I'm such a dummy, I thought the REC1, REC2, and REC3 were separate sampling methods and not an ordered process you needed all three for 😭don't ask me how long I've had an Octatrack for...Now I actually know how to live loop, thank God for Ricky Tinez!!
Yo at 10:20 you're like "if you set the scene volume to min you can't hear the fx on the scene" which is true - unless you have the scene volume at min but the scene amp vol up - which effectively creates three regimes of sound with an additional one in the middle of the crossfader (Scene A: no fx, Middle: partial FX and same volume, Scene B: no volume). This is because of the linear amp vol being summed with the non-linear crossfade volume
If you are lost at 4:13 because the "+" actually does not appear and the recording doesn't not start, it's because @Ricky uses a shortcut that you have to enable in Project menu > System menu > Personalize menu > Record Quick Mode: TRUE. Also, If QREC is OFF, go to AED to start recording by pressing REC3 (but that's not always required, couldn't understand why, sometimes it works outside of AED too, sometimes not)
incredible usage scenario. thank *YOU* the elektron sequencer is causing a paradigm shift in my brain. it all started after my first experience with an elektron - the model cycles.
Great tips and tutorial! Quick reference for those using the Octatrack MKI: You arm the recorder for internal "input" by pressing the track key + MIDI key. So in this case T6 + MIDI.
@@fizmo303 check your RLEN make sure it’s set to the number of steps in your loop. Also check that you have Loop: off in your recording setup 1. This took me about an hour of rewinding the vid to figure out too😂
For me literally the tutorial I gained the most fun out of in a very long time. Thanks for all the time you put into your channel. Very much appreciated.
Excellent post! I've had my Octatrack for about 2 months and have got the foundations for sampling, Parts, Patterns and Scenes down. I wasn't sure how to create a smooth transition and this helped immensely! Thanks for spreading the knowledge!
I’ve owned an Octatrack for about a month now and I actually understood most of what you were doing...as always a great explanation and video with inspirational choons too!
Dude thank you for this!. out of the dozens of videos I've watched "teaching" the live loop setup, yours is the only one to include all necessary steps. when i follow the other vids, my loops end up overdubbing at every new cycle pass. cheers! Im rocking this new OT real hard all of the sudden!
Thanks for this. Just got one of these and am trying to get my head around the possibilities. Normally good at going through the manual and being good. But this thing is deep as hell and everyone seems to use it in a different way.
I get it. A super helpful way to dj between modular sequences just like mixing two songs like the good old days by cueing something before the crowd hears it. I always believed that Eurorack needs some better way to cue things like the way you're doing it. I'm experimenting with something like you're doing with a make noise Rosie and a synthwerks sp-1p crossfading module and stackable cables. Very fun indeed but I think I need to implement the sampling capabilities of the Octatrack in my set up somehow. Thanks for the video.
i own a mk 1 for ages. its the first hardware i bought new, the first unit i wanted to throw out of the window too.... hahaha. you wont regret if you have enough skin and fat for the bumps of learning. they make it unique since the posabillities are so broad!
tva tva this motivates me even more to buy it but I already knew I will have me moments of frustration with it haha It will be my first piece of hardware besides my electric piano and guitar.. thanks for your answer, was it a good decision to buy the Octatrack as the first hardware?
@@malteschulz6851, I've been watching a lot of vids on it before I took the plunge and bought it. I'm quite a technically minded person so watched many vids before I discovered the scope of what it can do. That way, when it arrived, I was already slightly familiar with it. I had a plan of what I wanted to do with a piece of kit and figured it could be done on this beast (rather than sticking to Ableton), now the doors are open and I'm more inspired everyday. Plus, having a piece of hardware is making me do things I'd never do on a computer. Fantastic!
Dilbotronic ok i never really hear about someone regretting buying the Octatrack so I might safe like 2 months more and get one :) Thanks for your answer, it motivates me! I would like to use some kind of midi mixer for the 8 tracks with some encoders so I can control the levels of the tracks, that should be possible with a normal midi mixer right?
