Yo peeps!
I've been wanting to try out this for some time now, I hope some you will like to play along! The idea is basically to take a relatively short snippet of sound/music, load it into your Octatrack, play around with it, and post your result in this thread. This to see and show off some examples of what the Octatrack can do to samples. And ok, it's not really a competition, I just wanted to get your attention.
But if this turns out to be a success, maybe I'll try to get some sort of prizes for future contests!
Here are the "rules" of the game;
- You must use the sample provided at the end of this post.
- The sample can only be used on one track of the Octatrack, but you are of course free to chop it up any way you like and use whichever parts you prefer.
- You can however use neighbour machines to add effects to the track with the sample.
- BPM is completely up to you.
- Try to keep your finished result to around 30 seconds of audio (or less) - this isn't a song composition game - it's all about the sample manipulation!
- Use as many patterns or parts as you like.
- Re-sampling is cool, but remember to keep audio to one track only.
- You're not allowed to use any external effects or process your audio with anything else but the Octatrack.
- When posting your finished result, please give us a short description of how you came to your result (which effects were used how, how you used LFO's etc etc).
- Please upload your result to the SoundCloud account provided below, and please use your Elektron-Users username as the name of the track.
- Feel free to post several tracks, naming the tracks "username01" "username02" etc if you post more than one track.
If you think the rules are too strict, we can always discuss them and change them for the next game, but for this one, these are the rules.
Feel free to create something completely abstract, in fact, I encourage you to! Please remember that this is not a song creation "contest", but a sample mangling game - we're aiming for the weird!
The sample to be used is provided in the link below - it is the opening 14 seconds of Toploader's 'Dancing In The Moonlight'. I wanted to use a song that many people are familiar with, so that the effects of the sample manipulation easier can be heard and appreciated.
http://www.esmone.com/octatrack/moonwave.wav (right-click and "save as")
The SoundCloud login is as follows;
email; ot@marsmelons.com
password; elektron
Experiment and have fun! And please don't hesitate to ask questions in here or to REALLY experiment with your creation, this is all about fun, and your reputation as a producer is not at stake!
(PS! I will post my own result later today)
