Elektron Octatrack DPS1 Sampler

"The Elektron Machinedrum, Elektron Octatrack and the [Roland] Jupiter-6 are my favourite hardware machines." "...right now, also, one of my favorites. Because it's basically any kind of sampler where you put in all your sounds, or you put in loops, or even longer pieces of music. And you can real-time chop them up in here. It's very intuitive. There's a lot of randomness I like about it. This also - similar to the Monomachine - you have 8 tracks where on each track you can program one sequence... it has different FX sections as well, the first which is the most important is the pitching, but also you can choose the start point of the sample. So you can basically choose where the signal should start from the whole audio file. And you can move around, most of the time a lot of cool things happen."

Flume's Elektron Octatrack DPS1 Sampler can be seen in this Instagram photo of some of his gear.

audion use it when play live!

At 0:03 you can clearly see Jacques using the Octatrack.

You can see them using a Elektron Octatrack in this picture.

In this video from Pitchfork's 2013 Music Festival, Evian Christ can be seen using Elektron's Octatrack.

Richard Devine has the Elektron Octatrack on the floor of his Euro rack modular synth corner of his North Carolina-based studio. An image of it can be seen in the video (8:55). The Octatrack is an 8 track performance sampler and features the following: Instant Sampling & Remixing Radical Audio Manipulation Possibilities Real-time Pitch Scaling and Time Stretch Next Generation Elektron Step Sequencer Dual Assignable FX Per Track Assignable Multi-Parameter Crossfader

23:47 see Surgeon using Elektron Octatrack DPS1 Sampler for his live set

At around the 2:10 mark you can see him interfacing with Elektron DPS1 and continues to interface with it throughout his set.

I bought the Octatrack about five months ago and I’m not in full control of it yet because it’s quite complex. You can do a lot of things but what I find really interesting are the parameter locks on the sequencer. I’m mainly starting to use it as a MIDI sequencer because you can control every parameter of hardware synths with it. In one minute you can build a pattern and control notes, filter settings, decay, attack, MIDI continuous controllers on every step of the bar. It’s really cool

«The second track on the album, ‘Level’, started off with the Octatrack. There are all these breaks which push up and up – I did it with the crossfader. It’s a retriggered sound with different start and end points, controlled by the crossfader. I jammed around then cut out the best parts. ‘Pony’ I also did on the Octatrack»

From Nick Hooks Instagram titled: "RTJ tour riggg!"

> I have a lot of Elektron gear. The Octatrack, it's like magic, basically, the way it works. You can do anything with a sample. I've got so many sample collections, and the Octatrack just makes it all usable to me. > I use the Octatrack probably the most. I've got two Octatracks, one spare in case one breaks. > **Was the Machinedrum your first Elektron instrument?** No, the first one I got was the Octatrack. I was at Sweetwater with my DJ, and I was going to get something else, but he told me I had to get the Octatrack. "It's dope. You can do anything with the samples. I'm telling you, just buy it!" I was like, "ok!" That was my first one, right there.

Kid Koala seen using a Elektron Octatrack DPS1 Sampler in his studio in a picture posted on his official Facebook.

"Is your current live set-up still all Elektron pieces? Yeah, it is. When I travel, they just have this great bag where you can fit three of them in it. I don’t know if it’s because I’m doing something wrong, but I usually have to squeeze into really tight spaces at gigs." "I’ve had different iterations over the years, but what I do now is use the Octatrack as my Ableton-esqe workstation. So starting here in the studio, I send sync to everything and use my Elektron toys to get paint-splatter writing going. It's not thinking too much, just jamming. The Octatrack is quite good at capturing things, so I don’t use my computer at all. So I capture things into the record buffers, and I assign them to tracks—just things that work together. I’ll do that for eight channels and will set it up so not everything plays at once at first—because on the Octatrack, it's not like the typical Roland, 16 patterns with banks. What you have is 16 banks and, within each of those banks, you have 16 patterns—so, each bank is essentially a song. So within a bank I can have 16 variations, and the great thing about the Elektron gear is that they do these things called parameter locks. So per line, you can copy in parameters and info, and it makes it quite easy to change parameters just for that one step."

"The Elektron stuff is always on and always getting some action, particulary the Octatrack wich is (...) probably one of the most revolutionary instruments of the last 20 years. (...) I've never been a sampling guy, and the Octatrack changed the way I approach sampling. Even the simplest sound bite can be transformed into a song."

"I just got an octatrack, which is blowing my mind."