Man, that jam in the end was sick!!!! I´m waiting for my octatrack to arrive and will come back to this video probably a 100 times until I´m able to pull off something like that!!
When you are editing the record functions. Make sure you don’t have a step in the sequencer. If you enter in a step in the sequencer while you were editing the recording parameters you were telling it to continuously record every time it hits that step
Hey Ricky, this vid is seriously awesome. Very useful. Could you please make a few more like this? For Octatrack learners like me this helps massively.
Badass man. I have been considering an Octatrack but haven't wanted to dive into a mega tutorial just to decide if I need one. Learned alot just now. Thanks! Now I want one... Sigh.
Ricky, do you have a video using the Octatrack and actually showing your gain staging "volumes/gain" when using the Octatrack with say Circuit and Digitakt and a synth......I see confusion on what do with levels of all the devices in establishing levels but maintain a good headphone signal and have good signal going out with audio from those things coming in.
@@robertsyrett1992 I need to do a series of tutorials. Love mine and took a year of reading the manual and trying to learn it. Still learning. So powerful. Ultimate sampler/sequencer.
Thanks for this one, buddy! Now I gotta figure out how the midi tracks interact with whats going on with the recording and/or crossfader, so many options...
That is a nasty little jam at the end there. Truly inspiring. Still getting to grips with my Octatrack after some years but this gives me the motivation to keep going! Nice work.
Dude!!! The last performance awesome! The best! And thnks you for this video.... because that's exactly my future plan! Live gigs with My Octatrack, beat step and my Modular! So is das correcty.... I can cue my stuff on the headphones and mudlate my stuff bevor I go back from my recorded loop to the main sound of my modul master sound? Greetings from Germany
Are you using the Beatstep to control OT? If so, how you finding it? You can use it without a midi host right? How does it deal (or not deal) with data jumps when changing patterns?
Ok... That! Was fkkkkkin impressive.. I just received my octatrack a day ago and it feels SOO forboding. This video really made me feel inspired to delve deep. I already own an analog 4, and it took me a good couple months to feel confident with it, but i have a sneaky suspicion I'll be finding new ways to use the 8T in like... A year! You seem like you really have the hang of this beast. I would love to see a video where you utilize it more for song production, rather than live performance. (I fully realize that the OT is best suited for performance, but i think I'm going to use it to get crazy in my songs)
@@dennisschmidt3041 hello Dennis, it's just the same as with every other parameter mapped to a scene: go to MIX (not sure what key combo on MK1) -> hold scene (A or B) and while holding it turn DIR parameter. it'll behave the same as XVOL or LVL on a track
Hey all, I’m missing something and it must be simple because I can’t find anyone talking about it. My issue is that my flex machine on 6 is silent while it is recording. For the first part of this video, the icon for his flex track on 6 shows a plus sign while recording. At approximately 5:29 the icon for the flex track on 6 changes to a plus sign with a play symbol while recording (indicating overdub). This allows us to still hear the recorded version on 6 with track 5 muted while it’s recording the modified patch. I think it has to do with my playback trigs and recording trigs on track 6 but I’m stumped. Any help for this OT noob would be greatly appreciated!
Okay good news, one more session and I was able to figure it out. Turns out I had set a trig on t6 while I was in the record setup menu. Once I cleared the record trig I was able to get the recording working as desired. Anyway, I wanted to share in case anyone was stuck like I was.
At 4:10 everything works exactly the same, except that i can still hear the incoming signal when T5 & T6 are muted. Can anybody help me with that please?
Such a fantastic and well explainded video. I was always containing myself to send my gear directly to the OT as I have a mixer for that but I think that sending few of them can definitely bring more creativity in the workflow. Thanks man !
