TL;DR: Want to jam on couch, considering a flightcase to play with OT / DT on couch. Struggle with recording my OT jams into a DAW. Considering buying a flightcase and suck that con up or to invest in something else as a couchbuddy.
Currently on my second OT which I have been using on and off for about 5 months now.
I use Ableton and a Digitakt next to it and every time i sit down to make music I am endlessly exploring which feels either great or unproductive.
Now with the OT / DT i find myself way less fatigued from the screen (dayjob = screen). So I am looking to put them both in a flightcase to remove myself from my desk & screens. The only thing I worry about is that the jams I make on the OT have to be performed well into Ableton to record them. I did that quite a bit but itās frustrating for me as I make mistakes or record too quickly to end up unhappy with the result.
Should I just accept that this is a OT thing? Maybe do multiple takes / multitrack and arrange in Ableton? How do you do it?
Or should I skip the pain and buy a Maschine + / MPC live 2 as a couch buddy since they allow exporting into Ableton with greater ease?
I used to record it into ableton, but I started to resample the main out into the OT itself. Much more convenient. No computer involved, I just stay focused on the machine.
The recording time usually is enough for my typical song lengths.
I either resample a performance or use the arranger to create a song.
I move the recording to the computer via usb disk mode later and might add some limiter etc in ableton.
As @Unifono, I record OT with OT. For longer recordings, I record several parts to edit later.
I (barely) used a Zoom H2 class compliant recorder, in order to record a video. These days Iād rather use the Syntakt as audio class compliant gear, with Android or iPad.
Maybe try using the DT midi tracks to sequence OT scene changes / x fader / automation etc. You could build pretty much whole track structures. Then if you want to multitrack, just hook the OT & DT to Ableton, hit record however times needed.
No extra DA AD conversions, so theoretically better.
I should receive a TC Finalizer Plus tomorrow. Should improve OT mastering and recordings of external gear.
ā¦record the master outsā¦and via ob the dt which can xtra host otās cue outsā¦
if u give it a closer second thought on internal routing, what elements u can pair up to record best as stereo stems āonlyā in one take upfront, u should be all fineā¦
A Zoom h4n shouldnāt cost that much these days and is still a perfectly good recorder (that wonāt get sticky like the h5, although thatās also a good one other than the stickiness problem). Triple duty as your OT recorder, field recorder for sample material and a simple USB audio interface if you need something smaller than your main interface for travel or whatever.
Thatās such a simple and smart idea. So basically you have 7 tracks and use 8 to capture the take with?
You could do track by track takes this way as well possibly if you selected the output from just one track and scene/fader jammed over it while the other tracks played as background. I may be wrong there.
you can have 8 tracks and use any track to record. It records into that tracks buffer, you donāt have to keep that track free from playing back something
Makes sense. Then you just go in and save the sample and itās done.
I really am surprised I never tried this. Lol. It makes way too much sense and quickly captures all kinds of jamming and scene changes either per track or out of the master.
True. very true. Just need to get better. Ordered a flightcase to make a cool creative hub I can move around. TBF the MPC looks just like a limited Ableton in that sense. Figure Iād feel like iād rather get behind the big screen then
Tnx all! And recording into the OT itself is quite smart, I never knew the recording buffer was that long.
