Have you investigate your test in higher range of note firstly, then progressively to the lower note. Because lower note (I mean really low) is very difficult to analysed. Therefore, if there’s 2 increments between note on 2 octave high (for example C3 to C5) there’s no reason that range is exactly the same lower… but your spectrum should be hard to read on C0 per example because of the energy. Melodyne is more accurate at the contrary. (for reading purpose)
This stuff drives me nuts but I would love to get to the bottom of it, one of these days, because I’m sensitive to tunings and have had to re-adjust slightly all my kick drums for every pattern after calibration…
Could just be my Rytm.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I’ll report back next time I dive into this but right now it’s definitely on a back burner…
I’ll feel silly if I find its just my Rytm but at least this has helped me to figure it out, and if mines like that probably some others are as well…
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Honestly if all the other machines track well and calibration doesn’t change something for all, I really not sure your RYTM as a problem at all. Support told me as it’s Analog, it should be slight difference between each hardware so if I were you I would not be worry that much. (but you can always open a ticket to investigate further… if calibration make the behavior of old machines different at each calibration)
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Thanks. So if I’m reading this correctly you just use the tuning knob and not the LFO trick mentioned above? How did you fine tune? Or was it not neccessary?
In chromatic mode, for example if I tuned my BD at D, second pad in chromatic mode will follow and in that case will play d#?
Any News about an upgrade to fix this bug? Playing Toms are terrible at the moment.
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Is this solved in MK2?
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Hey guys, is this problem maybe solved in mk2?? Im just to produce some trap music and its ultra important to play bass on 808-like kicks.
The Mk1 and Mk2 are basically identical (except the ability to sample)
Only the later (track)machines added after initial Mk1 have had attention to tuning to help here
Given that there was a legacy mode added after a modest tweak to FX send levels which was forced … I’d be surprised if they’d be re-tuning toms as they are because it would affect user patterns - that’s not to say they couldn’t consider a way to have a second Tom engine which helped out here a bit, who knows, but it’s more realistically a FR
Thank you for your reply. So as I understand, the newer kicks, like f.ex. „Silk” shall stay in tune in chromatic mode?
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There were quite a few newer machines which were absolutely usable in that way, they made awesome mono bass and leads to be honest long before teh DVCO was added - there’s a hefty amount of discussion about which machines folk liked in this regard round about the time either 1.2 > 1.3 came out with those particular updates - but it was clear that concert pitch was factored in
Only thing to note is that the coarse tuning is done in quarter tones when done by locking synth tune (so 24 is one octave, 2 is one semitone etc) but they play chromatically in that mode or via midi
Some of those weighty low sounds from the AR really outshine the A4 albeit that the synthesis is much much simpler - the toms are essentially resonant filters it’s maybe a bit harder to make those voice circuits play nicely the way folk want at least as they’re implemented here
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Thank you so much!! 
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Anyone know for sure which machines are playable chromatically?
scour this whole thread for user insights
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hmmm do you think he means they are working on an update to the tuning and calibration or new analog gear?!
That post is from 4.5 years ago. I am guessing that this was related to the Dual VCO machine that was introduced in 2018.
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Ah… hadnt had my coffee yet! ta
@ goatofneptune and William Wild, thanks for your effort and your help, very usefull.
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Hi guys,
Long time user of ARmk1 - love it used it extensively, know it very well. However tuning is my only major criticism.
Some of the analog voices/machines cannot hit every note, for example Kick machine ‘x’ can be tuned to a C or a D but can’t hit C# exactly (via a tuner) requiring an LFO to fine tune the pitch.
Now I appreciate not everyone tunes drums/minds. But for how I work; it’s key. So I appreciate if it doesn’t bother some people, but please treat that opinion/POV as a subject for a seperate topic as I’m just looking for user experience from others that tune their drums to the song they are working in. 
So has this been improved on the mk2s??
As I will update if so.
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Original kick machines couldn’t be tuned to follow a chromatic scale, but later kick machines could (Silky, plastic, and sharp).
As far as I can tell, it’s the same for both versions of Rytm.
If we’re talking about tuning drums that are playing a fixed note, then you can reach intermediate frequencies with clever use of sweep time and depth…
A trick I use to tune the kick right is to add a looping waveform sample tuned in C, set the note to my taste, then reach the tone with the synthesis engine.
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