Flat out jam with the Elektron Octatrack

Please support my work on Patreon: A live, semi-improvised track performed entirely on the Elektron Octatrack MkII. Like probably most of us, I have a collection of song sketches, patterns that never went anywhere. One of my favourite things to do is to output those patterns as audio stems and import them into the Octatrack. There’s something about the set of tools that the Octatrack gives you that can take a song fragment and get you to the finish line. In this case, I wrote a pattern I liked on the Native Instruments Maschine, but it sat unused for a year or two. I wanted to do a songwriting livestream for my Patreon supporters, so I imported the files onto my Octatrack, and once again, the Octatrack delivered. For the B section, I sliced and pitched the A section stems until they were new chords. For the live performance, I leaned on the scenes and the crossfader for build-ups, breaks, and transitions. There is no better case study for why hardware beats software for me