My one gripe with a lot of RU-vidrs who show off hardware is that they tend to use a lot of it at fairly pedestrian levels (might just be a taste thing for me) so I'm glad your videos exist to demonstrate a lot this gear in ways that are more advanced and experimental.
just getting the hang of my octa now! finally get what you have been demonstrating on your octa since starting to watch your videos a year back or so. Combfilter is where it's at! :)
don't neglect the flanger! sometimes I get more mileage out of the flanger as a comb filter because it has control over stereo width and has a built-in LFO. The 'legit' comb filter's advantages are that is has a fine tune and a lowpass filter in its feedback loop
Man this is truly awesome. It seems that many of this things you do you can make them also on the MD. Of course you don't have the possibility of loeading too many samples. Hope you upload more videos experimenting on md.
thank you! MDUW and OT are very similar in many ways as the OT design is basically the UW aspects of Machinedrum taken to the nth degree. In terms of treating samples as a synthesis source I consider the MDUW superior in some ways - there is always a filter + EQ for every track along with distortion, sample rate reduction and bit-rate reduction, the sample re-pitch range is a bit wider, and I find the ring modulator more useful as it is better tuned for synthesis purposes. Self-patched processing with MD opens things up a bit more as well. I also prefer the sound of MD re-pitching, bit-rate reduction, sample rate reduction, ring modulation, and distortion to the equivalent functions in Octatrack. For me the big advantages of the OT for these purposes are the wide range of insert FX and the (mostly) deeper/more extensive modulation possibilities
Max, I'm in the early days (3 weeks) of owning an OT-Mk2, please talk me off the ledge of selling it. Struggling with a lot of the functions. Probably just too much jumping around. Any suggestions...? Your intensely deep videos like this one keep pulling me back in...
I'm not really here to get anyone to sell or buy anything, but 3 weeks is nothing, took me until around the 2-3 year mark to start to feel legitimately comfortable on Octatrack. Focus only on small pieces at a time, don't be too ambitious in any particular session - there are plenty of aspects of OT I've never or have barely touched.
@@maxmarco Thanks. Just knowing what the OT can do should be enough to keep it. Wish I had gotten one back when they first came out, could have grown with it. I hear of lots of people buying, selling and rebuying one 3 or 4 times cuz they miss it.
