Turning Prog Rock Into House Music // Octatrack Only Workflow

[@Nikakhar]

Saturday evening with a beer and a fresh video from Ricky. What more can I ask for?

[@gin-sonic]

Glas of wine here :)

[@henrikfisch]

Little Whisky here. 😁

[@BubbaSatori]

An Elektron sale at Sweetwater with 48 month, 0% financing. 😎

[@cravecave505]

…a nice girl or guy?

[@Payzant]

Ricky video and a joint :)

[@MidlifeSynthesist]

The fact that you can program the Octatrack this fluidly while at the same time commenting onwhat your doing so cohesively is just mindblowing to me🤣 awesome video fam❤️

[@RickyTinez]

Hahaha it’s just my brain functions audibly

[@JohanVandekerckhove]

His speed on ANY gear is mindblowing

[@charlyreed7474]

This is the first time the octatrack has actually started to make real sense to me. Amazing track

[@dkamhaji]

Love all your sound shaping nuggets all throughout this little chill session. The high hats distortion+filter, the way you quickly shaped the peak patch with Q on low + env quick shaping. Absolute gems ;)

[@urbancanyons8871]

Ricky, you make all this look so easy. The octatrack, the vibe in the video, everything. Total pro. Respect.

[@jonmakesbeats]

Heyyyyy I got a shout out! Great track, Ricky.

[@proutie0118]

the myth the legend

[@cod.liver.failure]

It'd would be cool to hear about the day job at some point

[@Jake-Balibari]

Your skill in handling Elektron is so impressive that the machine seems easy to use. But nooo, I'll keep my Toraiz despite its limitations, ha ha, because maybe I'm too lazy. Congratulations, it's a pleasure to watch your demos

[@LoLaKoala]

Your live case looks awesome. Would love a video about putting that together. Glad to hear you are still with Elektron. Red Means Recording had said you were let go back in December which was concerning.

[@RickyTinez]

The case video and some helpful tips to putting it together as well as playing live will;l be out next week! Thanks for the kind words LoLa!

[@r3dsh1ft3d]

Function -> swing on all? Mind = blown!

[@intersweat]

I love all your vids in general but these style are my favourites. Starting out with a raw piano sample and going all “Bob Ross” on it. I look forward to your Saturday vids and this was inspiring!!! Thank you from one of your biggest fans. Cheers. Share the love!!

[@Enlukaa]

Nailed it, you're workflow is insanely quick!

[@Jamslerr]

Ricky ricky, my man, the OT will never die. You got some pull, get us an OctaUpdate. :)

[@boorchboorch]

cheers mate! octatrack tutorials coming from you is a delight! more of this please!

[@boorchboorch]

oh just bought an octa and it arrived in my hands a couple of hours ago btw :) (long time digitakt user but i'm excited for octa!)

[@cp99music]

That Breadkrums EP is constantly on rotation in my house

[@useca]

Great workflow tips for the Octatrack on this one! Thank you for sharing! ❤

[@DocBolus]

Really nice to see someone at work who really knows their instrument

[@Tapepusher]

OT > Guitar

[@gavinstubbs5361]

Always top notch and inspiring, bro. Love your work!

[@parristaylor]

This was so much fun. That B section is the key tho! Glad you came back to it.

[@bryancorbin3760]

Really interested in the Octatrack. For some reason it just makes sense.Dont know about the learning curve on it but I like what I've seen it do.

[@joonoonoo9643]

I just woke up and watching this video was the first thing I did!! May I ask you what you do for Elektron? I thought you were still in Novation!

[@nnervecenter]

Another nice thing about slots view is you can see a progress bar for the currently playing sample. Really useful for long samples

[@Eltron2010]

Really feeling that sample! Wanna go crate digging now!

[@djrockid]

Beautiful!

[@geertverstraete718]

Aaah Ricky is now working for Elektron :-) got ye

[@rieswildschut8002]

What a way to build a track, been trying it myself, aint that easy 😁

[@dillonpreech256]

Dope Ricky working at Elektron!

[@robvbeats]

Dope beatz as always~ 💫

[@256k_]

everytime i sell my OT your videos make me buy it again... :D

[@arjanpetersen]

1:34 just wonder8ng how you get all those samples under the triggers?

[@user1756]

Fantastic track Ricky. You're getting better and better, it's very noticeable

[@distantcomets]

Was thinking the same thing... watching him make changes at will is wild because me and my OT aren't nearly that close yet. And the track is just lovely...

[@sketchdashaman]

Slots all day 👍

[@borisnaguetdesaintvulfran4949]

Really love your content ! Thx man

[@leptyga]

Found a new hero.

[@imre1841]

wow beautiful ! thanks for that !

[@snowxcrowe]

I've been waiting forever for that Breadkrumz track.

[@spridgejuice]

delightful - and awesome skills I'd love a deconstructed version with more in the way of semi-beginners instructions, guess i'll just have to get proactive on the pause button!

[@sketchdashaman]

15:37 starts the perfect groove yo!🔥🔥🔥

[@dragosandrone5891]

Hi Ricky, I love what you do. I've learned a lot from your videos, especially on the Digitakt. Hopefully, in the future, I will get the syntakt as well because seeing your videos on it, just got me hooked. Maybe in the future, we will see your take on the korg nts1 (best value for the money synth in my opinion - 100usd). Anyway, peace!

