In truth since I started working on the Live 2 a couple of months ago, I haven’t even switched on another piece of gear. Haven’t felt the need!
Do you use the plugin synths much? What sort of music are you making?
I have 2 quite contrasting goals. One is the main daily focus of making pretty much purely sample based Hip Hop.
The other is that I’d like to make some progressive/techy Trance stuff (sort of mid to late 90s techier side of Hooj). Interested to see how far I can take the basic plugins, but need some bigger time windows than what I’ve had recently.
I did have a play around with a drumsynth multi the other day, and started getting somewhere that sounded fairly useable as a base 
don’t have too much concerns on that front though - it’s more Tubesynth I’m unsure about. I’m not really going for big polished gated superstars though, so it it might be fine as a starting point to then resample and do further sound design.
I don’t want to ever enter controller mode and start messing with serum or other vst’s. I know it will just kill my vibe too much.
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So far I’ve tried house, DnB, electro & hip hop.
I’ve just been loading up the sample projects but then making new sequences and songs from the programs in there and deleting what I’ve not used.
Doing well with bassline (for bass) and found some nice sounds with tubesynth. No sound design yet, pre-set tweaking only. Haven’t tried the others yet! Been happy with what I’ve heard so far though, amazing to get the variety of sounds in a single box.
Finding it easier to work on arrangements in song mode with house, electro etc than hiphop currently.
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What were the barriers for you in using the Octatrack to sample? I had a Digitakt and the mono limitation plus short sample time were frustrating, so I get that. I have a Live and enjoy it for all it does but I find myself fighting with the UI frequently. Nothing is where I’d like it and some of the issues with reordering fxs or tracks get to me sometimes. The Octatrack has always appealed as a possible alternative so I’m just asking out of curiosity.
thank you so much for this man, this combination in this way is most excellent
I begged Roland for class compliancy since day one, til blue in the face, this is literally the next best thing
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I’m not 100% sure I can explain… Workflow stuff. It’s definitely better than Digitakt, but I found it much fiddlier than MPC.
I do intend on trying to Octatrack again sometime in the future, but not for at least 12 months from now, and until I’ve really nailed down the MPC and made lots of beats
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I recieved an email from air, they sold op4 now for 10 Euro, instantly bought it.
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Does that include the option to use it standalone?
yep,…what was the reg price?
love this guys voice, reminds me of hainbach…
sample worthy
Funny. For me OP4 was offered for 29,99$, but when I added it to my cart, it suddenly dropped to 3,77$! Luckily, I already had it and didn’t have to break my NGNY pledge.
Now i see from your link 29€, looks like dynamic pricing, no idea how that works. For 10, it was a no brainer, i wanted it anyway for quiete a while.
There was a statement that it could be used standalone, but i have not installed it yet.
Likewise, £29.99 when I click on it. I’d have bought it in an instant for £10 or less, but still on the fence at £30.
How do the FM pianos sound in OP4?
ok, for me I did received a email with the 29.99, then I clicked on it and it pop up
a window for me to put my email, then come to 4,94. I did have an account with
inmusic with my MPC 1 already.
I stayed up until an ungodly hour last night, forensically chopping an acapella of Damage - Wonderful Tonight… wtf is my life.
Question - If I have filled multiple banks with chops from ‘convert to program’, is there a quick way of selecting the best chops and then culling the rest and condensing the good chops to one bank?
I’m guessing the best way might be to flatten the best chops, and manually create a new program?
My process is:
Slice as needed
From the chop screen, tap on the slice you want
Hold Shift + then press convert
Scroll to Assign slice to pad
Tap on the pad
Press do it
Rinse and repeat for all the slices you want
Or
Slice as needed
Exit chop mode
Press a pad and enter Program Edit
Go to the Samples Tab
In the sample field select the sample you have sliced
In the slice field select the slice you want
//Optional but super useful for me: Go to the Global tab and set the mute group
Duplicate the pad how many times you need
Now all you need to do is change the Slice field for each pad
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The latter is sort of how I’ve worked a lot in the past… but you don’t get as good a view.
I think I should try using sample editor, committing to chops in a destructive way, and create an initial ‘dummy program’ that I experiment with for a while just playing the pads and finding nice things l, but then create a final program where I then get my samples ordered so the right pads are on the right bank for access - likely having different sections on different banks.
I think this is just about slowing things down more to get everything just right, which can only be a good thing
guess it was some mistake, and now they’ve fixed it, it’s always 34,80$ with vat