Bad Gear - Nightmare before CHRISTMAS

[@AudioPilz]

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[@Mr.1.i]

merry xmas

[@patrickglaser1560]

Must these synths always look retro and ugly?

[@ricardoremedio2716]

This day will be remembered for it was today that Bad Gear War started. Octatrack lovers and haters shall battle to the death

[@ricardoremedio2716]

I love it. Just hate editing it.

[@AudioPilz]

I think we found peace when the Tonverk thing leaked;)

[@unduloid]

@@AudioPilz I'm honestly not convinced it's real. There's something of a non-Elektron vibe going on.

[@autecheee]

What about the neutral pacifist in this unnecessary war??? Just let the Elektrons flow….give neutrality a chance!

[@clemensmerkur6411]

Fick war.

[@EZBOT_]

The Dark Souls of hardware electronic music.

[@EVILJAMARR]

As an owner of an Octatrack Mk2, all I can say in response is: fair

[@AK10net]

OMFG that’s my setup in the “my setup is finally complete” meme. This made my day. Shockingly, I’ve replaced all that gear with better stuff since then.

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks for that, great stuff!!!

[@Techwonderland]

I’m going to have to eat like 8 Toblerones to get over the Euro video montage.

[@AudioPilz]

🤣

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

you will need to eat 16 of the post-Brexit British Toblerone :( look what they did to my boy :*(

[@carbilicon]

I remember trying to read the manual. When I got to the part about 'trigs and trigless trigs', I checked out. That thing is for freaks.

[@benzimmermanmusic]

My friend loves the parameter locks. He's a freak.

[@stuartcarter7053]

That thing looks like frustration and misery in a box with buttons.

[@AudioPilz]

Very satisfying frustration and misery;)

[@formulator404]

Honestly...One of the best things about Bad Gear is the description naming of the final jam @7:44

[@Garethduffy707]

100%

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@animalclinicmusic]

I think about selling my Octatrack every once in a while but then i come to my senses. I bought and sold a Digitakt 2 because after years of Octatrack use, the DT2 felt limiting. I get why people hate the OT because I really didn't fully understand it until i used it for a year. Now every other sampler/sequencer feels like moving backwards. I still learn new things to do with it! This is truly the best bad gear.

[@AudioPilz]

Best Bad Gear sums it up nicely!

[@stevemcleod2464]

It's swings and roundabouts innit? I had an octatrak 1, I found it intuitive and got a really nice flow, I could visualise everything I wanted to do with it, which steps to lock, parameter changes, parts, alternative parts with the cross fader, and with the parts chaining, then I sold it and went 'in the box' with reason, I got a Roland MC 101 and couldn't make head nor tail of it...

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

As an OT owner I can attest that this is the only device that is both equally bad gear and awesome gear at the same time 🤣 (and I love it!)

[@AudioPilz]

It totally is!

[@unduloid]

It's a weird device, and I use it when I want to make weird stuff. Which is often.

[@acidjack]

So true

[@howgill4829]

@@unduloid it pulls samples right into synthesis territory, I totally understand.

[@Vingul]

The show about the wöörld’s most hated audio yules

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@Vingul]

@AudioPilz God jul, frohe Weihnachten, merry Christmas!

[@AffidavidDonda]

*vöörld’s

[@Vingul]

@@AffidavidDonda not really, he pronounces V as W but not the other way around :)

[@dubiousgloom]

It's always shocking to see my favourite gear under the title Bad Gear, but then the feeling turns to positive when the jams are always so good!

[@CatgirlThatLovesYou]

It's called the Octatrack, because it takes 8 times as long to make music with it. ;)

[@AudioPilz]

🤣

[@A-Grat-A]

UFO95 is a magician.

[@JoeWisniewski]

I was one of the first MK1 owners of this fine instrument. I was able to do everything on this, but as you say, I found myself struggling to remember functionality after spending any time away from it. I would often have trouble figuring out where a sound was coming from. It's a strange beast and I still love it. My favorite thing was real time pitch on vocals. I moved to an Akai Force. I'm getting similar complications vibe but it's much easier. Love your videos! Merry Christmas from Detroit.

