Owned the Rytm Mk1 twice and never really got away with it, I was using it in a strictly live performance scenario at the time.
Recently bought a Mk2 and I’m using it as a production tool with Ableton and My God!
Overbridge is amazing, I can modulate anything on the Rytm with as many LFO’s and envelopes as I want using Ableton, turns it into an almost Modular synth type monster!
I was always a bit underwhelmed with the raw analogue sounds but as soon as you process them with some tasty plugins then open right up and sound amazing! fabfilter compressor and New Fangled audio saturate on the kick drums makes them into absolute beasts that just cant be replicated by my old work horse Kick 2.
This is a definite keeper now - oh and the sampling over USB ha ha ha, make anysound in ableton and sample with a couple of button presses!
best drum machine ever!