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- The one people have been asking for! A lot of people felt like Elektron had forgotten about Rytm users. And again they surprise us :). Here's a deep dive into the new features.
In the video I cover all the biggest updates and improvements and give sound examples and such. And more rambling than usual so grab some tea and join me in this overview.
Oh and before I forget, I forgot to mention that there's also a fun random name generator added. :)
Cheerio
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00:00 - Intro
01:47 - New machines: BD Acoustic
04:47 - New machines: SD Acoustic
06:13 - New machines: SY Chip
11:15 - New machines: SY RAW
13:11 - New machines: HH Lab
14:59 - Eucledean mode
17:55 - Page looping
21:51 - Chromatic mode scale lock
22:31 - LFO random wave slew
24:50 - Higher resolution parameters
25:33 - Plock and micro timing indicators
26:38 - Save trig's sound
27:16 - New sampling features
27:47 - More QOL improvements - เพลง
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I don't see Elektron Rytm mkII course at your shop?.
Is it something you have?
@@yardleylfc Thank you for your interest :) Not currently no. I'm considering it though! Best to subscribe to my mailinglist to keep up to date on this. First up is Syntakt part 2
@@Davemech please make a mastering analog rytm course !! :D
@@stevenmiller213hey, thanks for letting me know there’s interest in this :). I’m not ruling it out completely but have a few other courses to make first. The production process is becoming more and more efficient so I expect to make courses at a higher pace. I’ll send a mail to my mailing list with a little poll to see which instruments / subjects people would like to see next 👍 you can subscribe on my website. Thanks again !
@@Davemech Thats good news! thanks for the answer! just added myself to the mailing list :D
hey dave mech, you are awesome, i love your videos and your vibe, the content that you make is great and your vibe is so uplifting!
Thank you for your lovely comments ❤️ I really appreciate it and it motivates me to keep going in this slightly quirky style. Easy to fall into the perfectionist trap but I really try to keep away from that in these videos. Always nice yo hear that it resonates. Thanks again ❤️
best analog rytm tutorial iv ever seen!! hoping for a full course on sound design and groove in the future! thanks for all the great tips in this video!
Thank you Steven ! 🙏
Man... the sounds you get out of Elektron boxes should make everyone fall to their knees. Your work is amazing
Would love more rytm content! Sampling stuff, some sound design, some live performances... No need to edit:-) Groeten uit België!
I might just :) cheers 🙏
Wow, I hope we get euclidean mode on other Elektron Boxes!!!
Thanks, Dave. Just received a Rytm MkII yesterday. Nice bonus, this is, especially with your overview. Cheers.
A groove from scratch with the rytm!❤ thx a lot for going in detail as always.
That was a very nice and comprehensive overview! The casual presentation made it nice to follow too. :) I have upgraded my Rytm, but haven't had a chance to deep dive into the new features yet. But your video just proved that I need to keep my Rytm forever!
Great work Dave. Much appreciated. Congrats to the second miniDave. Good job👍🏻
Thank you 😊
The master at work -- awesome! Super psyched for this update -- getting that AND an in-depth demo from Dave Mech on the same day is a massive treat.
Cheers matey ! 🙏🙏
Thanks for this Dave. Excellent update. Looking forward to playing with the euclidean mode!
Elektron really listened to its community ... and the update is just wow ... can't wait to play with it in depth over the weekend!
Congrats on the 2nd addition to your family :)
Thank you!😊
Great demo! I’m really digging the design of the SY Chip (the waveforms! And its potential as an arpeggiator), and the sound of the SD Acoustic.
Fantastic video Dave! Very clearly laid out new features. Thanks!
Great sounding outro at 32:14--dig it! I just downloaded OS 1.70 and ran across your helpful flyover summary. 💙
Glad you like it!
Congrats to your second child!!
Thank you 🙏❤️
Thank you Dave! You did great! Congrats on being a DAD!
Thank you!🙏
Got my second kid last december. setting aside time for creative endeavours and getting anything done is tough indeed. Props!
why do you all do that? I mean the first, forget the second
@@yurijogurtsov8710 Well, we can assume the urge to get kids is hardwired into most specimen of our species by evolution to maximise the number of apes on this rock. If you don't get the appeal, fair enough I didn't either until I had my first. In my view you don't get yourself some kids, nah, they are a gift from fate, and it's up to you to enjoy or despair raising them. Cheers!
