Full Compositions Using One Synth // Splitting Voices of Roland Sh01a with Elektron Octatrack MKII

[@lwpweb]

amazing music, didnt knew how simple this is to create...and it shows how simple the octatrack is to manage...its very intuitive...

[@dan.thomas]

Wow this is great stuff! Opened up the OTs capabilities a lot for me - really inspiring. Thanks alot!

[@harrison5628]

Beautiful stuff mate, very inspiring

[@abelteklu6829]

That’s amazing! Can’t wait to get home to experiment.

[@firstandlast4415]

Hey Fredrico, thanks so much for sharing and keeping it simple and to the point, always works. Really good to learn from you.

[@OoraMusic]

My pleasure

[@aoutivd]

Just found your channel and I’m in awe. Love the content. Patiently going through every video. Thanks for what you do!

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks Austin! I try to come up with something interesting every week. Im having lot of fun :)

[@nigelrogers8690]

Great sound 👏🏾 cool tutorial, thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

[@jeremyallen2821]

Nothing beats the OT for MIDI sequence performance. I use this same process with my JU-06A. It rarely takes me more than 10 minutes to have something that sounds like a track. Love this.

[@alexg8233]

Thank you. I wanted to ask if it will work with JU-06A and saw your comment on top. I've read somewhere that JU-06A sequencer is not polyphonic and was not sure what does it mean.

[@jeremyallen2821]

@@alexg8233 you can sequence chords (Polyphonically) with external polyphonic sequencers such as Octatrack, Hapax, DAW, etc….but the internal sequencer on the actual JU-06A unit is limited in this endeavor (at least to my knowledge).

[@dreamdealer]

great tutorial, this opens many possibilities.

[@MichaalHell]

Great tutorial. Very inspirational... I love using the octatrack with one synth. It feels super focused.

[@OoraMusic]

agreed,also very compact

[@ti9ri478]

Very nice. Thanks for the lesson

[@boseyjoe7032]

Love this concept!! Totally gonna try it out. Thanks for another great video 🤘

[@OoraMusic]

Have fun!

[@aki_gong6271]

Nice one. Octatrack works amazingly with any other synth allowing sequencing different MIDI channels, control changes, and patches ;) I am lately using a similar technique not just for making tracks but also to even run whole live set using an Octatrack mki and another synthesiser...not having to take a lot of instruments helps a lot when touring, but also helps learning to be much more creative on our day to day basis. Good stuff.

[@EricRaymondSF]

Have really loved these single-synth, Octatrack composition videos.

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks!

[@tendingtropic7778]

Wow I hadn't seen this one yet, this is exactly what I was looking for! next to your recent patreon octatrack video's this one is more about the patterns/compositions, love it, thanks!

[@OoraMusic]

thanks!!

[@r1cht3a]

Really enjoying your videos atm mate. Sooo good!

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks!

[@Ethyl.breaks]

More octa tutorials plzzzz !! :) really clear and informative and to the point and beautiful among everything else. Inspiring work, thank u

[@OoraMusic]

More to come!

[@DangMclang5969]

Buying my Octatrack mkII next week and your videos are inspiring the hell out of me! Thanks for making such great content.

[@OoraMusic]

Have fun!

[@DangMclang5969]

@@OoraMusic That’s what it’s all about right? Cheers man!

[@IhorMedia]

Interesting stuff here, man. I love it! I am going to try something like this with Octatrack and Minilogue XD. Subscribed! ✌️

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks! Let me know how it goes

[@EdCosico]

So cool, thanks for sharing!

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@WugWugs]

Such a nice video showing you do not need multiple expensive synths playing at once to be musical. I do this with Microfreak and Digitone, the MIDI workflow is even faster, although now seeing OT in action I should finally make my time to learn its many powers. Thank you.

[@OoraMusic]

Let me know how it goes and thanks!

[@anunnakisignal]

awesome bro 👍🏻

[@Ponchy]

Greetings from a fellow Elektronaut! These are some great sounds man. Love the creativity!

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks a lot mate!

[@tvdeath]

Great! Really love someone showing a bit more in depth development process, also with a limited setup. Thanks so much! More of that coming? Mayybeee?

[@OoraMusic]

Coming today! premiere in a few minutes

[@tvdeath]

@@OoraMusic woohoo!

[@CommodoreCrush]

Very nice explanations. I'm learning more and more that there's not really a correct way to use Octatrack. It's really so diverse and creative.

[@OoraMusic]

Great to hear!

[@gooneybird808]

Coolest set up

[@creepyjanitor]

you're easily the best teacher here (also performer), thanks for all the lessons. I've got an octatrack and nord lead 2x with four separate outs that seems meant to be with the octa..

