Watching this video is the equivalent of waking up to find your wife, after ten years of marriage in a trailer, is an Oil Oligark. I'm looking at my Octatrack right now, thinking; "who are you, really?". Thanks. Best tutorial I've seen in years.
hahaha! thanks a lot! the very convoluted internal structure of this project made for a very challenging presentation - was interesting to go back and try to figure out what I'd done XD
This video bent my brain, I’ve never seen an octatrack used this way before. There was at least a dozen things you did in this video I didn’t know the octatrack could do and didn’t know how to use. I can’t wait to to unpack this more and try “playing” octatrack along to this. Great tutorials and explainations. Thanks for sharing this🙏
this is the highest standard of tutorial I have seen on youtube,... very helpful to show the text in the manual you are a master of sound and sequencer design ... Thank you
This is awesome. Great detail. It would be useful to hear the composition in context at the beginning. When I checked out the track the video made more sense.
Dude, this is what gets me excited about Octatrack. It's why there's no other hardware quite like it. I really like what you did with the resampling chain.
Hey Max! So influential what you do ! Can you maybe explain the wash scene 6 a bit? It sounds the triggers go away and fade in a reverb. How did you do that??
I greatly prefer the aesthetics of the mk1 units overall - I wanted a backup OT while mine was in the repair shop and I almost immediately bought a brand-new mk1 OT for an absolute steal right when OT mk2 was announced :D
had a 5 hours session with my brandnew digitone today. not a good idea to watch that video right after - i understand what you do there, but ... great video anyhow, as always ;-)
Definitely Octatrack, more modern design and it is much more versatile/open-ended, with excellent performance features. Machinedrum does have some advantages though - more simultaneous voices/tracks, more immediacy, more raw synthesis power.
I have been enjoying your content throughout the day today. Great stuff, with the early octa and modular combo performances. I’ve really started re-thinking my setup as I’ve started taking on sample playback loops and hearing how limiting it can be on the Digitakt to only play samples back faster or slower for pitch and the ability to stretch and keep pitch on the octa. I have a question though, can you play the sample’s back with a midi keyboard and could you assign the keys to play them polyphonically? Thanks again for great and deep content. You really seem to be able to get that autechre-esque sci-fi future sound!
thank you! Octatrack audio channels respond to MIDI control but only way to get poly MIDI control of Octatrack would be to use a MIDI parser that will send the right notes to the right channels - each audio channel has to be addressed on a different MIDI channel. If I wanted to do this I would use my Mutable Instruments MIDIpal (it has a dedicated application for exactly this type of scenario where it parses a polyphonic input on one MIDI channel out to several MIDI channels), and there are some other products as well as software that can be set up to that type of MIDI parsing I actually only use timestretch very rarely, and often more as an effect. Perhaps if the OT implementation was more transparent I would utilize it a bit more
max marco I really appreciate the helpful answer. I was pretty set w/ the Digjtakt but I find myself wondering if I could put my many synth recordings to use more readily having the features of the OT. I was pretty intimidated w/ it’s features and figured I’d learn on the DT first as I never used an elektron instrument before. Thanks again Max.
Watching this video is the equivalent of waking up to find your wife, after ten years of marriage in a trailer, is an Oil Oligark. I'm looking at my Octatrack right now, thinking; "who are you, really?". Thanks. Best tutorial I've seen in years.
hahaha! hilarious! :D glad you enjoyed! 👍👍👍 I always love to try and show off what I think is most special about Octatrack in my info/tutorial vids
"this is the point where it starts getting pretty confusing..." lol i was lost way before this. excellent work! lots to chew on.
hahaha! thanks a lot! the very convoluted internal structure of this project made for a very challenging presentation - was interesting to go back and try to figure out what I'd done XD
This video bent my brain, I’ve never seen an octatrack used this way before. There was at least a dozen things you did in this video I didn’t know the octatrack could do and didn’t know how to use.
I can’t wait to to unpack this more and try “playing” octatrack along to this. Great tutorials and explainations. Thanks for sharing this🙏
this is the highest standard of tutorial I have seen on youtube,... very helpful to show the text in the manual you are a master of sound and sequencer design ... Thank you
will take me some days , if not weeks to work this thru
thanks Bruno!! very challenging project to properly analyze - I definitely left some things out but I think I got the main points across
This is awesome. Great detail. It would be useful to hear the composition in context at the beginning. When I checked out the track the video made more sense.
Dude, this is what gets me excited about Octatrack. It's why there's no other hardware quite like it. I really like what you did with the resampling chain.
thank you! Octatrack is pretty special! when I dug back into this project I was confused for a bit before I started to remember what I had going on :D
I love your tutorials, thank you for sharing your experiences !
So accurate the dentist machinery analogy
Hey Max! So influential what you do ! Can you maybe explain the wash scene 6 a bit? It sounds the triggers go away and fade in a reverb. How did you do that??
Your channel rocks, I need to dust off my OT. I have the MK1 like you
I greatly prefer the aesthetics of the mk1 units overall - I wanted a backup OT while mine was in the repair shop and I almost immediately bought a brand-new mk1 OT for an absolute steal right when OT mk2 was announced :D
had a 5 hours session with my brandnew digitone today. not a good idea to watch that video right after - i understand what you do there, but ... great video anyhow, as always ;-)
haha thank you!! digitone sounds really good, a flagship version of it I probably wouldn't be able to resist :) :) :)
Interesting. 👍
If you could only have one, would you keep the OT or the MD?
Definitely Octatrack, more modern design and it is much more versatile/open-ended, with excellent performance features. Machinedrum does have some advantages though - more simultaneous voices/tracks, more immediacy, more raw synthesis power.
Having a hard time translating this to ht emk2 ... i'm sure it's possible ehh... good sounds, here
I have been enjoying your content throughout the day today. Great stuff, with the early octa and modular combo performances.
I’ve really started re-thinking my setup as I’ve started taking on sample playback loops and hearing how limiting it can be on the Digitakt to only play samples back faster or slower for pitch and the ability to stretch and keep pitch on the octa.
I have a question though, can you play the sample’s back with a midi keyboard and could you assign the keys to play them polyphonically? Thanks again for great and deep content. You really seem to be able to get that autechre-esque sci-fi future sound!
thank you! Octatrack audio channels respond to MIDI control but only way to get poly MIDI control of Octatrack would be to use a MIDI parser that will send the right notes to the right channels - each audio channel has to be addressed on a different MIDI channel. If I wanted to do this I would use my Mutable Instruments MIDIpal (it has a dedicated application for exactly this type of scenario where it parses a polyphonic input on one MIDI channel out to several MIDI channels), and there are some other products as well as software that can be set up to that type of MIDI parsing
I actually only use timestretch very rarely, and often more as an effect. Perhaps if the OT implementation was more transparent I would utilize it a bit more
max marco I really appreciate the helpful answer. I was pretty set w/ the Digjtakt but I find myself wondering if I could put my many synth recordings to use more readily having the features of the OT. I was pretty intimidated w/ it’s features and figured I’d learn on the DT first as I never used an elektron instrument before. Thanks again Max.
I totally agree regarding the Autechre vibe. This is a cool machine and I'm totally enjoying my ride with it--A lifelong journey we might say!
oof ouch my head =)
haha! me too :D :D :D