Great Video Man! Thanks for taking the time to show that. Cool idea.. Could we essentially run 3 pairs of these tracks. (1 thru & 1 flex X3) to operate as a 3 track looper (without overdubs) rather than using the forever pain in the ass PickUp machines? Get my drift? Or am I missing something?
This one is it. This made me going to buy an OT, this is the workflow I want. Going to sell a bunch of unused gear, and the DT and get an OT. This seems so much fun!
I purchased an OT Mk II in April of this year. I turned it on, verified that it was working, and put it back in the box. It knows I'm here. Some instruments I give names to, but this one is an 'It.' I'm afraid of It, and It knows this. Your videos are very helpful, however. I might just hold onto It.
Lmfao 😂...it only does what you tell it to do...unless you give it free will...which you can totally do...then it will do whatever tf it wants...godspeed sir...
I feel this. I've had mine for almost a year, and my understanding of it comes in bursts. Every time I think i'm going to get rid of it, I have a new breakthrough.
I'm stuck. So everything seems to be exactly as shown here, but when I hit Rec3 with T6 selected I do see the plus sign to indicate it's recording but after it's done there's no audio in T6.
Can anyone help me understand why sometimes the recording indicator in the Rec1 setup goes out of time of the playback indicator and doesn't fully record the set length of loop? It's really confusing. Also do I need to press Rec1 to activate the loop record or do I just need to put a trig on beat 1.
Hey! I wonder why but my flex machine record is a little bit late, which means it’s unsynchronized. Meanwhile the thru is on clock. I can see the recording arrow (in rec set up) is behind the loop arrow. Help pleaaase ! 😅
Hey Ricky, I know you also have an MPC setup. I have an old MPC1000 which I've used on and off over the years, but more for composing. I find it a little stiff for live looping, or sampling. It's true that once you have everything set up, then just pressing go, moving through patterns etc, and playing along to it is fine (BTW, I'm a saxophonist). However, I'm looking for something that I can use 'live' to loop, create tracks live/on-the-fly, sequences, etc. I also have an old Akai Remix 16, which is fun, but a little to time consuming to really use live - if you want to develop interesting ideas on it (unless you're Jan Bang). So, I'd be curious to have some comparisons (or suggestions) between an MPC and an Octatrack, if you have some time. Thanks in advance.
Hey ricky great video ! Sadly I followed step by step but my octatrack mkII never records anything. So frustrating. I searched for 6 months now and it never worked ^^
One of the reasons OT has been such a chore to learn is the fact that there are tons of different controls for the volume of any given audio source multiplied by 16 scenes that can adjust and control all of them. So at first I’d go to play or record something but couldn’t hear it and get very confused and frustrated as to why. There is so so so much freedom at the price of complexity.
when I press stop on my octatrack it doesn't pause/turn yellow like he did around 18 minutes in. I'm not able to have inputs "let it run" , they just stop. Not sure why
Do you need to use 1 track for incoming audio of hardware and another whole track to record it? You can't just record the audio in on the channel it comes in on? So you need 2 tracks to record incoming audio from hardware and then route channels to one another? I always assumed you can just record loop of incoming audio? Appreciate your time...time...yeah I am at like 5:00 mark I am referencing
Awesome been looking for a way to sample and play modular gear with my Octatrack. Since I have the OT and A4, saves me money on modular to get just a VCO, VCF, EG and utilities. I sample my Make Noise 0-coast into my Octatrack and love it. Plus can use the sample drums and just play with few cheap modules.
I do this, but sometimes I’ll do it on my master track (T8). You can fade in some pretty crazy effects too that way and capture some pseudo-automation that way.
@@juliomontes5525 record your master track (t8) into a recorder buffer which will allow you to play it back on any other track. Makes it simple to fade between performances.
@@andrij.demianczuk gotcha...I am trying to shy away from using T8 as master and use it for another Flex machine. This setup is used for recording purposes only.
