Would be nice to have a thread dedicated to Octatrack recordings in 1 single take.
Do you use the OT to arrange a track, live perform a track? Start to finish on the device itself?
What settings do you use? Master compressor?
How do you arrange/organize stuff? Or do you just mute/unmute manually and wiggle some knobs and a slider?
How do you even mix on this thing???
Great stuff there too!
To answer a bit myself…
I like to record on device itself. Record main on 16-bit recording buffer. This already provides a long enough sample to perform a track on.
Just muting/fading things in and out and moving the slider in 1 or 2 scenes.
Master compressor… I think my ears just don’t know what to search for… so, I have a hard time finding good settings.
Yep. Thats how I do everything.
Yes. Sometimes on its own, sometimes with other gear.
This is like asking a painter what colours they use. I use whatever I need to use depending on the peice.
Practice practice practice.
With my ears.
Albums/ Eps I have made.
OT as master sequencer, clock, a lot of sampling. Other gear used too.
Same.
Same again, but hardly any samples.
100% octatrack.
Octatrack as master clock, mixer, and fx processor.
100% octatrack. Sampled my modular then did eveything else on the OT.
Using mostly LOFI effect to extract harmonics. OT with some AH.
Everything recorded live, in 1 take.
My OT goes to my mixer (as does my other gear) I record a line out from my mixer straight to a wee tascam DR40x.
I amuse myself with live looping on the Octatrack. Here’s a simple Moog/guitar duet I did a few weeks back. I was obsessed with the subharmonic capabilities of the Moog at the time.
this is precisely what i picked as an exercise not long ago. i imagined the octa to become the single ultimate go-to for music making
i was imagining complex arrangements, stacks of paper sheets with pattern sequences and notes, and so on. but i eventually ended up with 2–3 patterns per track and a bunch of scenes
at some point i decided against using the master compressor on device, preferring to pay more attention to the mix, do better EQing, and using all 8 tracks, leaving compression and “mastering stuff” for logic
now with tonverk i’m reinventing the setup, and i’m already blown away by all the possibilities the two could play together
the “ep” made in octa, pretty dark stuff
My favorite to glue things, eventually eq before or reverb after.
Too lazy to export several tracks, finish a song in a DAW.
My Elektronauts contests tracks were deleted…fuck it…
Woah! Lots of inspiration!! Thanks for the detailed reply 
Do you go OT —> TV or TV —> OT? Or both ways?
i’m just replugging the cable to their ins and out depending on what i’m doing atm, same with headphones
i still want to keep “one device at a time” workflow so maybe i’ll just end up with moving the .wavs, i really hope tonverk will be able to mount octa in disk mode some day
anyway, i think octatrack is still the best device for arranging and performing off of the stems, so tonverk will probably be the best sound and pattern fodder for it
Another try at a single shot recording.
WIP. If you have feedback 
, very welcome.
Personally, I think mainly the bass and some noise is a bit loud in the mix… difficult to get right in post-processing.
How did you create acid sounding parts on the Octatrack? Sounds pretty dialed in!