Alright everybody,
I have a very cool little setup at the moment with an Octatrack, a modular, a Digitone and a few guitar pedals (delay, reverb and compressor) and I want to dedicate at least a few months to this groupe of machines and making music only with them and without a computer.
The OT is gonna be the brain but every time I sit and try to work on something, I end up with a generic beat which never goes anywhere, so I believe I need to work on a method. So two options come to mind: either programming a cool beat and jamming it live while recording, or using the OTās recording capabilities to build songs on it with samples recorded from the other boxes, arranging, mixing on it, etc
But I canāt decide and I must admit Iāve been stuck in a sort of analysis paralysis for a few weeks now, so I wanted to ask you about it: for those of you who make whole tracks using the OT as the main box, what is your method?
Edit: moreover, I want to expand this post a little bit, so if any of you use the Octatrack as their main production tool, It would be great if we could share our methods and workflow together to get a better grasp of what this machine is capable of as a DAW replacement