Does anyone’s rytm sound better since the update???
I swear mine sounded kinda muddy all the time before … I haven’t touched in about a year but broke it out for the update.
Could calibration affect the filters?? Or just osc tuning? I swear my rytm SOUNDS better.
Also the new “acoustic” BD and SD machines are the best sounding machines on the box imo :o
Congrats elektron holy shit!
it sounds great and fun new options
@DaveMech or Ricky Tinez videos will do it.
thank you. I will relearn my Rytm. So many nice features added! I do wish for reverse, random and pendulum sequencer modes like we have in eurorack sequencers and so forth as that would be awesome. Rytm hits harder and better now! Best drum machine gets even better.
Yes! Definitely tighter and better tuned! To my ears it’s sounding crisper and more slamming. A lot less woolly. I wish we had more detail on how Elektron managed this, but yeah, it’s awesome.
yes and unlike Access Music Kemper who all but abandoned support of the Virus synthesizers, Elektron keeps making their synthesizers better and more up to date! Sad because I love my Virus but egads the user interface is woefully out of date.
Upgrading my AR Mk1 took about 50 minutes all up, which also seems a lot faster than others are reporting. What’s the ambient temperature of the room where your AR is located? It’s pretty toasty here so maybe the ambient temperature is having an impact on calibration times.
Was around 68F here.
~22° C for me. Took just over 2 hours
I used overbridge (new version) standalone with AR 1.70 yesterday with no problems.
Today I wanted to record multitracks into ableton (to cut off too much base). I set up the 12in/12out. Everything works fine. Midi Instrument Rytm, Audio inputs can select the instruments independently. However - I don’t get the AR’s delay and reverb in the mix (there is to choose from pre/postFX, distortion and compressor seem to work.
Edit: I thought could this be a bug or am I missung something (user error)? When using the AU instead VST (pretty sure it does not make a difference) I found that in the Kit panel (not in the FX panel) the FX slider was set to zero. That was the problem.
Leaving it here just in case this is some kind of default setting which might cause some headaches to others 
Is there any possibility to (fine-)delay the sample start (of transient samples for example to provide the click or punch) or do I have to insert silence externally before sample start and work with the sample start parameter to achieve this?
That would be awesome. Only way I could think would be resample the transient allowing for extra start space.
There’s a few things that would be cool if there was more options for detaching the sample adsr from the adsr of the synth engine. Fine tweaking Transients being the most notable
that should be real easy to do with the current snap to grid recording, place the triger on 2/3 instead of 1 and resample with 1 or 2 trigs of silence, then fine tune start to shorten the silence.
Doesn’t the new loop recording mode only rely on input threshold to start recording or am I missing something?
ah, yes indeed, it doesn’t start with [PLAY] which could be even more convenient, but it should be easy enough to place a barely audible impulse and trick it to start with play, and you can trim it easily after it stops…
I believe it can be both a user input (press) and a threshold (level), just not a Trig (position) like OT - so it’s fine to capture a gap in the rec by pressing ahead of the sound
Thanks for clarifying.
Yes that makes perfect sense.
Would be nice if the max threshold setting would give some options like:
Some times I’ve fount the threshold to be a bit too sensitive with a guitar plugged in.
If I’m not mistaken some of the machines use self oscillating filter circuits or pinged filters, the toms maybe? Anyone knows?
I actuall missed the part where they said that certain patches could sound different after the 1.70 update is completed and naturally was quite surprised when I played with it. I’d probably have written it off as imagination if I’d read about it beforehand.
The bass tom seems to have improved substancially to my ears, I use the other toms for fm quite regularly and those seemed to have a ‘tighter’ sound as well.
You can still make the bass tom fall apart, but it’s much more stable across its range than it used to be. Before the update, the bass tom didn’t always trigger like you’d expect.
Especially noticable on bass lines with different notes, it sometimes sounded like when you’d hit a super loosely tuned drum skin, sometimes sounded like it choked on something.
But also overall the Rytm sounds just tighter.
I’d imagine it’s a bit like the difference between a multi oscillator layered, multi filter sound on a subtractive synth. Tune everything to perfect unison and it’s a hard hitting bass, lead or even percussive sound.
Detune the voices a bit here and there, just a tiny bit and you lose some of that tightness, detune more and you go into pad territory.
Rytm’s analog side is digitally controlled, so they have the ability to calibrate it internally and then keep everything operating in the intended window. But just I’m surprised as everyone else and guessing…
Just wrapped my head around the pages update although there is some getting used to being in step mode [REC] vs page mode.
About two weeks ago I was about to ditch my AR mk2 since Push 3 Drum Rack sequencing allows decoupling the playing loop/page vs the currently selected one for editing.
Albeit the pages update doesn’t work as elegantly as Drum Racks on Push 3, it is still quite a major update, especially for those of us who don’t store or chain patterns and live for the moment. Add to that the Euclidean sequencing, extra Machines, (subjective) better sound after calibrating and everything that has been discussed so far.
Thanks 
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Okay, I’m here to report I’m another victim of this terrible Swedish marketing strategy.
Joking aside, now that I got one I’m pretty sure new flagships are right around the corner and I’ll be rocking a vintage instrument soon enough. But from what I’m seeing, it’s one hell of an instrument.
