Busy jam with Elektron Octatrack MkII, Korg ARP Odyssey, Moog Sirin, Minitaur, OP-Z
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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A live, semi-improvised performance, all on hardware, and inspired by the return of a very busy schedule. I wrote this piece on the go, using the OP-Z and its brilliant master transpose function. And while the OP-Z's sounds have improved (they recently added two new synth engines), only one of the sounds was what I was looking for, so I expanded out to some hardware.
It was fun to put the Korg ARP Odyssey through its paces; that thing is wild and unpredictable as compared to the Sirin or Minitaur. It's easy to do some small tweaking and end up in bizarre territory.
And, as before, I used the Octatrack to tie the room together. All of the synths are routed into the Octatrack, and all effects come from via the OT's engines. It's incredible how its scenes can really shape a song and performance.
Elektron Octatrack MkII - Master clock, master effects, all synth effects, drums
Teenage Engineering OP-Z - Sequencing, warble pad
Moog Sirin - Arpeggio
Korg ARP Odyssey module - Melody
Moog Minitaur - Bass
Written and performed within a 48-hour period, and uploaded as is, with only a little compression/limiting on the master.
jayhosking.ban...
I'm literally crying, hearing this.... it... reminds me of... A dear dear friend, I, well our "gang" of old bandmembers, lost...Just when we all thought he was alright, again,- after a heavy round of depression..i have this naggin feeling, he would love life again, had he heard your music, - I know it's corny, but fuckit, that's how I feel....!
Your channel is criminally underrated !
There are very few synthheads on UA-cam who have what it takes to produce such subtle and well crafted pieces of music.
Keep it up man, big fan
Ill second that , in a BIG way !
that octatrack really ties the room together
Dude!
Oh men!, me encanta como te ha quedado el experimento. Lo he disfrutado como un niño.
and here i am again - crying my balls out .... thinking of .. my best friend ... why is it ... that the people we love , can so easily , be taken away ..... Thank you - Jay Hosking - for this hauntingly beautiful music - and for being you , the way you are being you ,- 😘
Really enjoyed this one! Love the explanations in the video too. Cheers from France.
You always blow me away....just amazing!
You make me believe those machines have little people in them who are playing the sounds and sequence.
The drums at the end felt and sounded like a real drummer. You do excellent work
What I love about your videos is not only do you really know the strengths and weakness of your gear, but you also have some of the most creative compositions. Really inspiring stuff !!
Great performance!! I love the song ❤️
Great use of the Octatrack ! It's such a powerful beast... Wonderful sounds coming from the Sirin too ! Love that machine !
amazing. please never stop making these. especially the octatrack ones
Awesome song. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain your process. I learned some new tricks and was inspired too. Please keep these types of videos coming. I just subscribed to your channel.
Every time I click on this channel I'm always surprised... taken on sonic rides to strange places in my heart wearing headphones..
I like how you tell what's going on. Good set.
Damn... this is brightening up my long dark commute home on a Friday!
You never fail to impress. Really masterful use of the capabilities of both the OP-Z and Octatrack.
Idk what you sold me more on the octatrack or the moog siren !!! Love this so much
Everything on your channel sound and feel great.
Dude this is absolutley stunning, beautiful work!
Very creative songwriting! Love this. So refreshing to hear something using the OT that isn't straight techno house or hiphop (i love that stuff tho). This is a fantastic arrangement, I especially love the drums. I've been trying similar acoustic samples and homebrew drum loops for exactly this. Very inspiring, well done!
Very cool and uplifting jam. Good work :)
Great piece! I really liked the rock out part about half way through the song. Very nice sounds you got out of the ARP!
Very nicely put together 😃👍
Thanks for the explanations :) Cool tune. You have neat style, it's different than a lot of "synth" music I've heard!
This was amazing! The arrangement struck me as especially brilliant.
