Elektron Octatrack - 'Monotrack'

Exploring the Elektron Octatrack - something a bit different.

Apart from the 3 drum sounds, this was made entirely from 1 Novachord single note sample. The same sample is assigned to 6 different tracks and a variety of techniques are employed to use the sample in a polyphonic way. No slicing was used at all and there are no external effects or processing.

I thought it ended up sounding like it had been made on the Monomachine, hence the title.

Track 1 has the sample triggered once at the start of the Pattern (32 steps) and then I'm Plocking the Vol setting at various steps to get the gated sound.

Track 2 has several Triggers this time with the Pitch Plocked to different semitones but on Trigless Trigs so that the sample still 'evolves'. There's no filter used, the sample itself has a long filter envelope on it.

Track 3 uses a similar idea but this time I'm using a slow LFO to modify the Start parameter which again makes it sound filtered as the timbre changes depending on where the Start parameter is.

Track 4 has a Trig on every other step and uses Delay feedback to effectively play two notes per Trig (tempo is 80bpm). I'm controlling both the Envelope Release and the Start parameter to change the character of the sound. The Filter distortion is cranked up too.

Track 5 uses the sample reverse but 2 octaves below to give a bass drone (-12 on the Pitch and the Rate is at 32). I'm also using AMD and AMF and a slow LFO on the Filter Width to modulate the tone.

Track 6 is the drums.

Track 7 has the same Pitch on all Trigs, some steps are 'gated'. An LFO is controlling the Start parameter to modify the tone and this time I've mapped the Pitch to the cross-fader giving you the ability to 'slide' the pitch around.

Apologies for the poor video quality and the extreme close-up of the back of my hand. This was my first attempt at making a video - I'll position the phone in a better place next time :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• elektron
• octatrack

[Catabolicdj]

Nice - I like the way this develops.