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I just realized how much you're putting in these videos, with all the stillframe puns and memes, B-roll inserts, like 3 levels of audio to sync up, all the shot prep, user manual snips... I don't know jack shit about Elektron and can't afford the stuff anyway, but I gotta appreciate all the production here, nice work.
@@NotBenCoultry it’s literally one of my most looked forward to 10 mins of the week. I’m a night owl but as an Australian I’m still staying up to 2am to get my fix
I played with the mk1 for a few hours before sending it back to the seller because of faulty encoders, but the very first thing I thought after doing my first trigs was precisely "ho OK, so this is where all those techno tracks sounding the same come from", and you validated this. I don't regret changing my mind and going to the A4 instead, which is pretty ok at pretending to be a drum machine too.
@@AudioPilz Yes now that you did the AR, it is your duty to make justice to the A4, which feels more like an actual synth, and doesn't do half the job with machines like some other Elektron products !
Besides the amazing jams, the unique humor that this channel has (like that clap sound) is what keeps me coming back and rewatching the already many episodes on this channel. And thirdly, to check if I'll like a certain gear or not. 🤪 Great episode as always, and happy weekend! (UTC+8 here)
After 12 years of music production I finally managed to buy a RYTM MKII and I'm having such a blast with it! After seeing this video in my suggestion list I was so eager to see this video and strapped in for the ride (already prepared to rage in the comment section :D) But your video didn't make me feel offended.. the device has it's strengths and weaknesses and won't cater to everyone. For my part, I love this device so much. Your video on the device was still on point though.
If my apartment caught on fire, I'm grabbing my RYTM and my acoustic guitar. I've had the RYTM for a year and it still feels as luxurious as the first day I got it.
Another super solid video! It was really great to see florian exercise his talent on a premiere piece of gear, I thought the TB-3 + analog rhytm combo was super solid. Well done, and congrats on another awesome episode.
nah... it's boring since nobody actually have it (2K pricetag have something to do with it), and others just a fanboys with their typical "omg it's the best" moments. Well in fact what can be more boring that Electron products?... no matter how good it it
They’re too complex and software-based for Uli to get his mittens on them. 😂 I’d love to see a Uli Rytm. It would sound almost like an Elektron, except with amazing modulatable effects by Klark Teknik, and sounds which inspire one to say ‘it’s not quite as beefy as the original, but you wouldn’t even notice that in a mix. After compression. And Gullfoss. And mastering.’
@@Heathcliff_hensel that's true. But the SP-16 is the most tragic "what could've been" instrument ever released. It's still great and it hold up. But Pioneer abandoned it where it could've been the greatest drum machine sampler ever.
"why does this arrangement sound so enjoy even though the sounds are all so big" Dude! I FELT that. You're on to something here. I have this problem all the time with the Syntakt, where individually, on their own, the tracks sound massive, between booming bass drums, analog rumbling, and FM snares, but when I combine it all, something always feels missing. I haven't been able to figure it out, but that was such a be relatable phrase. I find I struggle the most with this when I go all analog, but if I use samples, especially for snares or cymbals, analog for basses and leads, and digital pads, I often find the sound fills out way better. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Great video btw.
I started out with the A4/Rytm MK1, then moved on to the dark trinity (+OT), Sub37 and some other analog stuff. I noticed that the music I made on my Maschine always came out sounding better, with tracks feeling cleaner/more separated. It took me years to figure out (im slow/hardheaded) that the analog machines are so harmonic that they tend to step all over eachother and muddy the mix. The solution I've found is using less tracks, focusing on arrangement and mixing in samples/digital/fm stuff (my Virus could always cut through a mix). Posting this in hopes it might help you a bit on your journey. Also @audiopilz, love your work, always impressed, cheers!
@@darkstep9 this! You are absolutely on to something here! I have a tendency to over layer my tracks, which probably goes back to using really terrible thin sounding vsts in the early 2000s when I was starting out, but it cemented a more is more habit I struggle to shake. Less concurrent tracks... More arrangement focus. Very wise advice!
