Workflow: Octatrack

Sampling, slicing, and beat making with the Octatrack. Sample taken from Ferdi Özbeğen's 'Altin Mikrofon' vinyl.
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[@MidnightMusicClub]

Cuckoo's video is the only one I've seen that breaks down the basics and shows what buttons are being pushed, what menu settings are being selected and why certain things are being done. More videos like that with all of the features would definitely cut down on the number of people that sell this machine out of frustration.

[@Voidmag]

That's why things come with a manual

[@rearnakedhump]

its called different learning styles buddy

[@difflocktwo]

@@rearnakedhump Learning styles have been debunked haven't they?

[@rearnakedhump]

difflocktwo according to what evidenced based research?

[@AdamsBrew78]

@@rearnakedhump crickets.....

[@moving_particles]

these vids are still amazing. i just got an mkii and this is very enlightening.

[@jamessusbilla]

even today, this video is GOLD. thank *YOU* to infinity. btw, cuckoo and ezbot inspired me to get the entry level cycles. then the cycles inspired me to acquire an OT which even today is way ahead of its time. just my opinion. i loved the part about being able to create a whole new different track....somewhere in between the slider. lol.

[@ClydeHidershaj]

Make more of these videos. The best way to learn your machines.

[@dankefurnichts]

the best way is to play with the machines by yourself ;-)

[@m4ntr0x]

Mr. Dataline plays it like a pianist. I play the octatrack like a confused xylophonist who's instrument is stuck on the ceiling.

[@pigeonfarmboy]

These workflow videos are great. Has inspired me to try to wrap my brain around my octa one more time before selling. Thank you.

[@flowerpower111]

What's your reason for considering selling it?

[@Mr_ToR]

i would assume steep learning curve

[@solodragun]

Probably going hungry after buying. EXPENSIVE!

[@Matthewsavant]

I considered ditching my Octatrack for a minute but Cenk reminded me why I should keep it

[@atommachine]

One of those lock yourself in a room for a month machines , i bet it well worth the effort.

[@MrBoxxed]

I'll be watching this over and over 😃

[@SeqMod]

this is one of cenks better demos imo... sometimes its just a little too wild because he wants to show all the features

[@djsyndicate0001]

Killer video!Easily the best demonstration of the Octatrack I have seen yet!

[@niallmunday9115]

That manual reverse fader is the golden ticket

[@axeltschiember2712]

In my judgment Octatrack is a post-produced-tracks machine made for live jams once everything is pre-configured, in this scenario it is THE BOMB. For wise musicians only.

[@SjN7HETIK]

u have a very restricted sight if u really think this. Post production? This machine is also a sound designer beast, the limit is just your immagination. Rather, u underrated one of the top aspect, that is just this: seems a 8 channel sampler, after understanding parameter lock and or automation, scene switch, ...u realise I'm right. A sound design beast.

[@aikighost]

I love how you make sampling look so easy on this box. I have to say I never found it so.

[@WeAreElektron]

But it is easy - as it can be seen

[@aikighost]

Elektron Not at all, this video takes shortcuts and skips allthe bits you need to set up in advance with sampling modes etc. Also doesn't show how to save samples. If sampling was this easy on the octa I wouldn't have sold mine. I found the awkwardness of sampling & editing samples to be the main reason I sold it.

[@WeAreElektron]

aikighost There were no shortcuts or preparation done during the sampling section. This sampling method will work straight out of the box - of course there are many other ways to sample with the Octatrack which will require changing the setup. You can also save the captured samples into the CF Card via the sample edit menu. The only preparation done was slicing up the Machinedrum sample wavefile which is explained during the video.

[@aikighost]

Elektron Well was this changed in an update? I always found it a total nightmare to sample on the octa when I had mine. Also the manual wasn't very helpful. It seemed to want to confuse me at every turn. By the time Id had it for 6 months I had kind of given up on sampling with it and just loaded stuff Id sample in NI Maschine over via usb.

[@josker3599]

aikighost Yup, that's how it works. Track+Rec - done.

