Octatrack Settings You Need to Know About

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[@AtTheTableGames]

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[@mqsv]

Love this album! Is there any chance more cassettes would be manufactured some day? (I know they're limited edition for a reason)

[@AtTheTableGames]

@@mqsv yes! we're hoping to maybe do a small second run sometime in the future. you can also join my discord and compete in the monthly track contest to win the last copy i have laying around!

[@mqsv]

@@AtTheTableGames Super! I'm already in the discord, but didn't know about the track contest. I'll check it out.

[@EZBOT_]

A fight to the death! Also: To change the LFO designer from squares to angles hold the appropriate trigs and press the tempo button.

[@GiriGagan]

EZBOT! My main man, hallo from India.

[@EZBOT_]

@@GiriGagan hello 👋 :)

[@15peter20jo]

A little tip from the manual; the octatrack looks for bpm in the filename of your sample. Handy if youre having trouble setting loop bpms in the menu

[@midnightskate]

you read the what???

[@setiroculus]

[CUE] + [TEMPO] shortcut for metronome saves you a bit of menu diving

[@dorn_beats]

17:42 I use studio mode for reverb. If you turn it on, you will have a split volume control for each channel. The level knob controls the volume to the master and CUE + level knob controls the volume to the cue out outputs. Cue out to external reverb FX and back into input AB. Open up the direct in in the mixer. Like a studio mixer with aux channel. I can individually set the amount of reverb for each channel. This freed up the second FX slot for me! No deciding between reverb and delay. Thanks for your vids, always a pleasure. Greets from Berlin, Germany

[@alpayg.9778]

There’s just 3 people on yt i watch on the regular and I’m always super stoked when there’s a new video from one of them. You’re one of those! Always inspiring me to boot up my octatrack and create something. Keep up the great work Cheers!

[@otuon2441]

Friend, i know you've moved on from Octa videos, but just want to say from personality to information, you are a gift that keeps on giving! It's the only series where my ADHD gives a thumbs up on focusing and learning so you get his approval too! Keep on being awesome!

[@semi788]

oh man i'm watching your videos so much again, its like checking the manual when i'm stuck and you have a video on it that i can watch as many times needed thank you

[@unic0de-yvr]

Hi, I'm that internet pedant you ordered!? I actually use that launch quantize feature you hate! I'll now describe my use case because I am physically unable not to do so after watching this! OK SO basically, I have this file which is 64 1-bar percussion loops, concatenated together into one long 120bpm, 64-bar wav file. And it has a slice grid applied so each loop is a single slice. During live sets, I can just manually trigger a new percussion loop whenever using my sloppy garbage timing and the new loop will enter right on beat. I could also just have a trig in step 1 of my pattern, you say? That is true, and for some reason that's not how I do it live. I don't know.

[@unic0de-yvr]

I've also done a slightly more total-madman thing where there are entire songs, DJ-style, concatenated together one-after-another into a 64-song file, with one slice per song. Launch quantize is also handy for triggering those if I want to do an octatrack DJ set.

[@pickles123]

The "Cue CFG Studio" settings turns the Cue Outputs into a second stereo output pair that has it's own volume control, as opposed to the normal setting which I believe bypasses the main volume output when engaged. It's useful if you're trying to record the OT into a DAW and are tired of doing tracks a single stereo pair at a time and want to send a second track, or group of tracks, to those outputs. [Cue] + [Level Knob] changes the output volume for the Cued pair. Another useful setting in the Personalize menu is "Cue Mutes Master" which mutes cued tracks from the master output, and can essentially create an effects loop if you run the cue outs through effects and then back into either the A/B or C/D inputs (may need to turn the direct monitoring of those inputs up in the mixer page). Not to induce GAS, but the ZOIA from Empress is an amazing companion for this since you can build any effect pedal chain in it and it can receive MIDI CC so you can change patches on it from the OT to match the part or song your playing, that way you only need one effects pedal for infinite pedal board setups.

[@eeeyyyeee]

Excellent! Ty.

[@fallprecauxionsmusic]

nice!! thanks for these insightful tips. very helpful. yaaaaay!!

[@logickal]

I know you don't want to know, but the Cue Cfg basically toggles the cue outputs into behaving like a DJ mix style `cue` system (an independent set of outputs meant to be listened to separately for the mains to get the 'next thing' ready to drop in your performance) vs being a separate assignable output pair in `studio` mode. So, you could take your kick drum and assign it to the cue output panned hard left and then run it into an interface or mixing desk to have it on its own separate track.

[@GiriGagan]

Thanks for that tip, we could use that to go to an external hardware fx box and route it back to one of the inputs as well, yes?

