Arranger info starts at 19:00

"Unless you know how to operate it it might seem very complex but it's just stuff that is waiting to be learned, so when you learn the functionalities it's just stuff that you know, so then it's not difficult anymore" man. I need this quote framed somewhere

I would be utterly lost on my Octa without your tutorials Cuckoo... a thousand Thank You's for making these videos!!!!!!!!

These tutorials are extremely instructif. Not only we get lo learn a great deal on all the usable techniques (thanks Cuckoo!), but it also shows how much fun it is to really just 'play' with it, in an almost childish way. To me, this means a lot, because here is where the octatrack creates a league of it's own. It let's creativity run freely, and the absence of a large touchscreen alone brings us back to concentrating on what we actually hear. But this doesn't make it a 'slow' machine of any kind, no, it's actually lightning quick once you get the hang of it. Thanks for these videos Cuckoo!

Excellent tutorial. For the beginners, one thing important to remember: Cuckoo is playing each patterns on part 1. He changes the parameters by doing lock params in the A02, A03 etc... if you do not do that, the sounds changes will be active for all patterns. That's a common beginner mistake :). Thanks Cuckoo.

Just read the Arranger section of the Octatrack MK2 in the manual and then watched your tutorial. So helpful....Thank you

The arranger seems very powerful especially when you want to perform a song live or record it and have the freedom to concentrate on the gestural and subtle things. This like all of your videos has been super helpful and entertaining, thank you for making these Cuckoo!

You make the best Octatrack videos by far. I've mastered a lot of functions of this machine but I find an entire video answering many questions I've had for a while. Thanks a million!

Cuckoo keep it up with the Octa Tutorials! Really digged deep into the world of Octa learning videos and yours are just the most informative, yet calming ones. Thanks for that!

Just want to say thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. They have been such a big help in understanding the Octatrack. Hat's off to you, my friend.

Arranger is amazing! Note: REM (remark) arranger rows are a great tool to keep track of where you are in your song. VERSE. BUILDUP. JAM etc. I also if I have a long section with a row that has, let's say 8 repeats,I split it two rows with 6 and 2 repeats or even 2 and 2 and 2 repeats so it's easier to know the changes (easy to get lost in the excitement when playing live). I also use a lot of the option to select how many steps you are going to play from the pattern in a row. Easy to create a 4 bar pattern with a break in the end and then only loop the first two bars on one row and then play the full pattern on the second row. Or even create a lot of random stuff from one pattern with different rows of varying (and even uneven) numbers of steps. To bad this doesn't sync to Analog Rytm. Loops are also great. I just wish that this had a Next button for breaking out of the loop like in Akai MPC song mode.

Thanks for your tutorials with Octatrack Cuckoo. Somehow you are the only guy doing this who takes the time and goes enough in depth to explain this complicated beast! Thank you!

Brilliant as ever Mr C!

This has given me a lot of ideas for my next live set. Thanks!

Watching your work with the OT reminds me how much wacky stuff you can do with it. And should. 🎛👌

Thanks Dr Cuckoo for your zenissimos tutorials. You bring us peace and knowledge ; )

The Arranger reminds me of Roland's MC-505 "song" function on the sequencer. Def getting the MKII. Excellent work, Cuckoo!

Just got an OT mk2. Ready to binge on your OT tutorial vids!

Thanks, thanks, thanks, THANKS! I've learned this super-complicated machine in a short while thank to you

very informative! thank you for taking the time to create this video :)

thanks so much for your Octatrack tutorials!! you helped me reinvent my music with the Octatrack.

Thank you soooo much, great video as always !

One word ‘Excellent’

awesome tutorial. thank *YOU*

I realize this video has been out for years but... I came across your channel about a month ago and I really dig your energy and how positive you are. I’ve been trying to decide between a new Octatrack or Digitakt or an Akai MPC Live or MPC X and you’re teaching me so much about Elektron gear! Much appreciation to you and you stellar “vibe”! Much love brother! Oh I almost forgot - after watching a couple of your videos about the System 8 I picked one up. Such a great synth :)

great tutorials! cheers, man.

thank you Cuckoo the first decent one about the arranger!

Thanks Cuckoo! Súper Great videooo!

Just started watching, love all your tutes but I wanted to say the color grading in this vid is great :3

very cool! extremely helpful!

Big thanx man 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 really helpful for me

Love you man i am very adhd but still somehow i can follow you. Great thinking btw

Long live the OT & cuckoo!! 🙏

+Mykhaylo Slobodyan Sorry I couldn't reply directly for some reason. Hi, sorry if it was a bit messy to follow. I think the part of the Arranger was ok though. The files are called .ot, and I guess they're in some kind of proprietary format. When I open them in a text editor there are just strange cryptic signs. I guess a seasoned programmer could reverse engineer the meaning of the files.

its the best approach to play live esp songs with a diff tempo.

Nice tutorial :)

thank u so much

Great demo, even the overdrive sounds good, heh

THANKS!!!

Thanks!! ( : Agree with Alienna

12:56 haha yeah I sampled my PO Arcade too :D

thank you cuckoo for this one. how do you recommend to record a song arrangement? by rewire the outputs to the inputs or by creating a master recording on all internal?

