Hats, snares, bd's, toms

Hi all,

After the disappointment of the ‘show me your hats’ thread, I have the feeling that there is a lot of interest in sharing how to make different types of sounds.

When I look at myself, I have this Rytm for a little more than a year now. I love it from the very first moment, but I keep on developing in sound design.

Kicks are different now because of new filter settings, everything has an LFO to make things sharper, a few months ago I started to use the return fx for creating spacy sounds and atmospheres… Also the idea of tuning the basstom down was not my idea in the first place… but once I started to do that I found out how powerful this was. I still never use that cowbel style sound… and never made a hh from another sound than I thought it was meant for it.

I learn a lot about it by reading this forum, the topic about the hats was really helpful.


My idea… is it possible to make a good overview of how people make specific types of sounds? It helps me a lot with ‘thinking outside the box’… It helps to share ideas, but also to show to newcomers the potential of this amazing thing.

I hear many people say that Rytm is limited, that it is not finished yet, etc. I see the machine being for sale while it is almost new… I think it is good for elektron and for the users to show the potential of the machine…

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great idea! still learning how to tweak the analog sounds properly in the AR!

The Analog Rytm is powerful, I’ve had it since 2014 and I’m still finding new synthesis possibilities. I definitely don’t feel it’s limited. For a drum machine, it is quite expansive in its capabilities.

I’ll post some sound design programming later when I’m in studio, maybe you might find some of it interesting.

i’ve had the AR for a while now and i think that those who are not happy with it either haven’t spent much time with it or were expecting something different/more from what they got.
it takes time (as usual) to learn and use in full any instrument and i still have to find that ‘make me a hit’ button… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

xt classic (HT8)

tun -3
swt 11
swd 29
dec 23
ton +15
nod 74
nol 100
lev 100

atk 0
dec 64
sus 0
rel 64
frq 79
res 73
typ lp2
env 0

atk 0
hld 30
dec 20
ovr 0

makes for a pretty sweet page 1 trigs: 3 and 11, üage 2 : 3 , 11, 15 … off course 4onthefloor … sweet tech swuuush

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ps: for whatever reason, the trig on 15 on page 2, is shortened … no plocks or micro timing… sounds good tho …

if you haven’t checked it out yet, Dapayk Solo has a great vid showcasing the Rytm’s flexibility.

Simple tricks like using LFO’s in one shot mode or using your filters as EQ’s could really help beginners that haven’t programmed a lot of synths. People probably don’t think a High Pass filter would be good on a kick but it can be when used right. Adds just a bit of thump and cuts out some rumble. Song specific I guess.

I’ll see if I can come up with some more specific uses when I have my RYTM out.

I’ve had the Rytm for about 6 months, and after some ups and downs, have grown to really love it. It is not what I expected it to be, but that has turned out to be exactly right. It will never replace my MD, but it can do things the MD cannot. I think a lot of the tracks I write these days feature both–I even sample one to put into the other for processing and it has been really inspiring.

That being said, I don’t have the Rytm in front of me, but as newgreyarea suggests, p-locking one shot LFO’s on different trigs (or even just p-locking LFO’s in general) is a wonderful way to experiment.

I’ve also recently discovered the joys of trigless locks. I really like turning the BT into a 303ish sound (surprisingly easy to do!) and then using some trigless locks to warp the filter and LFO settings following different trigs. It makes for really organic and sometimes alien-seeming sounds.

Thanks guys, for sharing. Great stuff!

Please do!

I just the cowbell for chords, bleeps, plucks, melodies, layering other sounds, once made somehing like a funk guitar like from it.

you make chords with cowbell? please explain me!!!

It IS a chord. Make it longer and detune it, can do major, minor etc.

Playing around with high unsym dist, short delay, reverb, low tune, filtering can give you great dark dub techno sequences also.

Tnx 4 da tip

ha nice! Will go to studio now and test it :slight_smile: