I just missed out on one online… I was literally reading this thread and thought I’d just check Craigslist. Some dude had just listed one for $500 about 2 miles from my house. Alas… someone jumped in about 30mins earlier. Dang it!! 
Ooops! That was me. I ALWAYS do a Google Search for the gear I want + Craigslist and see if I can get the person to ship it 
1 Like
Ha! You know I had a feeling it might have been you after reading your comments above and noting the time stamps. Bwaaaahhhh!!! 
2 Likes
That’s a great price too. Well… if you don’t gel with it, let me know 
2 Likes
You betcha!
Hey Ryan
I didn’t read this whole thread but I’m also looking at the Pyramid. Where did you buy yours from? Is it only sold through Squarp’s site?
I did a Google Search for: “Squarp Pyramid” Craigslist
Found someone in Portland selling theirs and had them ship that out to me. It does look like its reasonably priced on their website though(and that’s the only other place I was able to find it)
Good luck!
Thanks Ryan, I’ll probably have to go with them direct. It doesn’t seem like many have it here in Japan.
It’s worth the new price…it’s arguably worth more than what they are selling it for, IMHO. Still a chunk of change, but more than worth it.
Also, regarding programming probability, you can get weird with the Chance/Random/Delay/Harmonizer/Arp FX, but I have yet to figure out if you can program this at a step level like you can with Elektron’s probability modes. One advantage that the Elektron stuff automatically has is the integration with the sound engine and sequencer, allowing you to have different sounds per trigger, taken further with the probability modes…consequently, I’m still interested in the RYTM and/or Digitakt to some degree, but it’s a minor niggle.
The RYTMs great, it just doesn’t sound good with any of my other gear to me. You CAN make it fit, but it doesn’t complete it like a soulmate. Sounds GREAT by itself, though.
The thing drawing me back to the RYTM is how it was with samples, which makes me think maybe I should go for the DT instead, and then realize I don’t really care too much about using samples. So right now I’m not even sure if I want to go back to the AR.
MD+A4 are Elektron soulmates. The AR would be fun for jamming with friends if I have friends and they want to jam, with me on a drum machine…
OT has a “sound” alright - just like my UA Apollo has a “sound”. Compared to my Audient iD22, they are not “transparent”, as in, everything sounds a little smaller coming out than going in. But I digress.
My original point being, I don’t know if I’m a “worthy” owner for my OT, someone else might love it more. And money being tight at the mo, maybe swapping it for something cheaper would be win/win for everyone.
Different strokes, I guess…you were mentioning on another thread here about the “acoustic” nature of the RYTM, and that piqued my interest in contrast to the drum sources I have on hand. I’ve only had limited time with the RYTM (@phesago, we are long overdue for that RYTM session!) but at least for my own needs I could see it fitting well. Samples are also a big thing for me, but I’m waiting to see what the Digitakt can do before I decide if either has a place in my setup. The analog filters on the RYTM are a draw, but so is the sampling capability of the Digitakt…and really, I want a deep sample mangler more than what either of those machines will provide, so I’ll probably hold out for a V-Synth and/or Waldorf Quantum because the Pyramid is a much more ideal sequencer for my needs.
2 Likes
Can the Pyramid do the equivalent of midi ‘slide trigs’?
I was messing around more with OT midi parts today and was shocked that they don’t have slide trigs for CCs etc. especially if you’re using turbo it would be totally fine bandwidth wise to fade between parameters even on adjacent trigs
IM SORRY IM SUCH A SHUT IN <3
But for real that needs to occur at some point 
1 Like
I think the next Phoenix synth meet will be the first or second week of May, so maybe we’ll get you and the RYTM out of the house for that. 
1 Like
one of my biggest issues with the OT - it absolutely makes no sense at all that it lacks this function… specifically because you CAN record knob movements into the MIDI sequencer, so it clearly has the capability to record/store/playback modulation curves… I really dont understand why they didnt implement a “slide” paramter for MIDI, as you can easily calibrate the resolution to adjust across 127 steps or whatever, or even just do a destructive operation on the sequencer data, essentially creating the same thing as a perfectly smooth "knob recording’ or whatever
so yeh, the omission of that is baffling to me - but mostly a pain in my ass because if I need to have modulation in there, it often takes a number of passes of recording knob tweaks to get a really smooth result to my satisfaction… why cant i just let the machine do that for me? makes no sense, at all… there is no realtime CPU heavy calculations involved… so yeh, i dont get it
You can record knob movements to CC and they don’t get quantized into plock steps?? This is news to me.
yes you can record knobs, but you cant just push a button to create those steps in a quantized way, i.e. a slide function
it makes no sense to not include this IMO