Elektron-Users

8 Track step sequencer to control hardware + software: MIDI + USB Hybrid kind of thing.
PM Locks..... not audio IO, nor FX.
Bets are open!

The "Octashark bites"... maybe it's a referral to a SHARC DSP processor....

Ok, lets put some bets in:

Why is Octatrack an Octatrack and not an Octamachine? Seems to me that machine-paradigm, which Elektron used on MD and MnM, is updated to something else. I don't thin it's a Daw or anything like that, since Elektron is in the business of making instruments, not controllers or fx-boxes. If you bet your money on mixer, fx-box or controller, you've lost.

It's a sampler, but not as we know it. Just like MnM was a hybrid of synth and beatbox, Octatrack will also be hybrid of sampler and something else. Search the history of sampling and you'll find what it is. I would say, it's a machine that eats audio & samples and transforms them by creating tracks of them and having some sort of linear editor and spits outs ready-made electronic tracks. It does have parameter locks and the usual stuff. And usb too! What about other computer connections...

While we are making bets, what does the winner get?

Toni wrote:
Ok, lets put some bets in:

Why is Octatrack an Octatrack and not an Octamachine? Seems to me that machine-paradigm, which Elektron used on MD and MnM, is updated to something else. I don't thin it's a Daw or anything like that, since Elektron is in the business of making instruments, not controllers or fx-boxes. If you bet your money on mixer, fx-box or controller, you've lost.

It's a sampler, but not as we know it. Just like MnM was a hybrid of synth and beatbox, Octatrack will also be hybrid of sampler and something else. I would say, it's a machine that eats audio & samples and transforms them by creating tracks of them and having some sort of linear editor and spits outs ready-made electronic tracks. It does have parameter locks and the usual stuff. And usb too! Not sure about other computer connections..

While we are making bets, what does the winner get?

Hah, you're just SOOO far from the truth

Nils wrote:
Toni wrote:
Ok, lets put some bets in:

Why is Octatrack an Octatrack and not an Octamachine? Seems to me that machine-paradigm, which Elektron used on MD and MnM, is updated to something else. I don't thin it's a Daw or anything like that, since Elektron is in the business of making instruments, not controllers or fx-boxes. If you bet your money on mixer, fx-box or controller, you've lost.

It's a sampler, but not as we know it. Just like MnM was a hybrid of synth and beatbox, Octatrack will also be hybrid of sampler and something else. I would say, it's a machine that eats audio & samples and transforms them by creating tracks of them and having some sort of linear editor and spits outs ready-made electronic tracks. It does have parameter locks and the usual stuff. And usb too! Not sure about other computer connections..

While we are making bets, what does the winner get?

Hah, you're just SOOO far from the truth
- - suspicion mode on - -
Does he know something? Is it a joke or maybe it's something else?
- - suspicion mode off - -

Ah how I love this play of smoke and mirrors - who does know and who to trust? Mobilize your agents and spys, code your messages, transmit false information, divide and conquer!

Toni wrote:
Ah how I love this play of smoke and mirrors - who does know and who to trust? Mobilize your agents and spys, code your messages, transmit false information, divide and conquer!

Exactly

He's got one for sure! He's wiggling its 8 input tenticles as we speak... him and darenager have been planning the elektron modular for years... its a digital version of the chimera with 8 theremin inputs... It turns midi data into pictures...

(8 track phrase sampler with EFX, minus sequencing machine as we know it)

In the spirit of 2.5mb sampling time:

SCSI Drive only

Angstwulf: ZIP drive!!

if there are 8 sharc processors in it that would be some serious dsp horsepower.