Thanks Ricky! The only problem is when I play my sequence it automatically starts to record and keeps recording. I set up everything exactly as you so I think it must be something in my settings that tells OT to record when playing a sequence. Strange...
This is what I was wondering as well! Obv no slider on the Digi but I THINK could still use the trick of sampling from live modular, switch to that sample assigned to a track, then switch back to live. If done during a breakdown, the transition would not be too jarring. Do I have that right? Anyone tried this?
I'm such a dummy, I thought the REC1, REC2, and REC3 were separate sampling methods and not an ordered process you needed all three for 😭don't ask me how long I've had an Octatrack for...Now I actually know how to live loop, thank God for Ricky Tinez!!
Don’t forget to have record quick mode on for this to work. Project > system > personalize > record quick mode
Whoa! is this an MK2 thing? Or did i never come across it on my MK1 haha. Thanks for that info, i love using this option!
I was scratching my head on why hitting rec3 was doing nothing. Thank you!
Damn… doubting myself for 2 hours
Thank you SOOOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS COMMENT. Jesus, was going nuts there for moment!!
Bless you! You wonderful human!
That under one second switch from “super simple” to “I really hope that makes sense” has me in splits 😂
Your statement “Track 6 which is scene B for 13” sums up the Octatrack experience in a nutshell. Nice work as always.
“You already read the title, let’s not waste any time..”. 👍👍 for this alone 😎
then he plays an intro bumper! ;)
Yo at 10:20 you're like "if you set the scene volume to min you can't hear the fx on the scene" which is true - unless you have the scene volume at min but the scene amp vol up - which effectively creates three regimes of sound with an additional one in the middle of the crossfader (Scene A: no fx, Middle: partial FX and same volume, Scene B: no volume). This is because of the linear amp vol being summed with the non-linear crossfade volume
If you are lost at 4:13 because the "+" actually does not appear and the recording doesn't not start, it's because @Ricky uses a shortcut that you have to enable in Project menu > System menu > Personalize menu > Record Quick Mode: TRUE.
Also, If QREC is OFF, go to AED to start recording by pressing REC3 (but that's not always required, couldn't understand why, sometimes it works outside of AED too, sometimes not)
incredible usage scenario. thank *YOU* the elektron sequencer is causing a paradigm shift in my brain. it all started after my first experience with an elektron - the model cycles.
This is exactly how I use mine .... It just took me a long time to understand how to get there ! Great to have a tutorial focused on just this aspect.
Great tips and tutorial!
Quick reference for those using the Octatrack MKI: You arm the recorder for internal "input" by pressing the track key + MIDI key. So in this case T6 + MIDI.
Why mine is recording over and over again in a loop, not just once?
@@fizmo303 did you get an answer ?
@@fizmo303 check your RLEN make sure it’s set to the number of steps in your loop. Also check that you have Loop: off in your recording setup 1. This took me about an hour of rewinding the vid to figure out too😂
For me literally the tutorial I gained the most fun out of in a very long time. Thanks for all the time you put into your channel. Very much appreciated.
Excellent post! I've had my Octatrack for about 2 months and have got the foundations for sampling, Parts, Patterns and Scenes down. I wasn't sure how to create a smooth transition and this helped immensely! Thanks for spreading the knowledge!
I’ve owned an Octatrack for about a month now and I actually understood most of what you were doing...as always a great explanation and video with inspirational choons too!
Dude thank you for this!. out of the dozens of videos I've watched "teaching" the live loop setup, yours is the only one to include all necessary steps. when i follow the other vids, my loops end up overdubbing at every new cycle pass. cheers! Im rocking this new OT real hard all of the sudden!
The end of that jam got so wild! bloody loved it
Seeing practical applications like this in action is SO useful. The routing is super easy to understand.
I've been using this technique for a long time, and this is clearest explanation of it I have seen. Very good video.
I have started to lose count of the number of times I have come back to this video just for the jam the end. What an awesome jam Ricky!