@@7177YT great answer pal, take care yourself and your merry lil sprouts ;)
fantastic update, innit? What a joy box RYTM is, I am totally in love
Regarding video formats: you do you Dave. Edited, rambling, it doesn't matter. Your videos are always top notch!
Thanks 😊 that’s good to hear
thank you for this video and these explanations, I know little about analog rytm, but it seems well thought out for live use with its multi outputs, for my part I have the Digitakt which I have just upgraded to 1.51 hoping that there are no bugs on this new firmware (thanks also for the videos)🎵🎶🎹🎵🎶
I can tell you from my own experience that sleeping gets better after 2 years, Anyway, thank you for taking this video
excited to update mine, now let's hope they add something to analog four mk2,
rambling is fine, make more videos
Great video, thanks!
HIGHLY impressed with the SD Acoustic engine, possibly the closest analogue snare i've heard to the real thing!
VERY nice work from Elektron.
Just need to find half a day for the 4 hour update and calibration.
Please DO ramble on, always good to understand someone's thought process. 😁
The best drum machine just got 100% Better! Well done Elektron. Thanks for a great video Dave
I hit the like on your videos while the opening commercial is playing, not disappointed here either!
Cheers 🙏❤️
The professor is back! I appreciate your Digitone videos and resources. I may consider the Analog RYTM after seeing this. Great job sir!
Thank you kindly ! 🙏
Thank you, very interesting, I will enjoy ! Have a great time with your family !
Thank you ❤️
Great breakdown, thanks!
Nice see you back !!!
Congratz on kid nr 2!
Oh yes, please ramble more. If this gets us more vids 🙌 Thanks for this walkthrough. You're the man ♥
Thanks mate 🙏🙏❤️
Congratulations on your baby, always beautiful a new life and member of jour familie. I understand that you may have some different priorities. thank you for the good high over the about new upgrades and what they mean. I am also looking in to the new capabilities. thanks

Cheers Mark 🙏 thank you
Great video! Thanks!
Great tutorial, thank you!
Nice. Syntakt next I hope
The 2nd LFo, could be running much slower, not so taxing to the cpu! Very good demo Dave, thank you. The Video was fine, we are all humans, and it makes you even more likeable /honest.
Thank you 🙏
Regarding the lfo: they really tried but it was impossible. They commented on this publicly as well on the elektronauts forum.
Cheers 🙏
@@Davemech The sid engine is so sick, played today with it, you showed its potential, i even managed to get some 303 type sounds out of it, really a league of its own now, catapulted him in the region of octatrack, the new refined tuning of all engines is gold also.
This updtate look insane!
Christmas came early, baby!
Muhahaha. Love the evil enthusiastic laughter. One day i hope to join that joy with this machine 🖤🖤🖤
Thnk u
We miss your live videos!!!
Nice one!!
Thanks!
Woo welcome back!
Phenomenal!!
Fantastic :)
Lovley!
great review, thanks, the Analog RYTM sounds deep and beautiful as always but would you consider that the sampling capabilities are kind of "Digitakt Lite" with even less MIDI features than Digitakt? My uninformed understanding is that it is 12 note polyphony but each of the 12 pads/notes can have a synth engine as well as a sample assigned to each pad? It's an expensive music box, sounds great but seems the best aspect may be the work flow capabilities of relative (compared to a DAW) limited features? Still, DM, you're makin' the RYTM sound very good!
Thanks 🙏
Rytm actually has 8 voices. 12 sound engines but a few are grouped and use the same voice. (Indicated by the lines between pass).
Yeah Digitakt offers much more when it comes to sampling and imho also for sound design with its two filters and two lfos.
However the sequencer of rytm is a lot deeper and rytm offers more in terms of controlled performance features, a dedicated fx track and some more advanced features.
Yeah with any hardware the tactile workflow and direct control is a great part of why it is so wonderful to use. It feels like an instrument
thanks for your insights,@@Davemech
@@Davemech And also all analog voices and compressor. I think of the sampler as just a bonus feature which is amazing for this analog beast.
