Hi,
I’m wondering if I can take the output from a synth with stereo out and send that into two different Octatracks.
I’ve found a cable that splits a single mono or into two. If I got two of those cables and ran those from the stereo outs to the inputs of two Octatracks making sure that both Octatracks had a left and right - would that work?
I’m considering doing it with a digitone.
Cheers,
An
Yes I believe that would work just fine, curious as to what you’re doing with the dual Octa’s?
Depending on the way you split the signals, there could be insertion loss (ie loss of output volume). Using a small mixer or a dedicated splitter box might be a better idea. But indeed do give it a try! Cables are pretty inexpensive.
Well . . .
I’ve got two Octatracks connected to my Allen and Heath DB4. I have the main and cue of OT1 going to channel 1 and 2 and OT2 mains and cue going to channels 3 and 4.
That’s me out of channels so any external synth would have to come through the Octatracks. However, I can only afford one synth and like the look of the digitone. But I don’t want to commit it to one of the Octatracks. I want the audio into whichever one I want without having to move cables.
I’m going to treat each Octatrack as separate decks that I can bounce between and overlap.
That sounds rad!
That can be interesting, but I would definitely save OTs inputs for other purposes, and rather plug OT1 in OT2 or/and OT2 in OT1. I would concentrate on 1 OT to octatrackize the synth, with already 2 stereo outputs available.
At the moment I’m having fun with a little monotimbral 8 voices Micromonsta and OT, it almost can sound multitimbral !
I send CCs to mix oscs 1/2 sub noise levels.
As I usually use all midi and audio tracks even with one monotimbral synth, I totally understand having 2 OTs ! 
Yeah, I get where you’re coming from but with the DB4 I can put dune great effects on the channels from the Octatracks and, the way I separate the main and cues on both, blend, affect and mix things as I perform.
That’s the idea anyway.