Thanks for this. Just got one of these and am trying to get my head around the possibilities. Normally good at going through the manual and being good. But this thing is deep as hell and everyone seems to use it in a different way.
One of the best jams I have ever seen tbh
I get it. A super helpful way to dj between modular sequences just like mixing two songs like the good old days by cueing something before the crowd hears it. I always believed that Eurorack needs some better way to cue things like the way you're doing it. I'm experimenting with something like you're doing with a make noise Rosie and a synthwerks sp-1p crossfading module and stackable cables. Very fun indeed but I think I need to implement the sampling capabilities of the Octatrack in my set up somehow. Thanks for the video.
There's so much you can do with an octatrack, your videos on it are great, I've still got so much learn!
I am looking forward to everyone of your Octatrack videos!
I‘ve been thinking about buying an mk1 for the last months....
stop thinking, get one :) I was in that boat, then I just had to. No looking back now!
i own a mk 1 for ages. its the first hardware i bought new, the first unit i wanted to throw out of the window too.... hahaha. you wont regret if you have enough skin and fat for the bumps of learning. they make it unique since the posabillities are so broad!
tva tva this motivates me even more to buy it but I already knew I will have me moments of frustration with it haha
It will be my first piece of hardware besides my electric piano and guitar.. thanks for your answer, was it a good decision to buy the Octatrack as the first hardware?
@@malteschulz6851, I've been watching a lot of vids on it before I took the plunge and bought it. I'm quite a technically minded person so watched many vids before I discovered the scope of what it can do. That way, when it arrived, I was already slightly familiar with it. I had a plan of what I wanted to do with a piece of kit and figured it could be done on this beast (rather than sticking to Ableton), now the doors are open and I'm more inspired everyday. Plus, having a piece of hardware is making me do things I'd never do on a computer. Fantastic!
Dilbotronic ok i never really hear about someone regretting buying the Octatrack so I might safe like 2 months more and get one :)
Thanks for your answer, it motivates me! I would like to use some kind of midi mixer for the 8 tracks with some encoders so I can control the levels of the tracks, that should be possible with a normal midi mixer right?
Man, that jam in the end was sick!!!! I´m waiting for my octatrack to arrive and will come back to this video probably a 100 times until I´m able to pull off something like that!!
agreed
Ive had the Octatrack for well over a year and its amazing still learning what all it can do. Terrific video and well explained. Great job man!
2 mins in, and this is already the video of my OT dreams! Thanks Ricky!
hey this is awesome! but i cant seem to get my recording track to stop overdubbing. same settings as you i think but any ideas here?
When you are editing the record functions. Make sure you don’t have a step in the sequencer. If you enter in a step in the sequencer while you were editing the recording parameters you were telling it to continuously record every time it hits that step
Ricky Tinez did the damn trick thanks mang stay safe in these wild times
🤣loved your response to the jam at the end
Your enthusiasm sells everything you show. Thanks for the great videos :)
Damn, that *was* a lot of fun - gettin' a little Dataline there at the end! Thanks for the knowledge.
That jam at the end is the best one I’ve seen you do. So great
Love the tips as well, really really useful
On the mk1, the internal light is near the midi/part button if I’m not mistaken - at least that is the light I used to see if the audio is clipping.
awesome setup tip! got mine couple weeks ago, these kinda tricks are really helping to demystify the octatrack approach
that was a wicked jam at the end there ricky....too dope!
Holy shit that jam was soooo good! You experience with the octatrack really shows, it is a blast to watch!
The end of this jam had me hitting the thizz so damn hard, holy shit. What a jam.
Hey Ricky, this vid is seriously awesome. Very useful. Could you please make a few more like this? For Octatrack learners like me this helps massively.
Seems super helpful for live modular performance, to not get a loud unexpected pitch over the main speaker’s
Another wicked jam sesh Ricky! Thanks!
