Is this behaviour in OB a bug or a feature?

[Patbos]

I feel really stupid trying to understand what is happeing and I’m not sure if it’s my fault

Got my Rytm mk1. “Let’s do this!” I thought to my self. Excited about the promises of Overbridge.

It all seems to work. I toggle on total recall and start building a beat. “It just works.”

I add a midi track in ableton and sends a sweet baseline to track 2 running DCVO. “Nice”
Now it all starts to crumble…

“Let’s record the midi in Rytm.”
But nothing is recorded? try again. I go to the manual. I try again, but nothing.

“Only autochannel allows you to record into Rytm” I learn…

“OK then”. I change the midi track in ableton to channel 14. Silent.

“You can’t use auto channel with overbridge” I find out after 15 min of confused manual reading and googling.

”WTF”. In frustration I just decided to skip using Rytms sequencer and create more midi tracks. Now we are off and music is made.
I tweak and play. It sounds good. I save the project in ableton and I open overbridge again. Yes, total recall is on and active. I save again just to be sure.

I then start a new project to try out the template. I start a new beat. Save it. Goes to bed.

Next day, I open the first track from the day before. Rytm asks if I want to use plugin state and I say yes. It asks if I want to recall and I say yes.

Rytm reverts the kit back to its initial state and no sounds have been saved.

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Am I missing something here or is this how overbridge is supposed to work?

How should I work with overbridge?

[StreetDeezy]

You could possibly do all the work in the machine and when you’re ready, multitrack the audio into your daw and further refine it from there. I only have the DT and DNK so not the same machine but that’s how I use Overbridge.

[shigginpit]

Is this the actual problem? I don’t have a rytm either but I just searched “saving rytm kit” because I remember it’s wonky from reading about it in the past.

AR kit save behavior?

Hey Nauts. Help me understand this, because I find it super confusing: If I save a kit, using the quick save combo or the save command in the kit menu, whatever edits I’ve made are not reflected in the kit if I load or reload it. - UNLESS - the project is also saved. This seems somewhat counter intuitive to me. Why is there a kit save command at all, if the project save command is required to make kit changes persistent? It would seem that just using project save would be sufficient, except th…

AR kit save behavior?

Saving a project does not save the kits. If you save kits but not save the project those saved kits won’t reload with the project as they were saved after the last project save… Saved kits without project save after will remain after power cycle but won’t remain after project reload, again because the kits were saved after the last project save so the project reloads to a point before you saved the kits…

Might be a rytm thing, not a OB thing. Can’t say for sure, but sounds similar to what you’re describing.

[Patbos]

I guess it’s the way. I would prefer to switch between ITB and jamming OTB, and that’s where I hoped Overbridge would solve this. Right now it’s just annoying because all channels working over midi but cant’ be recorded, vs auto channel can be recorded but now working in Overbridge is just “bad design” to me :-/

[Patbos]

Thanks for this, I’ll read up on it. Saving on Rytm I have come to terms with, it was more that I expected overbridge that know the position of every knob and setting to “send” this to Rytm when loading a Ableton project, but might not be how Total recall works