OctaEdit - Octatrack Software Editor and Librarian [ OSX / Windows ]

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1443

holy smokes man, you’ve been busy. imma give you my money

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#1444

I’m confused with Set / Main Set above, without Project names, Active row… :thinking:
Could you clarify ?

#1445

Added a brief overview / description above the screenshot for you.

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#1446

Thanks, I understand now.
I couldn’t imagine all banks used (active row).
Maybe because I don’t have OctaEdit ? :smile:

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#1447

i’m learning things just by looking at the screenshots.
this looks great …

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#1448

I cannot understand or found a real interest in this software because it is not usable in real time …
Will it be one day ?

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#1449

My “little” Request vor V2 if it’s not too late:

  • ability to save “playlists” and inject them into a project.
    explanation: a playlist is the samples/songs loaded into the static or flex-slot list.
  • usage: when dj-ing with the OT, one can compile a playlist of songs that you want to play and save this list for a later recall. So one could save his playlists like in traktor and then load this playlist into a project and save this project with a new name.

I’m happy to explain further if it is considered useful and doable :slight_smile:

#1450 
  Anyone know if we are able to zoom in on slices of a chain while in samples module (or chainer module) in order to fine tune start/loop/end points?  I hope to also move the shorter slices into the silent gaps where I've shortened other slices in the chain.  I can do this in the octatrack but I bought octaedit largely for ease of chain creation and also for ease of chain/sample editing.  
 I'm speaking of the latest version of octaedit prior to this new beta version coming out.  I believe I'm on v.30 with the conditional trips.    Tries.   Toga.  Whoops.  Trigs.  There we go.  Spellcheck got a little outta hand there but it was a lot of fun., wasn't it?!   Thanks, Nauts.  
   Oh, yeah, also wondering if the new beta version has this functionality.   Thanks, Rusty
#1451

I think I understand what you are asking for… basically a playlist is a list of audio files and their locations.

You want to be able to generate a playlist from ??? or a existing project?

You then want to be able to import this “playlist” into a new/different project?

Is that right?

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#1452

it’s highly useful for me! the interest is in how quickly you can organize any mess you’ve made in the OT.

i make huge messes constantly and the ability to sort them out quickly is nearly priceless.

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#1453

Ah well, probably not for you then I guess? C’est la vie.

Probably not unless I create a hardware modification and/or create a custom OS; or Elektron have already done that and never enabled it, or Elektron code a SysEx implementation.

Even then, the mind boggles as to how I would squeeze all the functionality in OctaEdit into those paradigms…

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#1454

Not in the Chainer, for reasons. Samples you should be able to fine tune with the sliders.

Yes

Did someone say Toga party? \o/

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#1455

exactly that.
It does not have to be from an existing project necessarily, but surely helpful too.

I’m more looking for a neat way to compile a list of tracks/samples and save as a list to load into projects later when needed.

Ideally, I would be able to choose slots/files from the saved “playlist” and load all or some of the slots into a project-slot list.

#1456

Like others, I’m interested in OctaEdit because it looks like a useful toolkit for setting up the OT.

I enjoy playing live shows with my OT, but whatever sample files and so on that I use with the OT don’t just magically appear out of nowhere. They have to be loaded into the OT and organized in certain ways. Also there are some operations that cannot be realistically done onstage because of Elektron’s design decisions - stuff like slicing sample then assigning slices to trigs.

That’s where OctaEdit promises to make these non-realtime job easiers and more inspirational.

For live use, there’s an iPad app called Manifold. It is not a competitor to OctaEdit - it lets you use an iPad as a MIDI CC controller for Octatrack from what I understand. Manifold might be what you’re looking for.

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#1457

Can do that; but that then requires the utilisation of an additional external system / methodology, probably a simple text file to something pointing to the files; or if I’m smarter I could easily wrap up a playlist in an archive… that could then be (selectivly) imported.

But…

All of this is done easily enough with the Samples module already; and you can use the Manager module for transferring existing Samples from one Set/Project to another.

The Manager Module has an option to only transfer Samples, and not copy any Elements.

So I’m not really seeing the ROI on developing something for such an edge case, when I could replicate the functionality / do the process very quickly with what is already there?

#1458

If you or anyone else want an awesome piece of hardware, with a full blown editor with all (i.e. similiar) functionality of OctaEdit, plus lots, lots more, and all in realtime, then the best option for anyone who is interested in such a thing is to:

a) Give me money to help with development costs.

or

b) Wait until I release it, and buy it then.

If there is something you or anyone else feels is lacking, or other hardware fails at, I’m open to suggestions, but I’ve already got a very healthy viewpoint and pipeline.

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#1459

You would do a new hardware, a new OS for OT, or a new OctaEdit with realtime emulation ?

#1460

New hardware. Already in development.

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#1461

An OT 2 with sysex or something really different ? :loopy:

#1462

Different. Unique.

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