True ninja skills revealed here. TY Ricky for your glorious performance. Love your vibe. (Note: We'll post a compilation from our live performances via YT soon.)
Very nice Ricky! I got my MPC1000 back in action this year (replaced all the tack switches on there - and the pads) absolutely loving it for playing and jamming with my synths. Just started recording a few bits with it recently - endless fun! Respect dude
Been making tracks on mpc1000 all day... Have a break, see a Ricky Tinez RUclips notification and what you know you rocking those beats too. Keep it fresh bro 🙃🙂
Your workflow videos are my absolute favorite. I don’t have an Octatrack, but I can just see how it can spice up performances thanks to your walkthroughs!
This video is pure love man , thanks. Is actually very mind blowing what you can do with two powerful samplers that fab house long samples like that ......
great! makes me wanna bring out my MPC1000 and hook it up to the OT. Never quite could work out a way to make those two work together in a meaningful way, this is inspiring.
Man I caught myself dancing ! Thank you so much for this vid 🙏🏻, I had fun watching it, it was super clear ! And I learn a lot about the OT, its purpose was not that clear in my head before but now i really believe that it's a true weapon for live shows !
"Super simple" LOL : D !!! I know I would be so frustrated if I had an Octatrack... Way over my head as usual but this was really fascinating nonetheless. To hear you live would be really really great but to see how you work, what is live vs planed and premade, the speed, your workflow and how it is apparent that you have practised for years and clearly know what you are doing. No questioning or hesitation or doubt, man this is just awesome. Even how you use the otobit, so nice and with such an ease makes me just like: "WTF?" Super simply Marvelous : )
Said it before, and I'll say it again: my fav part of the OT is seeing how others use it. I don't use it nothing like Ricky, except sometimes for pickup machines used to record inputs/tracks, sometimes recording track 8 master. It's a brilliant machine, as is this demo/walkthrough.
Thank you for yet another awesome video,Ricky! "That's all you gotta do, learn a ton of stuff" :) that's the best quote of the day for sure! I always look forward to your new videos as you have taught me so much about production and music tech so I know that I'm always going to learn something new with each new video you post and that is a true gift, the gift of knowledge. Please keep doing what you do as it's hugely appreciated, brother!
Fantastic showcase of the OT. I love my Digitakt a ton, and just haven’t really understood aside from time stretching what the OT has to offer for the higher price tag, but this really demonstrates the value.
… And now I own both a Mercury7 and Ottobit jr. for my live setup! And I’m stoked about it. Once again thanks for sharing workflow. Really inspiring. Although, I must admit that doing scenes on the fly on the octatrack seems to be daunting! But yet again you know your machines better than I know myself. I will catch up one day ;-)
Super awesome. I'm gonna try to replicate a setup like this. Looks so much fun! "Performance mixer" is a brilliant way of putting it. I'd love for more products like this to be in the market.
Thanks exactly what I'm doing, I'm just waiting for my mpc 1000 to arrive, gotta say, Ricky was the main reason for my interrest in samplers and dawless setups and the reason for the passion I gain in the old schools mpcs
Dope! Love my Elektron gear. I use my Elektron Analog 4 to sequence and layer FX for modular gear and Octrack to sample it and serve as master hub via MIDI to CV. Perfect combo plus I save valuable modular case space and cash on fancy sequencer modules.
Great video! I just got an Octatrack MKII after seeing all the amazing things it can do with the rest of my gear. Definitely a steeper learning curve than my other stuff (OP-1, OP-Z, 0-Coast), but once I get things in order I think it'll be a lot of fun to jam!
I have somewhat of an intuitive sense of what your saying but I'm going to need to watch this another 3 times to really understand how next level this is . . .
So good. Recently picked up an Octatrack mk1 and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the thing! Hopefully one day I'll be able to do some of the things you can do! Looking forward to the next jam :)
This entire video is so big brained I can't even. I'm over here with my violin having an existential crisis unable to decide if I want 1500ms or 1600ms on my delay pedal. 10:11 was ridiculous.
Nice one. Gives me ideas to test out while also showing somw behind thr scenes of how to set it up. Also cool to see MPC & OT playing well together. Meris fx soubd amazing, but that goes without saying. 🤘🏼
I don't use a daw per say I use a mixing website for podcast almost like if audacity was a website and I think I am gonna save money to get an actual laptop and a semi daw/raw sound set up. THANK YOU MAN.
