SY RAW please.
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After the lastest Syntakt update, we really want new machines to try on the Rytm. Whatever is possible, not asking for the moon, but I’m guessing the physical engines are similar.
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Would love
-RAW
-2nd lfo
-Scales
-Crunchy sample/bit setting like SP-1200
-More delay flexibility for Karplus
-Filter Keytracking
-Sample start endpoint resolution
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Any Rytm update will make my day, unless this most expensive Elektron machine has been already abandoned
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Its now been over 2 years of no updates to the analogs. I wonder if we are not going to get anymore updates due to the processors being maxed out and just sell them as is until people stop buying them for the current $1800 pricetag. Either that, or maybe they are going to release mk3 models at some point with more processing power for features like 2nd lfo, filter, more “machines” and all the stuff everyone has been asking for. The Analog Four 10 year anniversary is coming up, so if there is no firmware updates then, i think they may be done with updates. We shall see…
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I want that SY RAW machine that is new on Syntakt on AR tooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! 
It is so gooood!
Needwant it on both!
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They said OT was maxed out too and then spit out updates for that one. I don’t think they’ve given up on the Analogs yet. There is plenty of room for growth for them, even at nearing 10 yrs old.
I do appreciate the AR for what it is, and love the growth since it’s release. But for the cost, is it still worth it?
Lots of valid gripes here though. Why are the digi’s more powerful and feature rich than the “flagship” machines in certain regards? I say that in quotes bc the analogs are feeling more like second rate machines in attention lately. But the price tags keep going up?
I’m hoping for a massive update to drop soon. Especially after this update for syntakt today.
Along with the requests for (which makes total since to include) better sample control, more lfo’s (not just a second one), base width filter, dvco tuning… why not give a nod to the reason why we flock to elektron in the first place and include legacy machines from Machinedrum along with the sy machines? That would be epic. Give us control all machines, int machines, etc. Go all out if it is nearing the end of its days.
Make our AR’s stand out. There is high high demand for reissues of MD and MNM. Why not incorporate their DNA into AR and A4 while keeping the blood of what makes AR and A4 relevant.
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Agreed. I remember reading that they actually had to internally rearrange a lot of how the octatrack’s software was programmed. That was how they were able add so much in the last major firmware update to coincide with the 10 year anniversary as it was said to be maxed out in its then current state. If they can do that for the octa, hoping they can do that for the rytm to at least get some of the functionality of the boxes that cost $800-$1000 less than the rytm.
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They definitely have a lot of things to choose from, some of these points that’ve been made are hopefully possible. Things like 2nd filter, scales, fixing sample startpoints to different notes and sample start precision are software-based or already present/possible in the machine, if you count “borrowing” the filter from the noise synth.
What would be amazing is some synth updates, chords would be insane. Have track 1 control 2 & 3’s VCO’s and a list of chords. Maybe 2 & 3 would still be able to play samples?
I’m not knowledgeable in this field, but I’m guessing updating the actual synth’s would be hard at this point? But then again, who knows what’s possible.
At the 10 year mark, they might as well go all out. Waiting for the 20th anniversary just seems, you know, a bit much.
Sooner or later, the newer machines will all surpass (for lack of a better word) the old ones, technology gets better and the new ones are built with more updates in mind.
So a huge last update, and to let that run for a few years until it gets discontinued. That makes sense to me.
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I’d bump the compressor gain reduction meter feature request. If is not possible on the unit’s screen itself, at least make it available on the overbridge GUI.
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While seconding all requests for rytm to have the updates the digitakt got, I’d also really love more versatile Tom machines and it would be super cool if a midi sequencer machine could be added, if say you could load a sequencer machine on the cowbell track and it gives you the full sequencer tracks the Digi boxes have and the cymb track still worked, that’d be pretty epic.
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how would people feel if elektron released a rytm update that wasn’t backwardly compatible?
complete conjecture here; but comparing with octatrack rewrite it seems they maybe trapped by constraints of the original OS.
if they could rewrite the OS to incorporate the digi features (improved midi sequencing, 2 LFOs, scale folding etc) but it meant you’d have to start from scratch/load old OS to run old projects; would that be ok with you?
(i’d be fine with that sacrifice, but i’m talking a load of shite, just dreaming out loud)
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wasn’t second lfo added to digitakt at the time with base width filter, and scales just now without breaking backwards compatibility?
don’t see how these features should break AR but if that’s the case I suppose you can always not update to the latest version or perhaps somehow in the future there will be option to migrate projects…
I guess this comes down to how you use it. If I had one main project I used for playing out live that I knew really well and didn’t want to lose I could see that being a really hard decision. As it is I start new projects all the time and abandon old ones all the time so I wouldn’t be bothered by it personally.
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I’d be totally cool with that. I use the AR mainly in studio use and print audio when it’s time.
I purchased the AR when the MK2 black version came out, and wonder if at some point the mk2s will surpass the mk1s in terms of OS capability. The mk2 blacks still have plastic on the screens!
Cheers
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As an mk1 owner, I’d be okay if they could only update the mk2s. I bought the unit for 500€ 2nd hand, and the mk2s are obviously a lot more. mk1’s are already such good value, but I do understand the people eyeing a new mk2, but feeling like it’s not worth the price for a flagship atm.
The OT got updated at the same time as they introduced mk2 iirc, but with the release of the analog mk2s back in 2020, it might’ve been because they knew the mk1s wouldn’t hold up for more major updates.
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To be fair, they did include a big update then as well. The dual VCOs came out just around then I think. It does seem a bit lopsided at the moment looking at the midteer equipment in comparison. Had I gone back to when I purchased the AR now, I may have just got the Syntakt and used the extra dough for other purchases. Hopefully the AR gets some love. The analog elements do make it special, but a few tweaks to the firmware could put it into a new league.
Great to hear MK1 owners not feeling particularly shorted by the idea.
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Does anyone know the exact date of the A4 (and i presume AR) 10 year anniversary? Holding off on selling it with fingers crossed they make a move on the anniversary, seems like a good date for an update. just want to scrub samples with higher resolution. dont get why it doesn’t do this already like the DT, it is just a software config.
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Its the analog fours anniversary in december since it released in 2012, but the rytm came out in 2014. The last few major firmware updates for the analogs both released simultaneously, so hopefully in a few weeks we finally get an update since it’s been 2 years since the last one.
Hoping for an anniversary edition of the A4 like they did for the octa a couple years ago….or a huge mk3 release for the analogs? Not likely, but you never know 
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