[@rorz999]

Would recommend the Akai Force? I'm so tempted to get one but I see that Akai have discontinued it, which concerns me

[@jngl-jim]

as they've been saying for hundreds of years now, if it ain't baroque, don't fix it

[@AudioPilz]

lol

[@Vingul]

The Baroque was the peak, Bach #1

[@NabPunk]

@@Vingul Genuinely, some of the best "player's pieces" are from Bach, that guy was unreal.

[@Vingul]

​@@NabPunk I don't know about player's pieces, I'm just a humble music enjoyer ;) when I'm not trying my hand at making a track... But he was indeed unreal, and/or the realest.

[@therealvbw]

Is that really how you pronounce Baroque?

[@dadwax]

The worst thing about Elektron is not the gear, but their owners relentlessly trying to convince you (and themselves) how good it is 🤣

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

Agreed, it comes off very cultish at times.

[@AudioPilz]

Guilty;)

[@DanChippendaleMusic]

@@dadwax but it is though

[@DanChippendaleMusic]

@@dadwax I don't try and convince people though words, I try and convince them through actions. I've owned an impossible amount of gear and I can confirm, it is the best gear (for me anyway 😃)

[@King_Dugga]

The physical revulsion I felt when I first pressed the mechanical keyboard clicky clack buttons on the digitakt (I think that's what it was) put me off them forever.

[@MikeTrejo124]

I finally understand what a Limiter does.

[@Rompler_Rocco]

The Digitakt workflow finally clicked for me yesterday, yet at the end of this video I somehow had a cigarette in my mouth.

[@AudioPilz]

The Surgeon General warns...

[@ludotex]

"loaded on ram" meme was perfect.😂 It sucks when you take your octatrack after not using it for 3 months and you have to learn it all over again cause it is so esoteric...

[@sierpeman]

I love the Monotron Delay!

[@AudioPilz]

Classic!!!

[@prod.lanista]

JonMakeBeats will love this video

[@AudioPilz]

I love his videos;)

[@dreamdealer]

OT is the Elden Ring of musical instruments, the harder it is, the bigger the reward. It's an amazing machine, but it needs dedication.

[@AudioPilz]

GIT GUD!

[@dreamdealer]

@@AudioPilz you said it bro!

[@e-conrecords4665]

In my day it would have been the Ghosts and Goblins of Musical Instruments but yeah.. Elden Ring is also a massive PITA.

[@armignac]

Merry Christmas. Thanks for the weekly Videos. Really appreciated!

[@Jason75913]

Love the jams, man

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@carlos906400]

4:11 Mehuggah mentioned. I see you are well cultured my friend.

[@justingoers]

I still love the OT. It's weird as hell but it's incredibly rewarding. To this day the most glaring omission on this unit is the 6 parameter knobs---as in there should be 8--so that I can pull up a mixer screen that gives me levels on all 8 tracks. But this isn't possible. The "mixer" screen is more for input and output levels and mutes but no dedicated level knobs for individual track levels.

[@rorz999]

I'd never thought about that, but yes that's a huge oversight on Elektron's part IMO. Maybe they'll add this to the MK3, if it ever comes

[@justingoers]

@@rorz999 yeah it's the one thing that always bothers when playing live

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Thank you, AP, even before the review begins, for helping me to figure out that laughing GIF is supposed to be Alfred Molina. Pertaining to what you are reviewing, I’m going to make note of one thing. Back before I discovered that I prefer triggering all of my cells with my own hands instead of using sequencers if ever possible, I had thought on occasion about getting such a dream machine as this Elektron model showcased here (or a Clavia ddrum model). There was something appealing about having a drum machine with modeled drum tones on it instead of just a module like the Novation Drum Station. That changed when I discovered not only that I don’t like sequencing any longer but also that somebody needs to model the Simmons drum line as well as the Roland beatbox wine.

[@musicbyethan]

Octa is the goat. I know, that gets some folks’ panties all in a twist but it matters not... facts are facts. ☮️

[@AudioPilz]

Word!

