The fact that you can program the Octatrack this fluidly while at the same time commenting onwhat your doing so cohesively is just mindblowing to me🤣 awesome video fam❤️
delightful - and awesome skills I'd love a deconstructed version with more in the way of semi-beginners instructions, guess i'll just have to get proactive on the pause button!
Your live case looks awesome. Would love a video about putting that together. Glad to hear you are still with Elektron. Red Means Recording had said you were let go back in December which was concerning.
Your skill in handling Elektron is so impressive that the machine seems easy to use. But nooo, I'll keep my Toraiz despite its limitations, ha ha, because maybe I'm too lazy. Congratulations, it's a pleasure to watch your demos
Love all your sound shaping nuggets all throughout this little chill session. The high hats distortion+filter, the way you quickly shaped the peak patch with Q on low + env quick shaping. Absolute gems ;)
I love all your vids in general but these style are my favourites. Starting out with a raw piano sample and going all “Bob Ross” on it. I look forward to your Saturday vids and this was inspiring!!! Thank you from one of your biggest fans. Cheers. Share the love!!
I am so glad I got rid of my Octatrack and came to Akai MPC Live II instead. Only having special mindset will allow you to actually enjoy Octatrack workflow.
So awesome, so much fun and so inspiring to watch & learn! Now, here‘s a challenge for you: Do the same on the Polyend Tracker! 🙈 I don‘t have an Octatrack but I do have the PT and would LOVE to learn more about it … Challenge accepted? 😉
Bro I'm having a super hard time figuring out how to make the samples I record into either the right, or left channel into mono samples that play in both left and right. I've been searching tirelessly for an answer to this.
How is that prog rock…? I literally thought this video was gonna be the title aka you sampling a progressive rock song 😂 not some piano sample wat wat wat lol must’ve been some communication issue here
Was thinking the same thing... watching him make changes at will is wild because me and my OT aren't nearly that close yet. And the track is just lovely...
Hi Ricky, I love what you do. I've learned a lot from your videos, especially on the Digitakt. Hopefully, in the future, I will get the syntakt as well because seeing your videos on it, just got me hooked. Maybe in the future, we will see your take on the korg nts1 (best value for the money synth in my opinion - 100usd). Anyway, peace!
Haven't watched your stuff in a while (been feeling in a real rut after releasing my last single) and nice to see you go back "to the basics" :D Also you work at Elektron now? Dope!
Ricky i remember you saying you only know a handfull of scales, and forgot to comment, but minor and major scales are really easy to remember. Minor = minor triads of your root note, 5th and 7th, and major is the same but with major triads.
Hi Ricky, great workflow! But I personally still did not get the big differences between all the elektron devices like octatrack, digitakt, syntakt, digitone. Maybe you can do a video about that? Or someone else in the comments can give me a answer. I would be very thankful cause I’m a newbie in this topic :)
Here's my understanding of the differences between these Elektron products: - Digitakt: 8 sample-based tracks. Samples are mono only (no stereo), and no automated sample slicing (i.e. you can't load a sample into a track and then quickly slice it at transients, like loading in a drum loop and instantly getting playable one-shots, though through the very good Elektron sequencer you can achieve the same result, just requires a bit more work). Has a few FX (filter and distortion per track, reverb and delay sends, and a master compressor). - Octatrack: 8 sample-based tracks. Samples can be stereo, and there is sample slicing and a bunch of other features like that. There are quite a large number of FX. But from what I hear, the fact it's so versatile and complex means it's quite hard to learn. - Digitone: 4 FM synthesis tracks. If you don't know what FM synthesis is, I'd recommend looking it up - it's not super easy to learn but you can get some very insane and/or very beautiful sounds out of it. - Syntakt: 8 digital synthesis tracks, 4 analogue tracks. Each track has a 'machine' on it that you can select from, and each machine has a distinct sound. On each digital track you can have any digital machine (this includes different kicks, snares, hats, synths, and so on), and the analogue tracks have different machines available, and they have their own selection of kicks, snares, synths, and so on. There's a lot more nuances to each of the Elektron boxes so if any of these sound particularly interesting to you I'd recommend reading up on them. They're all fantastic products.
As Matt Gomes says, the Digitakt is a lot more "immediate" vs the OT. Playing out live, I use them both. Digitakt on drums and OT handling stems, FX, mixing, live looping, chopping, etc.
