who uses 100% OT, if not what are your favourite uses?

[sezare56]

@mlee

A lot of slide trigs, kinda using them like tween keyframes. The midi was sending out multiple cc values to modulate parameters for a vertex shader I wrote.

Congrats. Very inspiring. Want to play Vj softwares again (Arkaos / Resolume).

[smokyfrog]

This - lazy old man music It’s sorta like showing my jottings really but I find I prefer that kind of thing to polished/finished these days.

[turbiville]

umm this may be the best thing on this entire forum.

[Scot_Solida]

Ha!, Well, you’re certainly not lazy… and if you’re an old man, so, too, am I. (and I’ve listen to quite a lot of your music over the years). Just listening to the third track now and it’s exactly the sort of thing I love.

[GirTheRobot]

Great job on this. Looks and sounds fantastic. How did you get the sounds to sort of “break” like that?

[smokyfrog]

Cheers, I am really enjoying my simple form of playing now I’m (almost) retired. Indulgent but fun. Thanks!!

[Scot_Solida]

@smokyfrog

I am really enjoying my simple form of playing now

Well, keep enjoying it and we all win!

[Unifono]

awesome!!!

[mukade]

In the process of moving now so I am using my OT 100%. I think you miss out on a lot of the functionality of it not incorporating other machines into it, but it is possible to make interesting and good music with it granted you’ve loaded it up with some samples. That said, I can’t wait to get it hooked back up to my other gear…

[disco]

I use the OT as the brain of my setup, controlling external synths and sending program changes to Rytm and Digitone, as well to play samples.

Would be very limiting to make music ONLY with the Octa, i need some synth sounds i can tweak live

[Synthesis]

Ok. Now I am selling everything I own except my octatrack. Anyone need a shirt, gently worn?

[half.cto]

Check out JonMakesBeats on Twitch. Jon Wayne had a show where he was making HipHop beats with OT and sampling.

[roadmoviemusic]

@mlee

The midi was sending out multiple cc values to modulate parameters for a vertex shader I wrote.

Super interesting. Can you tell us some more about your work, some links, a website maybe?

[elgorby]

Computers kill my creativity, thats why I modified my Octatrack firmware to browse the web

Written from my Octatrack MkII

[sezare56]

@mlee

The midi was sending out multiple cc values to modulate parameters

Unfortunately audio tracks send CCs only when tweaking. So you added midi tracks synchronized to audio tracks? No notes to trigger images?

[dobermate]

Brilliant!!! How?!

[mlee]

@GirTheRobot

Great job on this. Looks and sounds fantastic. How did you get the sounds to sort of “break” like that?

Thanks! If you mean what I think you mean then it was sliding RTIM and RATE at the same time after setting INF to RETRIG count.

@roadmoviemusic

Super interesting. Can you tell us some more about your work, some links, a website maybe?

Yes! Very interested in taking audio concepts to translate visually (wavetables to morphing objects, LPF filter sweep represented by the soft focus of a camera, etc.) I’m definitely going to have a website finished before I graduate but here’s my instagram with a few older/newer stuff.

@sezare56

Unfortunately audio tracks send CCs only when tweaking. So you added midi tracks synchronized to audio tracks? No notes to trigger images?

Yes, it was synchronized manually, it was a grueling process since I forced myself to make the visual and audio sequence simultaneously. Didn’t really use the pitch and note on/off values, only the CC vals I parameter locked. I also used MIDI LFOs on some parameters too, I should interpolate them next time though since I think they only send whole number vals.

[GirTheRobot]

@mlee

Thanks! If you mean what I think you mean then it was sliding RTIM and RATE at the same time after setting INF to RETRIG count.

You know what’s funny? Last night I was messing with setting scene B to affect retrig time and trig number, leading to similar results, and I said “ohhh that’s how he did it”

[sezare56]

@mlee

I forced myself to make the visual and audio sequence simultaneously.

That’s definitely what I want. I was a bit disappointed when I realized plocked or notes informations were not sent by audio tracks sequencer.
What about midi loopback, sequencing midi to audio tracks with midi tracks? That way you do both at the same time, sending midi to your visuals via Thru. No midi slides, no midi scenes unfortunately. Anyway you can use the CC48 sent by the crossfader.

Other interesting approach with midi loopback for me : use the same channel for all tracks > control all, midi sent while tweaking all tracks.

[mlee]

@sezare56

That’s definitely what I want. I was a bit disappointed when I realized plocked or notes informations were not sent by audio tracks sequencer.
What about midi loopback, sequencing midi to audio tracks with midi tracks? That way you do both at the same time, sending midi to your visuals via Thru. No midi slides, no midi scenes unfortunately. Anyway you can use the CC48 sent by the crossfader.

Other interesting approach with midi loopback for me : use the same channel for all tracks > control all, midi sent while tweaking all tracks.

You can sequence multiple audio tracks with only one midi track? I’ve done a similar approach with cloning audio tracks so all have the same sample+FX with midiloopback with RK-002 but it was kinda slow to setup/manage.

Yeah the lack of MIDI slides really sucks, I think I read somewhere the monomachine can do it? Anyway I remember briefly talking to Mario from elektron and I think Daniel Troberg in a brooklyn synth expo a while ago about how slide trigs work. Apparently the slide resolution in the internal tracks are limited to the microtiming notches so the aliasing is almost imperceptible for most parameters. However, you get phasing issues when sliding or scanning with LFO through 2D wavetables unless you scan through them with a crossfader. Now that the octatrack is dead update wise, it’s a shame they couldn’t include a virtual internal MIDI loopback to let users go beyond the limitations of audio tracks. It would leave the OT still a worthy adversary to future samplers which might include polyphony, pitching up more than one octave lol.

The octatrack is the only gear I own aside from a laptop and part of the reason why I think not many people use it standalone is bc the lack of control of routing options with trigs kinda like how one track in the mono can sequence multiple machines at once. Otherwise making things like chords are difficult or destructive from resampling.