This isn't just a tutorial. It's also a tutorial on how to make a tutorial! More valuable than anything I've been read, told, watched or sold! Thankyou 🙌
Thanks so much for this very comprehensive tutorial. I'm getting an Octatrack next week. Even though I have many other Elektron boxes, I must say the Octatrack is in a league of its own.
I know the tutorial is old but it’s the most clear tutorial I’ve followed would you be able to do a tutorial on parts as most forums I go on everyone has issues getting there head round it please if possible I don’t mind if it’s a Patreon only tutorial as that’s what I’m stuck on
Mine will arrive today. A used mk2 Octatrack. I will approach with an open mind and just flow with it. Thank you for the positive and quite clear introduction.
Thanks Paul. I am planning one where I go into now taking the song we made and replacing the bass with the Bass Station II running in and recording and live slicing/glitching the audio, and also the A/B slider and all it can do.
Great tutorial - however I think that, although it is expanding on the topic, you should swiftly demonstrate re-sampling, just so people can understnad how easy it is to basically downmix your multi track drums, and free 4 tracks for whatever you might want to use these later on.
@@Digiphex I always felt people don't show enough how awesome it is to produce entire tracks with OT. OFC, we record stuff to DAW, but there are tracks that can be simply bounced, also, not many arranger tutorials. Also, LFO's - 3 audio, MIDI lfos - we all know they are there, but rarely we see how powerful this can be, especially MIDI LFO. I mean OT is extremely deep instrument, you can dedicate hours of videos to one topic only, i am just throwing ideas out there. And yeah, i think it will fit nicely if you get your SH 101 to play as a thru or a pickup machine. BTW I love your work and BOC/ Apex Twin recreations.
it just occured to me that *slicing* may be cognate to German "schlitzen", as in translation of Jack the ripper, "der Schlitzer". That said, let'er rip!
Wouldnt it be possible to use the same track for multiple different hits that don’t share a trig to save tracks, or do you just want the option of sound design control for each sample?! Great Tute thanks 🙏🏻:)
Does the Octatrack have a loud powerful output ? What makes this sampler better than using Ableton, besides not looking at a screen all day? It looks for sure interesting, but time consuming.
It has a normal output, as expected. It can''t be compared to Ableton because Ableton is a DAW and Octatrack is a physical mixer with knobs and buttons designed to be the centerpiece of a setup with other physical gear that Octatrack controls, samples from and remixes, if you use it to its full potential. It is FAR more time consuming than Ableton, infinitely so. But you get a different sound from it, a different performance, a new take on your music. It can take away the creative paralysis of Ableton with a million ways to go.
@@Digiphex I am just curious about how you can say it has a different experience than working with a DAW like Ableton? I mean is the sound different or do the sequences come out more interesting? I mean what is it? Less is more? I am really seriously curious because it isn't cheap and it only has 8 tracks and 4 audio-outs. I mean I used to own back in the days an Emu SP1200 and that was and is known for its punch and sampling sound color from its analog /DA conversions. Thanks
Bought a used MK2 yesterday! This is my first tutorial on the beast, thanks! Is there some way to start the next slice exactly at the end of the previous? I imagine moving the cursor to the right always eats up a bit of the waveform (between end of previous and start of new slice). Cheers
Enjoy your Octatrack. Yes when you select from the menu to make a new slice here, there are other methods of placing slices but I don't have my OT with me at the moment so I can't say exactly.
@@gdrdm You might benefit as a beginner the last part of my Armando 303 Octatrack video where I go into live recording what you are doing and then looping and playing it. I tried to explain it in a simple way, much easier than the manual which is good but you have to jump around in the manual which is the problem with it.
@@Digiphex Thanks! I'm surprised that after years of reading about how difficult the OT is I'm actually finding it quite straightforward (so far). Haven't got to live recording/looping yet so I'll check your video out for sure! Cheers again
I bought a few months I studied a few months I figured it out, but then I bought akai liv2, guys this elektron just sounds bad, and there is nothing in it unique or that can not do akai, I fell for the tales of mystery octatrack but it's all nonsense, to write quality music is akai, alas!
But I can do anything on the Akai and a million times more with just a Keystep and Ableton Live. It isn't the capability sometimes, it is the format that inspires you. You'll probably get tired of the Live 2 format in a few years and you will need something to refresh your creativity.
@@Digiphex I've been using an akai mpc1000 for over 10 years, because it is have a nice fat sound, and the elektron sounds like crap, between the two. Sorry!!! But it makes me sad that I bought an octatrack. And here are the words of my sadness))) Keep it up making music, no matter how we make music, just don't make a copy of a copy copy copy of a trending track, just MAKE MUSIC VIBES! Your instruments and my they have to sounds good, that's all I'm saying! I heard on youtube someone praising how great the Elektron sounds, and I believed it! And it is not! Holy cow!))