[@virus2003]

This video sold me an Octatrack.

[@quantummonastery]

I could watch hours of this

[@nedavine]

Love that violin sample.

[@merlinoner]

Dataline is really an expert with this machine :)

[@alexandrucrisan7432]

+merlinoner He should be, he fucking works for Elektron. He gets products before they are even released... HE is their main marketing guy on youtube... durrrr

[@merlinoner]

Alexandru Crisan I know, but still :)

[@m2ad18]

@@alexandrucrisan7432 really, durrrr? I know I’m old and shit but durrr? Either a Strangely Angry 12 year old or pathetically immature 20 something..Durrrr? really?

[@chevvers]

I was expecting a workflow video to explain, parts, banks, and patterns along with their relationships.

[@1111undici1111]

Incredibly powerful machine!

[@lovtscho]

I would love to see a PDF that walks you through all the steps you are doing there! The video has helped me a lot using this magic machine, but I miss several steps! Dear Elektron, your machines are awesome, but your manuals are not. Sorry!

[@aki_gong6271]

What an amazing instrument and demo!

[@PureAmbientDrone]

Wow this guy makes it look sooo easy.

[@AveMcree]

best sample choice ever!

[@edwardprue]

Thanks for this video. I've finally scaled the first significant section of the OT, and can now understand most what you're doing here. Inspiring! I enjoy your work!

[@llax222]

toujours la meilleure demo

[@caeserdog3844]

thank you for posting. please do more, this was great. very easy to follow.

[@denizkustu3056]

tutorial ların çok iyi bu workflow seriside çok iyi olmuş bir elektron kullanıcısı olarak çok eğitici ve öğreticiler, bu arada Ferdi Özbeğen koparttı :) bu arada daha fazla Octatrack tip ve trick leri bekliyorum herkes gibi Saygılar

[@tomesmusic]

all these videos have been excellent, but i enjoyed this one the most. :-) i feel like it could've gone on for another 20 minutes or so, as it was just scratching the surface! and that's why i love the OT so much. thanks cenk, thanks elektron

[@MrHollabk]

This is fucking great!! Love you Elektron Guys, Merry Christmas!!

[@0Benjyc0]

Need one of these so badly, 100% getting one soon

[@VolcaRock]

THANKS for showing this cool demo! I needed this vid a month ago when I got my octal new, but now its good to refresh my brain ;-)

[@p07a]

+VolcaRock Wow! More people I know is getting this one! hehe. I'll consider it when I get older

[@VolcaRock]

+Potasmic hehe, thats a good idea ! and I always say I get into modular when getting older ;-)

[@Einhardovic]

wonderful workflow videos!

[@martti7363]

Alright, starting to make sense now, just need to keep reading the manual and watching vids

[@levinsonl]

Yep, painful

[@rathnapish]

amazing

[@driesanalog4187]

thanks cenk - more of this pls!

[@paddythunder1932]

Wow cookin it man nice 👏

[@radio9x]

Well you really banged through that. I’ve had my OT for 24 hours and I’m befuddled but if I can move like you are through the workflow I’m gunna kill it. Learn play learn play learn and learn some more. I’m not giving up the ship.there is incredible power here and when I get just some of it... stand back lol. Instead of just showing the box it would be nice if you could show close up of your key strokes and screen close up while you talk. Thanks!

[@sweepstakes]

That track + bank editing shortcut is slick! Good lookin' out.

[@bulskamp]

Thx cenk this Made something clear of this machine !

[@famousarmystudio]

Elektron are you running the output of the OT into any EQ's or Comps or is this the straight signal from the OT? Just curious because it sounds "mixed" very well.

[@doublemint8361]

would love to use one along with my tr-8 and volca bass.. could make some interesting shit

[@moorhertz829]

I have to own one of these!

[@ritec]

Great sample!

[@kostantinosmag2986]

This great one nice one

[@CircuitBeat323]

great stuff i like it!

