Octatrack Grain Engine Petition

[sezare56]

I had interesting grainy results with the Timestretch trick for Rytm.
With short recordings or samples, I place trigs with microtiming counts (2 or 4) at each step, and then I use and saw lfo on start, depth set to 64, start set to 32.
The results are the original sound if you adjust the lfo speed properly, or grainy things.
Does anybody worked on it ?

Timestretch

Not sure if this has been done already but here it is anyway. This method requires a little bit of set up, but should hopefully work for everyone. Settings vary depending on whether you use a 1,2 or 4 bar loop, and on the tempo stability of the original loop. I would recommend getting your original loop as clean as possible (in regards to your chopping/zero crossing etc). This might get revised as I play around with it somewhat. In this example I’ll use a four bar loop of the Amen Break I do…

To achieve good grainy things, instead of signing that petition, my wish would be enveloppe triggering for the Retrig function (RTRG/RTIM), to obtain smoother grains. It works with microtiming trig counts but you can’t modulate it.

I wish regular fade in / fade out for recording, because actual fades a totally crappy and unusable.