Nice, you could probably do most of what the Ottobit is doing using the Octatrack with a combination of track recorder and freeze delay, if you wanted it even more streamlined.
You're killing me. Just decided to get a Zen Delay together with the Erica Synths Bassline because of your videos, now I'm thinking I should have gotten an OT instead. Just kidding. Love your videos and am really looking forward to each and every one.
I've applied your same workflow to my 2500 just that I got a traktor z2 mixer and I'm thinking on adding another 2500 to mix between one and another. 👌🏼🥴💕💕💕💕💕
Great video, so inspiring! I have the Ottobit myself, just wondering if there is any reason you don't go directly through it and use the bypass switch to turn it on/off?
Round trip latency is too much for inserts using that method. Plus the less I have to deal with my computer (other than recording) the better... and I already have an Octatrack that I've just been too intimidated by until I saw this video.
hell ricky, I just sold my whole aria set up, 10k of equipment, it got too much trying to program so many sequencers, so I have invested back into what I know, ableton live, this time I have a 1x1 setup, with 2 ableton systems linked for sync, and a dj mixer between them, each side has a midimix, and a clip launcher, I get upto 16 channels each side, and allows a dj style flow, and the ability to plf whats not playing out on the master, I also have a 8 inch tablet running zen beats and gstomper producer, the tablet is midi capable as well, and all that goes into a 6 channel desk that records straight to mp3, iv cased it all in one box, and it takes seconds to open, and plug in, and I did it all for less than a grand, including the stands, cables etc, there is still a strong argument for the simplicity of a decent midi controller/laptop setup, especially playing live, and in my experience, the less you have, the better you will sound, I no longer sweat at the thought of playing live, and having to cart near 20 machines and all the associated crap along with it, also, we have to take into consideration the audience, who wants to watch someone head bowed sweating over a set, I wanna see some fun and dancing going on, same with the crowd, simplifying allows you to engage more.
nice comment your setups both sound great. but....the part about wanting to see somebody dance.. I definitely don't want to pay to see a dj dance, I could stay home and watch re-runs of fame for that... I want to see somebody involved in making the music. I could stay home and put on a track and look corny dancing by myself if that is what I wanted .... and for free.... I think performers should be making things look more complicated up there, playing every instrument they can else they could just play a cd or an instant replay machine, happy mediums are great on paper but in real life go all in one way or the other.
New to electronic music production and recently discovered the channel which I love by the way - the music's awesome, the vibes are super cool, and the explanations so accessible. The sounds you're sending in with the MPC into the Octatrack, is that something you could do with a combination of drum machines and synthesizers? Obviously that complicates the setup but would that allow you to do fundamentally the same thing? Record a few sequences live on the fly? Do some DJ'ing, add fx etc, and while that marinates in the ears of the listeners, create some more sequences live, fade into the new sequences, rinse and repeat?
Ricky would you please do a step by step in depth video on sampling workflow with the Octatrack?.. No one with your temperament or MPC back ground has done one, just a bunch of videos where people have already done the sample work and set the tracks up... could you please do one showing the sampling and setting up the tracks and the sequencing/ adding Fx etc.. basically an MPC video but with the octatrack instead, I would greatly appreciate this!
Hey Ricky! Thank you so much for all your interesting videos! You're doing great! Especially this video makes me ask, if you could make a video that focuses on the octatracks scenes. I intend to do something similar using the octa as Summing mixer/ FX machine. Maybe you can share some scene Ideas that work well for you. (Which FX, which params, how to combine them? live slicing? and so on) Thank you ! Love from Germany Frank
love this jam and info - thx! btw I noticed the 'ghost' started playing exactly 8 steps (LED flashes on Ottobit) after you touched a button on the MPC (at 0:23) - maybe there is an explanation to look into (delayed start/intro?).
Oooooh that's dope :D love the off-board effects from Meris, that Ottobit gets glitchy AF :O glad to see you just jammin' and chillin' and generally having fun. I really like your DAW-less Jamming videos. Super excited to maybe get my hands on a KeyStep Pro soon. Wondered if that's on your radar for a sequencer for your modular gear at any point?
True ninja skills revealed here. TY Ricky for your glorious performance. Love your vibe. (Note: We'll post a compilation from our live performances via YT soon.)
