Hi! I have my RYTM for 5 days now and I’m happy/impress with it, have read almost all the manual and I’m pretty comfortable with it and for now it make sence and I understand how can I make a full track with it. Just one thing I coulnd’t figure out: It is possible to use multiple kits on one proyect?? It seems that everytime I change the kit all the sounds change also, making the proyect totally different. So I need to know how to use 2 or more kits per proyect and make a song with a lot o different sounds, like ableton that you can drop multiple drumracks in different tracks, is this possible in the AR??
Sorry if this question is stupid, you have to really know this machine in order to use it, is not straight forward so sometimes is a little bit confusing. Please tell me if I’m missing something or maybe is just not possible to make a song with more than one kit.
Thanks everyone in advance, is a pleasure to be part of this community and be a proud owner of this insanly powerful machine! Worth every cent, actually is cheap for what is capable to do haha (personal opinion).
Erm, the kit selection is stored in the patterns, so each pattern can has its’ own kit. Never tried the song mode myself (don’t use it tbh) so dunno if that changes things…
As long as you assign the kits to different slots, they shouldn’t cancel each other in any way (?)
just when i alter some parameter in a kit for a pattern,
i save this as a new one, because all other pattern using this kit will be alter.
there are 128 Kit for 128 Patterns. Manual Page 19.
But theres anyway to use more than one kit in one pattern?? Or you are just limited to 12 sounds per pattern?? Is this possible?? If not will be nice if they add somehow a way to make a kit with more than one page and be able to make for example a pattern with 62 different sounds.
Can you explain this to me a little further?? Thanks man!![/quote]
is this your first Elektron machine? if so, then you should read the manual once again
P-locks are an important feature of Elektron’s machines. Each step of the sequencer can have p-locks meaning that each step can be altered and sound completely different from the sound you’re using on that specific track/sequence
the easiest way is to try it out: select a track, load a machine in it, place few trigs on the sequencer, hit play…you should hear the sequencer playing the same sound each time…
now, here’s where the power of p-locks comes in place…
hold one of the steps you placed in the sequencer and whilst holding the trig, go and change any of the parameters, and for that i mean ‘any’!
hope this helps (and hopefully you didn’t know this )
But theres anyway to use more than one kit in one pattern?? Or you are just limited to 12 sounds per pattern?? Is this possible?? If not will be nice if they add somehow a way to make a kit with more than one page and be able to make for example a pattern with 62 different sounds.
The AR is not a DAW. You have 12 tracks per pattern, with some of them sharing one of the 8 voices. Seems like this is your first piece of hardware at all. You should really read the manual until you have understood everything.
Yes actually is my first drum machine, I’ve been using only ableton for 2 years now, just plugins. I saw this machine and felt in love with it. Also add a minitaur for some analog bass. I’m trying to make the elektron my main tool of production and also main tool of performance, hope everything works well, I’m also waiting for the overbridge technology which is one of the other reason why I sold CDJs and bought the analog rytm.
Thanks for all your help and giving the time for answering, in most forums they treat you like a stupid when you are new on somethin or ask something that is obvious for them but not for you, I’m very glad with Elektron machines, with the company’s support and with the community, chears to everybody!!
I suggest that you use the song mode to chain patterns together. This way, you can just make a new pattern for the sounds that you need in the various sections of your song.
You can copypaste patterns and if you save your individual padsounds into your library, you can easily make kits that contain same sounds from other kits.
For ex, say you want a chorus part that uses 2 sampled loops/phrases, just make a new pattern, load the kit, change two of the sounds for the samples you need in that particular section and save the kit as a new one. Now chain the “verse” pattern to the “chorus” pattern in song mode and bob’s ur uncle.
You could do this even more elegantly by just using a scene or performance slot to change the samples to the tracks on the fly - all within a single pattern.
Just read the manual as you go through all the various features, experiment with the features, and be patient. I’m sure you will come up with many creative ways to overcome the seeming “limitations” - the Elektron sequencer is highly dynamic, pretty much anything can be changed on the fly!
FWIW this is my first Elektron machine as well, it’s a bit different workflow from other gear/systems I’ve used, but certainly a very powerful one
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