u/FireWeener

Hi everyone. Ive been working in my homestudio for over 20 years with cubase and ableton. IDM/Ambient/Breakbeat/Electronic music. A year or 2 ago ive been dipping my toes into dawless production and i am having way more fun turning real modular knobs and pressing elektron clicky buttons. I am fairly educated on the Octatrack and A4 and Rytm. I would like to ditch the whole daw now, and have my Octatrack as the recorder and arranger to create full songs and play them live. Ive setup a system with a tascam model 24 that uses the bus to record into the octatrack so i can get my stems into the sampler. I use per pattern, 4 parts. That way i can have 4 samples per track in a pattern to build verses and breaks and drops. But i am struggling a bit, if this is the right way to do it. I would love to hear your setup for building full tracks with an arrangement, more than 1 pattern. Having 7 flex tracks i use for my synths into recording buffers and 1 static sample track for other samples creates a bit of a headache, constantly having to switch the assigned sampleslot from a synthpart for a recording buffer to record a new synthpart, which i have to then resample so i can have the old part and the new part into 1 sample. Not sure if i am doing things correctly. Ive spend a ton of hours watching Ezbot, but i cant really find something about a full workflow to record and build full tracks. I know this is a huge topic to just explain in a reddit post, but any direction into the matter would be helpfull! Thanks and have a nice day!