Challenge filter 
that’s interesting…
Mixing!
…it’s a challenge I think, if you can get a good mix with depth, punch, spread, right out the box with all 8 tracks and all kinds of different sounds running and not have things leap out of the mix when modulating or pitching (scenes/Xfdr), don’t need the buss compressor…you got it going on. I tend to push individual levels hot off the bat though and end up working down.
Although plocking filter helps, and you can really narrow Q down to get a specific range…
always loved mixing and on the OT is bloody surgical, man.
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I have a hard time getting accurate EQs on the OT alone. Do you monitor the frequencies with your DAW while you dial the settings?
Nope, all by ear on cans from the OT. I guess knowing how the integers translate to freq’s is already documented, but each track/song is different, and it’s all relative.
Maybe starting out with a kick or something you know the response of, a baseline then working around that…like a reference track then dropping it out. But it seems to me trusting your ears and knowing your cans/monitors. A lot of cuts or boosts don’t make sense I think, in terms of the numbers, freq’s, dials and settings…but it sounds right. And personally I tend to not worry too much on the low end boost in the OT because I am just trying to get a good separation and add in post, most of the time it works out, lol. Lot of it is sound selection and having a good large pool to draw from to keep moving…not banging your head on something that won’t gel.
…And then, sometimes you think you have the mixdown nailed and come back to it a week later and…damn,…well, just load up the project and back to it. It still beats than the old days working with floppies and calling up OB fx settings, etc.
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This thread might be helpful. I added a plot that shows approximate frequencies for OT’s values (they are lin-log scaled).
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Thanks I’ll check it out. I currently just monitor the sounds with my computer and mostly just use EQ in the OT to cut bad frequencies. More complex stuff is done in the DAW with FabFilter EQ.
My favorite thing to do with the OT, is when my friends send me videos of how they’re progressing with music making- I like to sample that in and make a song with it. It’s like a crazy hybrid love of friendship and music making.
Granted- it was just one friend that sent me a video, and she just sent it one time…and she’s apparently stopped learning the violin…
…I hope it wasn’t the track I made that made her stop playing…
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I was going to mention something along those lines- a lot of the house shows I attend and cassettes I come across are chock full of illegal AF samples.
I guess there is a significant group of people who realize next to no one is listening.
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A ton of footwork guys use commercial samples too. Literally the entire last Cakedog record is unapologetic top 40 rap samples.
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Hahaha - made my morning here 
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Long sample randomized start points, trigs on all steps. Filter pinging, repeat stutters and then random LFOs working the comb filter. A very OT spesific sound I think!
When looking for new ways of using OT, my favorite is browse the OT section of this forum or @sezare56 history and look for ideas or challenges I had overlooked or forgotten…
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Oh god yes.
Forgot about footwork. Another example of interesting chopping going on today.
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good idea 
Ok if you insist :
So I was born in 1975, in Vannes, with a brocken clavicle. I didn’t want to go outside.
6 month later, I ate a cigarette, and went back to hospital.
Mom and dad were working very hard, and…
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… That’s the day you fell into a cooking pot full of OT recipes ?
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I’m so glad someone started this thread. I’ve been wanting to start the same sort of conversation, but couldn’t put it into words. Basically, how do YOU get experimental with THE OT. Great. Thank you, and thank you to the people who are contributing.
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here it is making a horror soundtrack using a simple sawtooth input from my arp , definitely among my fave things to do
patching info in video description on my YT page
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and here is another of my faves, made with the kick and hat sample you hear @ the start, again using nothing but OT fx no DAW either, fast repeats, ring mod, lofi etc all getting lots of fast modulation
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