This sounds really good!
I have an AR mk1 but never explored the noise and impulse machines (other than making shaker sounds). Could you break it down a little bit what exactly you are doing?
Yes: many old drum machines use a impulse to ping a filter with high resonance.
Just set SRC to noise or impulse, turn res very high on the filter, and set a short envelope on the filter, or use the LFO on ONE to mod the filter freq. I like band pass filter or peak filter.
That’s the core of the idea, then just mess around till it’s funky.
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Thanks! Will definitely try this 
Would it be possible to make higher pitch melodic sounds using this method?
More like DFAM sounds?
Example (I don’t know what gear was used in this track, though):
gives you really fun Buchla vibes
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I took the preset kits and tried to make a useful pattern out of each. Modified the kits on the way. Signal is incoming a little hot (no possibility to monitor when recording directly into phone with minimal setup) - sorry for that. I play the single sounds after each pattern.
10 patterns or so.
Edit: here is a clean OB recorded version (though with other order of the patterns)
Straight outta Rytm - no further editing.
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This track is mostly Rytm with the exception of that high pitched lead coming in at 1:50 and the final bass line coming in at 2:31, which were created with the Moog Sirin. I had fun using the performance encoder to fade between two beats, one a sampled break and the other made with Rytm’s analog bass kick and a snare sample. The first synth sound that you hear is just a detuned sample run through the low pass analog filter with resonance. I am constantly amazed by what the Rytm’s filters can do and it opens up so much exploration. Regarding the track, in the back of my mind I was thinking this would be fun as a battle track for scratching records. If I still had some turntables setup, I would have scratched over it. Anyways it’s one take, one pattern, so a little rough around the edges. Thanks for listening.
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AR1.70 BD Sharp & SY Chip and some hats
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Yes! Very nice—wanna share the dark secrets of how you made this? The SY Chip is sounding really acidy.
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actually you don’t need anything to ping the filter, you can set both smp and syn to off and just trigger the filter
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interesting! but if you set the resonance to high-but-less-than-max, i think you still need to ping it to get it to resonate, yes? i can’t wait to experiment with this when i get home.
nope, all you need is the track to be active, you activate it by hitting the pad or a trig, with infinite envelope you get infinite sound, you can create pings only sounds with envelopes and trigs without any machine/samples involved.
btw if you use the trig parameters to toggle the SYN/SMP part you can only lay down empty p-locks which won’t retrigger the amp envelope, to lay down actual trigs you need to set the machine to DISABLED one.
as long as the amp envelope is open and you resonate the filter enough you’ll get your sexy analog sine waves 
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by the way, same method applies to audible lfo. if you activate the track and use the lfo it will start synthesizing, which u can use as a sound source further on, you can resample, with fx and whatnot, no internal machine/sample required, from subtle noise to whatever.
example of lfo mapped to pan param
just now I realized I’m not in the tips and tricks thread, sorry for polluting, although it is 1.70 sound
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Straight outta Rytm #2
Took preset kits, tried to make something, changed on the fly.
909-ish
lil computer ppl
80s base
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Straight outta Rytm #3 (own samples)
φθόγγοι (sounds)
- transferred old samples (1996 TR-808 → MPC2000XL) → AR mk1
- set AR‘s drum synth engines to ‘off’
- used AR’s filters for taming and balancing
- in one case AR’s filter adds oomph (hi-pass with resonance modulated by env over BD sample)
- use of velocity → ‘anything’-macros
- added FXlavour
- hopefully subtle use of compressor
ῥυθμός (rhythm)
- makes use of
- plocks (mainly for velocity)
- polymeter
- for shifting accents
- for shifting hits and rhythm
- polyrhythm (within the limits of the machine like 3:2)
- no shuffle, groove is accomplished by use of 2/3 (3/2) lanes in combination with straight even divide-by-2 lanes
- conditional trigs
- mutings
σχήματα (patterns)
- recorded directly via OB sum
- normalized to -1dB in audacity
- exported 160kbps mp3
Hexual Sealing:
Uon’:
T’o
Treí
Trei-and-háf
Trivia
(btw. did you know the Latin letter F looks like a Greek digamma?)
Hmm, mp3 steals something of the dynamics and transients 
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that’s how it’s done. killer.
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sounds fresh! congrats
going to try and do a fresh beat from scratch every day this month. this one’s pure Rytm, no samples, no external effects.
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Your tracks and sounds are so great (jaw drops) 
Thanks for sharing and also for sharing your magic recipes (like breathing samples over drum synths).
With you the rytm sounds like an SP1200 but spaced up like with an MPC hard to tell but Shadow and mid 90s second golden age of HipHop are triggered in my memories and I suddenly hear all the tapes.
However, yours is next level, new gen. (Somewhat like New Retro Wave to orig 80s).
Thanks!! 
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excerpt from last session, no samples, no processing
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