I’ve been getting back into my Elektron based setup and made a track I wanted to share with my fine friends at operator-1. Perhaps we could all use a place to share our creations on other gear. Hopefully this list grows long and strong.
https://soundcloud.com/lymtronics/all-day
This track was made with the octatrack, analog RYTM, and analog 4. Also one sound from a nord lead. It’s a trap influenced beat arranged in and recorded back into the octatrack. I recently had a revelation to use my octatrack more like an op-1 and record full arrangements to the flex recorders and further process a long audio file and drop the wav straight to my computer.
Nice track, very pleasant to listen to!
I did something similar with this track, recording parts from a Machinedrum, Monomachine and Minitaur (tuned to 432hz just because i found the master tune setting on the Mono) into the Octatrack.
https://soundcloud.com/laughinganimal/taxes
All the other tracks on my soundcloud besides the most recent one (my first op-1 track) are Elektron based. Here’s another: https://soundcloud.com/laughinganimal/so-spun
trying something different with the monotribe. https://soundcloud.com/masterofstuff124/bony-mode
@masterofstuff124 your Bony Mode smells cabaresque sci fi . i dig that a lot
thx @thor I love scifi!
Nik Bartsch’s Ronin.
I was messing around with the Circle 2 softsynth (via Ableton) and came up with this. Found that it’s great for sweet evolving pads.
Good idea for a thread, thx @Lymtronics
I also gave my other equipment another chance lately and it’s fun! Made with my M3. My first Jazz number.
https://soundcloud.com/mixrasta/bossa-bellhoual
Dayum! They’re all great tracks, kind of makes me not want to stink up the thread, but… Ahh pluck it! Here goes a sonic guff anyway.
It’s just a quick 80’s inspired thing that I made in Propellerhead Reason while drinking my morning coffee. I
mostly used coffee and spliffs (for inspiration), PX7 (for metallic sounds), NN-XT on Roland D-50
multi-samples (Heavily modulated) and a bit of LinnDrum, Dr. Böhm and 707 inside a Kong.
https://soundcloud.com/hellooperator-1/80s-pluck-ii
Octatrack did the heavy lifting, Synplant in for the assist, and together, an alien world is born in its dying days.
Inspired by the possibility that Kepler-452b is a dying planet.
I was there @KrisM -really enjoyed that- my type of music (I just enjoyed resident evil last night -Marilyn Manson on theme.The best bits were without guitar).
(On yours) I could hear an apocalyptic siren still trying to do its work every now and then- I couldn’t quite tell if that was from my headphones or outside.
https://soundcloud.com/lymtronics/high-tide
New track made with Elektron Octatrack, Analog 4, Rytm, Minimoog Voyager, Sub 37, Korg Mono/Poly, and Nord Lead 3 on FM duties. Enjoy!
Stunning stuff, @Lymtronics 
Packed full of lovely sounds, yet not at all over-crowded. How do you go about arranging a track with all that gear? Did you involve Ableton? Or was it a practised performance type of thing? Anyways, always a pleasure!
working backwards…
Ooo, I like that @KrisM! I also get a distinct Resident Evil feeling from it. Also reminds me about parts of “Reload - A Collection of Short Stories”.
Thanks for the comments @yoof . I arranged everything with the octatrack, and actually used a recorder machine on it to capture the final performance. That epiphany has really changed my workflow on the OT, making it feel more similar to the OP-1 in practice. Something I really love about the Dark Trinity of Elektron gear is that all of the devices have basically a Plus Drive built into them (and limitless external storage in the case of the OT). This makes me much more comfortable with burning patterns up since I can just load a new project once I run out of room. So, I have a program change channel on the OT controlling the Rytm and A4 patterns. It’s something I hadn’t used until fairly recently, but it just makes sure the slaved devices follow the pattern number of the master. It works without doing any additional programming other than turning the right channels on on each machine. So yeah, lots of copy and paste on all of the machines, then adding and removing parts, changing drum patterns, etc… Then I use the arranger to set up the track on the OT and everything follows along while I make manual tweaks, mutes, crossfader actions, and whatever else on the other gear.
One more nice thing about using the OT track recorders to capture a whole song is that you’re essentially left with a “tape” track of your performance in stereo. You are then free to load this as a static sample in a new pattern and do all sorts of messing about with it to add some dirt and grime (which I did not do with this track). Setting up a lot of crossfader scenes for things like playback rate, pitch, distortion, flange, and whatnot make available all sorts of states of audio decay which you can introduce organically with a gesture of the wrist. And since your new Flex playback pattern is empty, you can chain all sorts of effects with neighbor machines to have access to the full variety of onboard effects and more LFOs than you’ll know what to do with (although sadly they are not “modular” like the LFOs on the Machinedrum).
Cheers!
@Lymtronics You’re limited to 4 mins recording though right?
Thanks for the in-depth reply @Lymtronics! Really inspires me to get playing with the OT again (I seemed to haven fallen out of love with it for a while). I didn’t realise you could capture a full track of audio with a track recorder… and that’s cool about playing back while going mad with scenes. That’s inspiring ne to hook up my 2/3 dark 1/3 silver trilogy and have a play!
Thanks for the in-depth reply @Lymtronics! Really inspires me to get playing with the OT again (I seemed to haven fallen out of love with it for a while). I didn’t realise you could capture a full track of audio with a track recorder… and that’s cool about playing back while going mad with scenes. That’s inspiring me to hook up my 2/3 dark 1/3 silver trilogy and have a play!
@Lymtronics – quick question: how do you set up the program change track? A midi track, with a trig, but what does the trig contain? Or am I totally lost here?
I’ve been tearing my hair out because of the A4 having a bug which makes following the Octatrack not work when the A4 has 1/2 speed patterns (or any other speed than the vanilla 1/1)