Now that we can sequence external gear via MIDI, it would be nice if the sequencer could sequence polyphoniclly per track. Shut up and take my money!
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Agreed, the AR is casting jealous glances at the DT since the new OS.
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Midi cc for reload kit! (Same for all other elektrons)
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Use the arrows/pads/trigs to set the pattern repeat number in song mode, rather than the hypersensitive pots. Perhaps a button combo so as not to conflict with moving patterns and song lines.
The AMP page needs to behave like the DT.
Twisting the knob to make the envelope as short as possible then it suddenly just becomes a HOLD envelope! NO!
Fully anticlockwise should be 0, fully clockwise HOLD!
While we’re at it, why is the default release set to infinite!
More sensible default release plz 
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You mean auto? Not sure if it would make more sense to have auto on the other end of the parameter range, probaply…but if you want to shorten the envelope without nasty surprises, set hold to a short value like 1 and only use decay for live tweaking.
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Maybe worth trying is setting your trig length very short (shortest is 0,125 I believe which translates to 1/128th note? Not sure, have to check.). Auto means the hold stage will have the same duration as the trig (or the duration of the pad being held), with such a short trig length, shortening the env hold parameter shouldn’t introduce a sudden jump when you reach auto.
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Each pattern should automatically create its own kit… changes to the kit of pattern B should not affect the kit of pattern A etc. There are 128 slots for saving kits and it’s crazy that kits have to be manually saved to these slots. This situation causes a lot of problems to users of the AR, especially new users. It should work in the same way as the Digitakt.
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But that would mean every pattern would have its own settings, no way to have, say one kit for patterns A01-A03 as intro, another kit for A04-A07 a third kit for A08-A10 and a fourth kit for the outro. No smooth transitions from pattern to pattern.
The kit system gives us the opportunity to do smooth transitions and build our own structures.
A very simple and effective system imho.
You could save each pattern with its own kit, backup that and load into new projects if you don’t want to manually save kits for all your patterns. Then you’d have a Digitakt similar workflow.
IIRC there’s a sysex file for A4 with kits per patterns, all 127 in the file section. Not sure if there is one for the Rytm, but you’d only go through the process of making your own once.
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But you could easily apply the kit you want to use to whatever patterns from the kits that are automatically saved, if only they were. It’s incredibly frustrating to work on a pattern then make changes in the next pattern and find that the sounds have changed on the first pattern and there is no way to recall the way it was because you forgot to manually save it.
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You could argue that its just as easy to save a new kit each time you start a new pattern though!
Kit not auto changing per pattern is a feature I enjoy since it lets you stay consistent and quickly create a bunch of patterns
Could be useful to be able to configure the behaviour in settings tho!
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Arp and/or scales would be handy for DVCO and tonal samples. It’s almost definitely been brought up before but still
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Disagree strongly. I want to make patterns that are “the same song as the previous pattern (and thus the same kit)”. So I guess we need an option/toggle 
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“Why” - because most of the drum synths have built-in decay/release already, on the SYN page. I agree that at first glance, the Amp page seems wrong, but it’s actually better like this.
If there was a default, “percussive” envelope, all the default sound designs would all have to alter to accommodate this. Snares, closed hats, cowbells are short-ish. Open hats, cymbals, rides and some of the toms are middling long. Kicks could be any length at all… and that’s before the 2VCO was added. Would you want your “bass” sounds to default to closed hat length, crash cymbal length or 808 boom length?
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+1! That would be the best of both ways. You could always go and name a specific kit and set that for any additional patterns. I’ve been wanting this since I got the machine. I believe I would make a lot more changes to each pattern if I wouldn’t have to save a new kit for it each time. Kits are cool and they are here to stay but it would be a lot less hassle with this kit-pattern connection. It should of course be optional.
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FM machines on Toms tracks…
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Every machine on every track…?
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Differents FM Machines as synthesis option on every Tom track
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I suspect this is a hardware issue, and probably not possible. Someone elsewhere on the forum said the cymbal machines use 6 oscillators: I’d imagine most of the tracks only have 2-3.
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Yes, tracks have different analog circuitry, talored to specific synthesis, that’s why only certain machines can be loaded on certain tracks.
AR is very flexible in comparison to other drum machines and it wouldn’t make sense to have the circuitry needed for kick drums on all tracks (how many kicks do you need in your drum kit?), or the circuitry for hats or cymbals on all tracks. Would just drive costs up considerably.
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They already default to closed length because the decay on the synth voice itself defaults to percussive decay haha!