A small jam I made for the jamuary. Been thinking about creating something more artistic using only the noise and impulse engines and I was just testing the waters with this one. It was fun and the sonic potential is definitely there with the AR mk2.
I absolutely adore this machine.
people underestimate the impluse and the noise machines, they are incredible!
I had this one from a while ago only using single track with 8 trigs with impulse machine
Very hypnotic and pleasing sounds. The infra on the Rytm is so incredible that anything can be turned into music with ease. It’s super fun to use too.
I was interested in your thoughts on this 
I’ve been eyeing up a RYTM myself but definitely the MKII because of resampling and multi outs. Bummer you had to shelve it for now!
I think you’ll like it
Yeah I was afraid of that… 
All the really hands on performance features like scenes, perf & even direct jump for quick ‘fills’ seem pretty good for just banging out whole tracks.
I love the Rytm. It’s been a while since I had it and I wasn’t patient enough to make it sing long term but it’s got such a special sound.
This isn’t my video but I wanted to share an under viewed example what I think is one of the best examples of the Rytm’s sound.
Those transients and low end especially.
this is very cool
I wish I could buy a second AR mk2 - such an enduring machine
Doesn’t fit that environment at all 
Otherwise very nice 
Ive had the Rytm mk2 for a couple of months and I love the warm and thick sound with that fat bottom end.
The performance and scene options are just Lovely. Perfekt in a live context.
The only thing I miss from it is more flexible routing. T.i be able to route several sounds to the same out.
And maybe more flexible inputs.
Its all good though and it compliment my setup in a perfekt way.
This is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tDYWsR4u40
It’s a great channel with tons of useful tips and tricks.
One thing that I love about the Rytm is that the sample looping is detached from the triggering of the amp envelope. You can trigger a sample and have it loop forever in the background, changing speed and even direction with trigless param locks, and triggering its amp independently of restarting the sample playback. I don’t know of other gear that works like that.
One thing I don’t like is the way the amp envelope retriggering works, especially given the flexibility of the filter envelope. Though eventually I just got used to it, at the beginning it was a sore point.
Another thing I love is pinging the filter and doing all sorts of weird zapping stuff.
And finally, the FX having its own track is CRUCIAL for getting deeply funky. Use those slide trigs and like they tell the super models: If it can bend, bend it.
Direct Jump between patterns and the fact that KITS EXIST is so great. I wish Direct Start was a little tighter, maybe that’s a skills issue.
I want to use a mono cable for taking the audio from the headphones output to be used as cv for one of the cv inputs. Would this be safe?
Yeah, that should be safe. I tried a similar thing with the Syntakt, except I fed the audio signal into the audio inputs, so as to achieve audio feedback. It worked fine.
You might have an issue with the signal being too low to produce meaningful results for modulation, but it’s worth a shot. If it’s too low, maybe try external amplification before routing the signal back in.
Another thing: using a complete audio mix will probably produce a «garbly» modulation signal. Maybe check if there’s a slewing function on the CV ins.
You could also use an individual output for the modulation signal. This way I guess it’s easier to obtain a cleaner / more controlled modulation signal. Probably easier to amplify the signal to match modulation depth without affecting the overall output volume as well.
Good luck and please post your results!
Some SCW envelopes:
A 10Hz sine plus 5 Hz bipolar and unipolar squarewaves with 3ms rounding on the edges.
Are you able to download these?
Is the idea that you load these as a sample and then play back into the CV ins for extra modulation? I wonder if it works, would depend on whether the outs are DC coupled I guess. If not - perhaps sampling CV modulation at the inputs is possible too?
@Nils there’s no slew on the ins so audio rate signals come through very choppy.
Yes. It works and the outputs are DC-coupled.
Not sure but I think the inputs are not DC-coupled.
edit: a slew for the cv inputs would be so cool.
I just love creating a simple groove that’s going absolutely nowhere and just tweaking the cv parameters and distortion settings endlessly.
Really great. Rytm just has ‘that’ sound. Is this playing with the CV modulation ideas discussed above?