What did he do? 😆🤪🤔
Just listened to 5 days of work on Spotify Decent track. odd choice to make a high hat the center of the mix very dis- distracting and way too loud
Breadkrumz sounded like a bunch loopy ish worked on but no finished tracks. Just sayin
wow, that's one of the most elegant workflows I've seen yet.
Meris will be the first pedal company to really realise that the synth industry is wide open for pedal/effects makers in the hardware realms.
The only synth/sample guy I try to watch every video of!
Keep it up man
god damn why do you make everything look sooo easy. fantastic work always spot on an your enthusiasm is endless
"Thats all you gotta do! Learn a ton of stuff". Epic
Ricky: 2500 dollars on "simple gear"
me: cries in volca keys
Awesome stuff as always man.
Volca is awesome man haha
I feel you man!
cries in mc303
The volca keys is still a great deal but I wish they refreshed the line with some qol features.
that is cheap compared to what I've seen guys spend on modular eurorack gear. Now that can get super expensive fast!
Very nice Ricky! I got my MPC1000 back in action this year (replaced all the tack switches on there - and the pads) absolutely loving it for playing and jamming with my synths. Just started recording a few bits with it recently - endless fun! Respect dude
Been making tracks on mpc1000 all day... Have a break, see a Ricky Tinez RUclips notification and what you know you rocking those beats too. Keep it fresh bro 🙃🙂
Your workflow videos are my absolute favorite. I don’t have an Octatrack, but I can just see how it can spice up performances thanks to your walkthroughs!
This video is pure love man , thanks. Is actually very mind blowing what you can do with two powerful samplers that fab house long samples like that ......
great! makes me wanna bring out my MPC1000 and hook it up to the OT. Never quite could work out a way to make those two work together in a meaningful way, this is inspiring.
Man I caught myself dancing !
Thank you so much for this vid 🙏🏻, I had fun watching it, it was super clear ! And I learn a lot about the OT, its purpose was not that clear in my head before but now i really believe that it's a true weapon for live shows !
"Super simple" LOL : D !!!
I know I would be so frustrated if I had an Octatrack...
Way over my head as usual but this was really fascinating nonetheless. To hear you live would be really really great but to see how you work, what is live vs planed and premade, the speed, your workflow and how it is apparent that you have practised for years and clearly know what you are doing. No questioning or hesitation or doubt, man this is just awesome. Even how you use the otobit, so nice and with such an ease makes me just like: "WTF?"
Super simply Marvelous : )
Said it before, and I'll say it again: my fav part of the OT is seeing how others use it. I don't use it nothing like Ricky, except sometimes for pickup machines used to record inputs/tracks, sometimes recording track 8 master. It's a brilliant machine, as is this demo/walkthrough.
Thank you for yet another awesome video,Ricky! "That's all you gotta do, learn a ton of stuff" :) that's the best quote of the day for sure! I always look forward to your new videos as you have taught me so much about production and music tech so I know that I'm always going to learn something new with each new video you post and that is a true gift, the gift of knowledge. Please keep doing what you do as it's hugely appreciated, brother!
Fantastic showcase of the OT. I love my Digitakt a ton, and just haven’t really understood aside from time stretching what the OT has to offer for the higher price tag, but this really demonstrates the value.
I can't stop watching this. So good!
Love it! You're clearly having so much fun here
thanks Ricky I've been trying dif transitions and love your creative options as always
Thanks for that Ricky, your videos are much needed in these times.
I have no idea what you're explaining here but entertained nevertheless.
Rick, love what you do! You're a magician!
That jazzy bass house track you bring in is my fave by you man!!! Need a copy of that for my live DJ shows!!! Absolutely slamming brother!! X
This video is dope. Best ever you made. I have no machine you talk about, but from now I'm really interest for the Octatrack.
pure talent workflow
I love watching someone work a piece of music tech and just nails it. Fantastic video as expected Ricky. Cheers 😉
Masterclass on OT. Thanks for posting!
… And now I own both a Mercury7 and Ottobit jr. for my live setup! And I’m stoked about it.
Once again thanks for sharing workflow. Really inspiring. Although, I must admit that doing scenes on the fly on the octatrack seems to be daunting! But yet again you know your machines better than I know myself. I will catch up one day ;-)
Looking for a tut on beginner basic Octa. The way you explain it makes sense.
Aye Ricky..... you got that shit👏🏾👏🏾. That shit just look complicated. I’ve owned the 1000 years ago and thank God for
iPads for similar results.
