Hello,
Many thanks from the aquarium! Rewatched your Analog Keys sequencer tutorial yesterday and have been on the couch with the AK since. Will Octa be next?
Many thanks from the aquarium! Rewatched your Analog Keys sequencer tutorial yesterday and have been on the couch with the AK since. Will Octa be next?
Octa is the new Keys 
Ha ha… Seriously, I like the Octatrack more and more. Playing slices live I feel is a key to funness.
Looking forward to watching this later, @cuckoo - thanks! I’ve been rather unmusical lately and I keep thinking I should have a play with the Octatrack, so your timing is perfect
Hey, much enjoyed the vid! Even though I don’t have an Octa I watched the whole one ; ) Good to see my old vinyl in action! Btw I have the same portable record player, it’s a Numark right?
Hey, much enjoyed the vid! Even though I don't have an Octa I watched the whole one ; ) Good to see my old vinyl in action! Btw I have the same portable record player, it's a Numark right?
He he. It’s a chill album! Once in a while it’s nice to remind myself about how nice it is to listen to vinyl mixes. It’s like you can’t mix too hard for vinyls. You have to stay more open… I’ve heard compressed iTunes mixes on vinyls… It can sound really bad. Yes, it’s the cheapest of the Numark’s. The brushed metal top started to come off, so I just cut it up and took it off.
Great tutorial, @cuckoo! I really like how you’ve made it to be as accessible as possible - much appreciated as whenever I’ve had a break from the Octa, I feel I need to relearn it. A 45 min refresher course of the basics is a good way to get back into it. And actually, you go into a good breadth of functionality (sampling directly from two sources, chromatic, metronome, lots of shortcuts, editing, saving, record buffers, bpm - loads of stuff). Also love the appearance of Mix Rasta’s record too! Looks like you really know that thing now - makes me want to invest the time to get up to speed Big hats off to you cuckoo!
A big “thank you” from me too! Your first one was great and I’m sure this will be too. I’d love this to become a series - you explain things so well.
Thanks @yoof and @5StarNomad
This is what I’m planning to do. Easy travelling one-machine gig coming up next year. I know I’ve asked many times about help for booking gigs, but it’s becoming a reality very soon!I’d love a midi-tutorial for Octa. I’ve been desperately trying to make it get along with my Pro 2, but somehow its not working…
Would love some Pro 2 tuts as well, but yeah
It's many steps, and since people have a lot of external gear, it's gonna be a mess to explain all of that, ha ha ha. But yeah, it makes sense. One recording, auto slice, done. Do you know if recorder trigs can expire? I don't want the recorder trig to record again, when it loops. I've only tried tecorder trigs a few times, but since I didn't understand how to make them not record the next time, I kind of left them.Hey @cuckoo my dear, here is a suggestion for a next tutorial...If you desire to cover the MIDI side of OT (which I use a LOOOOT, it's so cool to play Shruthi+Volcas+Blofeld and even OP-1), one interesting thing could be, at some point, to show how to create easy sample chains within the OT.Like : trigger the different sounds you need, one per step, at low speed, in a number that can be easily grid-sliced (say 16 steps for instance)Then record with synced transport...Not that hard, but require to master several different aspects of the OT...Now this is a big workflow enhancer once you master this IMO, so it's worth the pain.If you can show this in a pedagogical way, hats off !;)
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@cuckoo Yes the recorder trigs are actually more powerful than direct recording if you use it correctly, because you use the sync to get rid of further trim sample manipulation.