Hey everyone, Thanks for the love! & Thanks again Tracklib for allowing me to sample real released music! Check out the dope discount here - www.tracklib.com/campaign/partner?code=rickytinez Peace and Love
I mean, there was a short time that I lived and breathed house. My first dream career was being a dj. I moved on for a ton of reasons, but among them was the assumption that getting into it all was just too expensive for equipment and required so much legwork researching and picking up resources for sampling. And now we're here. That's a tight track you just cut using that one box. Man. Brilliant. It's brilliant.
FINALLY, a dedicated octatrack video from one of the communities top creators! It’s been a long time coming and I’m super hyped. Could really do with lots more like this.
Congrats on the new gig Ricky. I've been listening to a bunch of Japanese minimal house lately and would love to see someone have a crack at the sound. So Inagawa is an absolute beast. The internet has nothing.
Would love to see this too. Logo Queen is one of my favourite house tracks of all time but all of his tracks and the majority of the Cabaret output is fantastic.
Would love to get an Octatrack… it’s really the price that puts me off… just so many decent samplers out there at cheaper price points. Someday :) Great vid….
Definitely soundstream vibes, which I love. But the blown out bass is very DJ Sneak. I'm not sure if you know the records of Andrés, on KDJ etc... like Moodymann he's great at sampled house. I loved the old KDJ records, but he's been consistently releasing great sampled house records (on Mood n' Groovin). 'Welcoming Committee' is nice, classic sample too. On that Back in the Open E.P, 'Tonight, We Rise' might be your kind of thing too. Great records on Mahogani too, like the gospel 'Praises'.
I’ll trade you overbridge for the Octatrack for slices on the Digitakt 🙏🙏🙏🥺 Pro tip: 16 slices of a looped sample is every 7.5 units on the sample start parameter. Tedious af
Good vid Ricky! Got the filter sounding smooth 8) I love that sort of dj sneak, van helden, cassius, daft punk et al era - especially the hip house leaning stuff
Ricky, congrats on the new gig. You’re literally a master when it comes to the technical side of things but you’re also a genius in the creative realm. I’m hooked!
A tip for minimizing the "air" at the start of each chop: At 1:45 you can see Ricky set the end point for truncating the sample but ended up with a little space before the transient on the next part of the song he was removing. So the sample, after it was truncated, was missing a little bit of time at the end (it was too short). So when you go to chop it into 16 even slices, all those slices are going to be slightly off (dropping sooner than they should compared to the transients). When you're chopping down a sample to just the part you want, if you make sure to set the end point to just right before the first transient on the part you're removing from the end, and then chop to even slices, you're going to end up with them being more spot-on, oftentimes eliminating the need for fiddly editing of each chop afterwards. This might actually be why your zero cross aligning gives weird results sometimes Ricky. I'm assuming the algorithm chops it into 16 even slices, and then shifts each of those slices to the nearest 0 point. If the chops end up so far off the mark when you do an even 16 chops, it would give really inconsistent results (snapping to a 0 point somewhere in the tail of a sound rather than closer to the end/the next transient).
Great video, as usual! And congrats on the new gig, @Ricky! No shade to Novation, but Elektron is by far my favorite instrument company! Looking forward to seeing what you do with them!
Oh, maaan! This looks sooo complicated!... I bought Octatrack MK2 a year ago and I'm still trying to understand how it works. Every day I find something new about it. :D It is a never ending story! :)
this is awesome! For someone on a bit of tight budget, who wants to replicate a similar setup (contained within the Octatrack) with Ableton. What would you recommend? The Korg Volca series (synth, drums etc)? Appreciate any of your insight! Thanks!
Just made a banger of a French house track on the circuit rhythm I'm usually a hip-hop kinda guy but I want to do something different Iv made the odd house track in my time but think I'm going start doing it alot more ...
i feel like the kick is not adding a good vibe to the track. maybe reducing the decay/sustain would do the trick... that being said, always cool to see someone who knows what he's doing playing around with sampling!
These machines are far too complicated for me. You literally need to remember everything you did and want to do. Why is there no screen showing some sort of timeline so you can at least see what you're doing and what you've done? Also, I find that trying to learn how to use these machines always ends in frustration and irritation from listing to the same beats and patterns over and over again so they just end up in the cupboard or back in their box and sold.
Aww this makes me wanna reinvest in an OT, such a powerful sampler for mangling loops. I used to use mine to sequence and resample all my other gear. For French house I'd build the drums and chops on the MPC3K (can't beat the swing) then resample bars on the OT, re-chop & mangle like you showcased flipping slices with trigs and filtering + repeats with A/B scene crossfades. Basically I'd treat OT as a hardware Ableton. So much fun and happy accidents only hardware can bring you. All about those scene crossfades, genius.
