Analog Rytm Mkii || Rapid In-Depth Tutorial 

you got it! thanks for responding. I might do another, but with some advanced tips. I love my Analog Rytm!

thank you!

You're welcome! I'm sorry I've been away from my channel for so long. Comments like this make me want to come back and make more. cheers

Thank you! I will endeavor to make more content this year. Just had a series of life events get in the way, but I appreciate the encouragement, seriously!

Back at ya friend!

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Thanks for watching! and hi from Los Angeles ;)

Thanks for saying! I should do a quick update with the new OS.

@@User173 Yes Please :)

ah dope, glad I could help! I hope it got you up and running fast!

Yeah it's big fun and all is really straight forward my findings. The only thing that is missing is to mute the analog or sample all at once or did I mis something. Grtz

@@sP33DyEd well if you press function and turn that appropriate knob it should jump down in huge increments. Have you tried that?

Yes but cut this the sound of the entire analog or sample tracks at once? Will try it later this day. Thanks

@@sP33DyEd I believe it should. check it out and let me know! I need to dig my Anlog rytm out of the closet, I just moved and still not fully set up.

I miss my octatrack, but yeah, I had to get rid of my second one because honestly I was tired of being puzzled over how to use it if I stepped away for a few weeks. I do miss it though, it can make some fun little mixes and songs. I'm actually having fun pushing digitakt to it's limits for song writing. it's quite capable.

haha , I especially love that you can recognize them all!

User 173 started watching and said "hey wait, is that the AMA reverb and a Morphagene?"

@@nkozi DAMN, nice. I'm so happy. Glad a fellow gear-head can recognize my scribbles. Side note, I didn't appreciate Morphagene for a long time. Recently it's become one of my favorite modules.

User 173 i'm just getting into Eurorack this year! Bought one of the Moog cases and I'm planning on Modulargrid: www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1086912 All subject to change, of course!

Ah, I love London. I miss living in the UK. fucking Brexit.

thank you so much! and great point about trial and error leading to solid workflow. Thanks for commenting.

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so, some things changed since my video. Elektron released a new OS for the Analog Rytm which allows it to sequence gear via midi. Which is amazing. Perhaps think of the Octa as more of a mixer and sampler, and the analog rytm as a drum machine and performance based sampler. They are two different beasts, but you can ultimately write songs on both. I think it's more a matter of which you need most in your setup. Do you need an amazing performance drum machine? or do you need a "brains" sequencer and DJ performance tool? Yes you can write songs on both, but I really see the Analog Rytm as more of a drum machine than a dedicated sampler and remixing tool like the octatrack.

User 173 thanks for the reply! Im attracted to the two because they’re relatively small (compared to my mpc & sp1200) & Id like to be able to take it around my studio & sample different instruments then chop up & make arrangements out of it all... I do have a modular too, so being able to sample on the fly is key, maybe even interface/sequence the modular would be something.. I dont plan on performing with it, but if its good for that u never know... I like how the Rytm is kinda warm & bouncy sounding...and how choppy & chaotic the Octa seems to sound... Probably need both haha..

@@Fluidstructure def need both. Did you end up making a decision?

great questions. I have both, still. I love the ARmk2 because of it's performance capabilities. It's not just a drum machine, but it's a drum machine with SO MUCH live performance potential that it's just too fun. I don't mean necessarily that I'm gigging with it, but rather that I find myself inspired to play out sequences differently every time I play it. The Digitakt is a lot of fun too, but it's not got the live tweak-ability as the ARmk2 does. If you want just a straight up "set and forget" drum machine, then Digitakt is the way to go. That's not to say it doesn't have live tweak-ability, it certainly does, but once you play the AR MK2 then you will see how much more it has in that dept. I have both because they both inspire me in their own right, but I can't advise one over the other. I'd suggest trying both to any viewer, and then deciding what they need. However, I will say I'm on digitakt number 2 as well as ARmk2 number 2. I have sold them, missed them, and reacquired them.

@@User173 I wasn't sure if I was going a little crazy with the joy between the 2. I do see the DT is pretty sample heavy (and what nice samples has!) and the major piece missing from it was the song creation...which the AR Mk2 has. From everything I've read on Reddit and seen on RU-vid, many have said the only piece missing from the AR Mk2 was the ability to MIDI sequence which would make it a complete dream. Well, update 1.50 enables all of that! While experimenting with this AR tonight, I accidentally (pleasantly) discovered a great sound combination for a track and I stopped and said, "ohhhh, this is the tweaking and discovering people mentioned." I'll continue to check out both and see if I can create some Soulful House style of music and maybe something with a feel of R&B. But the Digitone....I'm sold on that one for sure. I thought the lack of time stretching and pitch shifting (which is on the MPC Live and of course on the computer's DAW which I'm trying to et away from unless mix down, etc.) would be deal breaker but it can slice and assign to various keys with no issue. Was cool slicing my vocals, assigning them to 2 pads and launching filters, etc. What a difference. I wouldn't be surprised if Elektron decided to add time stretching and pitch shifting in a future update this year. I know some are in the thought that Elektron wouldn't do that as it would cause undo competition between AR Mk2 and OT Mk2. But OT is for a different crowd, I suppose. Keep making good videos and when you get a moment, please let me know the connection setup for creating a video like this where we can hear you clearly while still hearing the output from the AR Mk2. It's good to ask people who are doing it well. Appreciate the suggestions!

