How to get the most out of your Elektron Gear | feat. Octatrack MKII & Analog Rytm MKII | Thomann 

Omg this is brilliant. I was wondering how to do that. Thanks a lot! Best, Felix

@@ThomannSynthesizers No probs! Obv you can do much more complex stuff with Pre (and I've still not delved into the Neighbour condition either) but this one's relatively simple yet quite useful. Another one I've been getting into lately is trig conditions on plocked triggerless trigs with parameter slide, causing unusual evolutions between notes. Keep the vids coming, love the sound.

oh wow this is a very good tip!!! I've wondered this exact thing before :)

Something that just bother me here. Why don't you just 3:4 trigger with first and 1:4 with last one? Or what is it that should be happen?

@@hepogen Because 3:4 will only trigger on the third loop of four, it won't trigger on the first 2 cycles, the invisible negative pre trig solves this.

I do both and i think its delicious!!! Especially if you put the random waveform lfo on a sequence which is already automated u get some really interesting stuff!!

Alright, noted! Glad you enjoyed it

8 years into OT and still finding ways to smile, analogue four and rytm too. Life machines and worth every penny

Any useful out of the box tips you can share? I‘m actually only getting into the OT since around september of last year. Feels like I know about 5% of its features and its already 200% useful :D Best, Felix

Thomann Synthesizers sure. I use all 8 tracks very quickly, sample them as a loop once happy, start new pattern that relates to a new part and free up 7 tracks by using the mixdown on just one track, then save that mix of the 8 tracks and make edits to that, save and redo the process, this is how you can build full songs easily, learn the arranger as it allows scenes and tempo per pattern to be saved , you can still edit while the arranger does the donkey work, use the cue outs as much as possible and control what comes in from the outside world with the slider , pre slice empty tracks so that when you feed audio in from outside that is already subject to slices, I mean I can keep typing but then you have to read it 😂 set the fader to control looped audio, so have several loops in one file that is sliced and allow the fader to pick those loops for you, easier to keep up if you only use 4 loops in such a file as you need to manage the fader position, or go crazy and have 16 sliced loops , random lfo designer page and assign lfo to select a sliced hi hat loop, so you have 16 versions of one hi hat and the lfo each trig picks a different one. This breathes life and humanity into the audio. I mean you really can keep exploring for years and years, I made a whole track once using just 4 steps and lots of probability of audio and midi tracks. 4 steps only 👍🏻 , also made a techno track with just the sample of the metronome, super fast retrigs mixed with fader on pitch and lots of fx while sampling back to itself you'll be amazed at what texture you can create. Strings, drums, percussion, anything from the tiniest sound. Explore, explore, always experiment ,

@@ogasi1798 Haha I can work on these tips for a while. Thanks a lot for taking the time to share them!

@@ThomannSynthesizers i have an Octatrack since >5 years and I also constantly learn new things. It's just such a giving, versatile magic box of endless possibilities... I kinda feel I'll never know all of its functionalities. I recently started playing with the midi arp, and it's really fun. Only drawback is that i can't properly use scenes in the midi section, but that's for a good reason (latency iirc).

Glad you enjoyed it!

I started to already read the manual 2 weeks before I actually bought it, in the hopes of not being overwhelmed at first. It did actually help quite a bit but still took a few days to get used to the layout. Best, Felix

@@ThomannSynthesizers thanks Felix, i will read the manual then!

Great idea, thx for sharing!

Exactly!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it ❤️

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I have yet to try the digitone, but I'm sure it's great as well. Best, Felix

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Yes, Overbridge should do the trick here. Might even be better in terms of latency 👍

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@@ThomannSynthesizers thanks for the quick reply

You‘re welcome ✌️

All you have to do to select a track without triggering the sound is to hold the „track“ button while you select the pad. this way you won‘t trigger the sound 👍

@@ThomannSynthesizers Oh, cool! thanks ; ).

Get some elektron and be even more fascinated

true but probability on the entire pattern was just added recently :)

Bisher noch nicht geplant, aber ich hab extra drauf geachtet, dass die tips hier überwiegend auf die ganzen Elektron Geräte anzuwenden sind. Zumindest mit einer kleinen Abstraktionsleistung. Werde aber bestimmt irgendwann mal den Digitone austesten! Gruß, Felix :)

@@ThomannSynthesizers abstrahieren? Klar, krieg ich hin! Schönes, musikalisches Wochenende. Gruß Andreas

Danke, dir auch ✌️

Brilliant!

Yes that‘s tip #7. Sorry I forgot to mention.