[@lying-dalai]

Congrats, Cenk : I feel like you managed to keep it not too deep + not too quick :)

[@dosferrer]

Cenk kardeşimiz Türk galiba :)

[@tuncayaydn9216]

ferdi özbeğen diyince anladım zaten :)

[@famousarmystudio]

man why you guys gotta make me love my Octatrack again!! I was just about to sell her to raise funds to upgrade my MPC3000. Now I have to find something else to sell off.

[@DayflightTrok]

Real good demo

[@arielhurts]

Want this so badly

[@RusticRaver]

amazing, that really helped!

[@pedrol8234]

Cool

[@rougenavarre]

Thank you Cenk, videos are great. But is it possible to do them 3X longer, as 3X slower buttons pushing ? Will it be a suite, specially for Octatrack ? ;-)

[@Trancer006]

Holy shit I watched this like a little kid seeing a magician for the first time with a shocked face.

[@IlyaKolesnik]

awesome!

[@sammuel1971]

That's actually fucking sick

[@robertsyrett1992]

Props for using 50 year old Turkish music for the sample material.

[@aidanvinum]

Yes.

[@0Metatron]

That delay control was sick. Didn't even know it had that

[@gooneybird808]

Cenk is the dopest

[@bobdoggy4312]

its 2023 my mew addition

[@pedalfiles4441]

So when are you guys going to start selling those custom concrete slabs that you guys use as stands? They are really cool looking

[@porl3004]

Concrete slab in Kit form, with a 200 page manual and support vids🙃 I bought my octatrack three weeks ago, and I am enjoying the comments on these videos more than learning how to operate the unit 🤣 I love the way that my sampler feels like a cross between an 80s handheld video game and the control panel of a nuclear power station.

[@flowerpower111]

Dunno about using a drumloop in a product presentation. Obviously still a great machine.

[@inf0tr8r]

why? this makes no sense, you know an entire genre of music evolved out of a drumloop right? don't limit yourself

[@flowerpower111]

inf0tr8r That is different. This is more like a sample pack tier drumloop, not like the amen break or something.

[@inf0tr8r]

haha fair point

[@inf0tr8r]

I agree 100% if you follow the conversation m8. :)

[@flowerpower111]

Alexander Schmitt You can't use a drum loop without a sampler. So it doesn't really matter what you use one on.

[@megatraum420]

this guy makes it look so easy but it's not that easy

❤ 🇹🇷 ❤

[@charlieaydin1377]

Wow!!!

[@IlyaKolesnik]

please, write Turkish musician name!

[@studio85amsterdam]

Ilya Kolesnikov ferdi ozbegen maybe?

[@cosmicdancer7455]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqmoqneOjsuHa9E

[@maendelofdoom]

Sounds a bit like muslimgauze. Love the octa btw.

[@inf0tr8r]

dropping God's name on a tutorial video ;)

[@Usuck709]

anybodz know the name of the first song he recorded?

[@sgg25981393]

i wonder how long he took to master this machine...

[@inf0tr8r]

you can learn this machine fast, specially with tutorial videos

[@specialcharactersgilesdick8876]

This sample seems to go for about 25 seconds, but this is on a FLEX machine, isn't there a 16 second limit to FLEX machine sampling? Or is this something I can change by consolidating bufer memory to a single track or tracks in system settings?

[@deekay5487]

i was also wondering...

[@kaitsu9608]

Its 16sec default x8 rec buffers. You could set it for one rec buffer @16 bit, allowing to use all the 84mb ram buffer. Set it up at system - memory. Just save your recording buffers or its gone

[@larsjuh1337]

HEY JAKE

[@ritec]

This is the Sample in case you guys are wondering: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn3ddX1qlN90hpI

[@alextemp1995]

are you limited to 8 tracks on this machine or are there ways of going beyond that limit?

[@AsyncLive]

Each note trig can have a different sample and different settings (128 in total I believe), the limit is endless

[@alextemp1995]

Async Async hey thanks

[@alienanxiety]

you can also resample any number of tracks onto one track, to free up tracks. plus there are 8 MIDI tracks for external gear. and now they've added conditional trigs. truly limitless. only downside to the OT now is the reverb is subpar compared to their newest machines. if OT had Digitakt reverb, forget about it.

