octatrack intelligent drum and bass - "astral breeze"

#octatrack #junglemusic #drumnbass
still learning... another octatrack jam for january or something... some old-school-inspired rolling intelligent dnb. octatrack is being used alongside the novation circuit rhythm and waldorf micro Q rack synth. i created the pads with my nord modular g2 and sampled them into the yamaha a4k... then brought them over to the OT. everything is mixed on the oto bébé chérie. this is a direct recording of the oto's master output; no additional processing.
one of my goals with the ocatrack is to perform live atmospheric dnb/jungle sets with it, and there's no better way to reach that than to just keep learning it and making sounds!
download the octatrack project here (there a wavs in the zip, so if you don't have an ocatrack you can still use the samples!):
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kpcvk7...
if you'd like to download the the track in the video, check it here:
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hit me up on instagram or discord! @arcologies

[@arcologies]

download the octatrack project here. there a wavs in the zip, so if you don't have an octatrack you can still use the samples!: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kpcvk7ovdk1rtfix3x23c/circ001.zip?rlkey=b0bu92y0d2b2082yjr7po6pxi&dl=0

[@dannyvalentine468]

Once again fantastic, you def gotta make a guide video on how you create songs!

[@hellf.o]

ALL JUNGLE IS MASSIVE

[@ElectronisoundsAudio]

YES! Vibes for days! 💙💙

[@UhhStryfe]

yo! super awesome work, love the days when you release new material. thanks for sharing the samples with the octatrack project! definitely going to have to play with them. much love as always!

[@arcologies]

thanks so much for checking it out, I hope you enjoy the samples!

[@lunanescence]

so clean, love the atmosphere

[@arcologies]

thanks my friend :)

[@joelcarloaymat]

Excellent, love what youre doing with the break, really nice programming

[@arcologies]

thanks mate! truly appreciate you checking it out :)

[@0e0]

i think if i was to do live sets for dnb with the octatrack I would use two at once. (the atmospheres in this are lovely btw)

[@arcologies]

that would be an awesome setup, and certainly one that would be the easiest to manage with a nice flow. thanks a lot of checking out the track :)

[@0e0]

as someone who played a lot of improvised live dnb (which i did with my custom reaktor patches) in many different types of venues...track to track flow is crucial and something that should be practiced regularly. Special consideration towards fluidity with no fixed setlist is a great challenge for that because that leaves a lot of room for happenstance and reading the crowd etc. I would give it equal importance to that as making stems/tracks to play out.@@arcologies

[@albertak7257]

Beauty astral atmospheer 💙

[@Cybercowboy_69]

banger

[@Edwardball]

What are your thoughts on the bébé chérie, I'm pondering on it? Your music in great, i'm a big LTJ fan!

[@arcologies]

hey there! thanks for checking it out :) i'm a big fan of the BC, it was exactly what i was looking for. Some people don't like the mini jacks or the lack of a proper send/return... but i wasn't worried about either of those. I really love the OTO analog sound, and the BC has it's own. The bliss knob is literally bliss. I rate it big time

[@Sith_Trooper]

❤

[@dietfried2]

another goodie. incredible deep and lush pad sounds. imho your best and most dopish track yet.

[@DimaParhelia]

Dope vibe!

[@h4m3r3d]

ur material is top noch!

[@arcologies]

thanks so much for checking out the video, i really appreciate it and am happy you enjoyed it :)

[@ajmccarthy3896]

Lovely stuff.

[@arcologies]

heya, thanks so much for checking it out. glad you enjoyed it :)

[@datapusher-]

Nice. I had a waldorf micro Q when they came out! I probably shouldnt have sold it but thats life. What is the micro Q doing in this?

[@arcologies]

hey there! the microQ is being sequenced live for a higher atmosphere pad/string sound that starts at :46 and then pops in a few times throughout the track. i also sampled another sound from it to layer with a nord modular g2 pad sample on the octatrack. i mainly wanted to pick up a microQ because the same devs behind the osirus vst released a microQ vst (called vavra). so i can craft sounds on the vst and send them to hardware. vavra... to my ears... sounds exactly the same as the hardware :) so if you're looking for that microQ sound... vavra is free!

[@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

Because other "drum and bass" is 🤤

[@briandavidgregory]

Love the track! What stand are you using for the octatrack?

[@arcologies]

Hey thanks for checking it out! The stand is a soundance laptop stand, cheap on Amazon :)

[@briandavidgregory]

@@arcologies Thanks for the info!

[@mizazu75]

what's your thought on the octatrck?

[@arcologies]

hey there! i'm already a big fan of it and don't really have anything negative to say about it (yet lol)... it's extremely fun to use and offers exactly what i was looking for: creative sampling, tracker-like workflow/parameter locks, song mode, endless live performance capabilities, can be a live performance mixer for a live set... or you can just DJ with it... and it has a rock solid midi clock with support for 8 midi tracks. what kind of setup/studio do you have?

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

Awesome stuff! Any chance you could demo the Oto mixer?! I think there's literally 3 short videos out there, sooooooo wanting to hear more from it!

[@arcologies]

Hey there! Thanks for checking it out. I’ll do a demo video, stay tuned!

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

@@arcologies Thanks :)

[@stefanherzog]

Came here to say the same. A demo would be very nice!

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

@@stefanherzog I couldn’t wait...picked one up too. No regrets.

[@stefanherzog]

@@Farold_Haltermeyer Glad to hear that you have no regrets! I've been also tilting towards getting one myself before it's gonna be sold out.

[@mrferrera4444]

If you had to keep either the octatrack or the polyend tracker which would you keep?

[@arcologies]

Wooo that’s a tough choice… but I’d say the polyend tracker, and that’s only because I just love trackers for music. However, if I mainly did live performances or jams, I would choose the OT no question about it. OT has a very tracker-like workflow and I’ve been using it way more than the PT since I got it.

[@toi_techno]

"intelligent" 😄

[@glykalgunk]

MAKE IT DUMB PLS