Are you going to do a vid explaining the new intellijel box? :D
Damn! This was fun. Best tutorial of the OT. I am gassing very hard now! Love it man!
Badass man. I have been considering an Octatrack but haven't wanted to dive into a mega tutorial just to decide if I need one. Learned alot just now. Thanks! Now I want one... Sigh.
Ricky, do you have a video using the Octatrack and actually showing your gain staging "volumes/gain" when using the Octatrack with say Circuit and Digitakt and a synth......I see confusion on what do with levels of all the devices in establishing levels but maintain a good headphone signal and have good signal going out with audio from those things coming in.
I've been making drone jams for the last month and have an OT arriving soon. This is exactly the method I have been looking for. Thanks a lot!
More Octatrack.
Cause I still don't know how to use mine...
We need Octatrack October is what we need.
Looking forward to the new version of octaedit out soon...
Lmfao 😭
Any tutorials would be great on the octatrack mk2 - your videos are so clear and enjoyable!
@@robertsyrett1992 I need to do a series of tutorials. Love mine and took a year of reading the manual and trying to learn it. Still learning. So powerful. Ultimate sampler/sequencer.
have you already done a video on that modular? looks nifty
Thanks for the explanaition.. and that final permorfance, kick asses!
Thanks for this one, buddy! Now I gotta figure out how the midi tracks interact with whats going on with the recording and/or crossfader, so many options...
cue mutes master, how are you listening to the cue audio before you bring it in, headphones?
Yea headphones is pretty much the only way I think
I‘m glad, that I have an Octateack, but I think you sold me on this WMD filter, it sounds gorgeous
the teacher! been looking for a video like this in a looong time, appreciate it man, and my ears definitely appreciate that jam✌🏼
That is a nasty little jam at the end there. Truly inspiring. Still getting to grips with my Octatrack after some years but this gives me the motivation to keep going! Nice work.
Still keep coming back to this video just to listen to the jam with the beyonce sample at the end!! Love it!
Damn! That last bit was dope as hell! Happy accidents!
Great stuff! Just got a Mk1 and this gave me some much needed direction.
Ha, do'h. This solves my levels problem w/ transitions... I've been recording from the ins instead of the thru track. 🤦🏻♂️ Thank you!
Bought one of your T-shirts, absolutely love it! Thanks!
Dude!!! The last performance awesome! The best! And thnks you for this video.... because that's exactly my future plan! Live gigs with My Octatrack, beat step and my Modular! So is das correcty.... I can cue my stuff on the headphones and mudlate my stuff bevor I go back from my recorded loop
to the main sound of my modul master sound?
Greetings from Germany
That's exactly how it can be done
Are you using the Beatstep to control OT? If so, how you finding it? You can use it without a midi host right? How does it deal (or not deal) with data jumps when changing patterns?
Man goes off at the end there damn bro
Ok... That! Was fkkkkkin impressive.. I just received my octatrack a day ago and it feels SOO forboding. This video really made me feel inspired to delve deep. I already own an analog 4, and it took me a good couple months to feel confident with it, but i have a sneaky suspicion I'll be finding new ways to use the 8T in like... A year! You seem like you really have the hang of this beast. I would love to see a video where you utilize it more for song production, rather than live performance. (I fully realize that the OT is best suited for performance, but i think I'm going to use it to get crazy in my songs)
Great tutorial. New to the Octatrack and was wondering how to do this. Thanks!
your voice is reallly chilll. your explination dito! i like your help ricky Tinez!! ( i own a mk1 tho) but it still helped me!
thaank you very much!!!
Gets really good from about 15mins, good work, really enjoyed this jam.
It just gets better and better as it goes on, love how filthy it gets.
did you know you can map DIR settings for AB/CD inputs in MIX section to scenes? thus you don't need THRU track
hey ivin, could you elaborate on how that might work please? :) I'd love to know
@@dennisschmidt3041 hello Dennis, it's just the same as with every other parameter mapped to a scene: go to MIX (not sure what key combo on MK1) -> hold scene (A or B) and while holding it turn DIR parameter. it'll behave the same as XVOL or LVL on a track
Good call, but then you might enter sound level differences, don‘t you?
