Bend Space and Time with the Octatrack MKII
Producers, remix artists, DJs, and performing musicians looking for the ultimate performance sampler will be thrilled with the black Elektron Octatrack MKII, a powerful dynamic performance sampler that's designed to deliver flexible sampling, loop manipulation, effects processing, and pattern sequencing. The unit reads samples from a compact flash card or USB 2.0 device, and features up to 80MB of internal RAM. There are 4 audio inputs for sampling or processing audio from external devices and instruments.
Eight-Track Dynamic Performance Sampler
With the Octatrack MKII, discovering the perfect sample is only the beginning. Twist it, distort it, and carve it into something that is truly yours. Dynamic in name and nature: this is the ultimate sampler for recording sessions, creative kick-starts, and improvisational performances. A stereo sampler, looper, arranger, mixer, effects hub, workstation, performance instrument—you name it. Its power scales and evolves with you during your musical journey.
More Than a Sampler
- The Octatrack MKII redefines how you transform your sounds, as well as how you interact and play with them. It is a stereo sampler, processor, and live looper with a powerful sequencer and workstation workflow on top. Choose between several custom machines—static, flex, thru, neighbor, and pickup—to suit your sample recording, manipulation, and effects processing needs for each of the eight tracks.
- Whether you use only a few aspects of its capabilities such as sample crafting, slicing, effects, and playback – or gradually include its connectivity and control for a deeper and more comprehensive composition – the Octatrack will sit confidently as the central hub of your musical world.
Sampling is the Inception
- Record stereo samples in real-time via any of the Octatrack’s source options. Connect directly to the four inputs, resample an internal track, or pull on the main and cue channels. Record into any of the eight tracks simultaneously. Go on and tweak and process the samples, even while your pattern is playing.
- Trim, chop, twist, and turn. Freely and independently time-stretch and pitch-shift your audio gems into perfectly sized loops, one-shots, or slices for your composition. Sample and resample. Refine or crunch. Do it all live.
Audio Mutate, Audio Mutilate
- The crossfader adds immense depth of control. Choose how you want it to affect your samples. Then decide how you want to wield it. Set up assignable scenes (collections of parameter changes) to each side of the crossfader. Toggle between them, or morph from A to B and back. Prepare up to sixteen scenes and transition from any to any of them.
- Nudge gently for subtle, natural-sounding transitions, or knock it back and forth for extreme and unexpected changes.
Monumental Modulation
The Octatrack MKII is a machine with enormous sound design and modulation capabilities. With three LFOs available for each track, an LFO designer with an etch-a-sketch type workflow, plus smoothing, you have deeply customizable wave-weaving possibilities at your disposal. The LFO options aren't just for internal and external audio modulation—apply them to MIDI if you want.
Sparkling Effects
You can assign two insert effects per audio track, offering a vast selection of reverbs, filters, and plenty more with which to play. To get your fill of filters, use the band-defining base-width filter, or the characteristic comb filter. There are two types of equalizer too, for those fine frequency control needs. There's effects—compression, lo-fi, flanger, phaser, delay, chorus, spatializer, and more. If you need more effects slots, just use a neighbor machine to double the number. Utter audio manipulation has rarely been so varied, or so much fun.
Pillar of Performance
The Octatrack MKII can be treated as a small mixing and effects desk for your whole setup, making use of the unit's configurable pairs of stereo inputs, and equally configurable pairs of main and cue outputs. Then, connect external MIDI gear and let the machine orchestrate proceedings via eight dedicated tracks, each featuring MIDI LFOs and CC control pages. The colossal connectivity and immediate control make all the difference.
Superior Sequencing
- With the game-changing Elektron sequencer, you can lay your ideas out with absolute control and as much depth as you desire. Command both internal sounds and external gear with the same level of razor-sharp precision. In addition to the eight audio tracks, you get eight MIDI sequencer tracks ready to wrangle other gear. Discover the capabilities of the arranger to turn your sequences into songs. Repeat, mute, loop, and jump commands let you swagger that last mile toward a complete composition.
- Experience the power of parameter locking: simply pressing a sequencer step and twisting a knob to add sound manipulation and effects in a hands-on, intuitive manner. Lock a different sample or slice to each step, apply controlled randomness and logic with conditional locks, and lock parameter changes independently of note trigs. Let parameter locks pave the way toward your super sequence.
Inspiration Dynamite
The Octatrack MKII comes packed with grade-A factory content. Nearly 5GB of loops and one-shots by Origin Sound, Loopmasters, Sample Magic, and Samples from Mars ensure creativity right out of the box.