[@el_dani]

@@GiriGagan sure

[@lukaswa2639]

Octatracks 8 Chambers: - Static Machines, why Elektron? - Pick Up Machines, Overdub - Freeze Delay - LFOs - Trigger, Locks, Trigless shut up duh - Parts?! - Arrangement Mode (does somebody uses it for real?) - Arming Disarming Stuff (accidentally did that all the time while trying to copy paste stuff lol)

[@alexyoungbased]

What’s wrong with static machines? I’ve been using them a lot because they are default instead of flex. Are they just slower?

[@lukaswa2639]

@@alexyoungbased I think you're right! Flex Machines are using RAM memory instead of streaming from the Card, so it's bit quicker and more versatile in terms of modulation. But you can't play large samples like couple gb (where static machines are coming in).

[@foneticklee]

I definitely use arrangement mode for real :-)

[@GeekGearSynths]

Studio mode is great if you want to use external FX on the Cue output.

[@ModernDevotion]

Quick record mode was added later. You can still use the record buttons without but you need to hold the track button as well to let it know which buffer you want to record to.

[@VanaVanaV]

I would certainly adopt a child between the intuitive polyend tracker and the versatility of the octatrack

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Very nice! I use my Octatrack with modular synths a lot of fun.

[@PostInquiry]

Man your content is very good, your channel will grow so keep er up buddeh

[@el_dani]

Actually the options in the menus make the Octatrack more powerful because of different use cases. Like the cue studio you can setup real scenes (fader)-effect send to external units (hit me up if you need more infos on that).

[@GiriGagan]

Hey there, this is my virtual hit you up, could you possibly explain more?

[@leftmono1016]

Bibi - The cue studio mode is something I set my OT to straight away. I send the cue outs to spare mixer channels, that mixer channel then sends to different effects. Flexibility 😀

[@thomaslann5015]

I read manuals. But my eyes glaze over after about 5 minutes. Social media and memes have destroyed my mind.

[@SynthesizerVideo]

The Waldorf Blofeld is very easy to program ;)

[@------YeahOK------]

You sir, are fkn brilliant 👌 Speaking of menu diving, I sold my Jupiter X after 2months - the absolute worst user experience if you want to get deep into the Zen Core engine.

[@paul_ilea]

thanx , super helpful🙏🏼

[@balancespring]

Oh sheeeeeeeeeeet, he plugged Modular World! I love you even more now and want to have all your babies even though it's not physically possible because of my man parts, womp womp. Aqeel is a God and his performance was the best, below mine of course because, well me and I love myself! I actually took some inspiration from one of your videos for my performance during the Mod World show. The main out of my modular case went into A B on Oktatrack and turned it into an overly expensive Master FX send mixer. But I used the crossfader to blend in a pitched up comb filter on top of everything (because I watched your comb filter video thing) and it makes some great gradual squelchy pitch change sweeps. Ok, done with my email length comment. Love your shit man!

[@fallprecauxionsmusic]

I love email length comments!! brevity is for mere mortals.

[@psygon]

thank u mario

[@Benbrattondrums]

Bro this shit had me rolling off laughter so much 😂 getting high off Cali weed just bought an octa track and here we are 😂

[@oliverakadjrunnerspoint5742]

Sampling problem is when I assign a thru machine to T1 and set the settings all A/B and record setting 1 trick so that I can hear the sound. After that I assign a flex machine to T2 with recording buffer 2 and set everything A/B recording setting and then record a sample after that I go to audio editor and look at the sample and put it into the T2 flex machine. If I then use a trick to play it back, it re-records it in the AED menu and overwrites my recorded sample.....and that's really annoying!!!! If I open a Flex machine in T5 and play the recorded sample, it runs without any problems and it doesn't record anything. What can I do there ???

[@ModernDevotion]

Quantized trig is good for playing things in time if you set it to a shorter value than pattern length. I imagine pattern length would be good if you have a static machine with like a verse and chorus loop setup as different slices 🤔

[@dylangauthier418]

cool idea

[@robbieswain]

Do you think I’d be better off getting this or like an mpc? I have a monomachine and don’t mind the workflow of that but have heard it’s harder on the octatrack. I’ve been planning on getting an octatrack (was actually going to order an mk2 today) wasn’t really thinking about the mpc live 2 as a comparable piece of gear but have heard them compared recently. Would you dissuade someone from investing in an octatrack in 2021? Or do you think it’s held it’s value Edit: also I love your videos :^>

[@thomaslann5015]

Thank you Mario!!

[@Wijnfles]

may sound weird but I really love menu diving

[@mattkaz9604]

Aww, be nice to the Blofeld. It has lots of menus but good midi implementation so if you use it with an Elektron you won't need the menus much at all.

[@newvaguecity]

Your genre of comedy is uncharted territory. You are in a territory of your own! I am nearly pissing laughing at the expense of one hell of a machine.

[@AtTheTableGames]

thank you! i gotta pay respect to my beautiful boys the McElroys, who i 100% rip the tone of my comedy off from

[@semi788]

i'm watching this for the 3rd time thank you

[@asbestosadventures8697]

So useful!!

