Octatrack

darenager · 2019-05-08T10:54:20.370Z

Hector stole the prototype from Area51, shortly after the product launch he disappeared in mysterious circumstances, some say he will return one day and that “Octatrack owners will be very happy”

sezare56 · 2019-05-08T11:11:34.649Z

Castor:

Was this confirmed?

Will there be any future OT updates? / Could it ever become open source? Octatrack

Let me just at least kill this one rumor: The Octatrack devs are still at Elektron.

Castor · 2019-05-08T11:15:32.049Z

^ so i was not imagining?

meshmachine · 2019-05-08T11:19:26.008Z

That’s true to an extent, but the locked delay is more of a glitch effect than a granular wash. Granular ideally needs overlapping grains, which have controllable amp envelopes.

It is possible to achieve something like this with sample retriggering and a short retrigger time, but the amp envelope does not get retriggered, so cannot modulate the individual grains. Just being able to enable retriggering of the amp envelope when retriggering the sample would be enough possibly.

It just occurred to me that I could use the LFO. I am going to try using the LFO to modulate the amplitude and sync it to the retrigger rate.

sezare56 · 2019-05-08T11:32:26.032Z

meshmachine:

but the amp envelope does not get retriggered, so cannot modulate the individual grains. Just being able to enable retriggering of the amp envelope when retriggering the sample would be enough possibly.

You can with retrigger the envelope with TRIG COUNTS (Microtiming menu), or arp with midi loopback.
With AEDitor you can select portions of a sample and modulate it, play several instances of that sample.

meshmachine:

granular wash.

If you ad CUE rec with feedback and pitch to above, I think you can wash a lot!

meshmachine · 2019-05-08T11:36:58.737Z

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. Going to try this tonight.

pidgeo · 2019-05-08T11:44:54.502Z

Quite a few bits of that first one sound pure squarepusher

Castor · 2019-05-08T11:54:52.371Z

What just happened here?! Can you please explain processes in these two magical tracks? Im still a n00b with OT

sezare56 · 2019-05-08T12:01:15.547Z

Castor:

Can you please explain processes in these two magical tracks?

No. I don’t remember what I did. Lost my neurones since.
I’ll try to make another one, I’ll post in that thread : The Octatrack can be quite granular-esque [example inside] - #22 by sezare56

Rainmaker explanations :
Octatrack as Rainmaker - #6 by sezare56
Octatrack as Rainmaker - #14 by sezare56

jb · 2019-05-08T12:08:56.762Z

You’re cracking me up today

jefones · 2019-11-05T21:51:14.824Z

Fill cannot be activated externally on any elektron machine.

sezare56 · 2019-11-05T22:15:12.880Z

CrepePants:

FILL feature cannot be triggered via MIDI

Workaround I just tried :
One shots can be used as FILL when you hold YES, and they can be armed with CC52, values 1-127.

Send CC52 with target track channel, the one shot trigs are armed as long as you tweak the knob.
If you want to arm all one shots, use CC54.

sezare56 · 2019-11-05T22:56:38.744Z

@CrepePants, thanks for asking!
With midi loopback it is possible to set up up to 8 midi tracks activating one shots > 8 FILL buttons, one for each track!
Works with mutes, or plays free midi tracks.

sezare56 · 2019-11-06T04:01:03.657Z

CrepePants:

Let me try to wrap my head around how Id implement that.

How would you trigger Fill if it was possible? From Pyramid? It should be similar with one shots, except for /Fill.

PomPomOne · 2019-11-06T09:24:15.285Z

My heart stopped for a moment seeing this thread revived…

…dreaming on .

Stumm42 · 2019-11-06T09:49:18.028Z

Mine to thought the dream was back on

TRAINTRACS · 2019-11-06T09:52:04.925Z

Same here. My brain jumped straight to “OVERBRIDGE!!!”.
FML.

xidnpnlss · 2019-11-06T11:48:42.742Z

Ditto. Existence stopped.

Thread lock? Please?

pselodux · 2019-11-06T12:09:06.949Z

Haha god damnit

edit: a good reminder to boot up the octatrack again tomorrow, it’s been several months since I last used it!

sezare56 · 2019-11-06T13:07:18.194Z

PomPomOne:

My heart stopped for a moment seeing this thread revived…
…dreaming on .

Hoping for a new screen saver?