Audio routing questions

CountingToes · 2013-10-21T22:54:18.000Z

Hello,
Im new here, I took a punt on the octatrack last week after a year or more of contemplation. On paper it looked incredible, and having owned a MD and MM in the past, and despising and selling them both, I was naturally reluctant about pulling the trigger. Im glad I did, its a joy to use, very intuitive, I was making music in minutes.
Well Ive spent a week getting to grips with using it alone, and made some nice grooves an now I’d like to work it into my set up.
Ive had a scan through the manual and its not so clear to me,
can I connect 4 mono signals to the OT and process them individually on separate tracks?
And also, when I come to record, can I then assign 4 of the OT’s individual tracks to the master and cue outputs? One track on each master L, cue L, master R, cue R?
Thanks for your time,
CT

tasmansea · 2013-10-21T23:04:35.000Z

yes you can do all of this

several through machines will take care of your inputs and the cue command takes care of the outputs… reading it up makes sense. there is also a personal setting if cued outputs should appear in the main out too (if I’m not mistaken - not in front of my OT)

CountingToes · 2013-10-22T14:00:32.000Z

Thank you for expanding on your answer. Fantastic news that the 2 stereo output pairs can be used as 4 mono. I trawled through the manual and only found
very minimal info on page 74. Guess I’ll get it in the studio tonight and have a fiddle, thanks for your help

rhizome · 2013-10-22T17:46:50.000Z

you can achieve 4xmono by panning tracks all the way left or right. however, you might need to mix stereo samples down to mono (can be done in the audio editor), and you need to be careful with fx (e.g., turn the mono setting on reverb all the way up ). might be some other caveats I’m not remembering atm.

cleaner mono out functionality would be nice.

CountingToes · 2013-10-22T19:45:59.000Z

Thanks for the heads up mate, I initially plan to connect my 101,303 and 808 to it, so all the channels should be mono and I want the 4 individual outs so I can externally effect and process them, I’m not 100% sure on what exactly I am trying to achieve, possibly I’m working upto a laptop free liveset.

tasmansea · 2013-10-23T02:44:54.000Z

""CountingToes"":

Thanks for the heads up mate, I initially plan to connect my 101,303 and 808 to it, so all the channels should be mono and I want the 4 individual outs so I can externally effect and process them, I’m not 100% sure on what exactly I am trying to achieve, possibly I’m working upto a laptop free liveset.

i have a similar set up with 4 separate mono ins. I’m away from the OT currently - hence the too short answer. sry 'bout that.
the playback set up page (double tap) will let you choose your input pairs (ie. A B) or just the single input (A) … i wouldnt be able to explain the cued outputs without sitting in front of the OT and am always scratching my head myself. that’s why I recommended reading up on - didn’t mean to RTFM (in case that came across)

rhizome · 2013-10-23T14:24:11.000Z

""tasmansea"":

i wouldnt be able to explain the cued outputs without sitting in front of the OT and am always scratching my head myself.

for this kind of setup, I would use studio mode. then you just turn down the main level on the tracks you want to send to the cues, and turn up the cue level (func+level). pan one track hard left, the other right. flexible enough if you have four different external fx on each of the outs. you can basically use the main and cue levels as sends for those… think of the tracks like busses. also remember you can plock the input sources on thru machines

tasmansea · 2013-10-23T19:44:12.000Z

""rhizome"":

…remember you can plock the input sources on thru machines

nice! I didn’t know this. cheers

CountingToes · 2013-10-24T00:55:13.000Z

No need for the apology Tas, thank you tho.
Studio mode seems like an interesting solution.
I still haven’t made it into the studio yet, there’s so much to discover in this box. Though I don’t think I’m moving forward so much as just having a jam at the level I can use it (1 week in)
Thanks for the replies, I’m still making sense of it all, will let you know how I end up doing it when I do