Octatrack Private Lessons Revealed: Sample Mangling For Beginners

This is an abbreviated online lesson on the Elektron Octatrack. The original session was cut down from over an hour to just under 28 minutes. If it seems fast, that’s because it is due to the editing. All of my lessons come with a video recording of the lesson so you can go back and rewatch as much as you like. The student asked to be shown how to mangle samples on the Octatrack as well as learn about the machine in general from a new users standpoint- a where to start and what what’s important type of session. This video is aimed at beginners but is packed with intermediate to advanced knowledge on the Octatrack and samplers in general. The John Samels from the video: and IG: check out his awesome work! → Get the Techno Performance Template for the Octatrack among all my other templates and sound designs from and here: → Get the NEW Ultimate Octatrack FX Template w/ SHIK integration and the NEW Ultimate Performance Mixer 2FF here with continuous updates: and here if you want a one-time download: *** Step up your game with 1 on 1 lessons: → Get 10% Modbang cables with code: EZBOT23 → Get 10% off your first Modbang Riser with code: RISER23 Check out my shop here: Buying gear via these links will award me a small commission at no extra cost to you, this is how the channel stays alive. Octatrack MK2: Digitakt: Syntakt: Digitone: MRCC MIDI Hub: My camera and audio setup: Sony FX-30: Microphone: → Sign up with DistroKid and get 7% off with this link: (definitely do this) Music: IG: 0:00 What’s this all about? 0:52 Figuring out where to start, asking questions. 1:38 Birds eye view of the Octatrack. 2:02 When and where can I sample? 2:27 Our goal is to mangle the audio. 2:57 Digging in, let’s start with record buffers. 7:09 Bouncing down tracks via CUE. 7:43 Trick for endless loop layers. 8:30 Quad THRU mono setup. 9:05 Recording on any track. 10:01 I like to teach this way for a reason. 10:21 Cropping and Zero Crossings. 10:54 Saving samples. 11:12 Flex tracks and recording buffers. 11:50 Treating it more like a one-shot sample player. 12:22 Octatrack VS Digitakt pitch tracking. 12:35 Another flex track sharing the recording buffer. 13:02 Adding insert effects. 13:42 Send FX are still insert FX on the Octatrack. 13:53 This all started with a chord from the Digitone. 14:03 Another Flex track but with it’s own buffer this time. 14:25 Recording a quantized internal loop. 17:58 Playing full speed, reversed, pitched up 1 octave. 18:20 Where you can lay down recorder trigs. 18:55 How to use swing on the Octatrack. 19:15 More on trigs and trig types. -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Engineering a new music device? Ensure its success by consulting with an expert in hardware music production. Let me help turn your dream device into a hit: -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-