I’d love a Commodore 64 beige themed Octatrack. Would look awesome in the Mk2 style.
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Being more Atari ST, Din, Cubase, argh…
I kept 2 Ataris. Just in case. Maybe to prove some things can work after a world war or something like stupid viruses.
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I found this. Anybody use them?
https://www.styleflip.com/elektron-octatrack-mk2-customized-skins-4092
MPC vibes.
When I think about it, I’d love an MD style OT.
Red screen. Brushed aluminum face plate.
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Funny when i think i bought the OT for 1050€ 2 years ago. These things are like bitcoins 
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Holy mackerel,
I’ve been playing with the OT almost every night for the past two weeks. Although I’ve had the DT for a year, I am taking it slowly as there is so much to discover and learn here.
Tonight I finally dared to experiment with a pickup machine and hooked up my iPad. I already had some percussion and a baseline going on and I decided to add some pads from audiokit synth one.
When i finished playing the pads I thought well,
Let’s add some some plucks. While playing I got a FaceTime call which resulted in a very weird loop. I decided to go with it and then found out the drums and bass I had didn’t really match.
I ended up using the recorded loop as a foundation for some sample bases synthesis and build a new drum pattern and baseline with it,
That made me think of a certain poem that was on YouTube and a new idea for a track was born.
Then I looked at my clock and 2 hours had passed in what seemed to be 15 minutes.
Damn this rabbit hole is deep, and I really enjoy falling through it.
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Having had below, I agree, but I’d still prefer black. Take a black OT MKII, brushed aluminium anodized, red screen…
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Hello,
I just wanted to share my happiness for being an Octatrack owner.
I loaded a bunch of vinyl hip hop drums samples and the fact it’s stereo make the samples sound bigger than on DT. It make them sound as they was recorded and mastered so it’s very cool.
Really love the SET and AUDIO POOL workflow. Easy way to have a clean separate differents projects like hip hop and electro.
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keep the good news coming my friend
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I did a Sophie study on my lunch break.
The recipe is basically
- max out speed on LFO’s, assign them to anything pitch related (faux FM if you will)
- apply chorus
- apply compression
Drench your samples in steps 1-3
https://www.instagram.com/p/CL6ZHB1hUv9/?igshid=4nfj7r4fel0r
The Octatrack is amazing!
Edit: ooh, play around with the amp settings as well for some fun results…
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Nicely done.
Yeah she definitely rocked them clanks.
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Thank you, it was a fun excercise. The only down side for doing this on the octatrack is that the lfos don’t go into audio rate. But the compression and chorus make up for that. Would be interesting to hear someone do similar stuff on Digitakt.
I think they can at fast bpm…
Anyway, with lfo designer, you can make tri or square waves going 8 times faster…
Cymbals and metallic percussions synthesis lab - #10 by sezare56
Lfo on rate for more pitch amplitude.
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Ooh, right the LFO designer I always forget about that! Thanks for the tip
Holy cow! I just used your tip and some of the sounds are INSANE! Even more hollow and metallic. Very cool. Thanks again!
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Yeah yeah spamming this thread!
I took @sezare56 advice and further ventured into to Sophie territory and I think I went beyond after that.
How bout double compression on the master track! WTFnot? Every crease in the current running through this machine is being picked up by the dual compressors, I hope the audiophiles over at the OT sound quality thread don’t listen to this cause they would probably get a stroke…
Here it is never the less “Ode to SOPHIE”
Also the Octatrack illustrating why I won’t ever sell it… it truly is amazing. I tried doing the same thing on some of my other devices and I didn’t even get close to this result…
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Sounds good! What type of samples did you use as base?
Basically normal drum samples (kicks and what not) from the factory content. The track with the beat is samples from Mars modular sample chain…
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Reminds me of the famous drum break of In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
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Id be scared to push it this far in case something explodes internally 
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