Audio clip not affected by overdrive

I imported an audio clip and overdrive has no affect on the clip no matter how high i turn it up.

Does overdrive not affect samples?

No problems here getting samples to overdrive on the AR.

What pad did you put this on? Are you running just the sample (Oscillator turned off) or sample + drum sound? What is the audio format you imported?

hey…did this on HT8 pad and I’m ONLY running the sample. Both sample volume, track volume and amp volume are on max. as i increase overdrive nothing happens …

Must be something with the sample…all pre-loaded elektron samples work just fine with overdrive action.

maybe the sample was recorded to quietly or something and there’s not enough to work with.

Yes, it’s the sample. Two things I noticed is if I transfer a stereo sample onto the device the sound can get mushy. For example if there is a breakbeat on left channel and guitar riff on the right channel they will get put together as a mono channel. It usually sounds like the volume got lower. Try to normalize or record the loop at a higher volume and in mono 16 bit 44.1 audio.

The Rytms native file format is 16bit 48khz mono. Good to convert things to this before hand. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is great for sample editing, volume adjustment and conversion.