Yeah man! There’s a real drive to this one. Making the best use of each bit of kit for sure
Add to this a New Musik singing style , like ”here come the people”
, and the dream of the early eighties will be fulfilled. Great, great music! Thank you.
Just subscribed, love this, you have some pretty cool gear. And I love the fade to black. Keep it up.
Another sonic master class from the professor! Nice jam! All the pieces come together nicely. I like how you use the Octatrack throughout these performances. Keep up the great work.
Coming up on the 1 year anniversary and I finally tracked those woody samples down
This track is incredible man
Wow that was something ! Really nice track !
Hi jay. Ive been checking your videos out for a while now. I really like what you do with the moog sirin and minature.
New sub here. Keep up the great tunes.
Incredible performance.
Dude you freaking smashed it. Absolutely lush.
Blown away. Sounds crazy.
thats great, love the drums and the arrangment!
Great stuff!
OMG ! ..Those Drums sound gourgous and TIGHT......... and THEN : 2:39 ! You have SUCH a DeadRinger on your hand there - at 2:39 ! That Shift will litterally wake the Dead !!! - Oh My Precarious GOD - in a Precarious Heaven - This..... THIS is Way too Beautiful.....The Professor did it again,- 😎
Very nice Jay. Those Octatrack drums sound fantastic.
I love your comments on the video, and the piece is great. Now I want that Odyssey (very cheap!).
Totally reasonable for what you get!
sick !! been binging your vids recently i love em (honestly one of the main reasons i got so interested in hardware synths, waiting for my volca fm to get here lmao)
this is sick! congrats!
This totally owns, what a lovely setup 🔥
This was beautiful.
This one is my favourite of yours, super smooth.
Cool video. I like the technical comments. I'll try myself changing parts in Octatrack, I haven't explored that function much yet.
wow! that was incredible! very inspiring
I didn't understand a thing about the Octatrack but this is beautiful nonetheless.
Beautifully done!
Love this electro, alt-rock vibe!
So damn good. So inspiring.
absolutely fantastic! Keep up the noodlings!
this is really good!
Oh waw, definitely a new fav!
Fantastic!
Absolute master class👏👏👏
Just amazing
Dude... instant Abo.
Really nice
Perfect!
sounds like a special level soundtrack from Celeste, amazing what you‘re doing „live“
Wow..nice job :)
To quote Keanu Reeves "Whoa....."
you never fail to impress .
keep on rockin' in the something something
wo wo wo! esto es excelente!
Schöne Sonntagsbescherung :-)!
very nice
Love it!
shazbot - that was pretty !
Very nice composition and performance!
Can you provide more insight on the drum samples you used and did you sequence them as one shots via the octatrack or as loops?
And what specificly makes you prefer the sequencing abilities of the Op-Z instead of the octatracks?
Drum samples are from a Woody Woodmansey pack, and they're chopped up loops. OP-Z lets you do master level transposition on all instruments at once, allowing for interesting and fast chord progressions, as well as unexpected results. And thanks!
@@JayHosking I see, thanks for the infos.
1:30 ...did I just come back from an alternate universe where everyone speaks modem?
Bravo! 👏👏👏
Great composition as always. I wanted an Odyssey back in the 70's but settled for minimoog model D. Maybe I'll get one now. Also thinking about OP-Z but afraid of its build quality, so many complaints have kept me away.
"settled" for a minimoog isn't an awful settling.
@@pleaswaite Yeah, I was 20 then in '74 and I took out a 3 year bank loan. Ha.
2:16 definitely awesome Part
Damn you're good!!
especially the Odyssey sounds lovely, let‘s hope the Barp 2600 achieves the same territory..
Great track, where are those drum samples from?
A Woody Woodmansey (Ziggy Stardust drummer) sample pack. And thanks!
Now, That Piece of info I can CERTAINLY use 📯🐱
Are the samples programmed or loops? Holy smokes that sounds good!
