I’ve been away from the OT for a few months doing other stuff. Checked my old notes for how to accomplish this multiple real time FLEX looping thing and found it didn’t really work Guess I didn’t have it figured out as well as I thought I did! Anyway, dove back in and credit where credit’s due, learned a huge amount from Cuckoo’s youtube tutorial on OT sampling at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJT_JoWO2tU&list=LLsBdsA3Vl__uM_ckEvhJnmg&index=2&t=0s
His excellent guide is on sampling and using those for grid playback, but the concepts directly apply to FLEX looping as well. I highly recommend watching his tutorial even if my steps below work for you! Also thanks to Mistercharlie and Open_Mike for a couple improvements to my process
Anyway, here’s a step-by-step guide to Live Flex Looping/Mangling. This is written as if you already know how to get a sound source plugged into the OT’s AB inputs and get those signal input led’s flashing. Above that, I tried not to assume too much or stray too far from the simplest, most direct way to make this work so hopefully this will be helpful without being too hard to follow
LIVE FLEX LOOPING
This is a quick guide to making it work with the default setting of a very short sampling time. When you get deeper in there are many other things to learn to increase sample time, change the samples from loops to one shots, alter the timestretch of the samples, etc…but the purpose of this guide is just to prove the concept of live looping and mangling with multiple FLEX tracks. There are a lot of options to refine this approach for your specific uses but I found this to be a good foundation to build on.
Setup OT from Scratch
- Hold FUNC and turn Power On
- Select 2 “Empty Reset” so you begin with a completely blank slate
- PROJ->CHANGE
- You could see a “No Set is Mounted! Please Mount One” window
- Press OK, select CREATE NEW SET
- Select CREATE_EMPTY_PROJECT
- Set MIX->DIR = 127
Setup Track 1
- Select T1
- Make it a FLEX machine
- Assign it the R1+RECORDING1 buffer
- FUNC->REC1 set TRIG=ONE2
- Activate RECORD key and press button “1” to set track 1 play trigger
Setup Track 2
- Select T2
- Make it a FLEX machine
- Assign it the R2+RECORDING2 buffer
- FUNC->REC1 set TRIG=ONE2
- Activate RECORD key and press button “1” to set track 2 play trigger
Repeat for however many more FLEX tracks you want to loop with (making sure
you’re assigning the proper Rx+RECORDINGx buffer: eg T3 gets
R3+RECORDING3, etc)
Record Track 1
- Select T1
- Press REC1 to begin recording
- Press REC1 again to end recording
- Press PLAY key and T1 should begin looping
Add More Loops Without Stopping Playback
- Select T2
- Press REC1 to begin recording
- Press REC1 again to end recording
- T2 should begin looping the next time the steps come around to trigger position ‘1’
Repeat for as many tracks as you like. Since you’re stopping track recording with the REC1 button NOT the main “STOP” key, the loop will continue to play while you record the other FLEX tracks. Also, since you’re manually stopping the sample with a second press of REC1, each sample loop can be a different length within the overall framework of the longest sample.
Now select whatever track you want to mess with. At this point you have access
to all the AMP, LFO, FX1 & FX2 options to alter the samples in real time while
the loop plays on. You can also hit AED and mess with the wave, some AED wave changes
happen in real time and some when the loop is next triggered.
Hope this is helpful