Destructive looping with Octatrack

Destructive loops with 8 strings guitar + 3 drums sounds. Lower CUE send, for loop decay.

With Timestretch (hence pitch shift)

Without Timestretch (pitch, wilder)

I’m hesitating between with or without timestretch, maybe both, on 2 tracks.

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You’re definitely the brainiac wizard of OT.
Both good and evil side.

This is brilliant!


And as I told you earlier, I prefer timestretch on on your sound. It add some kind of digital weirdness that really fits the sound.

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Yep didn’t mean anything to do with gain. It was some time ago but I chose a short sample like a 909 snare and made it alternate between two recorders at a quick pace. I don’t have th time now to dig out the OT but it might be a way to get lofi snare sounds :smile: Of course with the filter in there it will degrade much faster but also in a different flavor IIRC

I’m going to try this, probably tonight. Thanks! Love a bit of destructive looping :slight_smile:

:coffee: One pattern suffice.
Ex with 2 bars looping (4 bars with 1/2 scale, increase RLEN to 64)

Pattern length = 64
Track 1 :
Flex Recording 1, trig on step 1
Recording 2 on step 32 (sample lock, trig + level to set it)

Recorder 1
RLEN = 32, rec trig step 32, SRC3=CUE

Recorder 2
RLEN = 32, rec trig step 1, SRC3=CUE

Activate CUE (CUE + TRACK or Studio mode)

(For an even more stable volume I added +20/127 on VOL with lfo designer designed with 1 max, depth 20, but it works without, loosing level slowly).

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Cool stuff mate!

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Sample locking the other recorder buffer :exploding_head: - I have definitely never thought of that.

l o l

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