Hey all, I’m missing something and it must be simple because I can’t find anyone talking about it. My issue is that my flex machine on 6 is silent while it is recording.
For the first part of this video, the icon for his flex track on 6 shows a plus sign while recording. At approximately 5:29 the icon for the flex track on 6 changes to a plus sign with a play symbol while recording (indicating overdub). This allows us to still hear the recorded version on 6 with track 5 muted while it’s recording the modified patch. I think it has to do with my playback trigs and recording trigs on track 6 but I’m stumped. Any help for this OT noob would be greatly appreciated!
Okay good news, one more session and I was able to figure it out. Turns out I had set a trig on t6 while I was in the record setup menu. Once I cleared the record trig I was able to get the recording working as desired. Anyway, I wanted to share in case anyone was stuck like I was.
At 4:10 everything works exactly the same, except that i can still hear the incoming signal when T5 & T6 are muted. Can anybody help me with that please?
That’s some pretty hardcore techno sounds in that jam 🧬
Hardcore techno is something else, but it was awesome acidy - what eurorack filter was that by the way?
Such a fantastic and well explainded video. I was always containing myself to send my gear directly to the OT as I have a mixer for that but I think that sending few of them can definitely bring more creativity in the workflow. Thanks man !
Great Video Man!
Thanks for taking the time to show that. Cool idea..
Could we essentially run 3 pairs of these tracks. (1 thru & 1 flex X3) to operate as a 3 track looper (without overdubs) rather than using the forever pain in the ass PickUp machines?
Get my drift? Or am I missing something?
This is possible, yes!
Do 4 pairs, use main/cue out for external fx sends
This one is it. This made me going to buy an OT, this is the workflow I want. Going to sell a bunch of unused gear, and the DT and get an OT. This seems so much fun!
I had the same response. this brought it home!
How come at 4:04 -ish the high note of your sequence starts around beat 1, and at 5:00 -ish the same high note starts around beat 4?
Octatrack tut series. I’m stuck between getting this or a digitak
I purchased an OT Mk II in April of this year. I turned it on, verified that it was working, and put it back in the box. It knows I'm here. Some instruments I give names to, but this one is an 'It.' I'm afraid of It, and It knows this. Your videos are very helpful, however. I might just hold onto It.
Lmfao 😂...it only does what you tell it to do...unless you give it free will...which you can totally do...then it will do whatever tf it wants...godspeed sir...
@@shatteredsquare Thanks. I might need it.
I feel this. I've had mine for almost a year, and my understanding of it comes in bursts. Every time I think i'm going to get rid of it, I have a new breakthrough.
that's some powerful gear
boy is it complicated
Fair play. Great tutorial and great jam at the end!
I'm stuck.
So everything seems to be exactly as shown here, but when I hit Rec3 with T6 selected I do see the plus sign to indicate it's recording but after it's done there's no audio in T6.
so awesome man!! Jam at the end.... so good. Keep sharing!
Niiice, looking forward to more Octatrack action (and worklow explanations as well)
Can anyone help me understand why sometimes the recording indicator in the Rec1 setup goes out of time of the playback indicator and doesn't fully record the set length of loop? It's really confusing. Also do I need to press Rec1 to activate the loop record or do I just need to put a trig on beat 1.
Hey! I wonder why but my flex machine record is a little bit late, which means it’s unsynchronized. Meanwhile the thru is on clock. I can see the recording arrow (in rec set up) is behind the loop arrow. Help pleaaase ! 😅
Super helpful thanks for laying down the knowledge Ricky!
