Only the top row. 
edit: listening back to this now I don’t even know why I posted this haha. An awful hum and a bit whatever anyways, must have been quite tired…
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I had no idea this was possible, that’s amazing. Just got it working last night.
I’ve been daydreaming about a compact mixing & fx setup where I could get really hands on with mixing and dub things out and distort and filter them and the AR never occurred to me as a possibility. You could make a bunch of different mix variations as scenes and then use performances for temporary fx and perform your mix in realtime.
Setting it up was not at all intuitive. First I tried sending daw tracks to the overbridge outputs and I could hear the tracks coming through the AR but nothing effected them not even the master compressor. It’s like they were just getting summed at the very end of the chain.
Then I tried USB mode which worked and I was able to get 2 tracks going through the track filters and fx but as a class compliant interface it only supports 2 channels. Then I gave up for a while but the idea lingered in my mind and I finally found this thread which showed the way.
You have to use the OB plugin, assign the output routing there and then send your daw tracks to the inputs of the OB plugin track which are labelled “sidechain” for some reason. Not sure what they’re sidechaining? Anyway it’s weird that such a powerful feature is so buried and overlooked.
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So true. I think the Impulse/Noise lab we did on the Syntakt was the one that has suprised me the most so far.
That’s fantastic! Would be great to hear some examples.
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I need to use mine more and layer it with Jomox and Hexdrums.
real routing is unfortunately only possible with overbridge and you definitely can run same thing into different tracks and utilize filter per track, it’s pretty easy to setup:
with this setup you can run single audio track through as many tracks as you want and utilize everything it has to offer, overdrive, filter, send to fx, you name it, it really becomes a multitrack processor, filter bank, whatever you want…
here’s an example of running a drum loop through 4 tracks:
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Sounds great!
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Here’s an experimental album I released a while ago using only sounds from the AR (iteratively resampled).
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Very cool stuff!!
As I’m mainly concentrating on the AR atm it’s inspiring to hear an album made strictly with it.
I especially enjoy the track number 6. Some very nice textures and sounds on it!!
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here is a lot of analog rytm…but also a lot of octatrack and A4…I really appreciate the “big” Elektrons very much!
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Really inspiring. Was it sequenced with the AR as well?
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great stuff, I wish I had the patience to resample, I have crazy ideas for resampling but unfortunately I’m too lazy…
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Thanks so much! I think there is something special about the AR. Such a deep machine and was nice to really focus on using it by itself.
Thanks! The patterns and sounds were made and sequenced on the AR, but then the arrangement was done in Ableton.
I would make a pattern using one track on the AR, then record it as a sample, then assign that sample to same track and repeat. I eventually ended up with about 650 short audio clips (up to max of 33 seconds long). Then would import some of these clips into Ableton, looped them, and automated volume curves to make the arrangements.
The numbers on the track names reference some of the more distinct recordings used in the track. So for example, track 6 made heavy use of the below recordings 0019, 0346, 0375, and 0456.
0019
0346
0375
0456
Thanks! I actually found resampling with the AR super quick and easy, especially if you’re not renaming/organising samples on the devices.
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Very cool, Ableton sequencer is quite audible in the arrangement of the track 
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Last night I couldn’t get sleep and I ended up thinking about the sampler on the AR and it’s potential and limitations. It has seemed quite limited and meh to me until now. It dawned on me that combining the retrigger p-lock function with its fade in and fade out, with the sample looping and then modulating the start and end point must sound dope.
I was right. It absolutely does.
Add to that using a track pair with the choke group functionality and some SCW’s as additional modulation, conditional trigs plus the perf macros. I mean… 
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don’t sleep on the bit crusher too, it’s very harsh at max but at low values or if you have a low volume sample it’s very nice.
also, you can snap a very short single-cycle-like portion of any sample and make something from it, I’m not a sample enthusiast at all but with rytm I’ve been very much into samples, I don’t have much, only the factory stuff, some radio waves I’ve sampled and some stock ableton live ones but it’s crazy how much you can achieve with handful of samples on this machine.
and that’s beside the layering… just throw a noise machine under a sample to fill voids, use the internal low/high cuts on the machine and then a filter on both of them, you can make gritty synths from whatever you have in the sample pool.
plus, I absolutely love layering some gritty punch on top of kicks, any sample would work, just find the right pitch, length and level and it’s infinite pool of clicks for your kick drums.
and by the way, someone asked me in the dms some time ago how I make some clicks on my tracks, so one method I use is take a very low sine single cycle wave form (the C2 in the factory folder works, just pitch it down to max) and use the start of the sample to generate a subtle click, then you can filter out the lows with a highpass filter and boom, you have a subtle click you can use in multiple ways, from layering to a kick to creating your own saw waves by re-triggering or looping that portion. lots of stuff can be done with the sampler!
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Thank you so much for the tips! I really appreciate that and will definitely try those out.
Been listening to your stuff a LOT lately and i find it very inspiring.
The OT has been my only sampler and I wouldn’t call myself a sampling wiz by any means.
Now with the AR I really want to explore it more, even though it’s a completely different thing, in some ways more limited but in other ways more interesting for me.
Yesterday I watched some Cuckoo tutorials on sampling on the AR and made a nice little “discovery” sampling a sinewave and some other SCW’s so that I purposefully left some space in that sample.
That way it’s cool to have a mod source that isn’t doing something all the time. Great for creating modulation that is irregular my still kinda repetitive.
This is likely v pedestrian but it’s these kind of small things that can really make a difference.
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I made a tip about shifting the start/end points here: Rytm tips and tricks - #206 by bgEN
And a track based on that: That RYTM 1.70 Sound - #259 by bgEN
The sample playback in Rytm works unlike other samplers I’ve seen. Once a loop is triggered, it continues forever in the background whether or not the amp is triggered. It will keep looping until another sample is triggered on the same channel, even if you switch kits. You can lay a trig down with SAMP on, but then do all sorts of stuff on other trigs with SAMP off.
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Holy shit, wasn’t ever aware of that thread! Thank you for pointing that out!
That’s a great point! I didn’t quite realize what you meant in your earlier post when you mentioned this.
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I’ll give a simple use case: Single cycle or otherwise short-cycle samples.
I only plock SAMP=ON on the first trig of the sequence to get the loop fired off, but then I have SAMP=OFF on the trig page for all other patterns for that track in that project, that way the sample isn’t restarting for every hit.
I especially like this with pad samples, like Kimura Taro’s chord samples.
I just don’t know other samplers that work like that.
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I’ll give another simple use: https://www.elektron.se/product/super-glue
If you have an analog sound, and you don’t have a sample otherwise assigned, thow some of that noise behind it, looped, and only have the FIRST trig fire the loop. Get your AMP env tight on the analog sound. The noise is then just looping, not being retriggered, silent until the amp env fires.
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Right, that makes sense. It took me a while to completely understand the application you described. 