[@kuanjian]

Awesome and inspiring stuff. Love the Octatrack content. I was hoping you were going to grab db-01 or something for your baseline. Good stuff

[@boston4715]

thanks for another inspiring video, this sounds beautiful! UK tour when?! :)

[@jaakbonenstaak8041]

Ricky i remember you saying you only know a handfull of scales, and forgot to comment, but minor and major scales are really easy to remember. Minor = minor triads of your root note, 5th and 7th, and major is the same but with major triads.

[@kookiespace]

Haven't watched your stuff in a while (been feeling in a real rut after releasing my last single) and nice to see you go back "to the basics" :D Also you work at Elektron now? Dope!

[@StefanWolfrum]

So awesome, so much fun and so inspiring to watch & learn! Now, here‘s a challenge for you: Do the same on the Polyend Tracker! 🙈 I don‘t have an Octatrack but I do have the PT and would LOVE to learn more about it … Challenge accepted? 😉

[@RickyTinez]

Great suggestion! I wish I was as comfortable on the PT as I am on the OT

[@StefanWolfrum]

@@RickyTinez 😂 Yeah, I thought so. Maybe I need to buy an OT! 🤪

[@tebogoseretse1586]

Still needs more underground House from you Sir

[@Jbrunel510]

Smooth as always my G! That sample is killer. Damn. Hope that show was solid too hombre!

[@RickyTinez]

Thanks JBrunel! the show was fun! I had a blast

[@iancain6647]

Bro I'm having a super hard time figuring out how to make the samples I record into either the right, or left channel into mono samples that play in both left and right. I've been searching tirelessly for an answer to this.

[@Theboydevoye]

spacializer with mid side enabled. side volume down might help?

[@nickster9137]

Very cool! Btw, what’s your wireless headphone setup? Feels like it’s a zero/low latency setup since you’re using them while using the devices

[@bashenko]

I am so glad I got rid of my Octatrack and came to Akai MPC Live II instead. Only having special mindset will allow you to actually enjoy Octatrack workflow.

[@Drrolfski]

You're working with Electron now, sounds pretty cool. Didn't you use to work for Novation?

[@Zeisslermusic]

Vers Nice beat and piano Sound and part 🇩🇰

[@obshaky]

this one coming out sexy af. Did u finished the track? I need this in my set pronto!

[@synthseeker]

When will you be pulling that 3rd Wave in the background into your music? ;)

[@rccarfh5164]

Hi Ricky, great workflow! But I personally still did not get the big differences between all the elektron devices like octatrack, digitakt, syntakt, digitone. Maybe you can do a video about that? Or someone else in the comments can give me a answer. I would be very thankful cause I’m a newbie in this topic :)

[@odrithingamajig]

Here's my understanding of the differences between these Elektron products: - Digitakt: 8 sample-based tracks. Samples are mono only (no stereo), and no automated sample slicing (i.e. you can't load a sample into a track and then quickly slice it at transients, like loading in a drum loop and instantly getting playable one-shots, though through the very good Elektron sequencer you can achieve the same result, just requires a bit more work). Has a few FX (filter and distortion per track, reverb and delay sends, and a master compressor). - Octatrack: 8 sample-based tracks. Samples can be stereo, and there is sample slicing and a bunch of other features like that. There are quite a large number of FX. But from what I hear, the fact it's so versatile and complex means it's quite hard to learn. - Digitone: 4 FM synthesis tracks. If you don't know what FM synthesis is, I'd recommend looking it up - it's not super easy to learn but you can get some very insane and/or very beautiful sounds out of it. - Syntakt: 8 digital synthesis tracks, 4 analogue tracks. Each track has a 'machine' on it that you can select from, and each machine has a distinct sound. On each digital track you can have any digital machine (this includes different kicks, snares, hats, synths, and so on), and the analogue tracks have different machines available, and they have their own selection of kicks, snares, synths, and so on. There's a lot more nuances to each of the Elektron boxes so if any of these sound particularly interesting to you I'd recommend reading up on them. They're all fantastic products.

[@saber5401]

Nice track, but hard to hear the Octatrack hats... maybe my hearing is over sensitive on the high end...

[@JeffHendricks]

Hooo leeeeeee cow!

[@dustin3194]

i knew it wasn't gonna be, but when i saw "Prog Rock" i was hoping it was gonna be a sample from Starship Troopers by Yes lol

[@dontknow3949]

I thought it was gonna be prog rock 😂 stupid me

[@jimlampshady]

Loosey-goosey baby. Quantize schmantize.

[@hcab43]

maybe new octatrack device at namm 2023? eheh

[@DawlessHouseMusic]

Nice -n- Toit

[@markpearce9849]

Octatrack over Digitakt then?

[@shachar87l]

Like asking 10 dollars over 5

[@robvbeats]

get em both! they play nice together..🤖

[@Screenshot1015]

I have both and I really only prefer the digitakt for immediacy. That’s literally the only advantage.

[@RickyTinez]

As Matt Gomes says, the Digitakt is a lot more "immediate" vs the OT. Playing out live, I use them both. Digitakt on drums and OT handling stems, FX, mixing, live looping, chopping, etc.

[@sullycliftona]

Not interested unless it's original whats point? Gert sausage

[@baldiball]

I’d love an EP with this type of sound @ricky tines

[@suntzu6122]

Im a simple man. I see house music + OT and I click soooo fast

[@dontknow3949]

How is that prog rock…? I literally thought this video was gonna be the title aka you sampling a progressive rock song 😂 not some piano sample wat wat wat lol must’ve been some communication issue here