What are you trying to learn today?

[JamesM]

Trying, to motivate myself to learn Adobe Illustrator. Since boarder restrictions and international travel bans I haven’t done a single job (photographer) so my booker is trying to coax me into some weird graphic design work.

[Kuro]

Should have made it more explicit in the title that it was an OT thread. Oh well…

[sezare56]

@JamesM

to learn Adobe Illustrator

You can start to draw with OT’s lfo designer.

[Kpucski]

Best artwork with LFO designer challenge! My Mona is nearly complete.

[robotunes]

Tonight will be running the ER-1 through the comb filter (not sure why I haven’t done this already). Expecting some cool sounds to p-lock and resample. Should be fun.

@brisket

Korg Microsampler

Love, love, LOVE me some Microsampler. It’s actually connected to the OT right now. Wish I knew of a way to help you with Key Gate sampling on the OT. If I think of something, I’ll let you know!

[sacguy71]

Well after time away from my OT, I’ve been digging into it again. I bought a new Eurorack modular case and modules and been working to get mine to sequence and sample the modular stuff. I am half way there.

I finally was able to get my modular to sequence from Octatrack. What a royal pain in the ass this was to get this working. Here is the routing diagram. Now I need to figure out how to layer FX from the OT to the modular system. However, I am also trying to figure out how to input one voice from the modular to T1 and another voice of the modular from the second oscillator to T2. Right now it comes on one track without separating voices. Here is what I have working now:

[Album] Imgur

[RobertSyrett]

@Kuro

what are you trying to learn / accomplish with your OT today?

in the arranger mode it will say something like 0-16 in the length column what I add a pattern, but that’s 17 steps! what gives? If I wanted just the second half do I say 7-16 or 8-16?

[RobertSyrett]

@Daevlor

(OT MIDI out to DT in, DT MIDI out to OT in)

it’s best to avoid feedback loops. It’s much less troublesome to have one or the other be the master clock.

[Rusty]

@RobertSyrett

in the arranger mode it will say something like 0-16 in the length column what I add a pattern, but that’s 17 steps! what gives

That is seventeen

Welcome to base zero. If you wanted sixteen then: 0-15

Ignore the above; resolved below.

[DanJamesAUS]

I’ve been learning to read sheet music today…
I’m learning to play the keyboard properly trying the traditional way
as well as more modern ways

[RobertSyrett]

@Rusty

If you wanted sixteen then: 0-15

well that’s my confusion. The 0-16 just populates the field when I paste a pattern in and it play a 16 step pattern once. I was hoping someone here knew what elektron were smoking and I could avoid wading into the manual. however the time has come…

Pg. 86 has this screen capture of an example arrangement.

I think it’s likely that if I want just the second half of a 16-step pattern I would select 8-16 but if I want the first half I would select 0-8. I guess the starting point is base zero and the end is standard counting. Just another quirk I will get used to.

[Rusty]

Offset: Number of steps to offset the start by; e.g 0 / None = Step 01; 1 = Step 02 etc.

Length: Length of steps to play.

[RobertSyrett]

Yeah, I forgot that the they aren’t the same units. It’s not start and stop at all

[Daevlor]

that was my initial thought, but after viewing the macprovideos, the instructor says something about the MIDI learn feature of the OT with the digitakt(?). I will try to have the OT be the master, though. Thanks!

[RobertSyrett]

You notice that I’m not saying which is better as the master.

I tend to use the OT, but lots of people like to use the DT as the master because it stores tempo with the pattern info.

[Daevlor]

good point I shall experiment. Greatly appreciate the assistance!

[0mega]

This. I have like $25k in music gear and these days I spend all my free time playing my keyboard on vpiano, learning how to read music and become a better keys player.

[DanJamesAUS]

I know right? I still do spend a bit of time with my gear to learn about sound design etc,
But I don’t want to just rely on production tricks to make my music sound good anymore…
I want to enter the right notes with out faking it, so I’m going back to the beginning…
I guess it’s because I come from djing rather than band/instrument player background

[PeterHanes]

@sacguy71

Now I need to figure out how to layer FX from the OT to the modular system. However, I am also trying to figure out how to input one voice from the modular to T1 and another voice of the modular from the second oscillator to T2. Right now it comes on one track without separating voices.

You asked the same question in more than one place, and I posted an answer here:

Learning to love Octatrack by making it wear all the hats at once

Connect the modular voice outputs to the OT’s audio inputs (some attenuation may be required). Put a Thru machine on one or more of the OT’s audio tracks. One option: select a MIDI sequencer track on the OT. Set its MIDI channel number so that it transmits to your MIDI-to-CV convertor. Connect the CV & Gate outputs of the convertor to the modular voice. Use one of the audio tracks on which you have selected a Thru machine (see above). Add reverb or delay to FX2 for that track.

[TobySD]

Our son watches a cartoon, I take a copy of the audio into the OT and mess it up into different tracks - crossfader style - and back.