Just posted this comment in another thread and thought some people may find it useful. For anyone missing clip launching from ableton or having seen the feature on the new MPCS, OT seriously holds its own as a resampling clip launcher. you’re gonna need a controller of some kind though
Ive mentioned on here before about a method for using the OT as an 8 track clip launcher, you could do it with an ipad or any midi mappable launchpad type thing.
- **1.**Create a bunch of four bar loops that you wanna use as your clips, say track one is drums, Make a bunch of four bar drum loops and then chain them. Assign them to static slot 1. Now, if your launchpad can have banks of pages you can use up to 127 clips per slot, if not you will be limited to as many buttons as your launchpad has. Rinse and repeat for track 2 with bass clips, track 3 with lead clips, 4 with vocals and so on. Always leave one blank space at the start of your sample chains the length of one ‘clip’
- **2.**use a slice grid to cut your chains on the octatrack. If you have done an easily divisible number this will be easy. Lets assume youve kept it simple and done 7 different 4 bar variations for each track with a blank space at the start of each, so theres 8 clips per sample. Slice into 8 and load into their respective tracks
- **3.**Map your launchpads clip buttons to the CC 17. The channel number (1-8) defines which track it will change, so CC17 on channel 1 chooses your drum clip. The value it sends decides which clip will play. So your first vertical row will be track 1, your second will be track 2 and so on
- **4.**Now, make your pattern 64 steps long and put a trig on the first step of every track. Make sure your launchpad has all tracks on the first button so when you press play its launching silence
- 5. When you press a button to change clip, it changes the slice number for that track, when it passes the trig again the clip will be launched. You can always go back to your first button to take that clip out to silence once it passes the trig again.
- **6.**If you really wanna go all in you can even potentially fill all your slots, you can have 127 clips per sample slot. To save yourself a lot of manual work though I would reccomend the maximum number of clips to be 64 in order to use an automatic slice grid. Remember the blank space at the start though, so 63 actual clips per slot. Using a sample lock you can change your set of clips without breaking continuity
- **7.**If you are happy to have 4 rows of clip launching like in the MPC live you can use 4 tracks, this allows for complete madness as you can use a neighbor track on each one giving you 4 effects and six LFOs per track. This is all before getting scenes involved for cross fader madness, also parts. Another option that adds tons of flexibility would be filling tracks 1-4 and keeping tracks 5-8 free and set up to resample your first 4. Resample, chop up, set up patterns & p-locks and crossfade them in using scenes. And you always have the safety net to just go back to the clips being played
- **8.**If that wasnt enough fun you can map some buttons on your launchpad to CC control track mutes and solos in their respective vertical rows
Have fun!