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks a lot ! Nord lead seems a lot of fun!

[@thmbones]

Now I have both devices and your video inspired me a lot, thanx for this

[@OoraMusic]

great to hear that!

[@samueljosephkim-]

These sounds and even visually these machines are so great together. I sold off an sh01a awhile back and this is making me think I should get it back! Haha

[@OoraMusic]

its a very cool one!

[@spookypen]

10:19 Just a dumb random thing I learned awhile back is that you can get a delay effect with just the SH01a using the LFO (speed), saw wave form, VCF mod (depth), and the Envelope release (length). Best part is that because it retriggers the note you can play 1/2 steps without it sound discordant.

[@ConsoleGlow]

A great combo!

[@OoraMusic]

agreed

[@JoseRomero-yr3wl]

Perfect combo! Thx

[@OoraMusic]

Glad you like it!

[@SURCOlive]

Great tutorial. I'm experimenting with my Octatrack and SH01a right now. Inspired by your video. Thank you.

[@AndreasHimmes]

Sounds really amazing. I think, i have to add a SH-101 to my Setup as well.

[@OoraMusic]

Go for it!

[@offworldnetwork]

LOVE THE SH01a

[@OoraMusic]

:)

[@Marco-ei2ny]

amazing man,, good job

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks a lot!

[@jolieuke]

I love your Octatrack tutorials, I alway learn something big like, I didn't know we can add fx on MIDI tracks using Thru tracks! I'm slowly learning the OT and I was ready to learn the MIDI side, I'm glad I watched your video! Thanks dear ! Cheers,

[@OoraMusic]

happy to hear that. I have a 4 part in depth tutorial on my patreon if you want to go further! ciao

[@jolieuke]

@@OoraMusic I might ... !

[@effeeffe6281]

the monophonic Evolver desktop is able too. It has 4 oscillators, 2 DCO and 2 digital waveform osc, 4 sequencer tracks and a specific organization of its 4 LFOs that could be used as sequencer. there is a patch that plays the "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics melody, that's all without any extra recording or fx, just using each OSC as an individual instrument

[@samman5980]

Awesome

[@eliphinobeats]

thanks for this!

[@OoraMusic]

My pleasure

[@mistersimonstrange]

sick!

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Good vid

[@patrickhewitt14]

Fantastic walkthrough man, truly. I absolutely love the Sh01a and controlling it with the OT is just the most fun. You clarified a couple things tripping me up on the midi note page though so thank you thank you!

[@bebaloop]

Grazie❤

[@jamessusbilla]

thank *YOU*

[@OoraMusic]

Thank you too!

[@FUNCULOBUSH]

complimenti

[@pchatfield]

great vids man! i have a question on the Cmin scale quantization: if you select a note like C# on the Note page that isn't in the Cmin scale, does the OT transpose that note to the nearest note that is in the scale? I thought the quantization only applied to the patterns you make on the Arp page, but I could be wrong...

[@paro80]

saluti da synth cafè. grande

[@aeroprojects]

Great video ! Loving the background track in the very beginning of your video ! Would love to know the author/title of that tune ...

[@lukehrm]

Very nice tutorial - and beautiful light :)

[@Aedhon]

thanks man, great video. I'm just considering an octatrack myself. only thing is there were like 5 ads during the video :/ cheers, Marco

[@OoraMusic]

Hey Marco, sadly i have no control on the ads. I understand that that can be annoying but somehow I have to try to monetize a little ( and believe me, we are talking of few dollars a month..). Will try to understand how can i do better for next videos.

[@Aedhon]

@@OoraMusic sure sure I totally get it! just pointed it out because it looked a bit odd. I didn't have the same on your other videos though. ciao, alla prossima ;)

[@OoraMusic]

@@Aedhon damn, i did not change anything. Greedy youtube!

[@jasonnicholas4336]

Would love to see a similar experiment with your Super 6 sequenced by the Octatrack.

[@OoraMusic]

could definitely be a good idea

[@cristiansoto2001]

great work !!! sorry how you disable the sequencer in Sho1a ? always i press play in OT active the sequencer thanks !

[@skyreadersociety6183]

do you know "Sonno" by Alessandro Cortini ? he just used a MC202. I really like this concept just using on synth.

[@OoraMusic]

Alessandro cortini is one of my hero.

[@Rocktofakie]

Big fan of such a simple and focused approach to sequence writing. Thanks for sharing! I’m try this using a ‘poor man’s’ version of this setup, using an Elektron Model: Cycles to sequence the SH-01A. For some reason though, when I change the pattern on the M:C, to progress through the sequences I have recorded. It changes the Tone Preset on the SH-01A!? If you have any insight into settings I might need to change, I’d love to hear it? Cheers ✌🏼

[@Rocktofakie]

Don’t mind me... Just gonna answer my own question, might be useful to someone?! 🤦🏻‍♂️ M:C> Config Menu> Midi Settings> Midi Sync> Clk Out: OFF> PCH Out: OFF. Again; much appreciate you sharing your video! ✌🏼

[@OoraMusic]

saw you already solved the thing! is a great combo , have fun!