No , this is cool Dave ! 🙂
i reraly would like to see a hybbrid of the TR8S and the RYTM. Best of both in one machine would be so great.... but this will stay a unfullfilled dreram forever.
21:58 , did you just slide your finger through the scales and all registering??? I have to put pressure on each for them to register. No way can I just slide my finger through. Is there a way to fix this? Oddly, when it's on Mute mode it registers almost on touch.
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Hey Dave, do you have any idea, if the euclidean mode will come for other elektron machines like the DT too?
Honestly no idea 🤷♂️
I was looking forward to the Euclidean machine. If you used just one sound the actuality of the Euclidean machine would be enhanced thereby hearing the variations
So as far as I understand the scales only apply when live recording but you cannot change the scale for notes already part of a sequence, am I right? If thats the case it is a little bit of a shame to be honest. Would have been nice to have a pattern going and be able to change the scale on the flight. Not sure why they did not implement this, does not appear to be too CPU intensive unlike the second LFO. Regarding the second LFO, a workaround would be to be able to freely assign the 12 LFO’s to ANY track and not only the track they live in. Anyways, cool enough update!
Ramble on...!
Congratulations. There are more important things than techno.
The ultimate drum machine. I dream to have this to replace my TR-8. I current use my Digitakt for my percussion sequences, and to be honest, the kick sound doesn't compare to my analog Tr-8. Maybe it is just me? or is that just how the Digitakt is? I see where you have your main volume on the RYTM at max (probably gain staging it on your mixer), is that the recommendation perhaps for my case. thanks for the video, I sill would love to have the RYTM someday!
Rytm is certainly nice. But if you have Digitakt, then that’s also very very nice. I prefer Digitakt to be honest. Extra filter, and extra lfo per track. Super fast workflow.
Regarding kicks: Digitakt is a sampler. So there’s no “the” kick ;) pick a better sample, and use the tools (tuning, filter and lfos etc.) to shape a kick further to your liking. The Digitakt doesn’t make kicks sound bad :)
@@Davemech lol, thank you, It's so good to have a great teacher to just tell it how it is! I'll take your advice and let the RYTM gas out for a while more 🙂
@@embazlehaha , happy to be frank 😁
I have the original AR. It doesn't say MK1 on it. Will that update work on that one as well?
Yea certainly:) mk1 got the same update pretty much
Does the rhythm now have all the machines from the syntakt? I want to buy one of these 2 to go with my maschine plus, but not for samples but real drum design (m+ has this one also but more options are welcome) guess the pro of the syntakt is you get bass and other synths also. Wich one would you get if your sampling and sequencing is already covered? Thanks for anyone’s input❤
Nope it has not. Syntakt has many more machines. Especially on the digital side. There are some overlapping machines but not completely. You can create bass and leads and pads with rytm as well. On both instruments the unit sounds of each machine are just a starting point. You can create a wide range of sounds with even just a kick machine for example.
Rytm’s sequencer is a lot deeper than that of syntakt. If you sequence externally syntakt would make more sense. But honestly, not using the Elektron sequencer on any of the elektron instruments means you’re not using 50+% of the instrument
Hi Dave! Do you know if I will lose any old saved songs Ive created if I download this new firmware? thanks! ~Brandon
Hey, nope, but always backup your work before updating !
Also, be aware that because of the new improvements to the Calibration, some sounds might change. Ao you might have to go through your work and change things to be how you designed them originally. But overall the sound engine really has been improved
just get rest and enjoy your joy! more important
Page Loop could work on the Digi boxes if they implemented it where you could only set a loop when the sequencer was stopped. Really hope that Euclidean, smooth random, P Lock indicators, save trig as sound, come to the Digi's (and OT but not hopeful for that).
That would make it severely less useful imho. No+page maybe but honestly I doubt we will see that feature on Digis / octa.
The others, hopefully yes :)
@@Davemech To me it would still work - not for performance but for song writing. I want to work on page 2 so I could just loop page 2. I don't care if it can't be toggled on/off when playing.
Congrats on the babay, thanks for the sleep deprived content
Thank you ❤️
CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS! ❤
I was going to do things this weekend... but i guess i'll just be playing with my rytm
sleep "depravity" haha. Perfect error.