Feel your pain💔 It's cause samples usually a "mix ready", they are simple in frequency range and it easy to fit in a mix. In that time synth engine(especially analogs) are very rich in harmonics, and most of time i cut range of sound. It's start sound worse if listen only this track, but better in the mix
@@garcon.de.kasson that's a really good point about the "mix ready" state! I didn't consider that a lot of samples or chopped up drums would come from already mixed or eq'd sound sources. This is starting to make sense to me. Now that I think about it, the syntakt is the only drum machine I currently use that's truly generating the drum sounds from its sound engine, as opposed to me using tr909 samples on the mc101, or a chopped up funk break on the sp404. I probably have to massage the Syntakt's individual tracks a bit more with the built in eq/filters after combining tracks. Before I was filtering and eq'ing track by track individually solo'd and just throwing them all together hoping it would sound good.
The most appealing things about running Elektron stuff is that they more or less run the same user interface, eg, if you're good at navigating around an Analog RYTM, using the Analog 4 or using the sequencers on any of the other Elektron boxes (minus the Octatrack for the most part) is very quick and intuitive, as it's more or less the same (Page layouts, Trig layouts are the same, etc) TBQH I would say the Octatrack is the most difficult Elektron product to wrap your head around outside of using it as a sample player/slicer/tweaker because of the multiple parts/live resampling/etc, especially if you're trying to integrate it with an already "competent" setup that has a small sampler in it, like a Digitakt. Back to the RYTM though, I think it's kind of at home doing weird off-kilter rhythmic sounds, or more of a supporting role to something like a TR-8S/909/etc for electronic music. Like you can make a basic old-school 4-floor house track with the RYTM, but it's kind of like using a Dakar Rally car to go to the grocery store.
@@AudioPilz Wait wait- have you not done OCTATRACK? 🤯 I can probably give you enough whiny comments to fill the screen with, myself. (I own one and love it btw. 😂 i also kept my Machinedrum)
@@sub-jec-tivFlorian said it in the end: he has a UA-cam channel to run and said the Rytm is already deep. He probably rather does this video about the Quantum entanglement then the Octatrack. (I personally had less headaches in my first year of physics study then my time with the Octatrack.)
"Keeping track of that mind buggling selection of engines is a challenge" you've mastered brilliantly, "bald techno dude". This time's suggestion is the brandnew Roland Aira P6.
At first glance the P6 is ticking all the ‘they can put a full-color touch screen on a €250 Android smartphone why is Roland still giving us a display from 1979’ boxes.
This is possibly the best thumbnail name for a video on your channel 😂 As always the jams are crisp and i find myself wishing you’d be on big speakers outdoors in the middle of the night 😝
Slowly working through all of my gear, I see. Rytm Mk2 sits between my monitor and keyboard, immediately beside Waldorf Pulse 2 ([checks notes] yup, already did a video on that one) as a super-flexible analog + sampling percussion / bass synth pair. Fantastic jams per usual, Florian. This is one of the few times I'll say to the Bad Gear audience: if you heard anything remotely inspiring in this video, just buy one. Like Machinedrum, it'll either rapidly become the only drum synth you ever want to use, or you'll be able to re-sell it for what you paid.
i wish elektron had some entry level digitakt and octatrack style stuff, their buttons feel really nice and the way their stuff looks is just quite pleasing
they're done with entry level stuff, the Models still sell a shitload but the battery thing catching fire made them shy away from making more models imo, even tho they're the Elektron "volcas" and Elektron could still make more of them (Model:analog anyone?). If you want cheap Elektron-like stuff look over Sonicware, the lofi12xt is bomb (the fx sound pretty bad tho) it's like a digitakt on steroid and cost like half the price of one.
@@AudioPilz the Model:Samples is a disgrace rn compared to like 99% of other samplers at the same price range. Unless they release a mk2 that can sample/resample have 2-3 LFOs etc, don't bother getting one, it's nowhere near anything else Elektron is making. If you want one try to find one second hand for like 150 earth currency, otherwise just don't buy it new, its 299, you could save like 150 more and get a Digitakt mk1. Elektron is fried and done when it comes to entry level stuff.
Your memes bring up a good point. I think we need, no *deserve*, an Angry Video Game Nerd collab where you both drag game music, and possibly modern midi integrations for retro consoles, through the mud. Please 🥺
With the new firmware updates this is literally the best drum machine of ALL time ! But I guess EVERYTHING will EVENTUALLY make its way to this show . And I LOVE it ! lol
RYTM owner here: I've had mine since 2020 and have been getting pretty good sound from the box since 2022! Don't give up. But true: It's a bit weird having this massive thing on the table and hearing the dry preset kit for the first time. But the combination of analog sounds and samples is incredibly powerful. Paired with all the other gimmicks. But why no second LFO???
