I may get an iPad Mini to dedicate solely to my newly ordered MPC, mounting both in a case together, as it seems an ideal fusion.rock solid stability of dedicated HW, with the ever expanding power in the app/AU said: OT will always be great for what it does to those who invest the large amount of time to learn its idiosyncrasies, but utilizing modern soft/HW tech can get you so much further - especially with the recent and upcoming iOS modular tools like Mirack, Drambo and all the other great sample mangling tools and effects on the platform.
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I was so close to going with OT just now, but 10 years in tech is an eternity. I think you might easily go beyond OT’s sample mangling, in-the-moment creative workflow by supplementing MPC with the power of iOS. btw the mpc has individual track lengths as well. The octa plays more of a lead role in the process where the mpc lets the user play more of the lead role and the results from both can be quite amazing. I feel at a minimum the octa and the mpc are equal when it comes to sample mangling. I have a few decent outboard FX boxes and I'm hoping that will feel like "enough" for the mangling happy accident side as you describe it, but it's ultimately a huge financial outlay to - dare I say it - shave a few milliseconds off the latency I experience when using Push, and yes, standalone, but something about the product itself feels a bit off, and Akai themselves seem a bit shady and dishonest.ĭream machine: The brain, beauty and plocks of the new Octatrack, the polyphony and pads of the MPC Live, Link, Overbridge and the Digitakt's reverb. Tried the MPC Live in the shop again today, and damn I love playing those pads, but aside from that the OS doesn't feel particularly inspiring or like there's much room for experimentation. I'd add looping and LFOs as positives for the OT, but limited tracks and polyphony as negatives. Looks like we share a lot of the same considerations. Had another try of the OT at a shop here in Berlin today, realise it will definitely take time and practice to use well, and damn, gotta try to see reason as I'm pretty attracted to the MkII design but don't know if I can justify the cost said: I imagine the workflow's even quicker with midi sync. When I first watched it a few months ago it was all pretty foreign, but after a bit of research on the OT, I can follow pretty easily now. I've seen a few of your videos before, including this one actually - inspiring stuff. The MPC seems to be more focused on creating whole songs or grooves from a large library, versus the loop mangling performance instrument of the OT. Doesn't have to be on stage, but more hands on sculpting of things in realtime as you record perhaps. Performance is another video.įor me the OT would be something to get if you're more focused on the performance aspects of making music. This is mainly how I use the OT with iOS apps, at least in terms of capturing them.
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Plus Ableton Link seems like an eventuality with the Live. Samplr is my #1 instrument on the iPad, so having a place to pound in beats and potentially flex my sample library is going to marry nicely with that. I want to have something the iPad isn't for me, which is a backbone. This is how I am currently weighing the options. Lacks the depth of the OT's happy accident factor. (But cycling/randomizing through three or four sounds on a pad will lead to something similar.) Potential for Polyrhythms in a future update. Potential for Ableton Link in a future update. Sample slicing and auto arrangement on pads will lead to faster workflow. Programming will be straightforward with lots of layers to each sound.
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Velocity sensitive pads (16 x 8 banks) with a touch screen.Įxpandable sample memory, potential of Terabytes on a SSD. Memorizing and learning the language of the machine might lead to insanity.
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Menu diving and scrolling, finite tuning in every single slice of sample will lead to frustration. Quality of OS seems to inspire happy little accidents that will sometimes make a song a work of art. except the MPC Live Pros.ĭepth of programming, including polyrhythms and crossfading between ideas. Here's how I see it, and I'll limit to my top three for each. And for as much as the Octatrack can do to my samples and the depth of mangling and whatnot, I'm leaning towards the MPC Live.