swarms of shwarms
trading out the Machinedrum MKI for a MDUWMKII
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First jam with the Beatstep Pro was fun. I had it hooked up via CV/Gate to a Microbrute and then MIDI going out to a Volca Beats. Was a fun sesh, still trying to learn that machine.
In fact, I think I need to teach myself how to produce again. I just took 4 years off while I was working on two degrees. A few beats here and there, but in some ways it feels like I’m starting over.
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Never mind the MDUW for now, I just got a killer deal from a friend on an Elektron Analog 4.
Fuck it. Maybe I’ll sell it all and just have an Elektron jam set up and do everything else ITB…
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what daws are you fellas mutilating ?
I got an educational version of FL Studio back at version 7…flitered with Reaper briefly…but FL Studio has never failed to get me where I want to go so I’ve just stuck with it despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth from friends and acquaintances (strangely all Ableton users lol).
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I’ve been on Ableton since Live 4. Before that I used a DAW that most of you most likely never heard of, Opcode Vision.
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One of us! One of us! Join the dark side
considering overbridge i very well may…i smell an analog rytm in my future…
my days, just saw the Octatrack for the first time in my life
why is that a grand, ffs
show me another sampler that does everything it does all in one hardware box! Arguably expensive…but nothing else does what it does…honestly as the final link in the chain for a live or all OTB setup the Octa would be indispensable…worth the dosh just as a sequencer and controller in the hardware world…
I get it…for 1k one could arguably get a laptop, software and headphones and be on your way…
I’m preparing for a live show now with no laptop. The OT is acting a a playback source for my tracks, with timestretching and fx processing, and acting as a mixer with cross fader and dsp for a Drum machine and modular synth. OT keeps everything synced and blended in such a great way. The fx processing and fader control over any combination of parameters are amazing
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dudee, wheres the show at? would love to reach!
sickk! im gonna try to reach. Do you know what time youre playing? Constrained by bart
send 4 @ronzlo_ as well
(maybe we should move this to pm’s, hmu)
yeaa and i have laptop, software and headphones already so if i could get this as well, i think i could be Dr Manhattan (finally)
that crossfader, what a genius addition
but both of you saying its more useful as part of a greater hardware setup yeah, cos for me it would be The hardware setup lol. coming from software, just this one machine is already so much
what daw are you using btw jizz?
You can totally do whole tracks on the Octa. But unless you want to record live jams of tunes or do live sets or something, I’m not sure there is any advantage to owning that one piece of expensive gear.
There are few things the Octa can do a DAW can’t. Except zero latency live audio mangling and resampling. Also launches clips and loops and such quite like ableton from what I know. It really begs to be played live and the sequencer, as most Elektron gear, is part of what you are paying for.
If I’m doing “studio tracks” I usually lay out some basic ideas with hardware, but record as soon as possible then arrange the whole thing. Personally, I have no desire to record a bunch of stuff to an Octatrack and try to arrange a whole song on it “just because hardware boner”.
My hardware setup is mostly like a jet ski or a four wheeler or a sports car or any other adult toy. I enjoy playing, but I don’t NEED it to make music and it is better than spending thousands of dollars on coke and booze.
The spoken word album I am working on at the moment, only hardware used on it was a mic and pre-amp (nearly finished basic arrangements, sound design etc).
If it weren’t an expensive plane ticket to the other side of the country I’d come out : )
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