Yeah I feel the same way, I've always wanted to mess around with it but I'm afraid if I buy it I won't play with it since the learning curve is so steep
Keep at it. If you can be excited about using it often it gets much easier really quickly. But no need to learn everything all at once. I'll never get bored of it!
@@dasa-brainwash850 I guess with most things, the more time you put in, the better you get at something. I must admit I did take a little look at prices of them on eBay last night ;-) Maybe in the future. I think it might be a better fit for me than the Digitakt. Let's see
@@DanChippendaleMusic Very true. The DT's reverb seems a lot nicer, but I'm glad I got OT as I was looking for something to get me off the laptop. I've found the power to restrictions ratio of the OT works well for me. I've never loved a piece of hardware as much.
@@InitialDL84 it's not so bad, there's "only" one thing to learn. it's multiplied x8 and the neighbor interactions are fairly intuitive. Some use cases are trivial to config- even "just" for a fancy DJ mixer/FX box at the prices they are these days I think they're well worth it. :3
Ricky, you are a beast. You've sold me on the octatrack workflow. A pleasure watching you work, and a wonderful peak at your creative process. Keep it up!!
Love me some French House, one of my favorite electronic music genres next to Deep House and vaporwave. In fact, you should give vaporwave a shot on the Octotrack, would love to hear your rendition of it! Also congrats on the Elektron gig brotha!
french house music?????????????? just fyi france never really featured on the dance music charts back in the day. they were never on the radar even when the rave scene was huge they were years behind. it wasnt until the advent of roule records and the heady days of st germain / super discount comps that france really started to come into its own underground wise. living on the south coast of the uk we used to get the fm broadcasts from a station called radio FIP in france, it had almost no speaking and played basically chill out music. it became so popular in brighton that they eventually invited the station to put on gigs in the uk. theres a tonne of music history between the wider world and france but after buying records for almost 4 decades i would summise that france had little to no impact on the wider global dance scene.
Thank you very much for your time to produce and post weekly content. I love the format, something to look forward during the week and always delivers at when the weekend comes. I think you are really good in showcasing the gears. I absolutely love house music. Thank you very much again.
His conditions for the work contract was: Octatrack mk3 in a few years: 8 audio in- and outs, pristine modern dsp effects, the analog master fx treatment and Overbridge - no keyboard though
Love your work and authenticity Ricky! Question for anyone who can answer; Is anyone making videos like this, of such high quality and musicality but working with Maschine Mk3/Plus?
Cool Another Nice vidéo ! But DJ Sneak made this kind of sound way before we french done , listen "funky enuff" from the 1994 funkadelic EP", Thomas Bangalter was very inspired from this artist.
Deluge for 3 years but tempted to dive into Octatrak. I like the way cryptic workflows become muscle memory. My Tanzbär 2 has weird quirks but I find myself using it all the time with my fingers working faster than my eyes. Deluge is much more visual.
So clean, love the sound. I would def play this out in a set. Do you still use the ISLA Instruments S2400? If so how would you compare it to the Octatrack Mk II?
That's a great demonstration of what the Octatrack is capable of - at the same time, I'm so happy I sold mine. Bought a Roland MC707 instead and even though it's sampling capabilities aren't even close, I love using samples again.
Hey everyone, Thanks for the love! & Thanks again Tracklib for allowing me to sample real released music!
Check out the dope discount here - www.tracklib.com/campaign/partner?code=rickytinez
Peace and Love
Never before have I been so glad I continue to make tracks on a computer - what a waste of time the octa is
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What was the best resources for you to learn the octatrack?
It's not real french house unless its from the house region of france
French House appellation
Underrated comment
It’s sparkling house
LOL
This is why I love the art of sampling. Everyone paints with a different brush
yeeesss its so good. Sampling is easily my favorite way to make music
Great stuff! Love seeing how you operate that octa so quickly and smoothly. Second nature!
Banger!!
4:41 standard Octatrack doing weird stuff face
Can't beleive I'm still learning more about the octatrack in 2022 but taking notes anyways 😂
#dopeness right here.... as always....
Okay bro.... where's the 180gm vinyl press! ❤️👌🙏
#housemusic
🔥 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Is it possible to do this type of sampling in abelton
Did the inspiration for this video by any chance come from the welcomed return of Jonmakesbeats?
Octatrack is seems so difficult for usage ! Anybody can confirm this ?
