Hey Everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster!
I just got the Octatrack mkII and am loving it… I had been messing around with the model cycles for a little while and so the workflow make sense. I’ve had it for a few days and I’m at the point where I can use the Octatrack like the cycles… I know there’s much, much more to it than that…
From what I gather, I think the Octatrack needs a synth buddy to sample from. As mentioned, I have the cycles. I also have Arturia Pigments on the PC with an AKAI MPK Mini MKII controller.
My question is… I would like to be able to record soft synths from the PC into the Octatrack on the fly, mangle them a bit, maybe sample some drums from the cycles, build up tracks on the Octatrack, and then live record it into Ableton or Bitwig.
Do I need an Audio Interface for this? Can my Model Cycles somehow act as the Audio Interface? If I do need an interface, does anyone have any recommendations?
Follow up question: does this workflow make sense? Any tips or recommendations are also very welcome.
Thanks in advance!
Ronan