1st jam my favorite and final jam is just so intricate...Florian can i ask you if you are a fan of animation because your editing of animation to music always impressed me as much as your musical creations 😳😳😳🤩
One LFO per track does feel limiting by Elektron standards, but I find five minutes working with one LFO in total on the TR-8S quickly puts things in perspective.
Thank you again! You put it to good use for not having a ton of time to invest in it. I feel like the model: cycles if approached strictly as a drum machine (tone machines on it are meh) is under appreciated and an approachable Elektron device for those that want to postpone an extended learning curve ordeal that oscillates between joy of discovery and suffering for a while…
I agree with your comment that it actually takes a bit of time to make analog rhythm patterns sound good. That's not a bad thing in my opinion because of the level of design control that you have, but sometimes when I start a new track I just go with the basic default sounds, put them in a general place, and then jam out on my other instruments before returning to the rhythm and really taking the time to refine and polish the drum pattern. I can see how a Roland saves you that time but lacks the level of depth and control (I mean come on, per-instrument EQ and a built in analog compressor! 😍)
Still , it’s not a big deal for many musicians to perform and do production with it ! I own mk 1 and it’s great ! Anything that more complex than a 101 has learning curve. You like it or leave it)))) peace !
Schön. Direkt neben diesem Video wird mir auf der Startseite "Stimming presents modern classics: Elektron Analog Rytm" vorgeschlagen. Darunter befinden sich mehrere Videos, die die Bad Gear-Episode von in 3 Wochen vorwegnehmen, da geht es nämlich um den Roland P-6. Ich freu mich drauf.
I have a secret fear that all my romplers will combine into a fighting robot and go privatize world peace. I might need to have some analog synths on backup
❤ Bad as in Michael Jackson Bad 😂 Great drum machine! My son has it and the sounds are great. I can’t comment on “THE WORKFLOW” but I know folks love it 😍.
Wow I am shocked you find the double OSC synth thin. IMO it s one of the best monophonic synths I have come across, I went as far as sampling it note by note and it s one of my all time favourite bass synths for fast basslines. Ear of the beholder...
Awesome machine but it lacks the polyphonic Midi sequencer of the Digitone. Elektron know to leave a feature missing. Great episode! Would be cool to see some more FX units and stomp boxes featured.
I got a Rytm mk1 in trade for a completely dead OB-Xa about eight years ago. My quibbles are that the toms lean more x0xy than Simmons-y for my tastes (which is why I usually have it triggering my SDSV), the bass tom is especially limited, and the filter for the samples is only 2-pole (normally I like 2-pole filters but for samples 4-pole is better). Other than that, I really enjoy it.
I must say I’m impressed. I am quite faithful to early Elektron and was cynical on their analogue path. Start to drive those filters and watch it spark
gasped when I saw the thumbnail! any learning curve is offset by how addictive building beats is. do not underestimate the performance macros (wish the Digitakt had something similar) or the magic of combining synthesis with samples and squashing it all with analog overdrive, filters and compression
@@AudioPilz It was one of my greatest life accomplishments to have bought the Force on day 1 thinking it would be the end all to live performances, be stuck with it for years and finally trade it away this year. Cursed box I thought I would never be free from.
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The Elektron Kick is softer than Biden’s soggy diapers.
You deleted my post.
watching this on my analog rytm
Way to go!
@@AudioPilz what differences did you find between rytm and syntakt ?
Nice.
Check the www or the manuals. There is enough information and synth nerd forums out there
@@Spamn4 yep thats true, tho i was specifically looking for a bad gear response haha
I just realized how much you're putting in these videos, with all the stillframe puns and memes, B-roll inserts, like 3 levels of audio to sync up, all the shot prep, user manual snips... I don't know jack shit about Elektron and can't afford the stuff anyway, but I gotta appreciate all the production here, nice work.
Thank you so much!!!
Better late than never. Welcome to the club!
It"s literally a tuesday afternoon for Florian...
@@BendApparatus that's even more impressive, it would be a week for me.