@@pagodaa100 Mostly loops, but sampled and chopped up a bit within the Octatrack.
I actually liked the effect around 1:30 ! That jam is very cool, love the upfront simple but deadly drum programming! Are they loops? Either way that's a perfect choice for synth pairing!
nice
Really into how dynamic the arrangement is! Would you mind giving a brief overview of how you're using your scenes here? It seems you're using them to mute specific tracks within the same pattern, but would love to hear more about your approach.
The scenes on Octatrack are very powerful, and allow you to tie any parameter value to a scene, so you can slide from one set of values to another. It would take a little too long to explain these, but I'm changing many parameters across these scenes, including sample and bit rate, distortion levels, amp envelopes, delay feedback, etc. One of these days I might do some tutorials but life is pretty busy at the moment. Thanks for the kind words!
@@JayHosking Oh yeah i'm an Octatrack user myself, I was curious how you specifically are using them because it seems you're doing that more frequently than you're using your patterns. I personally find it challenging to keep track of all the scenes, so I'm always curious how different people keep them clear.
@@KennyZhao Ah! My mistake, sorry. Yeah, I hardly touch patterns, but do lean into the scenes a lot. No secrets here on the scenes: I just do my best to memorize the location of a few of them and then take a pass at the song.
best set up haha
youre a genious
Hey Jay, so is the OP-Z sending midi info to all these machines? BTW...
I liked this 9 months ago and I still love.. dig the diminished chord
Kraut fest! Like it.
I'm not sure why you would prefer the OP-Z's sequencer to the OT's or why you think the fx aren't the greatest. I like both of those things quite a bit. However that was a lovely song, and it's nice to see all the synths working together.
I guess it's a taste thing but if this maybe sheds a light on it: the OT core is 10 years old and there have been many effects pedals that would do a better job of many of the things. I'm probably just going to stop doing the master bus thing with mine and get some outboard stuff. But yes, losing the scenes is way too painful. DSP is expensive. The OT would need a new core, it's likely to happen. And then when that happens and people say "oh, the OT FXs are better now!" maybe seeing what changed (technically and sonically) would be the answer here.
I think ultimately, it's a jack of all trades, master of none. I would never get rid of it. It's useful almost always. Idk about OP-Z sequencing out, I've only done it internally.
@@chris.dillon Yup! I have crossed that threshold as well, I'm never getting rid of it. Scenes are just the best thing ever. Crossfading complex aggregates of parameters is an almost unique feature, and if you treat the effects as building blocks rather than A/B them with DSP hog plugins you will find they completely hold their own in the sound design department.
I don't think it's really your thing, but I'd love for you to briefly explain how you've composed on OPZ, controlled the synths, and also then created the scenes... I don't get how it's all happening and being controlled live?
But I have to say, it really is great!
Hey, no worries. The OP-Z has a sequencer; I essentially wrote one pattern, copied that pattern, and used the master transpose function to turn those patterns into a chord progression. One sound came from the OP-Z, and the others were MIDI out (via oplab module) to Kenton MIDI Thru to the three synths. Those four audio sources were routed into the Octatrack, where effects/envelopes/scenes were applied; the Octatrack also handled drums. The Octatrack was the master clock, so when I pressed play on it, the sequence would start to play from the OP-Z. The Octatrack’s scenes are set up in advance based on my whims and trial & error of what sounds good. I think that’s all. Hope it’s helpful!
@@JayHosking Hey man, thanks for taking the time to write that out. That's made it very clear.
I think I need to do some research into the scenes feature! I feel like nobody else has shown it quite like you do - it can have an amazing impact on what's going on...
Keep putting your work out on here. It really is quite exceptional. 👍
What’s the drum sample? Fantastic!
By the way every thought about Patreon? Would love to support you more!
Was just perusing Patreon, actually. Trying to figure out what I can offer you (and other viewers) that would make it worth your while. Thanks so much for the offer of support!