@@SKimbrough lovely to chat with you and hear your thoughts on the boxes. As far as my setup, I was recording my vocal audio in a microphone going to the Zoom H6. I also had the audio from the ARmkII going into a different track on the zoom h6. Then I just edited it so my voice stood out when it needed too. I edit in Premiere pro.

User 173 Thank you for the info. I was considering the overhead camera to be the iPhone but have read that if you use QuickTime to record video, you can set the audio interface as the audio capture device. That Zoom is a good model and have real portability! I learned about it during some audio production studies. Highly recommended. Your audio is so clear!

@@SKimbrough I don't have an iphone. haha

Hey there. I actually bought an Octa again. it's just too much fun. I'm happy to have the elektron products, they rock. You know what's funny? I made this video 2 days shy of a month prior to Elektron announcing the midi sequencing update! I tried it out since, and it's awesome. I should do an update to this video so I can include that.

totally. Elektron products are usually really fluid, save for the Octatrack, which I think is a bit too deep for my own creativity. However, the ARmkII is a special beast for sure

Once you wrap your head around Elektron, it's like second nature. Except for the Octatrack... lol. But I've never found machines that I can so easily and quickly lay down great ideas on.

it can do anything really. but I'd say most useful for EDM, IDM, Techno, breakbeats, Radiohead, etc. Thom Yorke loves his!

@@User173 really! well I love thom yorke haha, so he uses it mainly with the analog machines I suppose?

Yes you can layer it and there is unfortunately not any EQ that I know of for an imported sample.

Tune yes, time stretch no to my knowledge - still hoping for an update to bring it up to Digitakt standard

I've never hooked them up to Akai pads. it would be nice though. the elektron pads are so stiff.

They are identical

oh no... .I hope he's ok. dude was a genius.

Hmm, if they have midi CC assigned to them in the manual, then you can totally set up an external controller, but I've not specifically looked into this. What are you thinking of connecting it to? a midi figher twister or something?

@@User173 Any kind of controller, keyboard, sequencer. The chromatic mode just makes me angry, taunting me with a great sound and impossible expression. I'm sure I'd have figured it out if I would just make time to do it.

@@johncaccioppo1142 It's an interesting thought. It's just three octaves, right? I can't remember, but I think it's only 3 octaves, but still your point is valid: it would be more natural to play it on a keyboard. You got me thinking I should look into that.

@@User173 Yeah it would really open the RYTM up as an instrument. It's 4 octaves I believe. Haven't had much time to play with it lately, Spring is here and the basement is flooding.

@@User173 Page 57 of the manual explains the MIDI config settings. It certainly seems possible but actually getting it to work well might take some trial and error.

I do not, but I can help you if you want. Do you want to email back and forth?

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It's a good question. It depends on what you like, really. The best thing about the rytm is the performance features. It's truly great. But the digi and syntakt may be a little more user friendly depending on your brain. I think you can get things going faster on the digi and syntakt.

to be honest digitakt is a much more capable unit compared to analog rytm

@@mamadmadcap In what ways?

@@mamadmadcap I don't agree. They are different beasts, but the digitakt cannot do many, many things that the Rytm can. Then again, the digitakt has a few things up it's sleeve as well that the Rytm does not. It's really about what gear speaks to you as a user.

I hear ya. But maybe mix those down and make them finished songs/ beats. try new gear. but if you are happy with digitakt, like It sounds, then by all means, do not change a working set up :D

It’s probably the way I use AR , I tend to use the sample players a lot. Immediacy is another point digitakt workflow is very fast and you have much more control to mangle samples, also you can use digitakt as a 4 channel sequencer which is great, not to mention being able to use the built in effects on digitakt on the external input. The control all knob is ace on digitakt too. Nevertheless Analog rytm is cool and it does what I want it to do and I’m still happy.

Ciao Alberto! Piacere! Grazie per aver risposto :)

great feedback. Thank you so much. I'll be sure to slow down and be more obvious in the future, perhaps even putting text captions with the button combos as well as I do it.

@@User173 Great! Thank you for putting together this tutorial, it helps a lot.

What I find most annoying about these machines is that each one has some artificial limitation just so that you have to buy all of them. They try really hard not to cannibalize any product.

@@substance90 when they finally added midi out for the A4 along with some other updates to the various products they made some big leaps on improving in this area. It surprised me. With that said I would love a more vast way of using my ridiculous amount of samples with larger storage… I’m hoping their recent updates to their transfer software improves upon this limitation a bit. This limitation is something I recognized after I bought mine but I am getting back to using it and seeing its strengths. it did put me off after I realized I didn’t want to have to spend time managing projects and samples after I filled up my plus drive. Oddly my projects with samples are playing all the kits right now, but my +drive is showing up as empty. So maybe working with entire projects and keeping backups is the way to go.