Everything works legit?
I don’t know, not mine. I sample in OT and copy files on computer after.
Great idea…Straight to the puter. I have almost 3 years worth of OT sampling that I have been looking through.
Octatrack every day. Digitact is very good, octatrack is magic
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Bought and sold my ot many times
Now I have an ot mk2 and an a4 mk2
Ot has groves, made on 5 tracks (kick, sn, hh, perc, sub), a master track and one looping track for song transitions)
My a4 is used for spontaneous playing
This combination gives me a lot of power
steady basis with ot groove
Flexible enough to have fun
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juggling every day, but suffering on injuries
it is important for me to do more than one thing
summer juggling
winter indoor juggling
winter music making
with both, I am touching infinity
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I always feel like I am juggling when using the Octatrack live.
So many things up in the air at once with how I have it configured. Have to pay attention!
The Twister MIDI controller has helped a lot, like going from juggling 5 objects to only 3.
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Do tell. Just the M:S running into the OT with rec loopers? Are you using the twister to mute and trigger recorders?
Live input, FX, loops, stems, lots of FX.
Twister is like a mixer. EQs, level, fx sends of multiple tracks at once, instead of paging around on the OT.
I don’t use the recorders.
They make me angry.
I prefer to be happy, so I don’t use the recorders.
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Hey, i’m curious about your setup as I have a Twister and a DT, and am considering an OT.
Do the Twister and OT communicate both ways - e.g. do the Twister’s endless encoder LEDs update to reflect what they’re mapped to if you change it on the OT? Are you mapping just single controls to each knob or multiple?
I have a USB midi host for connecting external controllers and have used it with a nanokontrol, but the advantage of the twister is the endless encoders and visual feedback…
thanks:)
I am finally getting along with recorders. I have track 5 with a flex recorder set at 128 steps constantly recording track 8, sometimes cue. Works great for capturing moments and bouncing down stuff coming in external devices…
Edit: I also use the cross fader trick, so when I slide it over to the left, all tracks but 5 are muted, and other right track 5 is muted.
Sorry, don’t want to be rude, but I’d love to know how you can record 128 steps constantly. Doesn’t seem possible without external midi.
I only map things that I do not want to touch on the OT, so I have no interest in bi-directional communication.
Can’t comment on using it that way.
I map single controls, with the push buttons resetting values (to either 0 or center detent)
There are a couple MIDI fighter Twister threads here where this discussion would be more appropriate to continue.
That’s good. They’re powerful!
I’ve tried, but my own sense of peace and happiness when it comes to recording is better ensured if I just use my DAW and audio interface. Chances are recordings are headed to my DAW anyway, for additional processing.
I need to continue to love the OT this go around, and hating the way it records is just something I have come to grips with, and even though sometimes I really get excited about finally making more use of those features, it always ends in frustration. I’ve learned my lessons by now.
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Not rude. Never.
I set my recorder memory to 128 steps (in memory settings), then have the track 64 steps, at “1/2” speed- a trigger on the first step. Recorder length max.
With Reserve Length? Apparently units are in seconds…I’d be very interested in setting it with steps!
Well, it’s been a couple months since I set it up, but as I remember there was steps and seconds. One on each side. I’ll have a look later and try and take a pic.
For 4/4 measure:
- Beats-per-minute:
60BPM - Beats-per-second:
1Hz - Length of 1 beat:
1second - Length of 1 bar:
4second
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Sorry… I’m not next to my OT, but I looked it up in the manual, and it’s there.
Page 38
"When selecting the reserved sample time, the equivalent in sequencer steps based
on the current Octatrack BPM, as well as the amount of RAM the reserved time will occupy, is shown
in the upper left corner of the LCD screen. "
Maybe you just never noticed it. I remember it being a little fiddly to get set at 128, but it works. At 1/4 speed you could do 256 I imagine.
I noticed steps, I think it depends on tempo, not scale. If Reserve Length increments are in seconds, theoretically it doesn’t work for all tempos, if you want a perfect loop.
Default Reserve Length is
16 s = 128 steps at 120 bpm
RLEN sets the duration of the recording once the track recorder starts to sample. This setting is dependent of the BPM of the sequencer but disregards any scale settings of the track.