Is there a way to control Octatrack with a joystick?

Generally what I’m thinking here is a way to use a joystick to morph between multiple scenes or fx instead of the slider? I often find myself wishing I could morph between more than 2 scenes.

Possible with a second OT, but otherwise it’s not possible because you can select only 2 scenes.

With a joystick sending assignable Control Changes, you can assign X to crossfader CC48, and Y to an fixed lfo depth in order to modulate another parameter. If all tracks are set on the same channel, you can control them all.

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Which model of joystick are you thinking about?

I searched for one some time ago but could not really find a ready made option.

I have tried very lightly to modulate Octa with a joystick using a ZOIA Euroburo and a Erica synths black joystick 2 and it works great!

ZOIA can convert any CV to Midi,

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I have an Akai MPK Mini Play.
It can send 1 or 2 CCs per axis, hence up to 4 CCs (value 0 in the middle).

I have to choose and buy a midi host to use it with midi din connectors.

Well, in the end the OT only supports interpolation between 2 scenes.

Of course you can use a joystick to manipulate - let’s say - two CCs at once, but there is no way this would bring real multi (>2) scene morphing to the OT.

By “real” I mean morphing of scenes set up within the OT and not some external midi processing which spills out tons of CCs from the joystick’s input (kind of external scene simulation) …

Something like this is what I was thinking.