[@cartellimarroni]

@@musicbyethan ever tried Yamaha RS7000? 😆👍

[@nkozi]

I... I can't believe you finally did it

[@AudioPilz]

😃

[@supercompooper]

If you watch an octotrack video and watch somebody's hands they will push 3,000 times and move the slider 5,200 billion times and the sound will actually not change at all. Just go and watch the videos and scrub through them and you'll see that the sound is basically the same during the entire performance. It's exhausting really to consider this device in any capacity.

[@AudioPilz]

I had to RTFM for that too;)

[@hellcoreproductions]

Welcome back Cenk!

[@lopodyr]

As an OT junkie, I had not seen this coming. And yet, it's incredible it took so long to happen.

[@XHALE303]

Thank u for another bad gear year. Happy holidays!

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@channelite]

I really like watching all the youtube videos about the octatrack. I’m surprised this wasn’t on bad gear sooner.

[@AudioPilz]

I had to reserve a little extra time for that one

[@footrocketco.3050]

The coolest thing about it for me is that you can dj with it. Basic sample playback with a crossfader plus separate filer and fx per "deck"/track. Sounds simple but it's the only groovebox that can do it. The deluge almost can, but the cpu sometimes crashes on playing back full songs and trying to mix live

[@rorz999]

You can do that on the Pioneer Toraiz SP-16 as well (no crossfader, but you can put 2 FX on every sample, up to 16 samples at once, and one of those FX can be a filter)

[@koitka2037]

I myself absolutely love this machine. Even tho it seems to be able to do virtually anything, but actually cant even do half of that. It took me more than a year to start controlling this beast, but it really was worth the efford. I love it! And may the DAWs be with you ... Nice Video! ^^

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!

[@xflow-fc8eq]

Merry Christmas legend

[@drumandbassonvinyl]

I took up learning Japanese because it’s easier than learning the Octatrack! Merry Christmas!

[@AudioPilz]

😂😂😂

[@noir4356]

I've learned both. Japanese is easier, trust me.

[@draconianrhythms]

The OT is a journey, so make sure you like long journeys before getting one. I love my OT, but will never know all its secrets. I’m ok with that. Thanks for another great episode, this one resonated!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Studio_4to1]

Home run, as per use. The Bad Gear we love with the bad gear we hate. The love. The hate. This is the only show you need in your life.

[@budgetkeyboardist]

I hope that, for Christmas, we get another wonderful year of BAD GEAR. Thanks for the awesome videos!!!

[@zshall48]

The OT was the first instrument I got a decade ago and I love just messing around with it. It’s so much fun to connect to a radio with recording trigs and with a bunch of effects and neighbor machines for real-time audio mangling

[@AudioPilz]

Nice approach!

[@Naotaku]

aaah, techno

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@Existence_denied]

I love the cycles and the analogue rhythm now I need an elektron products thank you audiopilz

[@samuelbanya]

Synth Paul Gilbert knows how to end the year with a banger. Merry Christmas my dude

[@hooper8915]

one underrated trick I don't see many people talk about is using its midi tracks to play other elektrons even though they have their own similar sequencers. using the midi arpeggiator to make interesting rytm drum patterns is a good example.

[@matronofsquirrels]

I've always wanted the crossfader and nothing else about it 😅

[@AudioPilz]

🤣🤣🤣

[@user82938]

Check out the Akai Force.

[@matronofsquirrels]

@@user82938 yeah! It's on my list for sure! I own 2 MPCs currently and absolutely love them. The only reason I hesitate on the Force is the amount of real estate it takes up for my live setup.

[@user82938]

@@matronofsquirrels That's valid. The size is also my biggest problem with it. Makes me less likely to grab it to play around with, and it mostly stays on my desk.

[@matronofsquirrels]

@user82938 yeah, that checks out. I do love my mpc 1000 the best for that reason. It fits nicely on my lap and transports easily to the cafe.

[@baconbigbeats]

Every time you say “controversy” I get a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart and I smile.

