Please help ! Octatrack drum pairing suggestion

[AdamJay]

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Drum machines that pair well with the Octatrack

So today I decided to get a tr8 to use for supplemental drums/percussion with the octatrack, thought I could use the 909kicks and hihats, maybe 808 toms and clavs, even free up a few tracks on the octatrack. For me this machine does not work well with the octatrack at all, I didn’t really realize it but the octatrack has a pretty gritty sound to it, where the tr8 just sounded so overly digital and plastic it just completely stuck out in the mix. The snares and claps are completely unusable. Th…

Ive got an octatrack but it needs a buddy

so i have an octatrack but i feel like it needs a buddy to make my workflow a lil better. i was thinking a push 1/2 for the ability to condense my drum loops on my octatrack to one track then bounce it back to the octa to sync on the sequencer it can control synths as well… or maybe a digitakt for drums and put that to the octatrack and still use ableton for synths… i dont know, right now im making drum loops on the octa then i send it to the zoom to bounce it or ableton. id love some help on w…

Digitakt as drum machine with OT mk2: worth it?

Hey Everyone, New Elektron user here. I just got an OT Mk2 and am exploring it. I’m an experienced musician, but this is my first sampler. Before I usually made sound collages using an old Windows laptop, dumping field recordings and samples into 20-30 Winamps opened at the same time. I’m actually still going to do that combined with the Octarak, as well as use it for my song-oriented recordings. But I have plenty of opportunities to play live here in NYC once I get the hang of it and I want to…