Yeah, you’re probably right. I had a scenario mind where we’d prepare transitions or breaks, turning knobs here and there and then quickly engage page looping, but since we’d need to reach for the trig keys anyways, probably doesn’t have to be one handed operation.
I sold my MK2 a while ago and quickly came to regret that decision. As time has passed, my regret has only deepened… And now this great firmware upgrade. It’s time to find MK1 (mainly due form factor).
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Thank you @johnl! 
2 stock Samples : Piano MinorChord and Plucked Full.
The rest is all Analog Machines.
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Thank you @mfk!
I have a Bandcamp and my last Album, Roads, is on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0tZtAvmFQcEXImPNEP0AEu?si=43C7EhNISA2I6xJeA_Z3aw
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Only thing I wish the new sequencer did was adding pitches to the notes.
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Could watch that countdown for hours without getting bored a single second. 
:dizzy:
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For everyone using Window 10/11 and experiencing troubles with overbridge such as stuck at measurement status or signaling fault message, i think i figured it out. Follow these steps and let me know.
Uninstall Overbridge: Begin by uninstalling Overbridge from your system. Use Bulk Crap Uninstall for this.
Registry cleanup: Clear all traces of Overbridge from the Windows 10 registry. Utilize the “usbdeview” app from NirSoft to identify and delete all registered USB devices previously connected.
Device manager cleanup: Navigate to Device Manager and delete all entries related to Elektrons. Ensure you enable the option to view hidden devices. Take this opportunity to remove any unused devices as well.
USB Peripherals Cleanup: Head to the USB peripherals section in the device manager and delete the entire segment, including chipset drivers. This step is crucial for a thorough cleanup.
After completing the cleanup, reset your system and proceed to reinstall Overbridge. Connect your Analog Rytm and Analog Four to two separate USB ports.
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Hello. Next week I will update after capturing my projects. I’m noticing that a lot of people’s Rytm gets stuck during the update/calibration process. Is this user error? Or is the code of the update broken?
Just to be clear. It doesn’t get “stuck”.
The calibration process just hits a point and it stops the procedure. Which seems to generally be near the end at filter 2/2. (With about 20 mins to go).
After this the calibration process can be exited and the rytm can be played. But you will get a pop up message option upon every startup which is annoying but in no way prohibitive to using the rytm. (Just hit no to choose not to calibrate).
Luckily, due to where the calibration process stopped all of the tuning of the oscillators is completed and the device sounds great. The only leftovers might be filter resonance and other not so key items.
Given the general tendency for people to be snagging at filter 2/2, it seems to be software related so can hopefully expect an Elektron update patch that will sort it.
Get into the update!
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Thank you. Looks I’ll be waiting for a “patch” then
Or it might be instructions on how to redo the install. (I’m currently waiting on support ticket advice). There is a suggestion of in the other (specifically related) topic about running the current OS calibration procedure first before updating and having success. But that also may just be coincidence.
Yes, in SY CHIP.
First day - first hand experience 1.70
New presets, kits?
I was a bit disappointed that there were no new presets that demonstrated how to use the new machines. I couldn’t find such at Elektron online. Perhaps I looked at the wrong places.
First Jam with 1.70
I continued with a project I had abandoned last year. It was some mellow 808-ish stuff with a lot of noise and compressor for dub minimal basic channel like stuff. Had difficulties to remember how to set things to clean. (The initial preset kits and projects were too harsh for my ears).
SY CHIP
Took a while until I understood that when I select a new machine, the sample part stays unaltered. (Had a waveform short loop there, which sounded chippy already so I was confused about „tuning“ behavior). After I turned that off, it sounded really nice, esp. with some LPF. Still confused that setting the first offset to zero seems to take it out of the equation (in trackers 047 is a major arp chord with 0 being the root note, 043 ) a minor chord (edit correct typo it’s 037 and ThomasJ explained below how it works: Analog Rytm OS 1.70 Upgrade - #807 by ThomasJ). However, liked that - unlike with trackers - the range between notes in arp can be so huge. I was slow in the process, so I didn’t make a chord backing with chip arp chords but short percussion bursts. It feels different than expected but I like it very much. PWM just sounds great. The digital noise and preprogrammed tables, too.
Euclidian sequencer
That was quick to find good sounding sequences, esp. with the logical AND. Had to refer to the manual how to print it to the track. That’s very great for complex HH. I haven’t explored it completely yet. Hope that one lane can be set to parameters like pitch, velocity or the like or that such lane with sequencer logic (instead of independent LFO pseudo logic) will be implemented. The direction is absolutely right and I love how one can save it to the tracks.
SY RAW
Such great deep sound. That somehow compensates for the fact that I could not find „my“ base kick with the AR yet (they are in JoMoX, model:cycles and LXR-02). More details later but great deep sound!
New HH and Base models
Just quickly tested. The new natural base is very useful for unnatural heavy gabber kicks with square wave basis. 
Will explore later. Sounds great. Needs filtering.
Impression
That upgrade really expands the AR capabilities and use areas. It makes me want to use that machine more often (although I am much quicker with the smaller black boxes, which I understand intuitively). Thank you Elektron.
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How is the sample start/end resolution? Can you now precisely select a small region in, let’s say, a 60 seconds audio recording?
Some users simply refuse to accept that the calibration actually takes 2.5 hours, as indicated on the display beforehand.
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It stops itself if it fails
Why? There is a countdown. (See my gif in my post above):
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Didn’t you just get the Polyend tracker - which is very good for that purpose? 
(and you do have an S950 or so in your setup, too?)
The AR might have sort of a built in digitakt (as it was before the great digitakt update). But it is definitely a different machine. Its essence makes you go completely different paths.
I love that one concept per machine approach at Elektron. You pick the tool you need and it works. (Would love easier transposition in digitakt though).
Cheers!
If you snapped to integers Func+turn.very.slowly you would have a resolution of half a second
Now if you just turn.very.slowly you have 127 steps of resolution over that half a second
So approximately 4ms steps
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No problems here (black 2022 AR mkii). Perhaps easier to see if you will have that problem with your machine or not - instead of worrying just in case 
