Yo @RickyTinez! For method two, there’s a setting you can disable that resets the arm when you double stop (panic). This is ace because then you don’t have to disarm your one shot trigs all the time. It’s in the personalize menu to disable stop-stop arm! Love ya brother!
i remember when this video came out and i read your comment on it basically getting your mind blown. i concur when i saw him do that it blew my mind as well and i've been meaning to go back and remember how he did it. im glad you're making a video on it.
The "annoying" way seems so much more usefull, since you don't want your stems to start with the tail of the previous pattern. Also it is almost the same as the live record setup, that for met is one of the main Octatrack features.
what's ricky up to here.. getting his head around octatrack functionality for a new release?? OctaTAKT? Seriously though, fantastic demo and inspiring too. Look forward to trying this process, allows you to have all your jams available in your DAW without having to individually record the tracks out, workflow improvement for sure!! Lastly.. Octatrack Mk3 should have ADAT ports - allowing you to increase the number of inputs and outputs. Then a dedicated Octa Accessory for Inputs and outputs. IMAGINE!!!
i usually have no clue whats going on in these videos, but enjoy watching them anyways, its really cool to see someone know their gear so well. i mostly make music 100% in the box but this is awesome
Cool method… i always fascinates me how Elektron was able to design whole Octa engine structure and feature set the way that people can find still new and new smart way how to utilise them, how to combine them in way which almost certainly didn come to the mind when they were Octatrack designing 😂 Really timeless device, absolute anomaly.
Not an octatrack user (love DT tho), but still learning. This entire video touches upon the stuff i am running into: track stem loops or try to jam together an arrangement on hardware and track that in. Plus: include FX or add after tracking? Example: you were struggling a bit with the delay on the vocal. You actually need 3 versions: a start loop (no delay over start), a middle loop (delay from previous loop carries over) and an endloop (tails). When I build loops I don't know yet whether playing with the FX is going to be one of those elements that changes while the track progresses. Also, DT doesn't export the FX over overbridge (right?). So this is my second dilemma: If I add a lot of FX (eg. trigger delay/reverb sends) i can't export and my tracked stems sound really different from what it sounded like on the hardware boxes. So, I see two options: 1: kind of build the track up in the boxes, jam, record. Maybe you leave all the filters open so you have something to play with. Downside: you need to get most of the stuff right in one jam. (Not entirely, you can grab stem loops from the recording off course) 2: record loops only and arrange in DAW (the way you do it). Downside: loops can't really change over time because it's a stem. All you can do is add fx, but all the stuff like playing with synth envelopes, random notes, transpositions etc. get lost in this process Would be great to here you talk a bit abouta how your preference for method 2 came to be. Did the speed of that workflow have the upper hand, do you mindfully choose the repetitiveness of the loops over the option to let them evolve, is it related to genre, am I missing strong arguments, etc.
Thanks Ricky - great to finally understand and remember the rearm feature - gave me lots of headaches in the past! 😂do you use mostly static or flex tracks? Cheers
To streamline renaming your recordings, get Lupas Rename, you can have the program change a particular section of file name to something else. so you can get your date and time and change that to your song name and include bpm in a second.
That’s a really helpful technique! I really wish you could copy and paste patterns/songs in transfer to make a live set out of things you’ve made in projects. Otherwise you have to start jumping projects mid-set (or have multiple machines 😬)
Hey @rickytinez thanks so much for this video! I would like to know, if you now make a few finish tracks, is there a possibility to change the banks between the Projects? Because after a few tracks the memory of 128 Slots is some kind of full from the recordings. Thanks in advance! S.
It's crazy man, I can watch a Digitakt video and feel like I've learned something... every OT video I watch makes me feel more insecure about my ability to retain information... hahaahaa I'm definitely getting something from Elektron this year, though. Actually between the OT and DT2 once I learn more about them both. Most likely DT2, though.
EZBOT template uses some record track to record some things... but it has a lot a neig machines... so you only have to record 2 outputs for this method (T3 and T7)
There’s one guy who needs mega props that hasn’t been seen in a while… Rusty OHara … maker of Octaedit.
Yo @RickyTinez! For method two, there’s a setting you can disable that resets the arm when you double stop (panic). This is ace because then you don’t have to disarm your one shot trigs all the time. It’s in the personalize menu to disable stop-stop arm! Love ya brother!
A lifesaver! I’m turning that on right now!
Always love seeing new Octatrack content
Excellent work!
Holy moly. This solves my biggest pain point with the OT in my 8 years using it. Thanks for sharing.
i remember when this video came out and i read your comment on it basically getting your mind blown. i concur when i saw him do that it blew my mind as well and i've been meaning to go back and remember how he did it. im glad you're making a video on it.
Yea Ive been using it since and It took a bit of figuring out so I figured I might as well teach it since I went through it haha
Octatrack is the best piece of equipment I have, it keeps inspiring me day in, day out. I love it so much!
The "annoying" way seems so much more usefull, since you don't want your stems to start with the tail of the previous pattern. Also it is almost the same as the live record setup, that for met is one of the main Octatrack features.
Octatrack Forever
such a very natural way of making music.. after inputting all that data the creativity juices are just oozing!
Extra cool
what's ricky up to here.. getting his head around octatrack functionality for a new release?? OctaTAKT? Seriously though, fantastic demo and inspiring too. Look forward to trying this process, allows you to have all your jams available in your DAW without having to individually record the tracks out, workflow improvement for sure!! Lastly.. Octatrack Mk3 should have ADAT ports - allowing you to increase the number of inputs and outputs. Then a dedicated Octa Accessory for Inputs and outputs. IMAGINE!!!
i usually have no clue whats going on in these videos, but enjoy watching them anyways, its really cool to see someone know their gear so well. i mostly make music 100% in the box but this is awesome
Cool method… i always fascinates me how Elektron was able to design whole Octa engine structure and feature set the way that people can find still new and new smart way how to utilise them, how to combine them in way which almost certainly didn come to the mind when they were Octatrack designing 😂 Really timeless device, absolute anomaly.
Только будет провалом, если они сделают oktatreck 3 и добавят только одну функцию over bridge
seriously lol sometimes I'll find a feature and be like why did they add this? who is it for? then 2 years later it end sup saving my life hahaha
Thanks!
Thank you!
Love you man. Big respect to the OG Tinez, citations were dope too.
Thank you so much for this Ricky!
Wanted to do this for years. Thank you Ricky!
that's clever! i've been doing stuff like this one track at time, i can definitely see good use cases for both of these methods
Yooo, this is tight. Respect Ricky 🙏 I saw Jon do this ina video and wondered exactly how he did it, so thanks for this.
Yeah, I had to like reverse engineer the video to figure it out exactly and I think I got it!
This is brilliant. If I knew it is possible I would probably got Octa earlier. It’s even better (for me) than overbridge.
So useful! Wow!
Thanks for the tip! ❤
eyyyyyy! excellent stuff Ricky :)
Not an octatrack user (love DT tho), but still learning.
This entire video touches upon the stuff i am running into: track stem loops or try to jam together an arrangement on hardware and track that in. Plus: include FX or add after tracking?
Example: you were struggling a bit with the delay on the vocal. You actually need 3 versions: a start loop (no delay over start), a middle loop (delay from previous loop carries over) and an endloop (tails).
When I build loops I don't know yet whether playing with the FX is going to be one of those elements that changes while the track progresses. Also, DT doesn't export the FX over overbridge (right?).
So this is my second dilemma: If I add a lot of FX (eg. trigger delay/reverb sends) i can't export and my tracked stems sound really different from what it sounded like on the hardware boxes.
So, I see two options:
1: kind of build the track up in the boxes, jam, record. Maybe you leave all the filters open so you have something to play with.
Downside: you need to get most of the stuff right in one jam. (Not entirely, you can grab stem loops from the recording off course)
2: record loops only and arrange in DAW (the way you do it).
Downside: loops can't really change over time because it's a stem. All you can do is add fx, but all the stuff like playing with synth envelopes, random notes, transpositions etc. get lost in this process
Would be great to here you talk a bit abouta how your preference for method 2 came to be. Did the speed of that workflow have the upper hand, do you mindfully choose the repetitiveness of the loops over the option to let them evolve, is it related to genre, am I missing strong arguments, etc.
Ricky...... you sure YOU didn't create the Octatrack ? LOL......
Thanks Ricky - great to finally understand and remember the rearm feature - gave me lots of headaches in the past! 😂do you use mostly static or flex tracks? Cheers
brilliant
Always down for anything octatrack
You can turn off re-arming one shot trigs with the stop button in the Personalize menu.
no freaking way! that's amazing!
@@RickyTinez jaja, casa de herrero cuchillo de palo
To streamline renaming your recordings, get Lupas Rename, you can have the program change a particular section of file name to something else. so you can get your date and time and change that to your song name and include bpm in a second.
That’s a really helpful technique!
I really wish you could copy and paste patterns/songs in transfer to make a live set out of things you’ve made in projects.
Otherwise you have to start jumping projects mid-set (or have multiple machines 😬)
I saw the job makes beats video but I didn’t understand the method till now thnx
Best cameo ever, hilarious! 😊
hahaha!
Hey @rickytinez thanks so much for this video! I would like to know, if you now make a few finish tracks, is there a possibility to change the banks between the Projects? Because after a few tracks the memory of 128 Slots is some kind of full from the recordings.
Thanks in advance! S.
Let's talk about that track, daaammnnn bro.
Hahaha!
Ok, so it's official. Octatrack hype machine is starting - are we getting new Octatrack for christmas? :)
It's crazy man, I can watch a Digitakt video and feel like I've learned something... every OT video I watch makes me feel more insecure about my ability to retain information... hahaahaa
I'm definitely getting something from Elektron this year, though. Actually between the OT and DT2 once I learn more about them both. Most likely DT2, though.
to get a clean start with the first method, could you not start by playing the empty pattern and cue switching to it alongside the track recording?
Che Ricky, podes empujar la idea de que nos den la opcion de grabar directamente en la compact flash? We need machines for the record tracks :B
where did you get that white holder for your digitakt?
Finally ThX
Of course!
Magical… is this on EZBOT template?
EZBOT template uses some record track to record some things... but it has a lot a neig machines... so you only have to record 2 outputs for this method (T3 and T7)
but when new octatrack 🐸
Nice one. Big deal time saver.
I guess mk 1 owners like me have to use the annoying method, since it lacks the rec 3 button : /
Hold the track u want to record and press the midi button. That is our rec 3 button :B
rec 3 is our midi button :) OT1 4 life
@@pspslimhacks1 mk1 4tw... who wants the new sticky buttons?!