Right. I wanna wake this thread again.
So I’ve done some thinking and some research and some testing and some tweaking, and I’ve come to this conclusion:
Even if you bought a Rytm mainly for its sample playback engine, it’s still a pretty powerful device. Given the quality and feature set of the amps, the filters, the lfo and fx, you can do some serious damage with those eight voices, even if there are other instruments out there that can spit out more polyphony and other nifty features at less of a price.
But the Analog Rytm still seems in a class of its own even when it comes to sample manipulation, given the power of its sound engine. So buying it mainly to use it as an eight voice sample playback instrument doesn’t sound like such a bad idea to me, seeing that I can’t think of any other instrument that right now offers that kind of approach and quality to sample playback. The flexibility it offers to shape the samples and build tracks from them, is only matched by the ESX as I see it right now. And I guess the ESX2, but we’ll see.
Thoughts?