Using different Parts for breakdowns

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

I’m looking at creating some breakdowns. Currently I have an AR MK1, 303 clone and SV-1 plugged into the OT and have been sequencing things and changing patterns on the AR. I’m currently using 2 Parts per bank for each tune, however I’ve just realised I might be being too linear. I’m not using any resampling etc. and maybe I can use the other two parts (2 parts per tune) to start doing some weird/more experimental things … what advice/tips do the fantastic Elektronauts hive mind suggest?
Thanks Chris

#2

For 1 song I avoid to use parts so I use plocks / sample locks instead.

#3

interesting, currently 2 machines are taken as thru, and 1 as a neighbour, 1 as master and 1 for transitions. My idea was to resample the master, and on the 2nd ‘part’ slice, plock and weird it up a bit with more sample tracks and neighbour machines. Do you reckon that the switch between parts would be too much of a change?

#4

You definitely have to push your ideas and test them. I believe every OT user has their own workflow. And maybe several, even.

I would really like to see what you come up with when you identify something that fits your taste!

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#5

Thanks, yes, at the worst it will be a fun noisy experiment!

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#6

As Flex machines can used as Neighbor, Thru, even Master track, there are workarounds to avoid machine changes, hence parts.

#7

You know the so called ‘Transition Trick’?

#8

yep, sorry for not being clearer - that is what I am using track 7 for - with the master, 2 thru machines and 1 neighbour machine, this only leaves 3 sample engines free. I tend to use 2 of these as static machines playing loops (I have previously recorded from the rytm and other synths). My thought was that I use most of the OT patterns with the template above (playing live), but have some other patterns with a different part with a different machine configuration that have some pre-recorded loops of the outputs of the previous configuration slicing, dicing, efxing and destroying and breaking things down. I’m going to give it a go and see what happens :slight_smile:

#9

just bouncing ideas around a cluttered head! :slight_smile: