Anyone has any links or other resources to tracks, videos or whatever that use only the Octatrack as an instrument? Doesn’t matter what’s in it and how it got there, but when whoever is performing, it’s Octatrack only.
I’m working on getting to that point myself, being as clever as I can about using Octatrack as a live instrument, and it’s inspiring to see how others do it.
Even if you’re working with other gear live, feeding audio into the Octatrack, it’s by definition cheating in this particular thread.
Jamrod, how did you master your EP? What did your sound pass through after it left the Octatrack? I started a thread that discusses that topic and I saw your post on that thread.
More specifically, how did you go about mixing this?
I actually had Tarekith (former member here) master the EP. At the time, I didn’t have a great monitoring setup. In retrospect I should have bought better speakers earlier – once I did, I realized ways that I had been creating bass sounds that didn’t really translate. Anway, he did a good mastering job, but a pretty spare one; the results weren’t all that different from what I sent over.
For recording, I had a tiny bit of Eventide Space reverb on some of the tracks. And I think I just recorded directly into an Echo Audiofire 12 interface - nothing fancy.
For mixing, it was just a process of getting levels right on the OT. I didn’t multitrack anything, as I wanted to get it right on the box itself and be able to play it live and have it sound the same.