You may know this already, but the oldest iPad you should get is the iPad Air or iPad Air Mini. They have a 64-bit processor. Older iPads can’t run many of the newer 64-bit apps.[/quote]
Depends on how long your OT sessions are, but for me they can go up to 2 hours. That drains the iPad battery, so I like to charge the iPad while OT abuses it.
[quote]also do you think that midi to usb cable could get the OT working as a midi controller for ableton on a regular windows laptop??
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Definitely. It does. Be wary of cheap ($5-ish) cables. Some are unreliable.
Of course, you don’t need anything but the OT. Use the trick @sezare56 mentioned above to sample some of the OT’s noise then apply the comb filter to create basses, strings and drums:
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Using the comb filter:
◦ load any sample, including noise. Different samples yield different tones
◦ reduce the AMP page’s HOLD and REL parameters to turn the sample into a blip
◦ load comb filter in fx slot 1 and filter in fx slot 2
◦ in the comb filter, mix 127, fb=nearly all the way up. set lpf to taste
◦ in fx slot 2, set filter to taste.
◦ p-lock the comb filter’s pitch, or live-record knob twists.
◦ alter the tone with START, the comb’s LPF, and retrig+rtim. FUNC+RTIM changes the pitch in semitones
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Turn any sample into a C by using the Audio Editor:
◦ shorten the sample to a length of 169 samples.
◦ while in the Audio Editor, use the A knob to scroll through the available tones.
◦ filter to taste.
◦ caveat: you can’t use p-locks and LFOs to automatically create shifting tones the way you can with the comb filter.
You could even connect the OT’s MIDI out to its MIDI in and turn it into a 2-octave 8-oscillator complex synth with p-locked oscillator waves per step.
I love this black magic box.
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