How to Sample Synths with the Elektron Octatrack // Recording Tutorial

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In this video, I'll explore one of many ways to record samples directly to the Elektron Octatrack. It's a particularly particular process, and even the slightest error may cause some confusion... as you'll see in the video. That said, there's always a way to figure out what went wrong!
0:00 Intro (annoying)
0:30 Thru Machine setup
1:53 Flex Machine (record buffer) assignment setup
2:37 Metronome settings
3:10 REC menu setup
5:19 Record Trig setup (one shot)
6:19 Recording the sample
7:41 Big Mistake!!!
9:00 Slice Grid time
9:55 Secret beat (& a quick breakdown)
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@DuckForPope Год назад

It doesn't mention this in the manual but you don't need to set a trig and press play to activate the thru machine. You can simply hold the track button and press play, in your case track 3. This is useful to hear your external sound without playing a pattern first.

@michaelmitchell5414 Год назад

This just changed my life.

@georgekay372 Год назад

This just reminded me why I prefer the Digitakt for easy and quick sampling 😂😂 There are so many ways to mess up and you will always find new ways of messing up.

@SlowHaste Год назад

Hahah this video may be a strong case for that

@dkamhaji Год назад

I hear you, but this technique more or less shown here successfully, you cannot even get close to doing in a dt. Mind you the dt rocks. But just saying what is going on here is why the OT is the king of complex sample setups. Real-time sampling with instant re organized slices achievable live, with your prepared scenes at the ready to further move things along. It’s just a pretty wild thing this baby can do. Even trying this on a daw with live, would be kind of hard.

@marsoblivi0n945 4 месяца назад

@@davinsji1768Pretty Lame & Weak. Never up your skills with that mindset.

@acidgirl.303 4 месяца назад

This tutorial is excellent.❤

@Two-Eyed_Boy Год назад

Incredible! I get up, I watch a Slow Haste video, and then without fail, I have a day!

@SlowHaste Год назад

I hope you’ve had the most Wednesday, with sincerity

@aileenmorgan8276 Год назад

Nice tutorial! I really like the OT's sampler despite how weirdly complex it is, recording trigs and slicing and like 7+ minutes of recording time are all great 😄In the past few months I've been using it kind of like a weird digital tape machine, sequencing a song via midi and then recording it all in one go, and layering additional tracks similarly. The only problem is normalizing and saving a 3 or 4 minute recording on the OT takes longer than rewinding a cassette would 😅 A couple observations from throughout: - If you want to hear a stopped thru track without starting the whole transport, the shortcut "Tx+PLAY" will start playing only whatever track's button was held. - In the REC2 menu, the AB and CD levels are only useful for the pickup machine; they set the monitoring level of AB & CD so you can hear your pickup machine input without having to use a thru track or the mixer's DIR volumes.

@SlowHaste Год назад

Lovely tips! I didn’t know that about Tx + Play, that’s super helpful

@useca Год назад

Hi! You can monitor easier with the DIR Parameter in the Mixer menu: [MIX] -> raise „DIR“ to 127 for the input you are using. That way you don’t have to mess around with thru machines at all. You can even have all 8 tracks playing other samples while you sample something new in because the recording buffers are separate from the samples currently assigned to the tracks (And to edit/playback the sample in the audio-editor just go to the page 3 recording menu: [REC3] -> „edit this recording“ -> save and assign if you like it.)

@Duskmos 11 месяцев назад

That's my method too - works great!

@Techno_logist Год назад

This is awesome and thorough! One step that MAY have been missed is setting up your midi transport. Go into Project > Midi > Sync, and ensure that you have send/receive selected for all the instruments that will be playing pre-recorded into the octatrack. Cheers!

@SlowHaste Год назад

Yes, definitely important if you’re intending to sync via MIDI!

@channelite Год назад

Cool track you ended up with. The Octotrack seems really complicated, but I enjoyed watching you make a beat.

@SlowHaste Год назад

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

@dkamhaji Год назад

Nice video! All the little sneaky traps from the OT. Got to love it for them. No matter how many times. Couple of scrambled thoughts that I have had. There even is a way to bypass using up a thru track and just have a flex track set up to listen to the input source, and with your trigs or one shot rec trig microtimed back, you would be able to hear what you are recording live. I haven’t successfully done this fully, but I have definitely recorded to the flex without having a thru track. Another thought is that you can pre set a rec flex track an have it unarmed. And set a midi controller button for that tracks to arm via midi controller, and arm while the music is playing.

@SlowHaste Год назад

Thanks! It’s funny how there are so many ways to do everything (including hacks with micro-timing, which I’m sure was never intended as a “feature”!)

@newflanged_ Год назад

Damn. Coming from the Digitakt, when you explained the thru machine to sample at the beginning, I derrrrp’d so hard 😮

@newflanged_ Год назад

When I grow up I want to be a glitchy beat

@SlowHaste Год назад

Hahah it’s one of those things that seems very weird but kind of makes sense once you’ve read the manual at least 4 times!