Super awesome. I'm gonna try to replicate a setup like this. Looks so much fun! "Performance mixer" is a brilliant way of putting it. I'd love for more products like this to be in the market.
That bad news track sounds sooo tight !!!
Talent! Only thing I've seen that has me considering the Octatrack again.
It’s worth every penny.
Truly mastered those boxes there bro
Some really cool tricks here! Dope dude!
Always fun when you show off the OT
Great! and this is why most of Us want more inputs outputs in the next Octatrack (with overbridge)
Man, I'm convinced and just bought me mpc 1000, as a center of the dawless setup. Thanks
Thanks exactly what I'm doing, I'm just waiting for my mpc 1000 to arrive, gotta say, Ricky was the main reason for my interrest in samplers and dawless setups and the reason for the passion I gain in the old schools mpcs
Why did you choose an mpc1000 over an mpc one?
Dope! Love my Elektron gear. I use my Elektron Analog 4 to sequence and layer FX for modular gear and Octrack to sample it and serve as master hub via MIDI to CV. Perfect combo plus I save valuable modular case space and cash on fancy sequencer modules.
Super creative!
this is the first thing that's ever made me want an elektron
Amazing performance and explanations as usual!
Great video! I just got an Octatrack MKII after seeing all the amazing things it can do with the rest of my gear. Definitely a steeper learning curve than my other stuff (OP-1, OP-Z, 0-Coast), but once I get things in order I think it'll be a lot of fun to jam!
loved the live set and the DJ set this morning, lockdown made a lot easier with these!
This looks like so much fun I’d love to get j to this but wouldn’t know where to start.
Love your house beats!
Thank you Ricky for another great vid!
Need some more releases from you bro...liking this All Nite track! Hope you're well
I have somewhat of an intuitive sense of what your saying but I'm going to need to watch this another 3 times to really understand how next level this is . . .
Another great video. Thank you for sharing!
So good. Recently picked up an Octatrack mk1 and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the thing! Hopefully one day I'll be able to do some of the things you can do! Looking forward to the next jam :)
Your energy duuude!!! :)
Got to let that sink in (to my brain) for a bit!! wow bro!!! Great vid!! :)
Awesome stuff brotha, very saucy
Very very very cool
awesome information Ricky, thanks so much. :)
This entire video is so big brained I can't even. I'm over here with my violin having an existential crisis unable to decide if I want 1500ms or 1600ms on my delay pedal. 10:11 was ridiculous.
I use a web page listing BPMs and relative milliseconds for 1/4, 1/2, etc delay settings. I'll link below after this comment.
www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-bpmtempotime.htm
You should do a video just on cable neatness. I look at the Sargasso Sea of black eels behind my setup, then I look at your setups and weep.
so sick.
Such a rippin set up
That ghost liked the groove so much he just had to play it
Nice one. Gives me ideas to test out while also showing somw behind thr scenes of how to set it up. Also cool to see MPC & OT playing well together. Meris fx soubd amazing, but that goes without saying. 🤘🏼
dopedopedope...i love this!! this is the content i need right now
I'd love to check out your live gig. you ever come to Toronto?
I don't use a daw per say I use a mixing website for podcast almost like if audacity was a website and I think I am gonna save money to get an actual laptop and a semi daw/raw sound set up. THANK YOU MAN.
That was great, awesome tips.
Simple but powerful
Nice, you could probably do most of what the Ottobit is doing using the Octatrack with a combination of track recorder and freeze delay, if you wanted it even more streamlined.
Quality content as usual ✨
11:20 nice vocal performance, ...OTTOBIT! :D
Ricky, I have no idea what you are talking about half the time, but it sounds great ;)
You're killing me. Just decided to get a Zen Delay together with the Erica Synths Bassline because of your videos, now I'm thinking I should have gotten an OT instead. Just kidding. Love your videos and am really looking forward to each and every one.
Yet another masterclass! Is there a lower cost alternative to the underutilized Octatrack in this scenario? A stereo looper and a DJ mixer?
love you man. thx
What if you use instead of the mpc and octatrack, the akai force with a modular case,which has an es8 in it, and some external fx?
I've applied your same workflow to my 2500 just that I got a traktor z2 mixer and I'm thinking on adding another 2500 to mix between one and another. 👌🏼🥴💕💕💕💕💕
Great video. Makes me wish I kept my MPC1000.
