The Octo Orch Challenge

[sezare56]

I’m following the cool rules of OP @sabana!
Have to finish this one before, tomorrow, dead end!

Christmas Track Challenge

Record a cover of Jingle Bells, any gear, any style / tempo! @Ryan : cowbells allowed. Dead end, december the 24th. You got one month! Example :

[sezare56]

but dont currently own an OT

Why?

[sabana]

Well thats different!

[amku]

the rent is too damn high!

[Open_Mike]

EN.
Ink Jet inherited the tape collection of his grandmother in 2011. She was a lifetime collector of cassettes mostly focusing on the work of romantic composers. After she passed her gifted grandson grab her heritage and started to create something special out of it. There are three facts that you should be aware of:

1. All sounds come from the tapes. Everything you hear is a sample. For the most part, these samples are quite short – individual notes and chords rather than longer phrases. The sounds have been processed – pitch-shifted, filtered, delayed, etc. – but they all started out as classical music. Even the drum sounds are samples, albeit extremely short ones that have been significantly warped.

2. One tape per track. Each of the six tracks on Grandma Tapes has its own corresponding sample tape. Furthermore, each track is composed of samples from a single composer, and usually a single composition.

3. No software. All of the sounds were recorded, processed, arranged, and mixed on a hardware sampler. This forced me to work less visually and rely more on my ears.

Ink Jet - Grandma Tapes (Octatrack)

Ok, so I already posted this on EU, but just wanted to make sure it had a home here. Here is the Octatrack-only EP “Grandma Tapes”: http://inkjetmusic.com/grandma-tapes Lots of info on the record at that link. I also made a video for the first track: One little thing I didn’t mention on the other board: each of the track titles is an anagram for the full name of the composer I sampled on that track. Special prize (cassette tape w/ the EP + a bunch of tracks that didn’t make the cut) to whoe…

[sabana]

Nice catch Mike. I think thats a really gre at hybrid sound between classical and contemporary from the OT only. I’m surprised theres so little of this music flying around.

[GovernorSilver]

I need to get back to doing the live sampling/audio mangling thing with a string instrument as the audio source. I’m sure everyone is sick of the same ol’ viola + Octatrack crap that I’ve posted before gere, and now the pickup on the viola doesn’t even work anymore.

Hope to get to doing something in 2019 featuring my electric violin.

[Sherelle]

Would you consider letting us use another sequencer with the OT, even though you specify 100% OT? I have a sequence for a classical piece that I’d like to use with the orchestral instruments. From what I read in the manual, the only way to record chromatically is to live record. I don’t have that kind of skill. I’d like to use my Kawai Q80 to handle the sequencing duties, if that’s okay. If not, I’ll stick with the original plan.

[sezare56]

From what I read in the manual, the only way to record chromatically is to live record.

No, you can plock everything without live record. You can enter chords with external midi if you hold a trig (auto channel, IIRC).

Kawai Q80

Make a OctaConta Orch challenge!

[Sherelle]

One thing at a time, my friend, one thing at a time!

[Burpy]

I see a challenge as a way to explore my gear in a way i didn’t think of myself. So feel free to make it you’re own challenge (the OctaConta Orch challenge as @sezare56 named it