The world needs "If it's on the screen, it's a part" T-shirts! Thanks for this. Brilliantly explained.

Great video dude, your analogy of "if it's on the screen, it's a part" is spot on.

Fellow Giants fan and SF boi here. Hell yeah.

1. I keep coming back for the hot sauce packet, do not underestimate its appeal to the average viewer. 2. As someone who is just getting their feet wet in the Elektron world (Digitone and Analog Four) these kinds of videos help a lot. If you can boil these definitions down to a sentence, it gives me something to hold on to. Keep up the good work, and thanks!

nowwwwww I get it, five videos later. Good explanation. Danke.

Fantastic. Lightbulb moment for me

best video about it... loveed your older one sure, but thats a compact verion of it with some deeper stuff,,, love it

YOU ARE THE OCTATRACK EDUCATOR

Brilliantly simple way of describing “Parts” and how they relate to the OT workflow….

I understood parts in 30 seconds just by listening. Good work 👍

I actually really like the modular analogy. It’s also kinda like how you could route a VCO to a number of different VCFs with different envelopes before going off to a VCA, where the VCF is an analogy for a part. Personally, I use them to flip samples or sub out one shots. I’ve also had some crazy weird and cool things happen when switching to different sliced samples too :). Some of my best tracks are built by accident this way!

You have the politics of a Star Bucks Soy Latte, but that was a heady beat at the beginning of the video.

Finally after having had the Octatrack for years, I now understand parts. Thanks a lot dude!

That was a super-helpful explanation of parts!

Finally really grasped the Parts function thanks to your video. Very clear and concise and i'm actually looking forward to using it, i feel like it's unlocking so much live performance possibilities and the OT's true potential. Thanks a lot!

thanks again OD!

Really good explanation. Broke it right down. Nice one Dan.

Well explained! You're good at this!

whoah! this is a really helpful video! I needed this!

So 3 things.. First thanks for the videos always look forward to them! and Parts is always a tricky subject. Second, it would be helpful in this explanation to explain the tree top down so people can understand the flow - which is that in one project there are 16 banks. and each bank can hold 16 patterns and 4 Parts. And that each part can hold 16 scenes per part! So if you treat a Bank like a song means your song can have 16 patterns with 4 parts and 64 scenes! pretty mind boggling! Third - I think if im not mistaken - a sample lock lives inside a part, because if you change the machine for another part say from flex to static, the sample will probably go away? that lst point im not 100% on.. will check on hat! but anyways awesome vid! Thank you!

great explanation. super helpful

Nice explaining❤ good job❤❤❤

Hey man good work thanks for the detailed explanation

Very Good, Thanks

REVELATORY! Thanks man 🙌

Anyway. Parts are just an extra feature in OT that allow for multiple different musical sources to be played when connected to a pattern, no need to complicate stuff too much. Pattern is a set of simple data telling OT HOW to play content, Part is content, so WHAT is being played. Another analogy - pattern is your piano roll with MIDI data in the DAW , part is your VST or a hardware synth. Even easier, pattern is a note sheet and part is an instrument. Why do they exist in OT? To expand possibilities and let you have different sources of playback, as well as some more advanced purposes, especially in live performance.

yes indeed. thx man

bravo. clarity unlocked

This might be a little misleading. But from what so can tell “Kits” on the A4 and AR work similarly to “Parts”.

Penny.. dropped!! Thanks OctaDad!

Great explanation - I’ve forgotten how to copy parts 🙁 and my Octatrack is being repaired!

Nice vid, they’re like kits if you’re used to the analog elektron boxes. May I ask what camera you have above?

a great addition to the previous video and clarified the setup for me so thank you, sir. Really wish you the best for your hopes and dreams with Elon to get to a place that is amenable and more importantly, satisfying, to you both.

could you perhaps explain how you do fade in and out of tracks?

Sounds exactly like what a Kit is on the Rytm, but the Octatrack just has a bunch more effects and track types

sweeeeet beat at the beginning

Its always a little annoying that when it comes to PARTs that nobody even mentions that the Bank stores which PTRN was left with what PART. Meaning once choosen a PART you do not switch the entire bank, you just selected one of the 4 available PARTs of and for that particular PTRN. If you switch to another PTRN the selected PART for that will be automatically selected as well. Sadly there is no overview showing you that unless you go thru the PTRN one by one to see them chosen.

nice one!

“Think of patterns as midi notes, and your parts as plugins…” ✔️✔️✔️

🙏🏽

Bruh. Thanks 🙏

I feel like you make a demonstration obout how to use scene instead of how to use parts, on the second part of the video. Or I missed something maybe

Wow, that intro 👍

Great video thank you. 😊 although I wish each pattern had an independent part. 16 parts & patterns per bank.

Octadad, help!! (or anyone else who knows what's wrong!) My OT audio track one doesn;t play... anything! It previews audio files from the static/flex browser, however the sequencer does nothing, the THRU does nothing, it is really annoying and creating a new project doesn't change it The pattern settings are the same for all tracks so it's not that either. Seriously worried as I have a bad feeling it's broken :( I've scoured the internet for help but all the troubleshooting hasn't worked. If you could find it in your heart to help me out it would be much appreciated. Love

7:45 Elon loved that ^^

Ok, so at 10:30 you activate scene 13 on B, and that changes back to part 1. How?

I am not very smart I guess. I even wrote down notes. lol. But I still don't understand. But I really appreciate your videos anyway.

Thank God had an octatrack for a year now and still have no clue how to use parts the right way

Go Giants!

AND: every BANK has four PARTS to mess around with...hmm

that song was good.

Wait so do scenes also contain the specific part allocated to it? How were you switching parts without moving through the parts menu?

Ok so here is a dumb question. Why hasn’t elektron made an OTmkIII? Seems like they could do robust upgrades and new fxs and make boat loads of cash. I don’t understand how something so popular and revolutionary could be forgotten with very little firmware updates or new upgrades. Seems like Elektron is really missing out on a fantastic flagship cash grab

LETS FUCKING GO GIANTS!!!! DOVAAAAAALLLLLLLL

So you it’s like why have all those sample slots? You can only really use 16 , right? Or …I hate this stupid machine.