In this tweeted photo, an Elektron Octatrack DPS1 Sampler can be seen in Yung Gud's workstation.

used for live performance

Kangding Ray comments, "It's packing time... Next stop : Detroit," in this Facebook post. The Elektron Octatrack can be seen in the rack above the [DSI Tempest](http://equipboard.com/items/dave-smith-instruments-tempest-analog-drum-machine).

“I do love the Octatrack. I’m not a big fan of using a laptop on stage myself. I’m not opposed to it, I just never felt like I could figure out a way of doing it where I felt like I was still performing or that there was a flexibility to it. I know Daniel from Oneohtrix and, talking to him, he’s found a way to achieve that, but I haven’t really sorted it yet. So, the Octatracks are essentially my way of having Ableton in a box if you deal with it a specific way. I’m basically taking stems of the studio recording over seven of the tracks, using the eighth as a master channel. Typically I’ll take drums, bass, weird percussion stuff, weird sound stuff and maybe a main melodic component so I know everything’s set up with that template. There are two Octatracks, both of which contain the exact same information on the card and I kind of mix from one song to the next. Some nights I do it better than others but it’s essentially DJing the stems of the record," says Panda Bear, in [this article](http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/in-pictures-panda-bears-lisbon-studio-615651/2).

We can see it on a picture, taken right before his live act.

Seen on this and some other videos.

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: this thing has a mind of its own. The more you push it, the more intelligent it gets. Whether you’re using it for drum patterns, or sample warping, you never end up anywhere near where you started.”

"At the centre are two Elektron Octatracks"

"...I'm finally finding a workflow with the Octatrack that suits me. Recording everything in my DAW of choice (Logic). Premixing, editing and making the samples sound good together. Then exporting them and transferring them over to the Octatrack for slicing, playing and performing..."

"More Octatrack. This is my favorite sampler I've ever used. And I've used everything."

Dax J Live, Tengenstroom. He plays with the tr-8, octatrack and a tb-303 or tb clone. Also Eventide fx pedals.

In this AMA avey tare says he used the octatrack in the making and performing of eucalyptus

Page 7: "I recently added this to the studio. I'm still learning how to use it but it will definitely be an important weapon in the studio and live. I've just recently started to finish a few bits with it."

(c) Martin Stürtzer - Döppersberg. (equipment) Sequencer: Elektron Octatrack Elektron Analog Four Korg SQ-10 Synth: Korg MS-20 Waldorf Rocket Live recording, no overdubs. Thanks to Waldorf & Uni Wuppertal FB Musik for borrowing stuff.

The Octatrack shows up in the 5th picture of this interview

The octotrack can be seen on Graham's table throughout the video.

5th picture in the article.

Actually uses two Octatracks

Sascha Kloeber is playing his Elektron Octatrack at a Live-Gig.

There is an Electron Octatrack in the foreground of the image.

"Today we arrive at the club with a Moog Minitaur, Roland SH-101, Dave Smith Mopho, Elektron Analog Four, an MFB Tanzbär, an Elektron Octatrack, a Korg MX as sequencer for the Moog and Mopho, a couple of effects and some compressors."

Skudge can be seen here performing with the octatrack on the right of the image.

"Elektron's parameter locks mean you can get some amazing variations going over a sequence."

"For me there was a barrier with learning Elektron kit because it works in a different way to other hardware..."

The octatrack can be seen at around 1:13 and later in the video.

Studio Jam 2016 Octaktack 8 Track Performance Sampler in Action

The Elektron Octatrack is next to the Microbrute.

see it in 4:00, it's clearly visible

Machinedrum and Octatrack used live

23:21 (inside the box) The layout of buttons around the screen makes it look like a octatrack. may be wrong though

seen at 2:08 in her studio

"The amen bit on the end is like a buy one get one free track, it’s just me testing out my Octatrack on jungle breaks……"

"I don't think I could ever go back to using a laptop for live work; the Octatrack is so versatile and it just feels right."

In this picture, you can see some of his gear.

Time to take an offline break and learn this new language - going to enjoy my Winter experiments with the Octatrack. Thanks @weareelektron - hope I can do this beautiful machine justice!

The Octatrack can be seen in the background, above the Analog Four

THE ELEKTRON IS CLEARLY SEEN BUT WITH A MASCHINE STAMP....

Right next to the MPC, uses it at 3:00

"...an interesting conversation with Joey about how he works with the Elektron Octatrack and Analog Rytm drum machines..."

Andrew uses the Octatrack live when working with 3teeth

She's working in the studio and there's an Elektron Analog Rytm 8-voice Drum Computer in the back