@@NotBenCoultry it’s literally one of my most looked forward to 10 mins of the week. I’m a night owl but as an Australian I’m still staying up to 2am to get my fix
5:58 "Bald techno dudes in their 30s and 40s" - I feel personally attacked! 😅
It's more of a general insult, not something particularly targeted at you;)
Hey Sean, I'm an as-good-as-bald guy in his early 30s, my only piece of gear so far is a Digitakt, lol. Anyway, cool to see you here.
@@seanwieland9763 I'm 50 got hair and into my techno😁
Take solace that these bald techno dudes created the best music that young coiffed haired lads and ladies copy to this day.
I’m saying
Florian, you are most definitely the sophisticated music production troll we deserve.
Thank you so much!!!
I played with the mk1 for a few hours before sending it back to the seller because of faulty encoders, but the very first thing I thought after doing my first trigs was precisely "ho OK, so this is where all those techno tracks sounding the same come from", and you validated this.
I don't regret changing my mind and going to the A4 instead, which is pretty ok at pretending to be a drum machine too.
Super interested in the A4!!!
@@BinarySociety23 there’s a guy in Berlin using the A4 for live mastering !
@@AudioPilz yes plz do A4
@@gminorcoles I saw a few good jams with only the A4 on YT too, 4 tracks is plenty enough !
@@AudioPilz Yes now that you did the AR, it is your duty to make justice to the A4, which feels more like an actual synth, and doesn't do half the job with machines like some other Elektron products !
Even your cousin Moby couldn't squeeze as much sound out of that rubik cube sound machine as you did.
Besides the amazing jams, the unique humor that this channel has (like that clap sound) is what keeps me coming back and rewatching the already many episodes on this channel. And thirdly, to check if I'll like a certain gear or not. 🤪 Great episode as always, and happy weekend! (UTC+8 here)
Thank you so much!!!
After 12 years of music production I finally managed to buy a RYTM MKII and I'm having such a blast with it! After seeing this video in my suggestion list I was so eager to see this video and strapped in for the ride (already prepared to rage in the comment section :D)
But your video didn't make me feel offended.. the device has it's strengths and weaknesses and won't cater to everyone. For my part, I love this device so much. Your video on the device was still on point though.
Thank you so much!!!
If only this vid would drop the price so I could afford one.
I have little hopes...
@@AudioPilz I blow all my money on euro rack, I have no room to complain. lol
The fact that this video exists will drive up the price.
You’re talking about my wife here :) she’s difficult but worth it at the end. I will own this instrument until I die.
❤️❤️❤️
@@k8tisarobot Kind of you to take her off the market for us … 😜
Does she have individual outputs, though? 🤔
@@johncitizen8828 Only one output standard … but can be ‘circuit-bent’ to act as an input … 👀😏👀😏
@@kierenmoore3236 Bruh. 😂
Finally! Best drum machine in a Bad Gear show!
👍
Literally the best ever
“I refuse to spend $1699 on a product that has a typo in its name” 😂
The FINALE is INCREDIBLE. You're a genius.
If my apartment caught on fire, I'm grabbing my RYTM and my acoustic guitar. I've had the RYTM for a year and it still feels as luxurious as the first day I got it.
Definitely luxurious!!!
Yup❗️
Another super solid video! It was really great to see florian exercise his talent on a premiere piece of gear, I thought the TB-3 + analog rhytm combo was super solid. Well done, and congrats on another awesome episode.
Thank you so much!!!
oh i'm going to camp here, this comment section is going to be fun
It usually is;)
In a far off land I hear the sounds of analog jimmies rustling.
REEEEE
@@IntertemporalTraveler James Foleys as it were
nah... it's boring since nobody actually have it (2K pricetag have something to do with it), and others just a fanboys with their typical "omg it's the best" moments. Well in fact what can be more boring that Electron products?... no matter how good it it
It was only a matter of time before you got around to my favorite drum machine. Great vid as always! Thanks man.
Thank you so much!!!
Mine too...
There will be 12 velocity sensitive comments
😂😂😂
I might do 127
@@AceGarpTruckingCo 16 is plenty
Finally elektron appears here so I can justify all my smack talk (I can’t afford them)
I feel you!!!
They’re too complex and software-based for Uli to get his mittens on them. 😂 I’d love to see a Uli Rytm. It would sound almost like an Elektron, except with amazing modulatable effects by Klark Teknik, and sounds which inspire one to say ‘it’s not quite as beefy as the original, but you wouldn’t even notice that in a mix. After compression. And Gullfoss. And mastering.’
