Hi there, I came back here after a couple of years, my Octatrack was shelved for a while but a couple of days ago I brought it out because I needed a looper. In 2019 I had shared a tutorial on how to use flex instead of the pickup machines that were way to unpredictable for my taste. But there were some shortcomings (especially keeping sync ove a long time, and also using multiple tracks at different meters).
So I spent a couple of days experimenting, and produced an updated version. This one works really great and I’m having a blast improvising stuff. (I’m a guitar player, primarily, so I need pedals because I don’t have much free time “on my hands”. The tutorial descibes how to set up a modern midi footcontroller to create a multitrack looper with different loop lengths. I use a MidiCaptain from PaintAudio. You need to be able to send multiple midi commands at a single press. The MidiCaptain can do that, and also can issue different sets of midi message at each subsequent press. This is great for this kind of set-up.
I hope the pdf will upload, I tried through the file manager but it didn’t work…
Cheers
Dirk
PickUp Machine with Flex V2-2026.pdf (342.7 KB)