Haha yeah 🤦♂️😄
I caught that too😂
30:30 Couldn't Elektron release some form of upgrade kit to boost the performance with a more performant cpu that you install at home? Or sell some helper chip that fits in a slot rhat takes some of the load of the main cpu? I am sure they could if they wanted.
Don’t think so. These PCB’s inside are not build with that in mind. That would mean a big overhaul of the hardware and software. Personally I rather see them developing something new. Which I’m sure they are in the background.
@@Davemech ok, probably they left out expansion as an option, but it would be the coolest easter egg if they made something like that available in some product. They could rely on signing and stuff if they want to prevent third party utilization so only Elektrons chips would allow to communicate. But it is probably cheaper to just release another hardware when they really run out of resources.
@@FredF78would certainly be cool :) but like push 3
Great Upload , looks a nice update. Did your kid Laugh when he was born ? atb .
He did quite soon after he was born but first cried and slept. Apparently I did immediately laugh when was born according to my mother. 😄
I've just noticed: The record button on your Rytm is actually a stop button.
Well spotted. I kept forgetting to ask for a replacement. And then it sort of became part of this rytm’s uniqueness I guess
No rumours about an update for Analog Four? These machines are pretty close by the internal design possibly. Only that Rytm has the ability to import and work with samples but has less oscillators/voice. Also Rytm has the fully developed sequencer while Analog Four seems to be limited here (intentionally - I don't know other reasons... maybe I'm wrong).
They are really miles and miles and miles apart when it comes to the internal hardware. Hardly have anything in common in that department other than that they both have analog components.
Rytm and analog have almost entirely the same sequencer really. Only that rytm now gained some extra features. Who knows. Maybe they will find their way to the analog four :)
Also, Elektron does not intentionally leave out features to make people buy more stuff. It’s not how it works :)
@@Davemech It's not how it works but it's how it looks )) I hope at least for Arp p-locks which could resolve the lack of retrigs.
Yeah, I understad that these are different in details but I'm almost sure that they use the same core (like STM32 for example) to generate all digital signals and other stuff of that kind.
think they can do page loop for octatrack?
And scale mode would be sick !
@@marcus268 thought scale already exists ? Just less accessible
@@jazzbeats8168 Minor and Major scale, but no harmonic minor, phyrgyian scale etc
There might be a way but since the octa and digis don’t have a dedicated fill button I doubt there’s a solid solution to implement it. But never say never
ohh okay ic what you mean, I was referring to scaling for the speed of each track. @@marcus268
ok... the million dollar question - Syntakt or Rytm for drum machine?
Oooph. In terms of flexibility and longevity I think rytm will win. In part because you can use samples and layer them with the voices. Which is really nice in itself. And the new sequencer additions are great.
Syntakt however is the quickest groove machine I’ve ever used. And it can do pretty much anything you want if you dive deep into it. But in the long term the sound might become a bit same-ish even when stretching the machines to completely other places. So I think if I really had to choose a single machine between the two I’d go with rytm.
That being said, I really love syntakt. And use it more often than rytm 😄
can I use it to make a whole track?
Definitely!
Beff... lucky to have an AR2, Elektron machines are a fucking good investment... If Octatrack could get an Update and Overbridge/USB Audio support I would shit my pants right now...
Now the overlapping with Syntakt it's even greater...
OT is not capable of OB unfortunately.
Where there be update for A4?
🤷♂️ would be nice
@@Davemech you don't have to be so kind to respond even tho you don't know ;) big up great channel!
Wait...is it still restricted to 4/4 time signatures?
Eh , was it ever ? It always has been possible to program other time signatures through the use of sequencer scale and track lengths
good timing to sell mine lol
Imagine if this had an upgradable cpu…
You share a name with the man who is inadvertently the cause of the uprising of "Alpha Males"... Dave Mech - Biologist.
I clicked on this video because I thought for a moment it may be actually him, it however was not which doesn't matter because I have an interest in music production anyway :)
Haha yeah :) although my name is an artist name, not my real name and it’s pronounced like mechanical rather than meech 😀 but it’s a fun thing yeah. I bet his research is very interesting 😊 cool combination of interests you got there !
Skip to 1:44 if you have ADHD 😅
You know TH-cam has chapter functionality right ? ;)
@Davemech sorry man I was excited 😊 thanks for the video
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