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Hi Cuckoo, even though this video is specific about the arranger I think you briefly show other stuff thats interesting about the way to handle sliced up samples and how they might affect the sequence by RATE and PTCH changes when only triggered on the 1... I just realise you can go into SLICES mode and play different start points on a sample that hasn't been sliced up!. In other words you can have multiple trigger points for a long sample without slicing it just by going into slice mode, which might be a good way to play back your songs and still be able to manipulate pitch and duration without fucking up the sequence. Just a useful tip that lead me to the next question: can you set a pitch and change the length of the sample without modifying the pitch? could you set a play back rate and keep it even after pitch changes? with track stretch on (in Auto, Norm or Beat) can you tell the OT to play back the sample at half or twice the inferred tempo? thanks in advance if you are able to get back to me and thank you for your really valuable educational material! best, Nico

i can answer for you at 10'40 : if you want to apply a short HOLD for every trig , you need to copy the PART and change to a new one, and just set the HOLD setting one time without parmater lock.

The quirky beast of nerd stuff

Hey there cuckoo, awesome videos (I can't wait to get my octa, it's in the mail). The arranger mode is great for what I have in mind but I would like a bit more flexibility when I'm playing it live, namely I'm wondering if you can make somehow have a row repeat forever until you send it a midi signal to move to the next one? Do you know if that's possible? Thanks a lot!

notifikation squad

Mulig jeg for tjukk i hue til å kunne lære å beherske denne maskinen.

Cool! Is this the famous OT Songmode?

For me, this video wasn't easy to follow (unlike, say, part #1), but I guess that the information presented will be of quite some use to new Octatrack ...users. Kinda shows what that arranger can do, and - which is more important for me as a potential buyer of Elektrons - what it can NOT do (e.g. change the track for you, editing several trigs at once, 8 songs limit etc). BTW which file extension and format are those slice files that accompany .wav's on CF? Are they some kind of text, or binary? Asking, because I wonder if they can be auto-generated by some 3rd party software.

Would be so cool if Cuckoo full-on shaved his beard, head & brows. Would be wicked and we could watch it grow back in over a series of videos. Can we maybe get this going on as some Paytreon goal?

Can I use a midi keyboard to record midi into this - build up my tracks and then have this machine play back all my midi in real time controlling my synths? I'm basically looking for a hardware midi sequencer that lets me build up and compose songs

Any chance we'll get too see some Cuckoo tuques? ; )

That is a very cool hat dude, Who did the embroidery for you ? :)

cuckoo marry me! those videos are really instructional, lot of thanks :)

Your video's want to make me smoke a doobie, and then I do, and then I get confused about my octatrack and start doing something else shit

Hey cuckoo, thank you for your amazing channel! By far my favorite. I'm in a conundrum because I am debating whether or not I should get the Octatrack or a laptop with Ableton. Is the OT in your view enough to create whole songs, would you be happy with just the OT or do you think the laptop is just essential? I ask you because I live in Puerto Rico and there is just no way I can demo an OT.

14:34 we will just pretend it was a cool effect. Fits the sound in my opinion.

Kinda interesting to see what pain it was before trig preview came out

How I wish the Digitakt had this arranger 😔

I have sliced a bunch of samples and then later I load them to find that the slices haven't been saved with the file, like I hoped. Here you load a new project and your sample loads in pre-sliced, wonder what I'm doing wrong.. :)

I like to use parts, but it seems like there is no way to save them in the arranger :(

is each part of the arrangement using the same 8 samples? Tell me it's possible to not be limited by 8 samples for an entire song

cuckoo hello, I have a small question about triggering scenes from sequencer. Is it possible to record or automate scene moving in sequencer ? Thanks a lot !

cuckoo did I just create overkill by getting this and an mpc1000 the same week? can I make some great hip hop and experimental downtenpo stuff on just the OT?

Perfect video. this is the first Octatrack vid that made me think I might be able to handle using one. Just one question: how does it work if you're structuring an entire setlist? is it quick to load different "songs", or is it like an old MPC with lots of button pushing and a long wait to load samples? For simplicity's sake, let's say it's a six song setlist with about the same amount of complexity as your demo track here.

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thx a lot! but not a tutorial for octa starters...

yeh.. but its workflow zero :/

now that I've spent some time with the octatrack I can learn more from cuckoo's videos, but seriously, this isn't called 'how to use slice mode' or 'how to improvise a loop' it's called how to structure a song and I've been watching for over 10 minutes, still no arranger mode here.

I'm still a little confused on the octa and octo sounds can somebody please brake it down for me please ? Somebody tried to explain it too me the other day but I wasnt getting it any experts ?

Perfect if you are to fucked up to play.

You look like Borgore :D

Bro......come on. alll of you vids take to long to get to the piece. Im ready to move on. All of these vids make you feel like you have had this for years......wheres the simple how to start video??

wow really sorry but that solo piano thing sounds terrible. I'm mean with artifacts all over it etc. Just saying as constructive critic cause i'm really trying to watch the video. thanks anyway