How to select loops from large audiofile

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Yeeeeeaaah Since yesterday I got my Octatrack.
And the first night was confusing to say the least…but I’m getting slowly more familiar with the machine. (love my MD and A4)

I want to try to take it for a live set coming saturday, but that seems to be pushing it a bit.

OK my question.

I want to use the octa to remix my studio tracks on stage.
I make experimental electronic modular music.

I thought I could transfer my seperate track into the octa (got that to work)
Put the recorded tracks on the tracks on the octa (got that to work)

But then I thought I could select a loop form one of the tracks…and loop it severeal times (got that to work too)
After a while I would like to use the same loop length on another part of that track, so I could play a different part of the track…looped in time.
That’s where I got stuck.

Is it possible what I want?

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I found out about slices…I n theory I coul load up a stem from a song…and try to slice it in equal parts…but that seems a bit inaacurrate an undoable wit songs over 4 minutes.

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…well, you can choose how many slices you want…

and if your stems are grid tight in their bounced length, ot can handle and slice them into equal parts pretty good…

so if your stems are a few minutes long, you can easily ask yourself how big you want the singles pieces of that stem cake to be…

and keep in mind…each slice can be adressed by pattern plocks and scene plocks controling the start point parameters in the playback page…

so you can jump through your stems in any way you could want it…and stay in sync…

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Thanks.

Evening 2 and I made lots of progress.

Making the stems beat tight is essential.
Found out how to use the mastertrack…and resampling of the mains.

Not there where I want…but not as frustrating as I feared.

But looking at 2 more evenings left to get everything into the machine to play it live saturday…I might need a planb

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Unless what you are planning to do live is so free form and experimental that you could take the OT and play it off if you hit a SNAFU, I would probably not use it live until you have more time with it.

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…ooh dude, you better have one…

i got my one since a few weeks and my deadline to hit the stage with it is early november…

and i still ask myself sometimes if this will work out without one…

but i’m getting there…

so you got your own produced tracks to perform…

seamlessly, i guess…

how long is your slot and how many tracks you got to transfer?

how did you perform before?..abelton?

plan b might be to combine the old way of doing it with the ot just on top of it for now…
i’m pretty positive i can handle all kind of stage situations with the ot only pretty soon…
but since the learnig curve is a heavy prick here, you’re pretty much asking for trouble if you count on the ot all alone after one week of fooling around with it…

drop some of your favourite basslines, kik sounds, seqences, shuffles and whatsoever in the sample slots and get the ot in slave sync and just enjoy some going mad moments here and there during your set, maybe even record some of it on the fly already to fuck it up, but don’t use it as the main instrument…at least next saturday…

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I normally perform with my modular, sets ranging from soundscapes to drilling tekno(the hard kind)
I don’t drive so public transport or a bike plus modular or no match.

I guess you might be right about the octa an performing with it within a week of purchase.

But…I seem to understand it more and more…and I’m thinking that for this live set i might just forget about using stems of my tracks.
But I got 2 more days to make some bad ass patterns on the octatrack to lay down under my a4… So i might just pull it of.