[@marcoalexandre4569]

what's the maximum sample time?

[@edbaiza7757]

Modern Boom Bap would be better to demonstrate than House music!!

[@LousyFacelift]

How many of you Octatrack users out there are still trying to figure out how to assign a specific tempo to a pattern? ;)

[@bigkingsha]

Cerebro in a box

[@nadeharry]

lol ...sicher und dafür muss man dann was studieren??

[@be2u546]

mmm yummy))

[@famixrap]

hey,can i connect a midi keyboard with the octatrack to play samples like a piano or strings ?

[@rhythmdroid]

yes, but it's 1 sample voice per MIDI channel--so you wouldn't be able to play "polyphonic" information, like chords. Octatrack's area of high expertise is hits, stabs, loops, beats, etc. I usually play chords on another synth and sample them in.

[@faruambient]

great video, great machine! but the display is such a turnoff for this price...

[@ChrisNova777]

the tool looks interesting but this guy obviously knows jack about rhythm + music

[@sw_909]

+Chris Nova777 You idiot. He did that all completely on the fly. Id like to see you do something on the spot like that. Give him a break you tool.

[@ChrisNova777]

+Wenners80 calling me an idiot makes u even more right

[@alienanxiety]

Yes, clearly he knows jack lol ... vimeo.com/221195049

[@alltaken0]

-_- nice

[@claytonlevibrown]

I notice most people using this product to make sounds more fine or smaller, how is this machine in making smaller sounds bigger, does it doing anything like that very well? can the octatrack expand the original sound into a larger dimensional audio property.

[@rhythmdroid]

Absolutely. Sample in a sound, slow it down, then run it through an EQ in effect block 1 and a Spatializer in effect block 2. If you want more, you can feed the output of that track into the input of another track and add 2 MORE effects, like reverb and delay.

[@rhythmdroid]

The included "spatializer" effect is actually pretty powerful, allowing you to independently adjust volume for mid information and side information of a sample. It's like a widener.

[@claytonlevibrown]

this product looks and sounds like the best for the market of what it does but everyone that uses it always ends up shrinking everything so I ugees it all comes down to the user making the sounds based on what you're telling me.

[@rhythmdroid]

Making things sound "big" is an artform in production. It has to do a lot with the relative volume, EQ, and effects depth of objects. Octatrack is a sampler with effects, so it's also important to note that you need to also try and sample "big" sounds from the start.

[@claytonlevibrown]

doesn't the octatrack have a built in system of sounds as well

[@hernss]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn3ddX1qlN90hpI in case someone is looking to sample the song

[@kiwiradioNZ]

This machine seems to complicated for my brain. I prefer sequencing on DAW computer

[@rhudson3290]

Yup, but it's a good exercise to keep the brain sharp. DAWs are too easy to use.

[@Claidheambmor]

Ok

[@gregchuchelo7248]

lol that vinyl sample turned out horrid

[@christdolphin69]

jesus christ

[@juodasai]

wtf

[@cfcreative1]

The "analog" oscillators on the octatrack sound like crap compared to old vintage synths. The tiny circuitry just doesn't cut it.

[@alienanxiety]

on the chance you aren't just trolling ... the OT doesn't have any oscillators, and it isn't an analog machine.

[@7thvenom]

All that time it took to sample...then you don't even use the good part of the sample,you could have just played that little 2 bar sample in real time on a synth.

[@alexandrucrisan7432]

MAKE OTHER GENRES (or let someone else do it). I don't want to hear the same bullshit edm every fucking time. I don't even bother watching. boots and hats and boots and hats and boots and hats till my fucking ears bleed.

[@DieMasterMonkey]

+Alexandru Crisan I thought you were writing a loop at the end. It's got a beat. :)

[@helgeschneider2471]

+Alexandru Crisan Are u kidding... hope u know what edm is