Yeah once you can AFFORD them the next challenge is to actually LEARN them lol
Elektron's gear always sounds top notch and the Analog Rytm is legit. I loved your compositions as always!
Thank you!!!
I had one. It was like having a car where you need to look in the manual to find out how to turn the steering wheel.
"create a total mess otherwise reserved to the euro rack crowd." Damn! What a burn. Still gotta do the Toraiz SP-16
Nothing personal;)
@@luisbarrera5740 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Toriaz Squid would be great too… but hmmm, has he done sequencers on here? 🤔
All of the Pioneer Toraiz machines are great, they were just over priced when they came out.
@@Heathcliff_hensel that's true. But the SP-16 is the most tragic "what could've been" instrument ever released. It's still great and it hold up. But Pioneer abandoned it where it could've been the greatest drum machine sampler ever.
"why does this arrangement sound so enjoy even though the sounds are all so big"
Dude! I FELT that. You're on to something here. I have this problem all the time with the Syntakt, where individually, on their own, the tracks sound massive, between booming bass drums, analog rumbling, and FM snares, but when I combine it all, something always feels missing. I haven't been able to figure it out, but that was such a be relatable phrase. I find I struggle the most with this when I go all analog, but if I use samples, especially for snares or cymbals, analog for basses and leads, and digital pads, I often find the sound fills out way better. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Great video btw.
Thank you!!! Works great with some really messy gear;)
I started out with the A4/Rytm MK1, then moved on to the dark trinity (+OT), Sub37 and some other analog stuff. I noticed that the music I made on my Maschine always came out sounding better, with tracks feeling cleaner/more separated. It took me years to figure out (im slow/hardheaded) that the analog machines are so harmonic that they tend to step all over eachother and muddy the mix. The solution I've found is using less tracks, focusing on arrangement and mixing in samples/digital/fm stuff (my Virus could always cut through a mix). Posting this in hopes it might help you a bit on your journey. Also @audiopilz, love your work, always impressed, cheers!
@@darkstep9 this! You are absolutely on to something here! I have a tendency to over layer my tracks, which probably goes back to using really terrible thin sounding vsts in the early 2000s when I was starting out, but it cemented a more is more habit I struggle to shake. Less concurrent tracks... More arrangement focus. Very wise advice!
Feel your pain💔 It's cause samples usually a "mix ready", they are simple in frequency range and it easy to fit in a mix. In that time synth engine(especially analogs) are very rich in harmonics, and most of time i cut range of sound. It's start sound worse if listen only this track, but better in the mix
@@garcon.de.kasson that's a really good point about the "mix ready" state! I didn't consider that a lot of samples or chopped up drums would come from already mixed or eq'd sound sources. This is starting to make sense to me.
Now that I think about it, the syntakt is the only drum machine I currently use that's truly generating the drum sounds from its sound engine, as opposed to me using tr909 samples on the mc101, or a chopped up funk break on the sp404. I probably have to massage the Syntakt's individual tracks a bit more with the built in eq/filters after combining tracks. Before I was filtering and eq'ing track by track individually solo'd and just throwing them all together hoping it would sound good.
The most appealing things about running Elektron stuff is that they more or less run the same user interface, eg, if you're good at navigating around an Analog RYTM, using the Analog 4 or using the sequencers on any of the other Elektron boxes (minus the Octatrack for the most part) is very quick and intuitive, as it's more or less the same (Page layouts, Trig layouts are the same, etc)
TBQH I would say the Octatrack is the most difficult Elektron product to wrap your head around outside of using it as a sample player/slicer/tweaker because of the multiple parts/live resampling/etc, especially if you're trying to integrate it with an already "competent" setup that has a small sampler in it, like a Digitakt.
Back to the RYTM though, I think it's kind of at home doing weird off-kilter rhythmic sounds, or more of a supporting role to something like a TR-8S/909/etc for electronic music. Like you can make a basic old-school 4-floor house track with the RYTM, but it's kind of like using a Dakar Rally car to go to the grocery store.
That sums it up nicely!
