Elektron Octatrack - 'Octacid'

Exploring the Elektron Octatrack

I wondered if it was possible to make a TB303-style bass by using a single-cycle square-wave loop as opposed to slicing up a bass-line loop. I actually ended up using 2 waveforms 2 octaves apart as programming chromatic stuff is a little limited (as of OS 0.99e)

The two drum tracks are loops from the Loopmaster samples (supplied with the OT) but the bass-line is not a looped phrase. It's all programmed by plocking the pitch and envelope parameters and trig-less trigs.

I'm mainly swapping between Hold on/off in the Filter setup (I really wish this was exposed to plocking/modulation) and opening/closing the filter with the cross-fader.

The pitch-bends on the bass are done by defining a custom LFO shape that is an upwards slope and applying it to the Pitch by plocking the LFO depth where a bend is required. Only goes up but you could easily define a second LFO with a down-slope for bends down.

For interest, the 4th track has some little synths notes again using the square-wave.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• elektron
• octatrack
• acid

[feinStaubTV]

das is ne feine inspiration. ich will mir auch ne octa holen und da ich keine 303 habe ist das eine recht gute idee so :)

[LiquidProj3ct]

ops, I just read your description, thanks!

[LiquidProj3ct]

Nice track. Are the melodies wave loops? or single shot samples?

[H4NDCRAFTED]

How are you finding the quality of the timestretching engine ?

Also can you add swing per part or is it global ?

[TecDruid]

Endlich mal was musikalisches mit dem Octa.. Danke - bisher sind die Videos zum Octa ja wirklich nur bescheiden..

[narki86]

The Octa-filter actually sounds quite TB-ish, nice job, keep it coming!

[jdnorthrup]

thanks for posting -- this is the best example of the "OT filter sound" that I've heard yet. also, nice melody.

[HecatombRecordings]

Great stuff.....keep em coming (Im glued)