A little confused, everything on my Analog Rytm seems to work fine except for the BD Hard and BD Classic machines. Both of these, freshly loaded, only create a thin clicking sound (same goes with most of the BD presets I load from the sound browser). FM BD is boomy and has bass, but Hard and Classic sound weaker than a closed HH. I can work it into an acceptable BD sound, but it requires quite a bit of noodling and messing with the filters. Something about this doesn’t seem right to me, I’m playing them through KRK rockit 5s - I don’t have a sub, but I should still hear bass through the monitors. Samples work fine have primarily been my mode of making BD tracks, and I get plenty of bass with other things (cycled samples as baselines, toms, etc). Has anyone else had a problem with this, or perhaps there might be something wrong with part of my machine? Thanks!
doesn’t sound right, ensure you have all scenes and perf macros disabled and check that the sym part of distortion is off, in fact turn all fx off, the sym setting can decimate a sound in strange ways depending on dist and comp settings -or just load a new pattern and a initiate a new kit
I guess the first thing to ask is whether the factory sounds work for you? If there’s a problem with your unit I would expect a lot of the preset kits (the ones using BDH / BDC) to sound bad. My Rytm isn’t to hand, but I’d start working through the preset kicks. If they sound OK, take a look at how they’re constructed. Once you find one that uses BDH or BDC, make sure the sample layer is turned off and start tweaking the BD parameters, see if it behaves as expected.
If the presets are OK then I would imagine your unit is OK - note down the settings of a working kick and try replicating those from a fresh start. If everything that uses BDH / BDC sounds weak, then you might have a problem.
And if all else fails, try recalibrating your AR?
Also make sure no other gear is sending any midi signals to the AR, it could be messing up a parameter if that’s the case.
Try a blank pattern, blank kit, blank sound and go from there. All the AR kicks should be loud and have lots of bass. They are huge sounding out of my headphones or anything else. You should definitely be hearing them out of a 5 inch monitors fine.
just in case
check all the decay parameters,
a few people have had the inverse problem of tom drums playing for far too long
if not check or reinstall the latest OS
or even revert toan older one just to check
good luck
Your analogue kicks should be sounding sweet right out of the box. Back up anything you need and factory restore the default presets. If these have weak kicks than most likely there is an issue with the machine. Also are you sending the kicks to the master output or one of the individuals ?
I know this post is a few months old, but I got my Rytm today and almost immediately I encountered the same problem so I thought I’d post what worked for me in case anyone else arrives here.
Out of the box it all seemed fine on the factory patterns, but I figured I’d try a calibration just in case anything was off.
After that I went to an empty pattern and tried to create a sound of my own using BD Classic, but the sound was barely a click and none of the parameters seem to really affect the sound. BD Hard was the same.
I did a google search and arrived here. One of the comments suggests recalibrating so I figured it couldn’t hurt and ran it again.
Happy to say that it’s all back to normal for me now. Don’t know why the first calibration seemingly fubared the BD machines…
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I know this post is a few months old, but I got my Rytm today and almost immediately I encountered the same problem so I thought I’d post what worked for me in case anyone else arrives here.
Out of the box it all seemed fine on the factory patterns, but I figured I’d try a calibration just in case anything was off.
After that I went to an empty pattern and tried to create a sound of my own using BD Classic, but the sound was barely a click and none of the parameters seem to really affect the sound. BD Hard was the same.
I did a google search and arrived here. One of the comments suggests recalibrating so I figured it couldn’t hurt and ran it again.
Happy to say that it’s all back to normal for me now. Don’t know why the first calibration seemingly fubared the BD machines…
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Calibration should only be done after the unit has been running for a while and is warmed up. Otherwise it will not calibrate correctly. Maybe it was done too soon after the unit was turned on?
Could well be the case. I’m sure it was not more than 5-10 minutes before powering on and when I ran the first calibration.
Great tip - thanx 
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Could well be the case. I’m sure it was not more than 5-10 minutes before powering on and when I ran the first calibration.
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I believe elektron recommends a minimum of 20 minutes. I usually wait a good hour before I mess with calibration.