made? Or maybe double-tapping synth to open the engine will show what engine is currently actice (and were used for the sound), and then simply exploring what effects etc were used on top of that.

Thanks!

[avantronica]

1 - Possibly - other than auditioning the sounds or working with names as a clue there is no need for there to be a lineage from a kit sound to anywhere - but there may be- in any case you can start from a newly loaded kit and save the sounds or rename them etc etc

2 - there’s no evidence save for the settings you can see in the respective pages - hold a page button down for all values and see the machine as you describe

Those sounds may well exist in the bundle, but without looking I wouldn’t know and the important point is that there isn’t necessarily a link - a Kit sound is 100% divorced from its origins but you’ll not be in any better a position than if you just save sounds out of the kit and re-name to taste - it’s just possible that there is a duplicate hiding somewhere

[jonasad]

Got it! Very helpful. Thanks a lot for taking the time.