Octatrack as Fugue Machine

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hi Fam,
Anyone here familiar with ios Fugue Maschine?
Basicly record a midi, a melody, and it lets you replay it by up to four different (or same instantionts) synths. In different tempos, forth and back. Each track lets you set the speed, direction, etc

I have Perfourmer which has 4 different synth modules packed in one, with one stereo out and midi in/out.

Is it possible with Octatrack mk2 to seqence a melody to be played by all synth modules and set different tempo, dirrection for each module sepparately? As in Fugue machine. And all this on one track.
Thanks for your imput

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No sequencer reverse playback.
Can’t be done on 1 track.

You can record one midi track, duplicate it, change scale per track (tempo x3/4, x2, /3/4, /2, /4, /8)

I’d use different arp settings.

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Yes

No. Beat division yes. Beat resolution yes.

No. OT only moved forward.

No.

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So no midi notes reverse playback? Thats a bumer, also that you can’t do it on one track (I forgot to mention fugue machine have 4 different playheads they can all be set manually to do things, but you basicly got the idea)
Thanks guys!

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Another option, record the parts at different tempos as required, set loop on, use 1 shot trigs. This way each part can loop at its own tempo, as long as you set amp to infinite and ensure timestretch is turned off.

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That sounds cool, I’ll try to do so. If I fail to set it correctly I will kindly ask you to explain more in details. I’m a noob just got the machine

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Fugue machine is so unique just use that if you want fugue sequencing, its inexpensive vs hardware that wont do all of that exactly.

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I will add to @lkery’s point that the Octatrack and iPad together make a brilliant combo (Fugue aside).

You basically use the iPad as a multitimbral synth with lots of on-board FX and via an audio interface, take the audio back into the OT for Scenes and sampling/slicing. You can either use the OT’s MIDI tracks or an on-board iPad sequencer or keyboard. Or get a hub and use a hardware keyboard while still connected to the audio interface.

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@lkery @Oculist

Thanks for your imput. I would need extra cash for a decent soundcard, to separate ipad from octatrack atm.

It’s doable, but not right now

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A Digi is probably the best soundcard with Octatrack.

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A Digi is probably the best soundcard with Octatrack.<

Elektron fanboys allert :wink: Might be
but there is RME with clean signal path, apogee and a lot lot more. There is a decision to be made

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…don’t u worry about using the ipad as a great companion to the ot and just use it’s mini headphone jack to be converted back via ot’s inputs…

no additional interface needed, really…

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@reeloy

I’m also thinking about it, but I would need midi for fugue, actually to fugue controling with midi external synth. So I do need a sound card

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A sound card that makes music, synced to OT. Depends if you need several inputs…

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Yes, just use the iOS app for note sequencing.

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Means you still don’t need a sound card, you rather need a midi interface, despite many sound cards come still with MIDI-DIN output which you would connect to your OT to ‘control with midi’. There are also many pure midi interface for iOS devices, some cheap, some more sophisticated and pricy.