Hey Ricky, I know you also have an MPC setup. I have an old MPC1000 which I've used on and off over the years, but more for composing. I find it a little stiff for live looping, or sampling. It's true that once you have everything set up, then just pressing go, moving through patterns etc, and playing along to it is fine (BTW, I'm a saxophonist). However, I'm looking for something that I can use 'live' to loop, create tracks live/on-the-fly, sequences, etc. I also have an old Akai Remix 16, which is fun, but a little to time consuming to really use live - if you want to develop interesting ideas on it (unless you're Jan Bang). So, I'd be curious to have some comparisons (or suggestions) between an MPC and an Octatrack, if you have some time. Thanks in advance.
Nicest tutorial on the web :-)
This is what I was searching for. Great tutorial!
Great timing man, just bought the octatrack this week, with live looping and mangling at the top of my list. This is very useful, cheers!!!
Any idea why my flex track sample is playing briefly and the recording is a high pitched hum?
Hey ricky great video ! Sadly I followed step by step but my octatrack mkII never records anything. So frustrating. I searched for 6 months now and it never worked ^^
Are you still stuck? Watch ezbot‘s or the messy desk‘s video, Cuckoo or Kenny Zhao are also strong
@@el_dani thanks for the answer man :) Sold my octatrack end of 2020 :) went finally full modular ^^
One of the reasons OT has been such a chore to learn is the fact that there are tons of different controls for the volume of any given audio source multiplied by 16 scenes that can adjust and control all of them. So at first I’d go to play or record something but couldn’t hear it and get very confused and frustrated as to why. There is so so so much freedom at the price of complexity.
can it overdub? how can loop length be changed (time, bars)?
when I press stop on my octatrack it doesn't pause/turn yellow like he did around 18 minutes in. I'm not able to have inputs "let it run" , they just stop. Not sure why
Men! You are really killing both machines. Awesome video
gonna have to watch this one a few times. Probably need to read the octa manual 10 more times.
Merlin’s Manual.. that’s the one
Hi ricky get a bome box and an old usb midi controller with a lot of buttons and programme your own scenes per button. Easiest way to controlle the ot
Do you need to use 1 track for incoming audio of hardware and another whole track to record it? You can't just record the audio in on the channel it comes in on? So you need 2 tracks to record incoming audio from hardware and then route channels to one another? I always assumed you can just record loop of incoming audio? Appreciate your time...time...yeah I am at like 5:00 mark I am referencing
RUSTiK Inc How would he crossfade between the live audio and the recorded audio if he was only using a single track?
@@sterigma555 ?
He'll yea this started to blast off. Nice vid
Awesome been looking for a way to sample and play modular gear with my Octatrack. Since I have the OT and A4, saves me money on modular to get just a VCO, VCF, EG and utilities. I sample my Make Noise 0-coast into my Octatrack and love it. Plus can use the sample drums and just play with few cheap modules.
I do this, but sometimes I’ll do it on my master track (T8). You can fade in some pretty crazy effects too that way and capture some pseudo-automation that way.
How do you play back if it’s on the master track?
@@juliomontes5525 record your master track (t8) into a recorder buffer which will allow you to play it back on any other track. Makes it simple to fade between performances.
@@andrij.demianczuk gotcha...I am trying to shy away from using T8 as master and use it for another Flex machine. This setup is used for recording purposes only.
Thanks Ricky! The only problem is when I play my sequence it automatically starts to record and keeps recording. I set up everything exactly as you so I think it must be something in my settings that tells OT to record when playing a sequence. Strange...
Try loop off! Took me a bit to realize I didn’t have it set up right.
Can this be done with the Digitakt?
This is what I was wondering as well! Obv no slider on the Digi but I THINK could still use the trick of sampling from live modular, switch to that sample assigned to a track, then switch back to live. If done during a breakdown, the transition would not be too jarring. Do I have that right? Anyone tried this?
Not with the seamless transition
Cool performance
🖤 your videos, greetings from Puerto Rico!
Dope jam in the end man!