The sample is from a Woody Woodmansey sample pack. (WW was the drummer for Bowie's Ziggy Stardust band.)
Jay Hosking
I mean basic ideas would be samples or showing how you made certain sounds. Maybe a bit more indepth breakdowns on how you certain machines. Other than that, I really enjoyed what you wrote about jamming with the drummer just a while back. Maybe just writing about how you approached some of your pieces. Honestly, you seem very well versed with your instruments so I think there’s definitely enough knowledge around for interesting content. The question is whether you also like creating stuff like that haha.
Damn, I thought so! you used a sample from that pack for that one reconstruction of that tune with the Octatrack and Deckard’s Dream, right? Need to get that pack, it’s too good.
@@SpaceDisco1 Lots of great ideas here! Thanks so much. I had been thinking about some of this already, so I appreciate hearing from you on it.
Good stuff!! Love the look of that Korg ARP Odyssey. Does it sound as good as it looks?
It really does. It’s also got an unusual architecture (as compared to modern subtractive synths) so you end up in some pretty unique territory.
How did you manage to fit Sam into the Octatrack 😜
Hah! Best laugh of the day
Hey put in Indy singer on that track it sounds really
Nice track! Is Odyssey your fresh purchase? Sounds very similar to A4 leads, but a little bit more "analog"
Yeah, the Odyssey definitely has some sonic overlap with other gear, but its panel/interface leads to some really unexpected places (mostly good and unique and musical, sometimes "laser beam" or "car alarm").
This is a brilliant use of the Octatrack as a mastering tool. Did you sequence the entire song in full-length on the OP-Z?
Yeah, all the sequencing except for the drums is being done by the OP-Z. It's just a single chord progression (albeit long) that loops. And thanks!
How did you get this "tape effect" modulation in the beginning of the video? Nice Jam! Octatrack looks amazing
Some of that sound is coming from an LFO on the OP-Z pad, and some of it is from sample- and bit-rate reduction from the Octatrack. And thanks!
@@JayHosking ok thank you! Octatrack definitely needed!
Very Aphex
kick back with the drums; halftime feel imo. other than that a great track. :)
Got a half-time track coming up in a few days, but thanks!
I had a bit of a similar thourght, the first time I took it for a spin - second time I got it, the upbeat "double time" makes perfect sense - I'm on 12th. Spin, and it just get better and better, a testament to a well crafted tune,-
Doing my research😀 yeah lol 4 vid...I am not worthy hehe
...are you a Session Player?
Consistently impressed by
your balance of Theoretical
Adherence & Raw Funk!
Inspiring! :]
Not a session player, no, but trying to dip my toes into collaborations this year (e.g. with acoustic drums). Thanks so much!
@@JayHosking may ye find many a Cooperative Stick Slinger,
with whom to make the Musics! :D
I wish any of the modern ARPs had presets. It’d make it more suitable for performance.
Tell Herbie that 😂 LMAO every time I see someone asking for presets on the Odyssey.
Wheres the fun in that
I’d love if we could keep it friendly, all.
Eric, I had a friend recently getting into synths, and his biggest impediment was the presets, in that the knobs and faders didn’t actually represent the sound. Presets can be super useful, I agree, but I’m a big fan of what-you-see-is-what-you-get. You’re certainly right that they’re useful for stage performance!
Jay Hosking this is where my take is fundamentally different. See, if you’re performing on stage or setting where you need a specific sound or close to it getting those faders exact while adjusting other gear is just silly. Presets are good to have as a jumping off point... too cool to use them Crolodon? Just don’t then.
Eric Liss I just thought it was funny because the Odyssey was billed as a performance oriented synth when it was introduced. Presets are cool man, love them on many of my synths, sooo nice to have patch recall!!! That’s why it’s so nice and funky fresh to have the Odyssey be as it is, no presets, what you see is what you get.
sounds like a special level soundtrack from Celeste, amazing what you‘re doing „live“
nice