At 18:45 something NOT funky is happening here.
I mean, there was a short time that I lived and breathed house. My first dream career was being a dj. I moved on for a ton of reasons, but among them was the assumption that getting into it all was just too expensive for equipment and required so much legwork researching and picking up resources for sampling. And now we're here. That's a tight track you just cut using that one box. Man. Brilliant. It's brilliant.
" it all was just too expensive for equipment " you are speaking about the 80ies?
@@NTTuber 1804, back when making house music involved building a literal house
As a Frenchman and house appreciator, I approve of this entire video
FINALLY, a dedicated octatrack video from one of the communities top creators!
It’s been a long time coming and I’m super hyped.
Could really do with lots more like this.
yeeah Ricky from Elektron
thats definitely means we should get MK3 OT😅
And not Ricky from Akai
Wow so he left Novation?
The video wasn't sponsored but I'm sure it was inspired 👌
EZBOT was on NovationTV last week, so who knows 😋
Need a French House resurgence so god damn funky 🤘🏽
i mean its around
Future Funk is what you are searching for. Check Artzie Music here on the tube.
Check out Braxe+Falcon’s new stuff, they’re amazing live as well
Don't worry it is coming
Future funk, Ed Banger Records, Sumggler's Way,
Minstrel tee? 🤔 Be glad this ain’t Twitter. Living dangerously for a dude with a newly minted brand association. Jus’ sayin’
Thank you for making House Music.
Thank you for all your inspiration! Your channel is so sick and i've been sub'd for a minute!
This track is a almost identical to Alex Preston ‘Hunching’ which just came out.
ruclips.net/video/Vlvr0ngxLaw/видео.html
@Ricky - Don’t forget to save that sample from your recording buffer! 😉
oh crap! haha - I think i got it :X
underrated comment for Beginners!
What took you half hour on that I do in 5 min on Ableton.. what a waste of time
Congrats on the new gig Ricky. I've been listening to a bunch of Japanese minimal house lately and would love to see someone have a crack at the sound. So Inagawa is an absolute beast. The internet has nothing.
So Inagawa is ....an alien, really. Absolute delight
Would love to see this too. Logo Queen is one of my favourite house tracks of all time but all of his tracks and the majority of the Cabaret output is fantastic.
@@smstrvns Indeed. Such quality output and the crispest mixes.
Can you recommend something?
@@Херменаутичар some inagawa reminds me of ben B-promided land vibes
Would love to get an Octatrack… it’s really the price that puts me off… just so many decent samplers out there at cheaper price points. Someday :) Great vid….
It's so much more creative than most samplers 😉
Definitely soundstream vibes, which I love. But the blown out bass is very DJ Sneak. I'm not sure if you know the records of Andrés, on KDJ etc... like Moodymann he's great at sampled house. I loved the old KDJ records, but he's been consistently releasing great sampled house records (on Mood n' Groovin). 'Welcoming Committee' is nice, classic sample too. On that Back in the Open E.P, 'Tonight, We Rise' might be your kind of thing too. Great records on Mahogani too, like the gospel 'Praises'.
i'm alllll about their records too! People passing by interested in this world of music.. Don't sleep on this comment!
Now just needs some phaser on the sample and some huge pumping sidechain for that French House sound 😊
Everyone loves the French Touch sound. Merveilleuse.
thumbs down for racist shirt
Did this track ever get finished Ricky? Would love to purchase!
I really wish I understood wtf was happening here.
I never had any interest in the octatrack until this video (I didn’t even know it could sample) I thought I was just a drum machine! Nice vid! 👍🏽🔥🇬🇧
written on the device: 8 track dynamic performance sampler 😅
I’ll trade you overbridge for the Octatrack for slices on the Digitakt 🙏🙏🙏🥺
Pro tip: 16 slices of a looped sample is every 7.5 units on the sample start parameter. Tedious af
Good vid Ricky! Got the filter sounding smooth 8) I love that sort of dj sneak, van helden, cassius, daft punk et al era - especially the hip house leaning stuff
Ricky, congrats on the new gig. You’re literally a master when it comes to the technical side of things but you’re also a genius in the creative realm. I’m hooked!
A tip for minimizing the "air" at the start of each chop: At 1:45 you can see Ricky set the end point for truncating the sample but ended up with a little space before the transient on the next part of the song he was removing. So the sample, after it was truncated, was missing a little bit of time at the end (it was too short).
So when you go to chop it into 16 even slices, all those slices are going to be slightly off (dropping sooner than they should compared to the transients). When you're chopping down a sample to just the part you want, if you make sure to set the end point to just right before the first transient on the part you're removing from the end, and then chop to even slices, you're going to end up with them being more spot-on, oftentimes eliminating the need for fiddly editing of each chop afterwards.
