2 of 3 - what would you pack in your bag

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roight… so I’ll be moving around a bit and for the time being it seems I can take only 2 of 3 elektrons with me. I do own an A4, OT and MD and by look of things I’ll have to abandon one of them for a bit. while I’m pretty much set (OT & MD), I’d love to hear your thoughts…

I also have an OP-1 (which will go with me no doubt) and a Mopho desktop which didn’t get much action at all but might be small enough to squeeze into my bags

so, what would you take with you?

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Personally I’d take the A4 and OT with a fairly loaded card or two full of sample fodder.

Let the A4 take care of the synth duties, and the OT drums. Plug the OP-1 in for additonal tweaking. Leave the MD/Mopho at home.

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Questions along these lines always bring another one to my mind: What are your goals?

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OT is a must! Since OT is capable of drums/sampling probably less crossover bringing the A4 as well.

Enjoy sampling stuff from local radio stations with the OP-1 and recording them into the OT for some radio sample mangling madness :wink:

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Personally I’d take the A4 and OT with a fairly loaded card or two full of sample fodder.

Let the A4 take care of the synth duties, and the OT drums. Plug the OP-1 in for additonal tweaking. Leave the MD/Mopho at home.[/quote]
+1 :joy:

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OT and A4!

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OT & A4

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Take what you use most.
Load samples/chains of the reject onto the the OT card.

My poison choice = OT+MD… more i[/i] flexibility, polyphony.
+additional synthesis with the OP1 negates A4 more than MD.
+3 machines that can all resample each other=:imp:

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Questions along these lines always bring another one to my mind: What are your goals?

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This is a very valid point.
My choice however would also be OT and A4. I would get far greater sound palette from this combination.

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ya good question… I’d say playability is my goal and with it should come the music…
I don’t have a specific sonic goal.
I can see everyone agrees on the OT and it was a no brainer for me too.
however - I never had much fun sequencing drums on it though… so I guess my question is basically whether I should take the MD or A4… ah well, 1st world problem, clearly :joy: … i love the sonic palette of the A4 but am just not very good controlling it. cheers for your thoughts!

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That is a good question, and I respect that, but they did ask what we would do :slight_smile:

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I’d do just what I did when I sold my EMX then my iPad then my Nord:

SAMPLE ALL THE COOL SYNTH SOUNDS IN THE OCTATRACK

Then use the OT/MD combo as a super-electribe.

Also, don’t forget that using singlecycle waveforms and some routing, the Octatrack can become a very powerful and flexible multi-oscillator substractive synth:
-Track 1 to cue OUT, loaded with a SCWF is oscillator 1

  • Track 2 to cue OUT, same setup, is oscillator 2
  • Route a cable from CUE OUT to INPUT
  • Track 3 , a THRU machines, can be a dual-filter function block
    Use LFOs or pitch to detune the oscillators, add chorus or comb filter directly in the oscillators to really shape the waveforms, go postal on the track trigs, P-lock waveforms, brag about how you love polyrythms and make any modular synth guy shit themselves with your next level blipblopcore workstation, that fits in your backpack. Best thing is: it’s also a sampler.
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^cheers! this made me smile

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Machinedrum, Octatrack and micromodular in my pocket.

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I’d personally take the OT and A4

Sample the hell out of the MD, and grab all the samples you can from other sources. The two with an OP-1 would be a great travelling rig!

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Great trick!

I don’t use singlecycle waveforms, but that idea with a cable from cue outs to inputs is so obvious yet powerful but I haven’t tried it before.

I always have drums on tracks 1-4, 1 kick, 2 snare, 3/4 perc/hh/cymbals/vocal shots etc. 3/4 definitely need sidechaining, which I did using comp fx on slot 2 of the two tracks, max ratio, min threshold and lfo on mix. Sounds nice, but needs the second fx slot on each of the two tracks.

Now I finally:

  • don’t have to sacrifice any slot for sidechaining anymore, because it’s done via amp envelopes on the through machine,
  • can apply filter → reverb/delay → lofi → filter to tracks 3 and 4,
  • without having to free up any tracks compared to my current setup!
    The Through machine was set up anyways for external gear (most importantly, MPX8), which I can still route through the same machine. Hihats routed through some dirty reverb/delay → lofi → filter sound so much nicer than without!

You made my day with that little hint.