@@noobslayerr9732 For me it's important how the gear looks. It's big part of whether it's inspiring or not for me. Also I don't even know how you can compare MPCs to Electron gear - they're both samplers only on paper :)
@@Artek604 8 outs a groovebox inside on a beast of a sequencer and usb direct sampling tell me you are wrong.. Octa aint a sampler is a mixer and a parts sampling maggler on a decent midi sequencer which responds amazing to elektron ecosystem alongside other elektron gear. i love elektron bro but their sound for that price range is at best below average... on an insane over and above high price
@@noobslayerr9732 As I said, you can't compare them objectively, because they cater to different user bases and use cases. If one wants to f**k samples up in elaborate way and do it live there's no way X is better than OT, for example. But I don't know why we're even arguing this? I never said OT is better than X, I actually also own MPC One and consider Force after the update that dropped yesterday. I only said that Mk1 versions of Electron gear are *beautiful* in terms of their looks and I stand by this, especially compared to X which looks like cash register ;) :D
I am a bedroom musican since 1996, owned at least 50 various synths, drum machines and samplers but I have never had so much fun for such a long time with a single peace of gear. Good job, Elektron!
8 years later and this is still your magnum opus. With all the emphasis on smaller more affordable devices from you lately I hope you haven't lost your way of creating innovative groundbreaking equipment like this. The Octatrack is my single favourite piece of equipment ever, my desert island machine if you will, and I hope you'll consider making a true successor one day. If there's any creation of yours that deserves to live on for another generation its this one!
The more I watch of this, the more I want this. The workflow of this thing is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Quite pricey but it looks worth the money to me.
Thank you for uploading this!! The Octatrack is DEEP the manual is THICK and we need to see what this thing is really capable of. I've had my Octatrack for months and I can tell you it takes dedication to learn all of the functionality it is capable of, so it is always nice to see techniques for experimentation.
Mr. Dataline is real Elektron Master! I use Octatrack and Machindrum, but not even close as advanced as he does. Every video gives me bunch of new ideas what this machines are capable for!
one year in and I'm still lusting to get anything this musical out of my octatrack.. though I still persevere... my akai still reigns supreme..... my new years resolution is to fathom this piece of kit!
This type of video is very helpful in my purchase decision. An overview of what it actually is and does. Very helpful and good marketing. I also like the more in depth tips and tricks. Thanks so much for the tutorials. I hope I see it for the A4 and the RYTM as well.
Dammit Cenk, I cant afford to buy another Elektron! I just bought a Digitakt and an Analog Four! I know this video is from 2013 but cmon yourse still selling me on it pretty hard!!
From what I understand you can assign it to crossfade any feature and set of feature you want... Filter cutoff, effect send, effect dry/wet, pattern A/B, samplemaps, you name it, or any combination of all the above.
I'm saying myself I'm happy to live in this century, born in 90 I practice this a bit and started with in 2014 incredible/ (2018 no release but max pleasure)
I've sold all my other kit and in the process of buying an analog rytm and analog four. There is a lot to learn but once you wrap your head around a few concepts it all starts to fall into place ... with some unexpected 'happy accidents' along the way! The Octatrack sounds really good... gives a lot of charachter to your samples and is reassuringly built like a tank. (the build quality of the other gear I had was toy like in comparison). I'm more than sold on it... very happy customer :)
I wanted to hear it record, trim and play a sample and then hear it get mangled, so that I could understand the audio mangling capabilities that it's so highly regarded for. Most of the mangling in this demo happened to sounds that were sequenced into a beat, making it difficult to distinguish between the sequencer capabilities and sampler engine capabilities.
Definitly made for live performance ^^ you know i have all the toy i need in Reason, but when it's about live i feel more safe using real hardware and musical intrument to play with ^^ i hope buying this stuff for backing track my gigs, and mangling as crazy ^^
Hi there, thanks for the great video. I am considering to switch to the Octatrack for my live gigs and stop using Ableton Live in session view. I am not familiar with the octatrack yet but I would like to know if the machine is able to play 8 audio samples at the same time (and which need to start in sync) which are my 8 audio stems and last more than an hour in order to manipulate them singularly. Thanks in advance for the information.
