Here's a walkthrough of how I tend to sample stuff from my modular onto my Octatrack. As always, lemme know if you have any questions or anything and I'll do my best to answer in the comments!
This video really saved my brain.. I took a deep dive into modular last year and put together a really expansive couple of cases that at first, I really loved but increasingly started feeling this overwhelming sense of “this is great and now wtf do I do with this patch?” It was like I was paralyzed not knowing how to capture what I was doing in a way that would allow me to actually use anything to make an actual song. This video completely flipped my brain into a clear path. Thank you for sharing this.
Use [FUNC]+[PLAY] to clear the whole filename at once rather than [FUNC]+[NO] repeatedly. I personally prefer to set QREC to PLEN then use [TRACK]+[REC1/2/3] to sample from those sources (or just [REC1/2/3] if you set RECORD QUICK MODE in preferences). Easier than one-shot record trigs IMO, too many steps. Though you can't start recording immediately on step 1 without the record trigs unfortunately.
Cool video... sold me!! I had an OCTA for 12 months until an accident broke the machine. I pretty much used it for one shots too but really dig the sampling. My DIGI just doesn’t have the minerals for longer samples. Bank account says cheers
I love my black octattack 👍🏻 i havent made any videos using it but i will be soon. I just waiting on my modular, and some other gear 🙂 But yeah 32gb of samples is more tnan enough for me. I really wish i could colour cpde my track buttons, i might get some coloured stickers or something lol
That was just naaaaasty. You killed that sound AND beat! I enjoyed listening and watching but I'm still new to this OT and was a little confused by the trig buttons that were lit green because I didn't understand how they were being used. I've read a bit into the manual which is interesting. You've been at this for a while and clearly have a good grasp of the process...so it's not "very basic" at all. I have an OB-6 keyboard I want to sample as the backdrop to a beat but I got lost with your setup. Did you just MIDI the OT to the modular animal (beautiful setup by the way) where the OT triggered a pattern then you looped the modular audio back into the OT for sampling? Any clarification of your setup would help if you don't mind helping a new OT Mk2 user. Thank you!
It's the echo lock view for the trig keys. I've got a video about it here that hopefully explains how it works: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HT142kxhQCE.html
Does the sample sound just as good as what you’re sampling? A lot of people claim the octa has shitty converters, etc. I’d like to do shows with just an Octatrack.
I've never noticed an issue with stuff I've sampled in. Things can get a bit glitchy if you're time stretching (or using the lo-fi effect lol) but I'd think that if you're playing a show, any sort of quality difference wouldn't be noticeable through whatever PA you're playing through. I'm not an expert on this by any means though!
It's a bunch of audiophile hooey. Octatrack sounds great and neutral. People have posted A/B comparisons and no one can tell the difference from the OT sample and the original.
Got my Octatrack few days ago and can confirm it is bullshit. A synthesizer sample sent to it and back sounds the same as original. Frequency response is the same, no colouring added. The only issue is that unity gain requires a bit of setup.
