Would you recommend to buy the Octatrack?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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this is superb work. love it.
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+1
Hugely inspiring and may have single-handedly made me want an OT!

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I had an OT, but I sold it, because it’s mainly for glitch or ambient style music. If you are producing for example house or dance music, I don’t recommended it for you


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watch this

[font=Calibri","sans-serif]http://youtu.be/zKdP_UHS1g8

then say it again.

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this is superb work. love it.
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+1
Hugely inspiring and may have single-handedly made me want an OT![/quote]
There are tons of videos on youtube with producers making house/techno/whatever on Octatrack. The machine can be used an 8 track to make anything you want. Its all down to your creativity.

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Saying the Octatrack is not a house/techno/dance machine is like saying the MPC is a not suited for hip-hop production


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+1 :+1:

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Hahahaha
 I recognise this too much


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I can count on my fingers how many times i touched my DAW since i got an OT.

Nuff’ said.

P.S i only have 9.5 fingers.

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How likely is an OT MKII in the foreseeable future?

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Likewise, and each time I have used my DAW since, it has been purely for sample editing to dump into my OT.

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I disagree with this. I understand with the amount of effects and features its easy to get carried away and end up sounding glitchy but it can be used in more subltle ways.
I would recommend it, no regrets. It’s central to me, looking forward to getting the AR to free up some tracks now too.

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Likewise, and each time I have used my DAW since, it has been purely for sample editing to dump into my OT. [/quote]
Hehe, same here. Mostly making 64 slice grids.

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I disagree with this. I understand with the amount of effects and features its easy to get carried away and end up sounding glitchy but it can be used in more subltle ways.
I would recommend it, no regrets. It’s central to me, looking forward to getting the AR to free up some tracks now too.[/quote]
Yep. I almost exclusively make Techno with mine. You can do so much more than “glitch” with it. You can also give your dance/house/whatever music a nice twist with some glitchy not-so-perfect tweaks, which sounds awesome. The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix) comes to mind.

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Thanks for all the replies.

I make a lot of House especially Deep House and I think the Elektron gear is great for that. I agree that a lot of people make different music with the Octatrack but I saw a few Videos on Youtube were people really did some amazing Deep House tracks with the OT.

Regarding the effects I think you don’t necessarily have to use all of them. I Dj since 1997 and if I play a Dj set I also don’t use all of the effects a Mixer has. I mostly use the EQs and the filter.
I own a Kaoss Pad 3 and I hardly use it.

With the OT I probably focus on some core features and try to use it in a way that works for me.
BTW. there is a Disco Project called Tiger & Woods as far as I know they use the OT in their live sets.

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yes I know T&W, it’s one of my favorite project. I think they’re using the OT mainly for effects and 2 NI Maschines and a MPC 1000 for the beats and samples.
Yes I know of course that you can use the OT for house music too, but I think, it mostly for experimental things and not for live sounding “traditional” dance music
(you know I like to dance :wink: )

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that’s an impressive live set!

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the OT is a sampler (among other things)
why would it be limited to any particular genre?

btw, post above, very nice
my only complaint about the OT, not enough inputs/tracks
this is solved by multiple OTs like in that video :slight_smile:

RYTM time :slight_smile:

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Thanks for all the replies.

I make a lot of House especially Deep House and I think the Elektron gear is great for that. I agree that a lot of people make different music with the Octatrack but I saw a few Videos on Youtube were people really did some amazing Deep House tracks with the OT.

Regarding the effects I think you don’t necessarily have to use all of them. I Dj since 1997 and if I play a Dj set I also don’t use all of the effects a Mixer has. I mostly use the EQs and the filter.
I own a Kaoss Pad 3 and I hardly use it.

With the OT I probably focus on some core features and try to use it in a way that works for me.
BTW. there is a Disco Project called Tiger & Woods as far as I know they use the OT in their live sets.
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It is possible that they only use the OT for effects but in general they mostly use short samples so it should be no problem to use the OT for that.
I follow you now on Soundcloud.
I saw you are from Austria. Viele GrĂŒĂŸe nach Wien.Ist eine sehr schöne Stadt.

Btw. The Video from Daypak is really amazing.