+Elektron hello, I am getting pretty frustrated with the slice function @10.30. I notice on the elektron forums people have a similar issue. I follow the video exactly, with a clean loop edited right and loaded directly from a file, and when you create the slice grid, on a flex or static machine, the 'now I have trigs on the sequencer as you can see here' just doesn't happen. Nothing is put down on the sequencer, this means I have to add each linear trig manually? which is what a lot of frustated people were doing on the elektron forum. I tried filling a bar with trigs and setting 'create linear locks' but this still doesn't solve the issue, depending on the size of the grid created, the loop never sounds the same. I am running version 1.25E (updated to H just after writing this, no change)
lol....ever heard of midi controllers? Most people already have a midi controller and a genius company like elektron knows this which is why they only make it for the analog 4...smart choice seeing as it's the only one that really needs it. m3 88 works great with this thing :}
look on the tube for "mr. dataline" sets. also just ran across a nice short one called "Singing the Octatrack" or just search octatrack or elektron for other neat stuff :)
These fuckers can do pretty much anything mate, emulate GM MIDI song files if that's what's required. Retarded amounts of off-the-cuff glitch possibilities should be considered an extra bonus as opposed to anything detrimental tbh :)
*oh yes!!!!thats you who gona help me, please!!!!i have the rytm, but i only can buy just one more elektron...but i dont no what i have to buy, octa or a4...its for house music, deep house...i already have the mx-1, tr-8, vt-3, aw4416, and as a synth i have the tb-3, and the jd-xa....so, what do you do in this case?i make this question to you, cuz you already have the 3 machines...thanks!*
@ jerry Garcia really it can't touch a mpc? Your right it can't touch it because it's way to high above it. Unless your talking about the mpc 4000 the previous mpc's were just phrase samplers with a decent sequencer. The octatrack is almost ableton live in a quick starting stable box with amazing on the fly editing ability. And as far as a rack mount what rack mount? There hasn't been a serious rack sampler made since around 2002. The screen doesn't need to be big because so much can be done with knobs and sliders. I got a lot of love for the mpc but damn as far as a sampler it comes nowhere near the crazy fast edits and sequencing tricks the octa does. Oh and the 32 megs of ram is sad and dated. Streaming samples of a card is the way to go
I admit - I was concerned about adapting to Elektron's workflow, but you seriously have to approach the product line with an open mind and leave the old baggage of gear-past at home. I think I am well over my earlier gripes and criticisms about the Elektron standard. I own a Machinedrum and an MPC ...the MPC is definitely not on the same page as the OT, hell not even in the same library!!!! They are both more than capable machines and each have their purpose, but where the MPC stops is where the OT powers up. People were dogging out the OP-1 as well...but it's another excellent device for creating ideas and concepts... and very mobile!! They're all tools with modular offerings, MPC for it's simplicity, OT with it's complexity and Ableton Live with providing the castle to move all your musical furniture into for finalization. I basically agree with you 10,000%. There is NOTHING out there like the OT. Octatrack: It's where music boxes should have been many years ago.... but it's too bad that these gigantic companies like Akai, Korg and Roland string us along with a lot disappointing releases (some not so bad) that do not reflect, nor champion the true current state of technology we are experiencing today or piecing the veil of future sound shaping. This is heavy-duty musical computation meant for the "scienartist", not really for the tinkerer. I love these machines - they actually force you to learn how signal and synthesis are set up in a proper studio environment and they also stimulate and build a mental sharpness to get your music muscles in shape. I see it as evolution, so it's either evolve or dissolve!
Indeed the octa is sorcery in a box but the work flow takes some adjusting to. Ever since the machine drum I've always thought the sweeds have a strange way of building a operating system but once you understand you truly see how special their stuff is
hi there, i am trying to change the presets in the minitaur, from the octatrack, but i can't find the way. i did it from the ableton and it was no problem... that function it's working on the moog... do you know something about it? thanks!!!
This is a nice product damn. Also, can anyone point me to some music that sounds like the stuff presented in this video? Especially the glitchy stuff with chords, like the stuff he's producing at the end. I love that.
Sorry my answer might be a little unreviewed from my side. The iconic octatrack sound can be found in his music but it's probably not what you were searching for as you stated you're looking more especially to the stuff towards the end
Only concern is at the tempo change / timestretching part at 04:00, the beats start to get fluttery and less punchy / less attack (especially as he speeds up)... Wonder if there are options to choose what kind of timestretch it does or formants or whtaever (like in Ableton)
Hi, thanx for the demo - it made me buy one! Now I have the A4 next to the Octatrack, but one problem I cannot figure out! De A4 sounds clean but the Octatrack sounds distorted. (its brand new) >> What could this be ? - I do not know if it;s a mixer problem or what!? Thanx
First off, this thing looks awesome. My question is can this work in unison with a DAW like Ableton or does it completely replace software? I've never owned a piece of hardware outside of an interface so I'm not sure how these things are used.
Eric from TX Hi Eric, I hope I'm not too late in replying. I just got my octatrack a month ago, and I am finding that it is great at being and outboard effects box, an all-in-one DJ box, or its own thing entirely. I am spinning and remixing my tracks in real time using this, and I love it.
Trenton Abbott For dj-ing, i guess you have all your tracks loaded in the Octatrack? I also wonder if it runs in sync with Ableton or Traktor, or any DAW. Does it have a Slave mode?
zeepster That's my next experiment is trying to slave the OT with MIDI. I'll post updates soon. OT is more of its own thing, and that is the big caveat, that it doesn't support Elektron Overbridge for live integration.
+Eric from TX it absolutely works alongside a DAW. Octatrack can be the master clock source, or slave to your DAW's clock. Octatrack has 4 analog inputs and 4 analog outputs to connect to your DAW, not to mention USB connectivity to drag and drop samples/clips/stems/songs into Octatrack's memory. Another way to use it is as a more "hands-on" MIDI sequencer for soft-synths/soft-samplers in your DAW by sending MIDI into the computer. It has some very fun MIDI sequencing capabilities like MIDI LFOs (which can be tempo-synced, interesting waveshapes, even designed right on the hardware like a little etch a sketch) It's more fun than mouse clicking...
I just have one question all features looks great but could you trigger different samples by velocity? i need a sampler where i could load my drum kits which usually have from 16 to 127 samples to be able to play with lots of formants like in acoustic kits , i usually need lot of samples to feel it a bit natural can you do that on this machine? with the sample capabilities and stuff from this machine would be possible i just cant find any info on samples triggered by velocity , thanks a lot.
looks and sounds nice but those button's pop out after a few gigs. i use mine soley as a beat box, it's better at that... no way is a pop song coming out of this machine though. it's all glitch and manic sounds ideal for thinking ahead with music genre's like dnb, dubstep (if its still about) etc
anyone know how to get that echhoy sound he starts at 15:22 in a DAW? i cant aford a physical syth so im just using free software and its hard to get nice smooth atmospheric sounds like that
If you mean the dubby chord, this is quite easy. U can use a sawtooth wave, dial down the filter cutoff, put a short envelope on filter cutoff so that the filter opens for a short period of time when you hit a note, add long reverb and play a chords. Reverb is key for this!
hey guys i really need digital device that allows me to record my track digitally and add sound effects like layering why can't find something as simple as that if anyone can help please i will be grate full i will continue searching
