The OG that did it with noise back in the day. This one blew my mind when OT came out Dataline - What It Does...Octatrack Performance - YouTube
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I used the Arranger recently, I should use it all the time, at least to select the most important patterns of a messy project, not remembering what was “interesting”.
Yep, and this arranger functionality allows you to load 2 scenes at the same time (not doable without midi stuff), or load the same scene on A and B, to be sure to have the sound you want, not depending on crossfader position.
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You mean only use the 808 kick sample and shape it into other percussion sounds etc?
yes, or noise as mentioned
That’s what I understood too, seems hard to make a snare from a clean kick.
Maybe with overdrive, random lfo on rate to make it noisier, then hipass…
Much easier to make hihat from a snare…
Anyway I prefer to start from noise OT inputs can provide for free…
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Ah sorry, missed that. Didn’t find it though.
I definitely don’t use the arranger enough … I just dove in for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it was an eye opener. Sometimes I can get bogged down in transitions (I mostly work in a live set format) but the arranger is so useful for constructing tracks in a standard format… or making loops that you want to listen to all day and just leave the octatrack playing and constantly changing without touching anything
the idea isn’t necessarily to make a drum machine, but to stretch a sound to do things it’s not “supposed” to do. Not to self promote, but this is that exact exercise Ambient Industrial Minimal on Elektron Octatrack with 1x 808 Kick by Samples From Mars - YouTube
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Nothing wrong at all with an on-topic video.
Incidentally, I misunderstood your original framing, so the video provided good clarification for me.
My misunderstanding:
put an audio recording of a kick pattern on first track, snare recording on second, etc. This is roughly what I did with my RD-6, and really opened the OT up for me.
If you want to learn the OT, coming up with these exercises and more is extremely helpful. I should spend more time with the OT and TR-8s!
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Recently picked up an octatrack and would love any recommendations of tutorial videos focusing on one particular aspect.
For example:
- as a Digitakt replacement
- as a looper
- as a slicer
What do you mean as a Digitakt replacement? Like, it can do everything a Digitakt can, but what role do you want it to perform?
As a looper, search for videos about the pickup machines and FLEX machine looping. For slicer, just search for videos regarding slicing.
Searching for those on YouTube gives Elektrons short tutorials that are great as well as longer ones that look more in depth and maybe less edited. I’m sure any will be fine.
I’ve been planning to really dig into the arrange this fall, too. Workingon a new project that’s almost entirely sample based and I’m doing all of my basic chopping and pattern creation on the MPC2000xl because that sampling and chopping workflow really works for me in a way nothing else does, but I’m probably going to either track those patterns out a maybe 4 stems and do the final arrangement in the Octatrack , with tracks 5-8 for longer parts that I would normally use MIdI track for in the MPC, or I’m going to do the full arrangement in the MPC as i normally would, and then record 4-16 bar loops of the MPC Midi tracks, load them into the OT and do the final arrangement with the MPC patched to the Octatrack’s inputs so i can use 5-6 tracks for long loops and samples, two for processing the MPC (main outs and a pair of direct outs) and maybe a master track. Either way the arranger will be important since i’m going for 4-6 minute tracks with a fair amount of structure.
About 2 months in, and I’m getting there.
I mean, I’m getting the hang of making beats anyway. It’s little things every day or so, and it all starts to add up.
Starting to feel comfortable
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Yes same here
Really discovering OT’s arranger and MD song mode only now and it’s such a powerful tool.
Especially using both together
I think the issue is if you dont use it for a while you forget a lot and have to relearn it.