This might actually be why your zero cross aligning gives weird results sometimes Ricky. I'm assuming the algorithm chops it into 16 even slices, and then shifts each of those slices to the nearest 0 point. If the chops end up so far off the mark when you do an even 16 chops, it would give really inconsistent results (snapping to a 0 point somewhere in the tail of a sound rather than closer to the end/the next transient).
Great video, as usual! And congrats on the new gig, @Ricky! No shade to Novation, but Elektron is by far my favorite instrument company! Looking forward to seeing what you do with them!
Should be expecting an OT update soon, right? :)
Just bought an Octatrack last night. The timing on this could not be more impeccable
Elektron made quite the scoop there. (; Cheers!
Always love to watch you mangle samples. Cheers!
Oh, maaan! This looks sooo complicated!... I bought Octatrack MK2 a year ago and I'm still trying to understand how it works. Every day I find something new about it. :D It is a never ending story! :)
this is awesome! For someone on a bit of tight budget, who wants to replicate a similar setup (contained within the Octatrack) with Ableton. What would you recommend? The Korg Volca series (synth, drums etc)? Appreciate any of your insight! Thanks!
Just made a banger of a French house track on the circuit rhythm I'm usually a hip-hop kinda guy but I want to do something different Iv made the odd house track in my time but think I'm going start doing it alot more ...
Hai Ricky you convinced me into buying the octatrack instead of the digitakt with this one :D or should i wait for a new Elektron sampling device? ;)
i feel like the kick is not adding a good vibe to the track. maybe reducing the decay/sustain would do the trick...
that being said, always cool to see someone who knows what he's doing playing around with sampling!
These machines are far too complicated for me. You literally need to remember everything you did and want to do. Why is there no screen showing some sort of timeline so you can at least see what you're doing and what you've done? Also, I find that trying to learn how to use these machines always ends in frustration and irritation from listing to the same beats and patterns over and over again so they just end up in the cupboard or back in their box and sold.
@2:25 I understand that you disable timestretch. But I wonder why timestretch messes the samples up? thnx
Sounds wicked! Reminds me of Knee Deep productions from the early 2000s
Pre video comment: The timing of this video is incredible. I’ve been super into French house lately!
Hell yea! its so good and groovy haha. Tons of sampling elements and filter sweeps (my 2 favorites)
Epic track man... it made me want to buy an Elektron Octatrack MKII !!!
That looks like a fun little box! Somewhat reminds me of an Amiga Tracker like Protracker.
Check "Polyend"
@@CybearBox - Cool! Thanks!
This sounds good but it's definitely not funk it's basically just a pop track. But it does sound really good
damn it looks so unnecessary complicated when you can have large monitors and a mouse instead of the tiny screen and just a few knobs etc
Aww this makes me wanna reinvest in an OT, such a powerful sampler for mangling loops. I used to use mine to sequence and resample all my other gear. For French house I'd build the drums and chops on the MPC3K (can't beat the swing) then resample bars on the OT, re-chop & mangle like you showcased flipping slices with trigs and filtering + repeats with A/B scene crossfades. Basically I'd treat OT as a hardware Ableton. So much fun and happy accidents only hardware can bring you. All about those scene crossfades, genius.
Dude, your videos are inspiring and fresh! Keep up the great mixing work man!
the problem here is youre not able to use stems to remix. Q is there any way to extract stems from the sample. If so which is the best method? thanks
Inspired
Watching people use the Octatrack hurts my head. So powerful but so confusing 😵💫 Good work dude
Yeah I feel the same way, I've always wanted to mess around with it but I'm afraid if I buy it I won't play with it since the learning curve is so steep
Keep at it. If you can be excited about using it often it gets much easier really quickly. But no need to learn everything all at once. I'll never get bored of it!
@@dasa-brainwash850 I guess with most things, the more time you put in, the better you get at something. I must admit I did take a little look at prices of them on eBay last night ;-) Maybe in the future. I think it might be a better fit for me than the Digitakt. Let's see
@@DanChippendaleMusic Very true. The DT's reverb seems a lot nicer, but I'm glad I got OT as I was looking for something to get me off the laptop. I've found the power to restrictions ratio of the OT works well for me. I've never loved a piece of hardware as much.
@@InitialDL84 it's not so bad, there's "only" one thing to learn. it's multiplied x8 and the neighbor interactions are fairly intuitive.