@@AudioPilz Wait wait- have you not done OCTATRACK? 🤯 I can probably give you enough whiny comments to fill the screen with, myself. (I own one and love it btw. 😂 i also kept my Machinedrum)
@@sub-jec-tiv machinedrum is where its at. I regret selling mine(as I knew I would)
@@sub-jec-tivFlorian said it in the end: he has a UA-cam channel to run and said the Rytm is already deep. He probably rather does this video about the Quantum entanglement then the Octatrack. (I personally had less headaches in my first year of physics study then my time with the Octatrack.)
It's spelt "appalling"
Thanks for curing my GAS regarding this machine 🎉
Always a pleasure;)
It's not menu diving. It's information surfing.
Ok brother you blew it now with this!,,, I cant believe it! and Im still waiting for my Octatrack episode
"Keeping track of that mind buggling selection of engines is a challenge" you've mastered brilliantly, "bald techno dude".
This time's suggestion is the brandnew Roland Aira P6.
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
At first glance the P6 is ticking all the ‘they can put a full-color touch screen on a €250 Android smartphone why is Roland still giving us a display from 1979’ boxes.
@@sub-jec-tiv Hopefully you're no AI-version of Florian. 😆
@@StatetrooperBillyBillMaybe they wanted to arouse your innuendo.,
@@Gerald_Daniel Shex Wee was already copyrighted
This is possibly the best thumbnail name for a video on your channel 😂 As always the jams are crisp and i find myself wishing you’d be on big speakers outdoors in the middle of the night 😝
Thank you so much!!!
"Adding Bonkle to your Scringo since 1979" - That sounds like a terrific synth manufacturer's company slogan! 😁
pls pls pls do Analog Four 🤗
Moving up my list...
This made my day! Thank you for the regular uploads!
What? No Roland AIRA Compact P-6? It's been out a whole day so I figured it'd be featured here by now! 😂
We need to talk to Roland about this;)
Roland is always eager to hear what he has to say about their products. 😁
the amount of superb memes you manage to come up with in each episode is simply staggering
You already know it’s good gear when the demo section of this video sounds so good
Welcome to this episode of AWESOME GEAR
I have no idea what you're talking about;)
Slowly working through all of my gear, I see. Rytm Mk2 sits between my monitor and keyboard, immediately beside Waldorf Pulse 2 ([checks notes] yup, already did a video on that one) as a super-flexible analog + sampling percussion / bass synth pair. Fantastic jams per usual, Florian. This is one of the few times I'll say to the Bad Gear audience: if you heard anything remotely inspiring in this video, just buy one. Like Machinedrum, it'll either rapidly become the only drum synth you ever want to use, or you'll be able to re-sell it for what you paid.
Sounds like a nice setup;)
"Social Media Techno" haha! Good video!
😀😀😀Thank you!!!
I imagine Florian visiting the US and laughing at everything because it is just like the meme.
Believe me, EU is meme-ey for days too;)
The labels on your devices is a nice touch 👍
My Man’s finally got some budget!!! expecting Moog One in
😀😀😀
Thanks Moby!
❤️❤️❤️
The best reminder of why I love it so much
i wish elektron had some entry level digitakt and octatrack style stuff, their buttons feel really nice and the way their stuff looks is just quite pleasing
Isn't that the Model:Samples?
they're done with entry level stuff, the Models still sell a shitload but the battery thing catching fire made them shy away from making more models imo, even tho they're the Elektron "volcas" and Elektron could still make more of them (Model:analog anyone?). If you want cheap Elektron-like stuff look over Sonicware, the lofi12xt is bomb (the fx sound pretty bad tho) it's like a digitakt on steroid and cost like half the price of one.
@@AudioPilz the Model:Samples is a disgrace rn compared to like 99% of other samplers at the same price range. Unless they release a mk2 that can sample/resample have 2-3 LFOs etc, don't bother getting one, it's nowhere near anything else Elektron is making. If you want one try to find one second hand for like 150 earth currency, otherwise just don't buy it new, its 299, you could save like 150 more and get a Digitakt mk1. Elektron is fried and done when it comes to entry level stuff.
Hmmm, I don't have a dog in this fight. I like the tune you threw together near the end of the vid though.
Thank you!!!
Oh MY, I was waiting for this😁😁!!!
😀😀😀
Puppies for Bad Gear❤❤🎉🎉❤ I love this guy. 😍💙🐶🐶
Sounds damn awesome!
All three jams rock, too.
