Tip : Daw & octa workflow

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hey,
I learned a lot of good stuff on the forum here so i decided to give something back.
It’s a great way to work if you like doing your mixing , sample selecting , eiting, etc … in your daw .

I learned about the sample-chains and that got me thinking .

I first started thinking about how sample-chains would be a great way to create preset-kits .
Like drumkits or kits for entire songs .
Just drop them in your daw and create a chain .

Now if you load the samples in your daw on different channels , you can easily finetune the kit with effects and such .
Load it into your octatrack and grid-slice it in how many slices you decided to make the sample-chain.
And now a fun extra trick is that when you keep the project of the sample chain in the daw , you can later on redo the mixing or change some samples , and as long as you keep the same length and sample position , you can just save the sample-chain under the exact same name and replace the file on your octatrack and now if you load the song it will work just as before , but now with the reworked ( remixed ) samples .
No extra chopping etc… needed .

This is great for when you created a song with a sample-chain preset kit and you decide later on you want to mix it in your daw .
Just do the mixing , eqing , compression , etc… on the sample chain.
Save , replace on octa , and voila .

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The way i work is,
I first use midi on the octatrack to launch the samples in ableton and create a basic beat.
Mix it and create a sample-chain .
Do 64 slices , even if you only use 8 cause this way you can add in samples afterwards and keep the same length of the chain .
Recreate the beat on the octatracks audio-side and continue working on the song.
Then if i want to add another sample , i go back to the midi side of the octa to sequence another sample in ableton , mix it , add it to the chain at the next slice point , save chain , replace in octatrack .