[@asbestosadventures8697]

Thank you octa daddy

[@NullStaticVoid]

Thanks for covering these menu options. I own three other Elektrons, Machinedrum MK1 (fatboy) A4 MK1 and Digitone Keys. You would think I'd be walking into Octactrack prepared. No such luck. This has to be the least intuitive thing they ever made. PS Blofeld really is an amazing synth with major defects. (Would it be so hard to fix the damn arp sync to midi, come on Waldorf, one more firmware) Everyone should own it at least once to appreciate how powerful a sub $1000 synth can be, and also how brilliant but effed up Waldorf is.

[@robvbeats]

awesome-awesome..and..well awesome~

[@yoshitakajoshnagano3696]

Just worth knowing that setting CUE CFG to Studio mode enables you to transform CUE OUT to SUB OUT 3/4 which will not make you use CUE function anymore but might be more easier to use it as a mixer, just like you do in the Studio, but yeah it's useless if you don't want that way and go for CUE.

[@Tolognabullets]

I wonder how many times 12 year old me used 'Rawr' in the wrong context and butterfly effected my whole existence.

[@ibrajimenez2098]

Youre awesome. You should do more music related videos!

[@manu_facture]

dude please never shower again this video was freakin hilarious :D

[@chrallekanalen]

thx

[@stephancunningham9767]

I bought the last tape.

[@cockur]

actual information begins at 05:22

[@jamessusbilla]

awesome. thank *YOU* out of all the instructions, i had to rewind the dinosaur comment to hear it. =)

[@tladb]

It not so much the end diving but the menu distribution with different, seemly arbitrary, key combinations leading to different settings.

[@NSW-ye3xw]

Thinking back to when I owned an Akai S2000…. Now that was menu diving!

[@geecen]

HAve you checked out the M8 tracker by the way Got one on order - would be interested in your thoughts (you can use the full software on a teensy 4.1 to test it out too). Keep up the good work!

[@AtTheTableGames]

yeah! i've known about it for awhile now. i have never pre-ordered anything faster in my life. def planning on doing videos on it when it eventually gets here!

[@geecen]

@@AtTheTableGames awesome! Can’t wait

[@el_dani]

KUDOS for using „polymeter“ and not -rhythm as many do wrong

[@FairuzOsman]

Lmfao that Blofeld picture killed me

[@calm_bassist]

Refreshing dude. LOL

[@mogret7451]

quick link to the dog: 1:29

[@Nhiimusic]

u are just fuckin hilarious

[@Nhiimusic]

oh and great content! useful and inspriing stuff

[@Kuronoichig01]

Come back to the Octatrack, Octa-dad!

[@timovaldez]

If I had that shirt, I'd wear it a lot too. It's rad

[@ezrawallet]

Inspectors, directors, gear collectors

[@els1f]

I love menus lol

[@disxiple_113]

where can we order that shirt?

[@ChrissV234]

The octatrack makes me mad. I do own one though.

[@exxomech2724]

5:18 for parenting advice.

[@user-oq9py3rw1p]

Did you call him Link after the character in the Matrix?

[@AtTheTableGames]

nope we named him after the savior of hyrule

[@AtTheTableGames]

or more accurately: my children did

[@whendoesthisend]

FUNKTION KEY + MIX = METRONOME = ON / OFF

[@makeshiftsavant]

Video starts at 5:30

[@sebastienludovic7066]

Let’s say it’s the chat, then I could say with your subliminal permission « fuck elon musk, (as you asked)... go to mars and stay there (for the fun)» And « welcome hoooome riciiiii «

[@el_dani]

Hey daddy, love your individual floating hairs to the right!

[@jrcenina85]

@Bibi I saw this distinction in a KZbin video and every waking hour has me waiting for someone to get the 2 mixed up so I can correct them and then ride away into the sunset on my Segway

[@Noiretranquility]

Don't want to be salty , I want to see your video but I'm 5 min in and it's just your tonight show

[@ap0ria]

Elektron manuals are hot garbage whether you read them or not. I'm a huge fan of their devices, but someone at Elektron needs to be figuratively set on fire for how useless their manuals are. I'm angry just thinking about them.

[@drthunda]

Too much content in this vid please do one that is only complaining and tangents

[@earlsfield]

I really tried watching your videos as I appreciate the effort and i am interested in your content, but your thoughts and the way you are presenting it is impossible to follow. I know you are trying to be unique as content creator, but trust me, this is really really hard to follow. I do believe you can teach people stuff as you obviously have knowledge, but this is my advici as someone who also thought similar topics - you really need to gather your thoughts and be coherent and consistent. Cheers.

[@christopher_ecclestone]

I liked it, and I followed it perfectly well. Horses for courses, I guess