Octatrack Tips & Tricks (OT Tips)

[dustmotes]

+1
I do this a lot with direct sample too (Track + src3) with QREC set appropriately (offset also produces unexpected results)

[jb]

Thinking of ideas to replicate the chase bliss warped vinyl effect in OT. Any suggestions?

[sezare56]

Any suggestions?

Lfo on pitch (or rate), lfo on delay time (tape mode), lfo on vol, lofi, chorus…

[jb]

Yeah that’s the sort of thing I’ve been playing with. I’ve been thinking LFOs modulating other LFOs speed to get a bit of randomness more similar to real warped vinyl. I just can’t quite seem to get that “watery” sound nailed though. I’ve been thinking of ways to use no input noise to use a track to generate a low level controllable vinyl crackle, I’m sure it’s doable. Would be nice to get a solid effect chain to going to know OT can have a built in vinylizer. Would make a nice new effect using the building blocks that are already there if the elektron gods are listening…

[Soham]

Strymon volante, 400€

[Open_Mike]

Giving samples the "vintage" treatment

“So i’d like to make my own samples sound like i sampled them from some old vinyl with the grit and crackling that old vinyl can give.”

Two LFO’s to control pitch to give you wow and flutter. one at a high frequency for that old warble, then another with a much lower frequency and low depth to give a slow warping feel. Then add the OT Lo Fi effect and you can get some really dirty old warbley messe dup sounds.

[jb]

Magic, this forums a gold mine. Looking forward to getting home now

[big_baobab]

I’m searching for a way to level out the volumes of the songs I’m going to play live. As I’m using track 8 as master track I was thinking about monitoring the OT volume with a vst such as Span and to tweak OT master fx to remove any nasty resonance (eq/dj eq) and to adjust the volumes (compressor gain).
How do you think it’s going to work? Do you have any tip on the subject? thanks

[Neimad]

besides the great LFO and fx recipes on here for vinyl sim, another way, and i’m not trying to sound pretentious at all. But buy old vinyl, less than good condition, and a cheap not that great record player, and boom boom.

[jb]

Yeah I sample vinyl all the time, more been trying to get the effect for VSTs and my instrument samples etc.

@Open_Mike that worked well by the way. Even better with a third random LFO modulating the depth of the other one. Got some unusual stuff with a chorus on it too

[Neimad]

Yeah for sure, My buddy runs his OT through sp404 vinyl sim with good results. But yeah I really wanna try that recipe when i get home tn

[sezare56]

Realtime Synced Arp!

FN+Bank (Grid Rec off) > Scale Per Track
Fn+Scale > 2/16
Set your arp settings
Hold the first trig with a toothpick or whatever*.
Set your keyboard on autochannel.
Done.

That way you can play with your arp perfectly synced with the sequencer in realtime with external keyboard!

Add random lfo on Note LEN to alternate chords / arp. (LEN = 0 = no arp)

*If you use it a lot : solder a switch!

[matB]

If If play an arp with NLEN 0 I wont hear a chord but an arp …
Do I missed something ?

[sezare56]

Yes, if you read carefully, I’m talking about NOTE page LEN.

[matB]

Ah okay !!! Very good ! Thank you !
Saddly this wont let me use the arp scale helper with biggest chords from my keyboard but it’s a nice trick …

(Im personnaly trying to apply the Scale mode help to more than 4 notes chords) (but allready have a lot to practice on with those last messages :hap:)

Good night guys

[jbone1313]

My best tips for quick, click-free sampling:

Declick

I did some testing yesterday, and I can confirm what @sezare56 says about the delayed application of FIN and FOUT. Those settings are pretty useless, especially when sampling looping patterns where there is some latency. The reason is that the placement of the fade will probably not necessarily line up with the placement of the audio due to the latency. In the course of my testing, I learned some other important things. I am sharing here in case it helps anyone else. When you are sampling a l…

OT Ableton audio printer: No excuses for bad sounding OT mixes.

Transferring Octatrack audio tracks to computer?

Ok, this is insane. I have a test Ableton project setup, which seems to be working. It is as close to an automatic OT printer as I can imagine. It’s almost like Overbridge for Octatrack. No Max4Live required. It sounds like a lot of work, but you only need to set all this up one time. I don’t have time to share it and polish yet, but the basic idea is this: 8 scenes. MIDI map notes to launch those scenes. Setup 8 MIDI tracks, one for each OT channel. In each track, you have 8 MIDI clips wit…

No more latency when sequencing Ableton from OT or monitoring OT (or other synced hardware) through Ableton:

Solution for ITB-OTB clock sync and latency in Ableton

Well, I think I discovered an even better solution for all this, and I updated the OP to refer to this post accordingly. Turn on Reduced Latency When Monitoring. Do not place any latency inducing devices in any signal path through which you are monitoring machines you are syncing or instruments you are playing or triggering with a hardware sequencer, EXCEPT for External Instrument device. The External Instrument device does not seem to add latency to the INSTRUMENT tracks on which they are pla…

[dan271]

wavetable-style quick tip - set loop size exactly 674 samples - will be C note

[sezare56]

wavetable-style quick tip - set loop size exactly 674 samples - will be C note

Yep. I used G note, the most precise I found to be close to 440 hz tuning with 225 / 450 / 900 samples.
Tip to find other notes from C with 674 samples : L = length in samples, n = semitones
L = 674 / 2^(n/12)

Example for G
L = 674 / 2^(7/12) = 450 samples

Btw, I’d rather calculate from G.

[quartzwatch]

I wanted a trig-sync triangle lfo that starts at the lowest value (not halfway up). Midi designer has a low resolution and sounded too grainy. Working with a midi track so no slides.

My solution was to use two saw lfos on the same parameter, one going up and one down. For the first two bars I locked the depth off on the 2nd saw, the second two bars the depth off on the 1st saw. Can have fun tweaking the different rates as well.

Note: Designer would have worked for my goal as well, see below

[sezare56]

Midi designer has a low resolution and sounded too grainy.

Did you try Trig + Tempo in lfo designer?

To interpolate between two steps, select a waveform step by pressing and holding the corresponding [TRIG] key and then press the [TEMPO]