This is just the best drum machine on the market right now. I love making melodic parts with the cowbell / rim channels !
Haunting melodies galore!
Excellent video. This looks like a very serious piece of gear
Your memes bring up a good point. I think we need, no *deserve*, an Angry Video Game Nerd collab where you both drag game music, and possibly modern midi integrations for retro consoles, through the mud. Please 🥺
Thanks! He might be a bit out of my league tho;)
@@AudioPilz Well he shows up to my local retro games conventions and charge for autographs... so probably not ;)
All conventions charge for celeb autographs.
With the new firmware updates this is literally the best drum machine of ALL time ! But I guess EVERYTHING will EVENTUALLY make its way to this show . And I LOVE it ! lol
Thank you so much!!!
that would go to the Roland 808.
RYTM owner here: I've had mine since 2020 and have been getting pretty good sound from the box since 2022! Don't give up. But true: It's a bit weird having this massive thing on the table and hearing the dry preset kit for the first time. But the combination of analog sounds and samples is incredibly powerful. Paired with all the other gimmicks. But why no second LFO???
1st jam my favorite and final jam is just so intricate...Florian can i ask you if you are a fan of animation because your editing of animation to music always impressed me as much as your musical creations 😳😳😳🤩
satisfying "woooooooorlds" on this one Florian, good job!
That phonk track @ 7:21 is incredible. Well done!
The guy in that meme, only on his 10th Hydrasynth … what a GAS-noob … 😏
lol
I can't wait for the Roland Aira P-6 video.
Same here;)
@@AudioPilz
Santa didn't bring you a present like all the other kids ?
Have you've been a bad boy again Florian?
One LFO per track does feel limiting by Elektron standards, but I find five minutes working with one LFO in total on the TR-8S quickly puts things in perspective.
You forgot my favorite feature!
The always-enabled wallet drain....
Yessssssss
Thank you again! You put it to good use for not having a ton of time to invest in it. I feel like the model: cycles if approached strictly as a drum machine (tone machines on it are meh) is under appreciated and an approachable Elektron device for those that want to postpone an extended learning curve ordeal that oscillates between joy of discovery and suffering for a while…
Hey now, it’s for bald techno dudes in their 50s, too!
I should have been more inclusive here, sorry;)
@@AudioPilz😂
Social media techno 😄 Tikno? 🤔 Great jams and videos as always.
I agree with your comment that it actually takes a bit of time to make analog rhythm patterns sound good. That's not a bad thing in my opinion because of the level of design control that you have, but sometimes when I start a new track I just go with the basic default sounds, put them in a general place, and then jam out on my other instruments before returning to the rhythm and really taking the time to refine and polish the drum pattern. I can see how a Roland saves you that time but lacks the level of depth and control (I mean come on, per-instrument EQ and a built in analog compressor! 😍)
True!!!
Push 3 ofcourse
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
Finally! I can just justify my Bad Gear purchase from 2 years ago!
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I’ve been wanting one for so long maybe it’s time.
I almost spit out my lunch on that last Moby meme. No lie.
😂😂😂
Video title of the year
😀😀😀
@@AudioPilzfinale jam was the best thing I’ve ever heard anyone make on a RYTM ngl.
@@Screenshot1015check out Oblivion Dip. Small Norwegian label. Talking to them was the first time I heard about the Rytm.
@@Vingul hell yeah thanks
@@Screenshot1015 you’re welcome!
oh my, I feel attacked (have both the RYTM and eurorack) LOL, just kidding, great video Florian, the jams are amazing.
Thank you so much!!!
a Behringer RD-9 with couple Boss pedals will run circles around Analog Rythm (and will save you enough money for a nice vacation!)
Never would I have thought I would see AVGN and GK Chesterton appear in a video together....
Not the mix we asked for;)
Seeing the Alistar Cowbell REALLY caught me off-guard wtffff:DDDDD
you cant milk those
Still , it’s not a big deal for many musicians to perform and do production with it ! I own mk 1 and it’s great ! Anything that more complex than a 101 has learning curve. You like it or leave it)))) peace !
Word!!!
Schön. Direkt neben diesem Video wird mir auf der Startseite "Stimming presents modern classics: Elektron Analog Rytm" vorgeschlagen.
Darunter befinden sich mehrere Videos, die die Bad Gear-Episode von in 3 Wochen vorwegnehmen, da geht es nämlich um den Roland P-6. Ich freu mich drauf.