[@AudioPilz]

😍

[@paintingwithnoise]

Amazingly accurate. A better overview than most I've seen.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@mwmfl8960]

Mary Christmas... ah, I mean Merry Christmas to you too! 🌲

[@edwin-zone]

Coincidence! Earlier this week I decided to obtain one of these. I am still committed to the plan! Love the jams as always and happy holidays!

[@ERYKJACKNIFE]

Audio plz made my day this one was so funny 😂 and on point. I got my octatrack mk2 a 6-7 years ago around Christmas time. It’s a great machine, I’ll never let this one go.

[@FunkyHP]

FINALLY!!!! The ULTIMATE Christmas present! This one for the show HISTORY😆

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️Merry Christmas!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@MrJonBertsch]

That last jam was great and also somewhat unsettling

[@AudioPilz]

I'll take this as a compliment;)

[@Nijnvenijn]

Right on time. I bought a mk2 last week :D

[@veridisinlofi110]

OHMYGOD THIS IS THE VIDEO I WAS WAITING FOR

[@AudioPilz]

😃 😃 😃

[@donaldpriola1807]

Have a great Xmas! This channel makes me smile every week, and the jams are tasty.

[@illustriouschin]

After several days of reading and trial and error I was able to make the Octatrack do one thing: bypass, a feature it shares with not existing.

[@AudioPilz]

🤣🤣🤣

[@osands]

Happy Holidays!

[@nyeron]

Great review! Excellent overview of the OT.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@cartellimarroni]

Since 2001 Yamaha RS7000 do those things, and much more, in a more simple way and power , and nobody says that 👍

[@305plp5]

Nice job, bro!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!

[@thomasyon4332]

Havn't you lend all this friend's Bad Gear yet? Have a good end of year break, Merry Christmas, love U !

[@AudioPilz]

Let's say he has quite a collection;)

[@marcus268]

Trampels on the holy grail, Florian? Love my Octa!

[@chrzonszcz323]

Nice! Thank you!

[@AudioPilz]

😃

[@tomaszmazurek64]

Wow, the best Christmas special ever! Also, my favourite feature you didn't mention: Did you know you can use the track buffers as regular samples an use them in sequences? That way you can sample something live and have the sample automatically drop into the prepared sequence. You can even set it up so that the recording happens automatically during e.g. first beat of the measure and turn that track into a glitch processor. Oh and speaking of glitch processing, the Through machine allows you not only to process external sources through the Octatrack signal chain and effects, but also to sequence the automation of those effects. Honestly one of my biggest gripes with the Octatrack is that a single track is so powerful it almost feels like a waste to just use it as a drum track...

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks for the heads up!❤️❤️❤️

[@LesbianstotheRescue]

@@AudioPilz All bad gear becomes good gear if you free dive like this gentleman has obviously been doing.

[@jaderington]

Learning the MPC X was hard enough, but at least you can see what you are doing. Merry bloody christmas 😀

[@rav7en]

how dude always does it is beyond me 7:53

[@AudioPilz]

One bass drum at a time

[@robertocaba5915]

Man you have to do the Analog 4 now, its the only one left 😅

[@AudioPilz]

Great suggestions, thank you!!!

[@justjoeblow420]

I can thank the Octatrack for helping me realize I didn't like the Elektron workflow too much when I borrowed a MK1 years and years ago off a buddy who had one. But at least I can see the appeal of it.

[@irtnyc]

Best opening ever, octasmash!

[@AudioPilz]

😃

[@benmaynard3059]

My guy ✌ merry xmas

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@JustPyroYT]

Merry Christmas and Happy Weekend! :D

[@andrewstanworth529]

Bloody wonderful episode! ( Also; it's a Christmas miracle!! I actually don't want one!!! it had to happen one Day! 😂) Have a good festive whatever, man!

[@TOMLEW1S]

Octrack is and always will be my desert island device.

[@Pablo668]

Awesome stuff as always. I have to admit I wouldn’t mind fiddling about with one of those. Froliche Weinnachten!

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@djshire1984]

The Korg Monotron Classic was my first hardware synth, and the Korg Monotron Delay was my first hardware effect.

