A lot of nice and not so small setups in here. For those playing live, typically how many tracks do you have playing at any one time? For the last couple of years I’ve had precious little time for music and I’ve moved away from using a DAW to using machines for a more live kind of jam setup. I just picked up an octatrack and I’m wondering if those 8 tracks care enough for jamming out techno? I see artists such as Surgeon, Lady starlight, Karenn and it seems to me that 8 should be enough for a decent live techno jam.
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8 is plenty for techno.
I’m getting there with 6 on the M:C.
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My base setup for a live techno jam is TR8S + blackbox. That’s 11 tracks for the TR and 16 for the Blackbox. I don’t think I have more than 8 tracks playing at once, counting both devices. About two to three loops playing on the blackbox and 4/5 drums on the TR.
question … if you had to choose only two machines among all … which one would you choose ?? :
I’m curious how the OT will interact with the pulsar.
Seems like complete setup for techno by itself.
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The OT will help me to do :
Resampling my synths & modular to create sequences based on slices (random or not) affected to difference scenes
Perc loops > Slice
Midi controle my Pulsar & XT with CC messages
And more 
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It would be fun, and I want to see it in action, as I have been interested in such a bundle for a long time!
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What is your track allocation?
Will post that asap!
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Track 1 is kick (with occasional toms)
Track 2 is clap and a hat
Track 3 is hat(s)
Track 4 is for cymbals, rim shots or other perc sounds (and very occasionally a melody)
Track 5 is bass
Track 6 is melody or chords (or both)
Even with sound locks, I rarely have more than 7 or 8 different sounds in a pattern, it gets too confusing.
Turns out, after spending thousands on kit, all I needed was a sub-£300 toy to make bangers on…
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Cool, so now you can sell me your Erica Bassline for a friendly price 
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Trying a new setup of:
- Digitakt as main sequencer (and sampler)
- Machinedrum
- Peak
- Hydrasynth (keys, also used as midi controller for Digitakt)
All running into my interface. Right now just monitoring and mixing with the Focusrite control panel but I will use Ableton for recording etc when I bother to set it up.
So far finding it quite productive - in the past I’ve always fallen into the trap of trying to get too much gear working together (and never actually making anything due to technical issues e.g. syncing DAW and hardware and/or “choice paralysis”), whereas this is reasonably focussed while still very flexible, and fits nicely on one area of my desk.
One nice thing is that each of the devices has good onboard effects so I don’t need to worry about outboard effects. Another nice thing is I’ve set it up so the headphone output of my interface goes back into the Digitakt so I can really quickly sample a sound from any of the other devices - great for sampling a fairly static sound from a synth then freeing it up for something more dynamic.
Over time I’ll probably add in other bits one at a time but seeing how far I can get with this for a while! Finding the Digitakt great as a MIDI sequencer so far.
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Absolutely agree.
I am using Reaper as main DAW but rarely sequence my hardware in it: everything is managed by DT 
Deepmind12
MiniNova
AS-1
MicroFreak
Blofeld (waiting delivery)
NDLR
Even my TR-8 get sequenced by DT
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Nice! I started out using the Digitone for it but realised that the extra midi channels can be quite useful (eg if I want to sequence the MD with some more modern Elektron sequencer tricks), as well as being able to sample stuff easily. The one thing the Digitone does a bit nicer is note entry (scales, chords) but not a big deal really as I’m playing the notes in externally anyway.
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Don’t have a DN.
But would love a HS, a Peak, a GR-1…
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For techno i don’t find this sequencer efficient. I try to use it several time, but each time didn’t find it usefull. Elektron sequencers are much more efficients.
NDLR is perfect for noodling, around ambiant style.
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Have not had a go at techno yet with it
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Been thinking about the best way to use my gear… was thinking
Akai MPC X triggering the other sequencers - Digitakt and Keystep Pro
then the setup as follows
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MPCX > Digitakt > Digitone Keys > Modal Argon 8m
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MPCX > Keystep Pro > Novation Drumstation > Novation Bass Station > DSI Mopho > Cobalt 8m
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MPCX > Arturia DrumBrute > Behringer TD-3
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MPCX > Jomox MBase11 > Jomox MBrane1_1
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FX > BOSS RV500 > x2 Digitech Studio Quad v2 > x2 DBX 166xs
So I’m thinking to create a blank pattern for Digitakt - Keystep Pro so when MPCX triggers all hardware some won’t sound at certain points in the jams…
Have to see if this will work first tho 
I have been having lots of fun sampling the 0-Coast and was thinking of making a techno set on the OT using the 0-coast as the live instrument while the OT covers Drums, samples, and FX.
If I wanted to use the 0-Coast for acid lines, how do I set up a thru machine to be the filter? I guess I can copy and paste the midi trigs to a thru machine, but I’m hoping there is a easier way to link the two.
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