After i’ve heard about AR, i’ve returned the Octatrack which i’ve just bought and ordered A4 instead, planning to later add Rytm to have two-piece only analog hardware setup. It sounds like it should be enough for all my needs, both studio and live, covers sound synthesis, drum sampling, sequencing, FX and even sample playback! Plus it gonna fit into backpack with protective lids on and will look cool on stage,hehe.
But for some reason i really regret returning the octatrack, i had enormous fun with it even though i don’t have any hardware to sequence with it, was sampling Aalto soft-synth into it and using some drum sample libraries, or even making stuff just with single cycle waves…
What do you guys think, am i just overdoing it by thinking of getting Octatrack as well(why do i need another machine which gonna do stuff which other two together can), or it might add some significant twist to my composing and/or performing process?
I did work with synths and loopers before, recently use Numerology as a main sequencer and some software instruments such as before mentioned Aalto, but decided to go back to using hardware.
Would just love to get some insights from people here, all the opinions are welcome)
Alternative? Maybe i shall just get Octatrack and forget the whole analog hype?I don’t have much experience with analog stuff if say true except my very first synth i had many years ago, Polivox (hehe, you can guess where i’m from) and the Buchla system we have in studio, which i rarely touch because it’s a beast to patch and i prefer to do stuff fast and fun way, like by rotating bunch of knobs and activating steps on the sequencer…Octatrack plus Ambika and samples for drums? Any other alternatives?
Going to do mostly techno and kind of ambient/experimental(hate this word, i know what i’m doing not much experiments there, just pure trips)).
Thanks a lot!!
P.S. Oh, i think i could post this in any section of this forum, if it should be somewhere else, please free to move it, if you have a power to do so)