Pawel is quoted as saying: “special technique for doing rhythms which, to my knowledge, is only possible to do with the Octatrack. I used it in Dying Light: The Following as well.”
I can’t seem to hear any special OT rhythms on the sound track - though the soundtracks great, and i can hear the mm, and OT and A4. Is he referring to drums or just an overall rhythm?
any ideas on what he is referring to?
Maybe the looping function on the delay? You can engage the loop at any point of the sequence and get some funky rhythms.
oh, whats the looping function on delay ?
tape loop?
Look up Echo Freeze Delay - you can use it to repeat/stutter audio in the delay buffer.
You can turn any of your delays into a looping device on any track. Go to your delay set up page, turn sync on, lock on and pass off. When your delay is set to 0 it will engage loop and any positive value will disengage loop. Adjust your delay time to get different loops intervals. 128 is a full beat 64 is a half beat ect ect… It sounds great on percussive loops. You can even assign the delay send on the cross fader to jam with your looping effect.
Echo freeze is something different all together. The OT is a remixing beast!!!
oh, so this takes out the need to use pick ups in some ways?
just loop away with delays
thanks guys, i’ll look into next and try it out
Yep I never use pick ups. I feed in signal from my laptop into the OT and loop away!
thanks, what as into ableton looper or just in mix out and mix back in
i think you might be missing out on the pick ups, though
theres some strangeness going on in there - i havent fully worked out the dubing quirks but i can say they are like a super UW ram machine
anyway, loving the ot
The OT is more musical with its looper imo it’s not clunky like Abletons. I use the thru machine to feed it sounds and once the loop is on it take a snapshot from the moment you engage it, no quantizing. You can set the signal pass thru either way. If you want the original signal to continue playing while your loop is going thats possible. I like to cut the original signal and just let the loop play. I swear you can make anything sound like a funky rhythm.
The lock on / pass off patch you described above is the “echo freeze” capability that gives the OT’s delay the name “echo freeze delay.”
Anyway - yep - this is the one for crazy rhythms. I especially enjoy it on the entire drum bus rather than individual drum sounds.
If you route a random LFO to Delay Send, and get the LFO’s own send level into a sweet spot in relation to a >0 Delay Send level to get slightly more control over the probability of triggering the freeze, you get the whole drum bus repeating or glitching out with a degree of controlled randomness. Plock the LFO send to 0 for all steps that you want to ensure 0% probability of freeze. Good fun!
yes, got it . Great!! thank you 
Thanks of course, lock zero 0 to one side of the slider and just fuck around
pretty funky !!!
i implore you to try the pick ups though. They are very underated