I dawned on me that the octatrack is a very special sample oriented modular synthesizer.
I often “chain” sample… meaning most often I start of by catching something on a Pickup machine, and perhaps have a few Flex machines sampling my external sound source, then i set other flex machines to sample other tracks. most often very short snippets, like 1 to 5 steps… and most often i don’t sample on “ONE” but have a trigger to sample on the 3rd or 11th or 25th step… sometimes in several places… and the i re sample THAT track to another flex, often on different pattern length, one Flex may play 16 steps, another 20, a third 48 and so on. That way re sampling will be almost random.
Often i also have P-locks on pitch, rate, effect parameters and more so the “melodies” will not conform to any 12 tone system
But anyways, the octatrack is an amazing creative music easel!!
An example is here, it is a OP-1 being looped and sampled by the OCta (my first OP-1 recording, but the Octa is really doing most of the “hard” job) I think there are 3 diffrent sound from the OP-1…
