hello lovely people
there are some ideas out there to do an armk1 only live performance with just the built in comp and dist.
e.g. @AdamJay suggested using the comp at quite high threshold with max reduction as kind of a limiter, all wet.
others have suggested using max attack, lower threshold and limit with the distortion.
what is your take? and do you have audio examples? thank you <3
If you have a chance to sound check the best compressor settings could vary dependent on the space and the PA and the pattern and style and what drugs the audience have imbibed.
But appreciate that’s a mad copy paste over all your live patterns every set.
As long as you’re happy with the sound at home and it’s not all in the red a decent FOH should have their own processing chain and knowledge of the room/system to dynamically caress your sound into a best fit.
I don’t think there is a ‘one setting fits all’ scenario. But first things first I think your mix is your first and probably more important consideration. Making sure that your patterns have a balanced mix, meaning all elements of the track have their relative volumes set just right, and the overall mix being not too high and not too low, as well as keeping the mix consistent between different patterns is more important. Once you’re confident about your mix then some gentle compression to ‘glue’ the mix together is all you need. Of course, the compressor can also act as an effect, so if you’re going for a more ‘pumped up’ sound, then your compressor settings can be more exagerrated. There are many ways to set the compressor, but assuming you’re using it as a ‘master bus’ compressor, I would go for long attack, short release, ratio of 4:1 and set threshold for about 2db of gain reduction. If you’re really worried about not blowing peoples ears out when playing live I would consider an additional limiter, something like the RNLA, Alesis Micro Compressor, EH Platform etc…
Make sure to engage the HPF SC as well for live uses.
And, IIRC (haven’t owned a Rytm in a while), you can parameter lock it in the fx track sequencer as well. I do this on OT. Great for animating the compression even more for a fully mastered sound.
thank you folks! i create all patterns on the fly, as well as the levels etc.
it’s all completely improvised and therefore easy/hard to control 
What’s the vibe you want?!
The responses are going to be dependent on the content of the mix.
Even still, enough practice and you’ll be able to predict what will be most effective for the outcome…
I’m allways trying to have clean boost from the machine and i do low comp settings and very minimal dist is that ok?
I did this (it’s mono because of an export error) and I feel it is too ‘choppy’ and could use better mixing and more compression.
what would this mix need from your perspective?
no it’s not ok. please hand over your AR to the authorities and appear in court immediately.