otobot wrote:skip to 1:30.
otobot wrote:Ok, sounds cool on the 950!
Here's a demo of extreme timestretchinh in the Octa I just found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGyYnx_7y8
skip to 1:30.
mr_debauch wrote:otobot wrote:skip to 1:30.
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watch the whole thing... it was pretty awesome. great post.
tapedeck wrote:otobot wrote:Ok, sounds cool on the 950!
Here's a demo of extreme timestretchinh in the Octa I just found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGyYnx_7y8
skip to 1:30.
muchas gracias!!!
great track (though I prefer the waylon jennings version), and great demo of that feature.
i'm curious how does it deal with timestretching something and the sequencer? like, does the sequencer slow down too? or can you like time stretch a snare and then use that as a sample?
otobot wrote:Unboxing drama aside, the Octatrack is off the hook!
Like I said in the other thread in the MPC 5000 sub section, it's like a sample molesters wet dream come true. Don't go by the mediocre videos on YT.
The last two days I had some time to mess around with the unit and slowly get into it's deep functionality.
It's perfect for remixing and completely rearranging your tracks but also great for starting off new beats fresh in the box with drums, vinyl samples, synth sounds, whatever.. (there's a way for 'buildin' your synth via single cycle samples.. haven't tested yet).
8 tracks doesn't sound like much, but you can put like all the drums on one track and create your complete drum beat on this one track. Also the parameter locks are fvckin amazing for variations. Each stepp can have it's own setting for Play (including retrig), Amp (volume, pan, attack, decay, etc.), LFOs (can modulate almost all targets), Effect1 , Effect2... Each step can be micro timed, so putting in swing and getting a humanized feel is easy.
Unsing the crosfader to blend between "scenes" (totally different settings for the corresponding tracks) is the sh1t!!
Assigning all the fine tuning is really hands on and eeeeasy. It's mad fun working with this unit.
Triggless triggs are like parameter locks, but don't need the sample to be triggered. You can define any place in the running sample and change all of it's sound settings like with the help of parameter locks.
It's perfectly capable of producing any sample heavy genre, Hip Hop included. I'm gonna try some Boom Bap next haha...
Not as easy as with an MPC to get your ish swingin, think like in a DAW where you manually move notes to place them where you want them. But way beyond the MPC in sampling, sample mangling, creating variations and performing live.
otobot wrote:Ok, sounds cool on the 950!
Here's a demo of extreme timestretchinh in the Octa I just found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGyYnx_7y8
skip to 1:30.
high hat wrote:it's crossed my mind that elektron has been coasting since daniel hansson's tragic passing. a dedicated sampler was the one thing they hadn't done with their platform -- a conservative move, i felt. initial reviews and youtube vids didn't lead me to think much of the octatrack. someone told me a couple months ago it was still kind of blank, and that elektron was figuring out what people wanted from feedback, hence the OS updates.
i have no doubt it's built like a tank, that it's responsive, and that the OS is tight and bug-free. that's how elektron rolls. the real question is if it's worth the price they're asking. i've yet to see a coherent video demonstration that explains what this box can do that's new/amazing/etc. i already own an MPC and a computer. for me to buy it, it'd have to do something neither of those can, or do the same things a lot better/quicker.
the per-step flexibility otobot mentioned sounds nice, as does the "synth-builder."
