Hello there!
Great comunity and forum, i must say, im just overwhelmed to say the least.
I read the OT manual about 3 times, at least the parts that were better written - it’s not the most read-craving thing in the world - that manual. I saw so many videos, im not sure which i haven’t seen… But i wish i could get the fluidity of Dataline in his videos… He seems to play something (insert any synth here), add it to the OT and keep going… Im dreaming about this…
I gave my shot at the “not so simple sampling device” contest the learning hard way and learned pretty much all the options available… Not that i know them all - so many combinations available…
BUT the OT was supposed to fix the issue where i could add and remove layers of jamming and put it all in synch and now i know how the OT works, im having a really hard time to record and mix my stuff. I know it’s not flstudio kind of canvas. I know it’s supposed to be easier but i can’t get it there…
So i got my tracks down in the CF card (cause i can’t stop jamming for just 4 bars) but i cannot get that kind of slicing i hear on the videos, let alone that rhytmic “base”…
So the big question is:
- how do you record in real time? Then play with that sound (like dataline in the “octatrack - what it can do” video and add more tracks (like another track) on top? I have a kaossilator and i hate it coz you can’t undo-mute a track you added to a track)… it just gets messy… The OT seems like a lot more work than a DAW to do that…
- i know about loop pedals - never tried one since i can’t get a beats right when playing live - how can you get that going with the OT even if it’s just playsynth+record until you get that track right - but then play all in synch when done? I can sample on the OT, that’s not the problem but i think im missing something essential and can’t put my finger on it…
Thanks for any inputs… I hope this is not another repeat question, sorry for the complexity of my post…