Great video, so inspiring! I have the Ottobit myself, just wondering if there is any reason you don't go directly through it and use the bypass switch to turn it on/off?
This is probably the first time the octatrack is made sense to me. I've never really seen it use this way and now that I've seen it I've got to do it.
you can use ableton and a zero slmkii if you just want the mixer ;) cheaper
Round trip latency is too much for inserts using that method. Plus the less I have to deal with my computer (other than recording) the better... and I already have an Octatrack that I've just been too intimidated by until I saw this video.
In it to win it.
Great video
blast !!!
hell ricky, I just sold my whole aria set up, 10k of equipment, it got too much trying to program so many sequencers, so I have invested back into what I know, ableton live, this time I have a 1x1 setup, with 2 ableton systems linked for sync, and a dj mixer between them, each side has a midimix, and a clip launcher, I get upto 16 channels each side, and allows a dj style flow, and the ability to plf whats not playing out on the master, I also have a 8 inch tablet running zen beats and gstomper producer, the tablet is midi capable as well, and all that goes into a 6 channel desk that records straight to mp3, iv cased it all in one box, and it takes seconds to open, and plug in, and I did it all for less than a grand, including the stands, cables etc, there is still a strong argument for the simplicity of a decent midi controller/laptop setup, especially playing live, and in my experience, the less you have, the better you will sound, I no longer sweat at the thought of playing live, and having to cart near 20 machines and all the associated crap along with it, also, we have to take into consideration the audience, who wants to watch someone head bowed sweating over a set, I wanna see some fun and dancing going on, same with the crowd, simplifying allows you to engage more.
nice comment your setups both sound great. but....the part about wanting to see somebody dance.. I definitely don't want to pay to see a dj dance, I could stay home and watch re-runs of fame for that... I want to see somebody involved in making the music. I could stay home and put on a track and look corny dancing by myself if that is what I wanted .... and for free.... I think performers should be making things look more complicated up there, playing every instrument they can else they could just play a cd or an instant replay machine, happy mediums are great on paper but in real life go all in one way or the other.
Derek Johnstone Fraser That might be the longest sentence I've seen in a while
Tight indeed
I would love to see how a boom bap track would sound from you
New to electronic music production and recently discovered the channel which I love by the way - the music's awesome, the vibes are super cool, and the explanations so accessible. The sounds you're sending in with the MPC into the Octatrack, is that something you could do with a combination of drum machines and synthesizers? Obviously that complicates the setup but would that allow you to do fundamentally the same thing? Record a few sequences live on the fly? Do some DJ'ing, add fx etc, and while that marinates in the ears of the listeners, create some more sequences live, fade into the new sequences, rinse and repeat?
pretty nice skills bless from Guatemala
Damn that DJ fade was tight
Ricky would you please do a step by step in depth video on sampling workflow with the Octatrack?.. No one with your temperament or MPC back ground has done one, just a bunch of videos where people have already done the sample work and set the tracks up... could you please do one showing the sampling and setting up the tracks and the sequencing/ adding Fx etc.. basically an MPC video but with the octatrack instead, I would greatly appreciate this!
Hey Ricky!
Thank you so much for all your interesting videos!
You're doing great! Especially this video makes me ask, if you could make a video that focuses on the octatracks scenes.
I intend to do something similar using the octa as Summing mixer/ FX machine. Maybe you can share some scene Ideas that work well for you. (Which FX, which params, how to combine them? live slicing? and so on) Thank you !
Love from Germany
Frank
Tight !
that second track is prime
That love and hate relationship with the cow bell...
Ohhhh Bad Bad News by Leon Bridges
I caught that sample
That's innovative!!
Well done !!! Fresh live setup . #autobit 😁
love this jam and info - thx! btw I noticed the 'ghost' started playing exactly 8 steps (LED flashes on Ottobit) after you touched a button on the MPC (at 0:23) - maybe there is an explanation to look into (delayed start/intro?).
Oooooh that's dope :D love the off-board effects from Meris, that Ottobit gets glitchy AF :O glad to see you just jammin' and chillin' and generally having fun. I really like your DAW-less Jamming videos. Super excited to maybe get my hands on a KeyStep Pro soon. Wondered if that's on your radar for a sequencer for your modular gear at any point?
loved that techno creeping in. what's dj chariot up to these days?