Octatrack

[Tony Scharf]

As details have emerged, I have become more interested in the
Octatrack than I was when it was announced.  For what I am currently
planning to do live, it seems to be tailor made.

That being said, however, its a lot of money to pay for something that
I could replace with Renoise and a laptop...both of which I already
have.  I also wont have the 8 track limit, which would be a pain for a
couple of my tracks.

Still, I am taking a wait and see approach.   I would really like to
test drive one at some point, so might just pick it up used with the
intention to flip it back on ebay.

Tony

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jonny Stutters <jstutters at jeremah.co.uk> wrote:
> On 22 November 2010 10:58, K9 Kai Niggemann <kai at kainiggemann.com> wrote:
>> Any thoughts on the recently announced Elektron Octatrack?
>>
>> Is hardware sampling having a renaissance?
>
> As with all Elektron stuff I'm certainly interested although I don't
> think they've really managed to explaining what it's for in a
> compelling way yet (in fairness this is in a lot of ways a much more
> novel product that the Machinedrum and Monomachine so I can understand
> that a bit).  I can't really comment on the DJing side of it but for
> people using Ableton to play back loops at gigs I can see this being a
> compelling replacement.  I can imagine doing quite a nice set using a
> drum machine and octatrack to build up layers of the bass and melodic
> stuff on the fly without needing to carry and sequence 3 or 4 synths.
> Of course, as with the MM and MD, it's frigging expensive - I'd
> definitely want a good try on one or to see a few videos making proper
> use of it before I dropped around a £1000 (plus, if I was paying that
> much I'm not sure I wouldn't find a Monomachine more useful).
>
> I don't think this represents a renaissance in hardware sampling.  The
> old A5000 style 3U rack way of doing things is still dead.  Live
> looping for guitarists and in effects aimed at DJs never went away and
> this is just seems like extending that to a massive degree.
>
> Jonny
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