Routing audio from your DAW through one of the signal paths of the rytm is a known feature of the overbridge software, however, I have yet to see an example of this so I made my own.
Quick rundown of how it works:
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With overbridge and the ASIO drivers installed along with the “overbridge” mode enabled in the USB menu on the RYTM, you should be able to select the Analog RYTM as an audio device.
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With Reaper (my DAW of choice, so I can only speak to how it works with that), you can route audio from any track to one of the RYTM’s voices in Reaper’s “routing for track” menu by selecting one of the RYTM’s voices (or two voices if the track is in stereo) in the “Audio Hardware Outputs” drop-down.
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For this example, I made a beat and split up the audio into 4 different stereo busses - drums, bass, synth bus 1, synth bus 2. For each one of those busses, you route it into 2 different voices on the rytm, hard-panning each voice left and right.
Once the rytm’s VCA envelope is triggered and the hold parameter is set to INF, you should be able to hear the audio coming through the rytm’s signal path including each voice’s filter and overdrive + the master compressor, distortion, and FX paths.
Ultimately, you have a pretty overpowered analog 4-channel mixer with an analog compressor and distortion stage (reverb and delay too)!
So to demonstrate all this, here is a live recording of a beat I made (drums first made on and recorded off the rytm, synths from Repro and TAL’s Juno emulation, electric bass played by me) routed from my DAW through the RYTM, cranked to get some gnarly distortion.
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Thanks, I had been wondering how to do this for stereo tracks and adding some analog grit to recordings. I cant afford separate analog outboard gear!
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this is very cool, I’ve managed to do this in Live on a mac as well, 8 mono or 4 stereo channels and with a midi controller it could really become a unique mixer with filters and effects… or just an effect processor… nice!
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This is a feature on the RYTM that is not talked about enough. A device that just did this alone and marketed as such would sell like hot cakes.
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Yo - Just come across this after reading around
Was this a simple setup within live? It’s exactly how I was planning on using my rythm too once it arrived
Seems like the best of both worlds then
Anything I could watch out for that might fuck it up?
it’s pretty easy once you do it, you need to bind OB plugin sidechain pairs to rytm tracks and then you can send your audio to it, the catch is that every track is mono so for stereo you need to couple the tracks, for example BD+SD can be stereo together, just pan the BD and SD left and right in rytm and it’s stereo.
for mono you can send audio from live to the same sidechain pair while it’s being panned hard left/right on the Live tracks and that way you get to the needed track in rytm.
for example, to setup BD+SD as stereo and BT/LT as two mono tracks:
and then you can send your audio to it:
and that’s it, you can then treat the audio as if it’s on the track itself, filter it, send it to fx, lfos, send it though the distortion/compressor, whatever.
iirc if you don’t hear the audio go through just hit the relevant pad of the track and it should work, not sure why it’s not going through sometimes after hard stop but otherwise it should work.
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Nice one 
thanks for the pics too
I’m mostly dealing in mono channels anyway - keeps things simple for me
Super cool to run everything in on overbridge and be able to send it back out for the the master fx
it’s the only way to process audio with all the rytm’s capabilities on the fly, you can of course sample in but that way you can use it as external processor for any audio source and not being bound to sample storage limits or recording limits.
stereo usually is good if you send already stereo material in, like you can totally run a full track or a mix buss through the master distortion and compressor, it’s very good, you can also create several prints to have parallel processing, that if you have the patience to do it 
but yeah, it’s super fun way to process anything through the rytm.
btw, a tip for 2 tracks stereo - binding controls to performance macros will give you the option to control both channels equally, for example if you bind both BD and SD overdrive or fx sends to a single performance knob, you can use the QPERF or a midi controller for that macro to control these parameters simultaneously, otherwise you’d have to switch between the tracks constantly, not impossible but can be PITA
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Definitely plenty to get my teeth in to - I’m currently only using an analog four . Just managed to get that setup with overbridge in ableton
Once the rythm arrives I’ll test it all out and get back to you. Thanks again this is really helpful
Overbridge as AuV3 in AUM would be really the smartest of all Elektron moves 
