Id love to hear what you are doing with the RYTM, especially with the dual vco. I love that style of music and incorporate elements of that into my tracks.
Im with you all who do at least the core of the track on the rytm. It sounds like @splenda and I do it the same. Actually was doing that very thing last night. I had dumped some audio into my daw but the drums and bass weren’t feeling right so I sampled everything into the rytm and now it’s super tight. Additionally, the mix was actually better than what I had done in my DAW.
I need to learn the dual VCO better. I have tried to use it for basslines, but for whatever reason it never sticks and I usually sample my basses and sequence in the rtym. Maybe it’s good for arps or something like that?
But there is something about sending most of tracks to the stereo reverb/delay that really opens up the drum sound and makes it huge. I’m pretty stunned at how good it sounds compared to effects chains in the DAW. I would say I use moderate buss distortion, OD around 2-3db per track and I really like the motown compressor setting posted here a long time ago.
Nothing like tweaking a stab sample in the AR over the course of a tune. I have been building my arrangements on it as well in song mode and thats huge because when I track into my DAw, I already have the basis of the track completed.
One other thing that makes this a winner for me, is its so easy to make giant kicks with the machines on the unit plus a sample. To me that is a game changer, because sample layering can be a PITA with phasing. The RYTM basically just makes it so simple. Just use your ears and adjust the sample start, pitch and decay.
