Still a Rytm noob, but I’d love:
You could set in the scene the amp volume setting, to mute tracks with a scene.
I personally would wish that the RYTM sequencer gets similar features as the Octatrack sequencer. I.e. run certain patterns with a special scene assigned. That would be cool. (3x with scene 1 2x with scene 2 etc…)
I’m already doing that, but that way you need to deactivate the scene to unmute them, instead of just being able to go back to the previous unmute state by unmuting them one by one.Just a tiny big thing that would help with the way I work
Ah i misunderstood, sounds like a cool addition - now that i read your post correctly. I would want that as well - it would also free up the 50 settings limit on the scenes.
On the Volca Beats, there is a very interesting feature that’s called “Active Steps”. In this mode, the 16 steps of the pattern are lit. When you deactivate some of the steps, playback ignores them and directly jump to the next active step. By quickly deactivating as many steps as you want and just have your pattern play over the remaining ones, you can create killer breaks on-the-fly.
I’m not sure how complex it is to implement on the technical level, but such a feature - simple as it is - would be really nice for the AR.
@Omar, agreed! There are so many more things they could do with the sequencer…active steps, start and end points, different rates, reverse mode, pendulum mode, random mode, brownian motion, etc…
May there is something like this and I missed, anyway here it goes.
Holding PAGE while in REC mode emulates having pressed and holden all the active triggers for the current page. So if you change any parameter, that parameter will be locked to all the active triggers for the current page.
Example
Objective:
Parameter lock sample start to 33 to all the active triggers on the current page.
Procedure:
done!
I’d like that simply to apply % TRCs to a whole page at once
This is a great idea in terms of it making useful things happen quickly in a live context
I find the N0+Param erase technique way less satisfactory as it’s near impossible to keep the pressed encoder on one value - there are so many times I’ve wished to be able to set all to something
Also clicking the knob once can be used to lock all the active triggers to the current value, clicking twice to erase all locks 
Would be cool if BOTH the A4 and AR’s trig conditions included 1 of x, but x of 4. So if I want it to do 1, 2, 3, and leave out 4 as an example, and not have it random.
There’s a way to achieve exactly that already (slight caveat)
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I just thought of something, while in chromatic mode, the up/down arrows would move the pads in octaves instead of the smaller 4 semitone steps which is quite disorienting. Like on the a4. It would be Insanely more playable for doing fast octave jumps live.
It already does that if you press Fn too
Fn+:arrow_up_small: or Fn+:arrow_down_small: for octave jumps
I did not know of this, and shall try it immediately!
Oh, rtfm moment! Of course it does! Though i’d like to be able to do that without the FN Button. There could be an option in the global setting to toggle between octaves and the other option, right?
There could be dozens of options but you won’t see a single one imho, the UI is purposely simplified or balanced - the days of OT depth menu options are gone
I’d also probably prefer it if it were the way round you suggest, I’m used to that from the A4 too, but I still think they have done the right thing by setting it that way, so I won’t be holding my breath waiting for it to get an option
Yeah i was meaning to say they could make an option in the global settings. Or per track? I am away from rytm right now but Will have to try the FN+arrows when back home!
Stackable (polyphonic like) Scenes.
This can be accomplish easily and only involves very simple math.
The idea is that more than one scene can be active at the same time.
For this to work properly a “choke group” like parameter must be added to scenes. This way you can define which scenes are stackable and with whom.
For example, if all scenes are set to the same “choke” group, the scenes will work as default, activating a scene will deactivate the previous one.
Now if you want to have 3 scenes that will for example control transposition and another 3 that controls the effect amount, you can set those scenes to a different choke group. Let say we set transposition scenes to group 2 and fx scenes to group 3. This way activating a transposition scene will deactivate another transposition scene but will left any other active scene untouched, same goes for fx scenes. So for this example you can have let say 4 scenes that drastically modify pattern grove with choke group 1, 3 scenes that controls pattern’s pitch on choke group 2, and another 3 that controls fx amount on choke group 3, then you can combine 3 scenes, one of each kind (groove + pitch + fx) converting 10 scenes in 36 virtual scenes due posible combinations.
May be this was a complex example, anyway this can be used in much simpler and still incredible effective way.
I’m using a similar approach with the Custom Keypads on my Max patch Performer and so far it is extremely useful, at least for my workflow.
What do you think?
I just came hear to post about the same thing. I guess the key option is the BT & LT pads - since you probably are already using synthesis on BD and SD.
And yes, just like the hold function to multiple mute on RYTM, holding track and then multiple-selecting pads, you could then simultaneously change parameters for each sound.
In the case of the stereo pair on BT and LT, you could easily change filters or things with this method. Or do a whole bunch of things really, fade ins and what have you.
I really wish the main 8 knobs could be used ala the performance knobs on the A4.