Some use cases are trivial to config- even "just" for a fancy DJ mixer/FX box at the prices they are these days I think they're well worth it. :3
Ricky, you are a beast. You've sold me on the octatrack workflow. A pleasure watching you work, and a wonderful peak at your creative process. Keep it up!!
Is that a Lyon's t-shirt?
That's nasty stuff, Barry's for life!
thanks for the video, can you do the same think on a Maschine MK3 ?
The constant hiss from your phone is destroying the vibe of the video a bit.
I've been hotchin' in hoopin' hotchin' to this all night
Did you accidentally give a lesson in Low-End Theory? Seems like it. Love it!
This made me want an Octatrack so bad. Really like the style of this music.
Vraiment terrible 💥💥
Ça nous replonge dans cette époque légendaire.... Nostalgie quand tu nous tiens.
Bravo et merci
Lovin' it! Recreating this on my modular using 1010 bitbox sampler, maths, Mbase09 and other shenanigans...
So what about this Elektron engagement?
Love me some French House, one of my favorite electronic music genres next to Deep House and vaporwave. In fact, you should give vaporwave a shot on the Octotrack, would love to hear your rendition of it! Also congrats on the Elektron gig brotha!
french house music?????????????? just fyi france never really featured on the dance music charts back in the day. they were never on the radar even when the rave scene was huge they were years behind. it wasnt until the advent of roule records and the heady days of st germain / super discount comps that france really started to come into its own underground wise. living on the south coast of the uk we used to get the fm broadcasts from a station called radio FIP in france, it had almost no speaking and played basically chill out music. it became so popular in brighton that they eventually invited the station to put on gigs in the uk. theres a tonne of music history between the wider world and france but after buying records for almost 4 decades i would summise that france had little to no impact on the wider global dance scene.
Other than Daft Punk being one of the most influential in the world maybe
Lyons Tea ,t shirt? Controversial
I want the finished track bru. That sounds lit!
man this makes me want to cop an ocatrack sooo bad
Thank you very much for your time to produce and post weekly content. I love the format, something to look forward during the week and always delivers at when the weekend comes. I think you are really good in showcasing the gears. I absolutely love house music. Thank you very much again.
wow the way you can get the bass velocity to be triggered off another channel is epic
oh nvm. it's just SUCH a fire bassline to begin with lmfao
Congrats on the new gig! Also always lovin the positivity in your vids
Congrats on the new gig! Did you request an Octatrack Keyboard?
His conditions for the work contract was: Octatrack mk3 in a few years: 8 audio in- and outs, pristine modern dsp effects, the analog master fx treatment and Overbridge - no keyboard though
Add the side chain!!
Found the producer you mentioned ! He’s called Sound Stream. Dope stuff.
Where is the final track?
Love your work and authenticity Ricky!
Question for anyone who can answer; Is anyone making videos like this, of such high quality and musicality but working with Maschine Mk3/Plus?
Cool Another Nice vidéo ! But DJ Sneak made this kind of sound way before we french done , listen "funky enuff" from the 1994 funkadelic EP", Thomas Bangalter was very inspired from this artist.
👏🎶👏🎶👏 Love from Greece 🇬🇷
BRILLANT !!!!! Thank you
Is this track available?
Don't forget the you need the "Alesis 3630" compressor and the "Alesis Midiverb II" both cheap units and will give you instant French house vibes.
Awesome video and great house music Ricky , just got hooked to your channel and feels good to see house music is also getting some love over here🙌🔥
Deluge for 3 years but tempted to dive into Octatrak. I like the way cryptic workflows become muscle memory. My Tanzbär 2 has weird quirks but I find myself using it all the time with my fingers working faster than my eyes. Deluge is much more visual.
this is a lot of fanning around. reminds me of my old S1000. luckily i have a DAW now!...
May I ask what kind of work you're doing at Elektron? Congratulations anyway! Gonna watch the video now
KInda sounds like a Jam Funk production.... very good stuff.
Did you quit novation?
ah its better tecnician is now more musician keep in bro
listen to enolys if you are more musician than technician
As soon as Kick entered I was like Yeeeah :-) Another quality vídeo Ricky :-)
sound engine is amazing
love the intro
So clean, love the sound. I would def play this out in a set. Do you still use the ISLA Instruments S2400? If so how would you compare it to the Octatrack Mk II?
What headphones are you wearing my guy?
I believe those are the AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio Wireless+
That kick tho
That's a great demonstration of what the Octatrack is capable of - at the same time, I'm so happy I sold mine. Bought a Roland MC707 instead and even though it's sampling capabilities aren't even close, I love using samples again.