[@goodnoyz]

Interesting and inspirational as always Oora. Can you also split the poly voices of SHo1a with the Digitakt?

[@OoraMusic]

definitely, you can do with any sequencer!

[@goodnoyz]

@@OoraMusic I'll be setting this up tonight then :)

[@Rez311]

Looove your videos… how do you like the SH01a sound vs the Vermona per4? I’m undecided between getting the Vermona or getting 3 boutiques (sh01a, se02, ju6a)

[@OoraMusic]

very different beasts. I like sounds of the boutiques, but the vermona is my perfect live performance synth. Id say tho that having few boutiques it would cover lot of ground in a cheap way!

[@hughesjointrecords]

Molto interessante mi piacerebbe ripetessi l'esperimento anche nel sound design su Peak. 🤙👊

[@OoraMusic]

Prima o poi arriva anche peak!

[@zm6658]

would it have been possible to sample all of these tracks you have playing onto one of the available tracks and then repurpose the old ones to drum tracks or something else? all live, in a performance sense? nice work here

[@OoraMusic]

100% possible. I do that a lot on live performances.

[@KosmoDeuz]

Is there some video how you use your REVOX R2R ?

[@Slowlyburnedelectronics]

Hi! Your videos are always an inspiration. Could you please elaborate how you split the voices? You set in poly mode the SH and then you use different midi channels in OT sending to the same midi track in SH?

[@ryanhursh6322]

They all go to Midi channel one. In reality it could all be done on one midi track since it’s poly but with different tracks controller each of the 4 voices separately, this gives him ease of programming the different voices, muting particular voices without effecting the others and he can change the pattern lengths of each as well of each to create polyrhythms. All voices will be treated with the same effects however due to the single stereo out of the Roland.

[@Slowlyburnedelectronics]

@@ryanhursh6322 Thanks 👍

[@damienwebb3689]

How do you turn off the SH-01a sequencer when you hit play on the octatrack??

[@OoraMusic]

Set the SH01 clock to EXT

[@TokeNygaard]

@@OoraMusic This is probably an annoying follow up question, but I spent an hour to solve this - even with the manual in front of me I am not able to find anything EXT - do you mind going ultra specific - which menu, how and where. Thanks!!!!! Super inspiring. Just wish that sequencer would stop playing :-)

[@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse]

@@TokeNygaard sorry lil buddy, he doesn’t care…😔

[@projectb3117]

What device will be clocked with your daw when recording the seperate instruments?

[@randomaztec2208]

How is the delay only effecting one voice? To me I can't here the bass processed by the delay

[@MrJvandal]

Just an illusion I'm afraid. The higher notes are masking the echoed bass notes.

[@laughingthrushmusic5269]

Caterina Barbieri vibes love it

[@OoraMusic]

she's my hero

[@earlsfield]

I suggest not calling auto-scaling "quantize". Quantize is a term widely spread for decades that is tied to the function of automatic nudging the "loose" the note/gate to a grid in a beat/bar. I understand what you want to say with "quantizing" in C min, but you might find bunch of people confused. Transpose would be the word, so, if the scale is set, regardless of the note played, Oktatrack scale algo is transposing midi notes to correspond and fit the chosen scale. Please take this as constructive criticism, I love your work, appreciate your workflow, Vermona and chain effects, because i have all this gear more less and i love seeing how other people approach using these. Fellow Perfourmer MK2 Fan:)

[@OoraMusic]

That is a very good point. I actually agree with what you say but I heard many other using the scale quantization term so I though it would be clear. Thanks for explaining that to mE!

[@sonnyobrien]

what does the scorpion tattoo mean

[@OoraMusic]

absolutely nothing. I did it very randomly during a weird time of my life.

[@sonnyobrien]

@@OoraMusic how often do you wish you did not have it on your arm?

[@nyrbsamoht]

the 4 tracks are all on the same midi channel right?

[@OoraMusic]

yes!

[@digitaldiezel5870]

I’m reaching but a 32 track, 8 bus Octatrack Studio would be nice. 6 FX per track. I’m just dreaming 😴!

[@OoraMusic]

well, that would be THE dream

[@Sinnersainthuman]

Nice work bud. been following you on insta for a while

[@OoraMusic]

Awesome thank you!

[@cjromeo167]

Can you also do this with Digitakt?

[@OoraMusic]

Yes you can!