[@AudioPilz]

Classic!

[@hesapluften]

same here :D

[@EHiggins]

Merry Christmas

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@spaceemanspiff]

Sure Elektron is Swedish but the Octatrack is a Swiss Army Knife for DAWless setups

[@AudioPilz]

Agreed!!!

[@PiotrstrashcanŚmietnikPiotra]

I bought an OT because I love complicated and complex things. I still have no idea how to use it. But one day…..

[@AudioPilz]

That's the spirit!!!

[@jacobjennings9218]

I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL WITH MY OCTATRACK!

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@angeldc54]

Welcome to bad and convoluted gear 😅 Merry Christmas 🎉

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@jadanoliver6237]

Awesome , I think the work sounded good.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@divisiona3974]

Merry Christmas, you guys!

[@AudioPilz]

Merry Christmas to you too!!!

[@artisans8521]

Now having viewed the entire Penguin series on HBO, 0:54 did my breakfast come up, yesterday's breakfast to be precise.

[@GroovyD_ukg]

Finally!!

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@brutallyremastered4255]

Been to Fucking. Also driven through Wank in (or near) Bavaria.

[@AudioPilz]

That's what I call tourism...

[@studiospiraluniverse]

I still remember the day I bought my OT(1) and brought it to Kuala Lumpur in the handluggage. On the two 7hours flight segments I rtfm only to arrive with a big headache and a certain amount of dizziness. Luckily this is a device with a huge amount of KZbin tutorials. Now I wouldn‘t like to miss it since it has become the heart and brain of my homestudio. Mery Christmas!

[@AudioPilz]

Funnily enough I RTFMed the Octa manual on a flight too;)

[@BrendonBrooks]

EZBOT is going to challenge you to Mortal Kombat now.

[@AudioPilz]

Challenge ACCEPTED;)

[@vmppvm8763]

My favorite box 😅 edit: You actually can put reverb + delay on the same track by copy and pasting a reverb onto FX slot 1. What a device.

[@AudioPilz]

😃

[@EricRaymondSF]

So. Good.

[@par5ek]

I got an octatrack. I really love/hate it with passion Is the best worst piece of kit that I own Best Regards

[@Javeton]

I honestly felt like model:cuckles was already a nightmare to learn. I can just imagine the miserable experience it has to be for an octatrak just to properly use it like Jon.

[@cooptrol]

Legend goes they made MKI black as a mourning tribute to Daniel Hansson, company founder dead in an accident. These are the reasons I quickly sold my MKI in 2015: _ Audio Mutes instead of sequencer mutes (!!!!) _ only 4 sound kits per bank (to me a pattern is a song) _ volume knob was for headphones (at that time) _ The sound is very cold and thin, I dont like the converters (just compare it with a digitakt) _ I had some gigs in Europe and needed to finance my plane ticket from Uruguay :)

[@damelos4039]

Finally, the TRUTH about this ancient piece of museum worthy gear. It had its day......now LONG gone. Digitakt II, Digitone II, Syntakt..... all better. Tonverk, when it arrives, will kill this atrocity once and for all.

[@BullyMaguire4ever]

I can’t wrap my head around the structure of the machine.

[@happymonday2591]

That thing sounds great. Btw this is far to big series of episodes of the bad gear that i watched drunk lol.

[@bramsanjanssan4908]

Octatrack is amazing, I wish I had a steady supply of Rothaus because they pair well.

[@AudioPilz]

Cheers!

[@JH-lo9ut]

Someone donated an Octatrack mk 2 to my local thrift store. It looked like it was in perfect condition, complete with gig bag and decksaver. Unfortunately, the store personnel must have looked up what it was and what it was worth, because they kept it locked up in a glass cabinet and it had a price tag of €1100. After two weeks they lowered the price to €900 at wich point it sold in a few days. This was not a pawn shop or second-hand music shop. Everything there is donated and sold for wellfare. No, this is your typical thrift store: Kids ice skates, pots & pans, old ladies' blouses, smelly leather jackets, disgarded exercise gadgets. Octatrack mk2.