Yeah, I was actually astonished at how sensitive they are in mute mode! Agree, that makes it especially bewildering
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AR is a great machine for sure, though if I were in the market for an Elektron drum machine right now I think that the Syntakt eclipses it in many (but of course not all) ways. I’m sure that Elektron are aware of what capabilities the ST has that the AR does not, and if possible and practical I’d be surprised if the AR does not get a firmware update at some point in the future to close this gap, assuming of course that it isn’t going to be discontinued.
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I’ve been eyeing up a Syntakt and have been comparing it to a Rytm as well, and I think the key difference to me is the performance aspect of the latter with the pads & scenes/qperf etc. The sampling doesn’t really matter to me (although it probably would free up some OT real estate) but where the Syntakt wins out is the diversity of sounds and modulation options.
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Yeah essentially outputs, CV, performance/scenes, and sampling are the only areas where ARmk2 wins. I mean, I still think it is a brilliant drum machine, though I sold mine a while back.
ST has a lot going for it, though I don’t like the form factor personally. ( nor DT/DN)
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Oh how many posts have I written that have gone the same way…
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Ha, glad you didn’t take offense to my stupid joke. Cheers 
Base Width Filter on Samples has been one of my major requests for a while.
I definitely understand that these tools exist natively on the box if you want to resample (MK2 only in this case) but it would be so much better to be able to add a simple low shelf to cut out some meat on something. It’s the kind of thing I’d do iterative throughout a project too, so baking it into a resample or on the way in isn’t as flexible.
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Yeah, none taken. Its all just opinions.
I think part of the issue is people holding expectations due to Elektron’s past actions.
Just because the Digitakt got a load of features added, doesn’t mean the Rytm will get any of them.
As I’ve said time and again, money is the ultimate driver and if the AR just doesn’t move enough units, those that do will get all the R&D funding. Hell, they could discontinue it this year and change nothing going forward. It would still be an ace machine.
Yeah agreed. I have a laundry list I could ask for but I bought the RYTM in it’s current state and think it’s more than enough as is.
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Yeah it’s always a nice reason to hold onto gear - if it gets updates often. I’ve had that with my MPC Live as well, even though the Live 2 is out now. Not something I expected when I bought it.
But at some point the updates stop, and for some gear that’s sooner rather than others, for lots of reasons.
I’m sure those clever folks at Elektron could figure that out.
Func + AMP? Func + LFO?
For me the rytm is more ‘brutal’ and the syntakt is more ‘gentle’, but can reach its depth.
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I think a digital filter for the samples would be huge…
from my perspektiv there is a lot of potential in this area (samples)
in comparisson the digitakt has a much more clean look from UI side,it makes more sense.
what you see is what you get. (LFO Phase and Mode for exp.)
the two bars bottom and top are taking a lot of pixels form the AR display… i would put the same information on left and right side rather than on top buttom…
what ever…
it is not a thread to say AR is bad. i just wanted to know what other users think and what elektron could improve from our perspektive.
so lets keep on searching some features we want for further updates…
much love to all of you!
best,
OX
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Additional LFO I would have thought would be a relatively straightforward addition — it’s purely firmware, you already have a dedicated LFO button, just tap multiple times to page through it.
Maybe it can be done already?.. If you could attached an (additional?) LFO to the performance state depth, and be able to modulate that over time — you can attach loads of parameters to a performance state, so massively ups the amount of modulation you can get happening from one LFO… Is similar to how my Nord works. You can attach any number of controls to be affected by the mod wheel — if you can use an external midi trigger to move that mod wheel there is loads of movement available. also being able to target specific different performance states…
If it has the DSP power, you could possibly add Syntakt style digital machines to the SRC menu, to compliment the analog ones? Might not be possible depending on the signal path there — could certainly add them on the sample side tho.
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Does feel on paper, that it’s hard to make a case for the Rytm over the Syntakt. I love my Rytm, but they’ve definitely borrowed so much from it, that it’s a tough call.
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what i dont like with the perfomance knob it is globale routed.
this point is to much concerning with diffrent tracks on diffrent pattern pages…
min. per Pattern page would be nice, or did i mess something up?
quickperfomance per pattern or per pattern page would be huge! 
also if i dial the perf knob it would be nice to see the changes and what is the current parameters value. this would de huge for all my projects.
in addition to @henrygibson
or a matrix page for my perfomance knob?! 
I started getting deeper on slide trigs and a lot of rhythmic modulation can actually be achieved with it, it’s not a replacement for lfo but it is very capable feature.
but since I’ve been running into locks limit too often lol, so maybe increasing the limits if possible would be great!
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It would really help a lot to be able to route samples through their own digital filter to use as transients on heavily filtered kicks for example.
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Would this wednesday be the day that we’ll all be very happy…? 