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17. OCTATRACK MKII TUTORIALS
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17.5 THE OCTATRACK MKII AS AN EFFECTS PROCESSOR
The Neighbor machines oer the possibility to chain tracks. As the sound from the first track in the chain
will be routed through the rest of the chained tracks and their respective track eects, very powerful eects
chains can be formed. In this example an external sound source will be aected by up to eight track eects.
1. Connect an external sound source to input pair AB of the Octatrack MKII. Make sure the <REC> LEDs
indicate an audio signal is being sent to the input pair.
2. Open the MIXER menu by pressing [MIXER]. Make sure DIR for AB and CD is set to 0. This will make
incoming sound available to only Thru machines.
3. Double-click [TRACK 1] to open the QUICK ASSIGN menu. Assign a Thru machine to track 1. In the SRC
MAIN menu, set INAB to A B. This will make the machine listen to input pair AB.
4. Double click [TRACK 2] and assign a Neighbor machine to track 2. Do the same for track 3 and 4.
5. Select track 1. Double press [FX1], select an eect from the list and assign it to the track by pressing
[YES]. Assign an eect to the second track eect block as well. Repeat the procedure for track 2, 3 and
4. An eects chain has now been created.
6. Select track 1, press [RECORD] to enter GRID RECORDING mode and place a trig on the first step of
the sequencer. Trigging the Thru machine is necessary for it to start passing through incoming audio.
7. Press [PLAY]. The external sound, shaped by the track eects, should now be heard from the Octatrack
MKII main outputs.
Use scenes and the crossfader to control multiple eects parameters in real time. Add pa-
rameter locks for rhythmical eect applications.
For strange and interesting results, remove the Thru machine from track 1 and instead assign
a Flex machine to which recorder buer 1 is loaded. Open one of the RECORDING SETUP
menus and place some recorder trigs on the sequencer. Make sure the trigs record from in-
put AB. Trig the recorder buer by placing sample trigs on track 1. Parameter lock the sample
trigs so the recorded audio is pitched up or down, is aected by eects in various ways et
cetera. Use the LFOs to further modulate the track parameters. Press [PLAY] to enjoy auto-
mated real-time sampling and extensive audio manipulation.