@emptyvesselnz Год назад

I have my default sampling template set up with pairs a bit like you but not quite: T1 - Thru (in AB), T2 - Flex which records T1 (instead of an input), T3 - Thru (in CD), T4 - Flex that records T3, T5 - Flex which records T2 or T4 for resampling so I can mangle the recording then immediately sample that, etc. I find sampling with the Thru track as the source rather than assigning the "wrong" buffer to the Flex track keeps it clearer in my head what's going on and there are fewer opportunities to mess it up. Just what works for me. The end result gave sort of glitch Final Fantasy soundtrack vibes :)

@SlowHaste Год назад

Cool setup!! I’ll have to try that out. I haven’t yet ventured into multiple tracks of re-sampling, but I know it’s gonna happen soon

@lundsweden Год назад

I don't think the Octatrack is for me, but I enjoy watching you going through your process. I can even steal some ideas, even though I'm more of an Ableton Live boy!

@SlowHaste Год назад

Thanks Andy! I’m glad you enjoy the process - that’s always half the fun for me

@user82938 9 месяцев назад

In recording setup menu 2 the "AB" volume setting doesn't do anything unless you are using a pickup machine on that track, just FYI.

@IDONTPLAYENT Год назад

Couldn’t you record the midi into a midi track and just hit playback and set the record input to receive only AB? And delete the midi track or save it for later to try a different synth patch

@thegreatsiberianitch Год назад

They need an Easy Mode and Hardcore Mode for the octatrack, that would fix so much lol... Like a menu toggle where many things are set a certain way to minimize set up, to just get a damn sample recorded in and go.

@SlowHaste Год назад

Hahah that would be a pretty neat master setting!

@TheCMWarren Год назад

Do you need to clear the recording buffer, or can you just re-arm the record trig to overwrite it?

@SlowHaste Год назад

Good question - I’m not totally certain (and don’t have my OT with me right now), but it’s kind of just a mindless step I developed when I first started doing this, out of habit!

@hazelbenton9634 Год назад

You can just rearm it! It'll clear once the track starts recording again. Sincerely, someone who has frequently accidentally overwritten samples before she's saved them lol

@SlowHaste Год назад

@@hazelbenton9634 hahah perfect - I guess I can take one step out of my over-complicated process :)

@b3ch113 Год назад

I just yes + track to re arm.

@user-wz3jk4tp6x Год назад

Is possible to record sound from something external like a barking dog or people talk ect If u get what I mean.

@SlowHaste Год назад

You’d have to have a mic hooked up to it, it doesn’t have an internal mic if that’s what you’re asking! But yes, you could sample audio directly from the room you’re in

@auralplex 24 дня назад

I don't need to press play to hear the sample playing through the octatrack.

@strangeattractor4959 7 месяцев назад

light the g!

@DanielD.mp3 Год назад

7:50 lol, this is all part of the Octatrack experience 😅 ALSO - you technically dont even need a THRU track with the way you are using this. You can just monitor AB directly via the MIX page and record right into the Flex Recording buffer onto the track you want (T4, in the video example). You’d want to use a THRU track in this case if you also want to apply and record your sample with OT processing and FX (like sampling a recording of your keyboard playing with the OT’s reverb on it, for example)

@SlowHaste Год назад

I don’t think I’ve ever actually opened the mix page 😂 but I knew there was a way to do that, I just… never bothered hahah. I’ll try that in the future for sure!

@DanielD.mp3 Год назад

it’s no problem - the OT is the mystery where we all solve its secrets together 😂 MIX page - just turn up DIR to max on AB to hear whatever is plugged in to those inputs at unity gain

@visisydandthevoid Год назад

If only they would make a mk3 that could do all the same stuff but was more intuitive to use 😭

@lwpweb Год назад

little bit complicated to need two tracks to sample one signal.

@auralplex 24 дня назад

Bro there's nothing intuitive about saving the samples... "assign to self, assign to free flex, assign to free static..." yeah really intuitive.

@aikighost Год назад

It's all so over complicated. If they ever make an octatrack mk2 I vote for one button press "normal person sampling" option.

@SlowHaste Год назад

Hahah there is a much easier way to sample directly to the buffer - but it’s still not as simple as the digitakt! I much prefer that interface for quick-idea sampling

@aikighost Год назад

@@SlowHaste my way of sampling for the octatrack is to sample on my computer edit it there and then transfer the sample :P

@d.g.f.7056 Год назад

Holy shit, this looks like a fucking nightmare to sample with. Not even samplers from the late 90's were this clunky to sample on...what the fuck is Elektron' excuse?

@SlowHaste Год назад

Hahah I see your point. I will say, there are a lot of crazy things you can do with this though (like setting up multiple buffers & trigs on separate tracks to live-sample and subsequently destroy/mangle/rearrange slices of those samples all at the same time [once again, live] in an automated manner)!

@d.g.f.7056 Год назад

@@SlowHaste yeah, I mean you could definitely do that with a lot of other things, but I guess if that's your thing sure, but as far as it being a sampler, as in its value as an actual functional instrument, there are better options from 20-30 years ago for significantly less than the octatrak. This machine just looks so clunky in every video I've ever seen it in, an' whenever people give me some kinda answer why they use it it's never enough, in my mind, to justify the horrendous elecktron workflow