Was the Russian beer in the Moog Sub 32 box? 
Cold war is definitely over?
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if you like to experiment & like a challenge I say try out the Op-1, if you can get a decent price on one you can sell it & make your money back if you donāt like it.
Most people either love it or hate it. I canāt get enough of it.
Some say itās limited for the priceā¦ like a toyā¦ blah blahā¦but I donāt think so at all. So many possibilities. & even tho thereās only 4 tracks you can overdub as much as you want.
There are a lot of tricks as well to help with the no undo button, noise floor, pops/clicks in the tape, making full songsā¦ itās full of work arounds, just depends on if youāre ok with work arounds.
I feel like Iām playing an instrument when I use it. Like Iām the one making the song, not the machineā¦ & there are so many things to explore on it. Endless sound design possibilitiesā¦ itās my favorite 
Russian beer came first, unreasonable purchase ensued 
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Better a cold beer than a cold warā¦
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Cheers!
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Does anyone know if the microkorg is able to be affected by a coatracks midi fx send like Iāve seen with other synths. Do I need a synth that is MIDI CC? sorry for being a newb Iām just trying to figure this out. Any similar synths that are midi fx compatible with Octatrack?
MIDI and fx are two separate things really. Octatrack has MIDI tracks which can be used to sequence other gear that can receive MIDI. Sending MIDI signals to other gear is kinda like having a robot that you programmed to play notes or turn knobs on the other gear, instead of you physically pressing keys and turning knobs the OT can send note values for key presses and MIDI CC for turning knobs. If the other device has fx and MIDI CC mappings for those fx, you could sequence them from OT.
OT also has fx that can be used on audio sent to itās inputs from other devices using what OT calls a thru machine. Itās also possible to use the MIDI tracks to sequence other gear and have that gear be connected to OTs inputs and using a thru machine add fx to the incoming sequenced audioā¦
Hope that clears some stuff up, I know nothing about the microkorg but I bet it has MIDI functionalityā¦
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I thought the Octatrack could affect another synth with its own parameter changed that would then be sent through midi to the other synth and that synths audio would change but not the note or channel. I could be wrong this is just based of something I read
Your probably thinking of MIDI CC thenā¦ OT can control the audio engines and other parameters of external devices by sequencing CCās and has lfoās that can modulate the CCāsā¦
I briefly looked at the microkorg manual and there are a lot of parameters listed in a chart that can be controlled by CC, not sure about all of them. Maybe someone who uses one will chime inā¦
I mostly do my stuff this way (i like to use my own samplesā¦):
- make drumsounds with digitone
- put that drumsounds into the digitakt
- make synth voices with digitone
- use the octatrack as mixer for both, with fx modulated with scenes/slider
Sometimes I use the digitone inputs as guest inputs for other synths too (micromonsta, mb33, streichfett, monostation, 0-coast,ā¦), because the fx are good, and why not.
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PersianHugs - Probs not a very fashionable response, but if youāve got a recent PC/Mac and a good soundcard, consider Reaktor 6. In the user library there are great emulations of the classic drum machines, synths, samplers + plus way way more. With Blocs in 6 patching is easy to figure out. Use OT to clock and sequence say 8 modular synths in one Reaktor prog. on 8 midi channels. For me Reaktor 6 standalone syncs supper tight to the OT. Also a great tool to figure out what would suit you best in HW.
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And Iād assume itād have any sound that a micro jorg would have and if I had a push in ableton it would control all of that.