Ich muss zuerst einmal so einen P-6 bekommen. Roland shortlist ist irgendwie nicht;)
Florian needs to devote a Bad Gear to Stimming
@@gminorcoles There are others i see there first. I like Stimming.
I was wondering just this week if you had done this one, serendipity
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@@vestaarcadia “The Secret” … 👻✨🤫
That sample choice example was top notch
I have a secret fear that all my romplers will combine into a fighting robot and go privatize world peace. I might need to have some analog synths on backup
You know you have became a real fan when you accidently let a "walue" or an "awailable" slip in your speech ;)
valdorf... ya-ma-ha
❤ Bad as in Michael Jackson Bad 😂 Great drum machine! My son has it and the sounds are great. I can’t comment on “THE WORKFLOW” but I know folks love it 😍.
Yee-hee...
Daffy Duck rimshot underscoring for the win.
I'd love to score looney tunes with Elektron gear...
Sound Demos are crazy good ❤😊
You had me at Snare compression
Yeah! Im a huge Elektron fan but I honestly like when u make vids abt gear I like too, A4 next lol (I have one)
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
@@AudioPilz I think I will choose to be annoying and suggest that under every one of ur vids
Florian going all in on your discreet inputs 😮
Whoa! At least the Octatrack was spared.
Wait for it;)
@@AudioPilz 😱
Octa will need 10 pages of criticisms.
@@Bork_In_Volcanic bwahahaha!
It will feature a guest appearance of EZbot, since everyone seems to be using his template project 😋
You just reminded me of something painful, thank you. "HEY ELEKTRON, where is my goddamn overbridge!?!"
Damn, I need it so badly...
"I'm gonna get you a valium." - Carl the mobile home park manager #Movie
I am guessing you mean the one for the DigiTakt 2, but I see a man outside with a long beard holding on to his Octatrack
Wow I am shocked you find the double OSC synth thin. IMO it s one of the best monophonic synths I have come across, I went as far as sampling it note by note and it s one of my all time favourite bass synths for fast basslines. Ear of the beholder...
I wouldn’t call it thin, more like a little lifeless…
Awesome machine but it lacks the polyphonic Midi sequencer of the Digitone. Elektron know to leave a feature missing.
Great episode! Would be cool to see some more FX units and stomp boxes featured.
I got a Rytm mk1 in trade for a completely dead OB-Xa about eight years ago. My quibbles are that the toms lean more x0xy than Simmons-y for my tastes (which is why I usually have it triggering my SDSV), the bass tom is especially limited, and the filter for the samples is only 2-pole (normally I like 2-pole filters but for samples 4-pole is better). Other than that, I really enjoy it.
Makes sense to me!
I must say I’m impressed. I am quite faithful to early Elektron and was cynical on their analogue path. Start to drive those filters and watch it spark
Surprised you have not reviewed the modern Vermona DRM1. Once your used to the sound it is great.
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
The ultimate phonk machine if u making phonk this is the king of phonk
True that!
Overbridge makes this a joy to use. Also doubles up as 8x analog filters usable as plugins
You’re a brave brave man Florian 😬😬😬
No threats yet;)
@@AudioPilz I AM GOING TO COME TO YOUR STUDIO and lend you this lovely sparkly MS20FS BUT ALSO HOW DARE YOU and so forth
gasped when I saw the thumbnail!
any learning curve is offset by how addictive building beats is. do not underestimate the performance macros (wish the Digitakt had something similar) or the magic of combining synthesis with samples and squashing it all with analog overdrive, filters and compression
Cool stuff!!!!!!!!! As always great tunes
great video - im still waiting for the Akai Force in future Bad Gear m8.. I may have to send you mine.
Thank you!!! Noted!!!
@@AudioPilzyou can’t review the Force until Akai adds support for time signatures other than 4/4. Until then its not even bad gear
@@gminorcoles You don't even know how long I have been begging them for that.
@@user82938 it is what kept me from trying it , on principle. The MPC 4000 is my queen until then
@@AudioPilz It was one of my greatest life accomplishments to have bought the Force on day 1 thinking it would be the end all to live performances, be stuck with it for years and finally trade it away this year. Cursed box I thought I would never be free from.
Glad to find someone else who appreciates the individual outs