u/Ko_tatsu

Hi everyone! I am looking around for a sampler to use in a setting of live band. I have put my eyes on the Roland Sp404 mkII but I have always been fan of Elektron boxes' design and workflow so I am really tempted to go for an Octa (even though it's the financially and probably musically less clever option).

I mainly play piano/keys and I am trying to expand my setup for an experimental jazz/impro project.

My needs are:

- live looping and live mangling of incoming audio streams

- live sample triggering and tweaking

- improvisation (including live resampling and various fuckery)

- rhythmic sequences

I have understood that both machines are capable of doing that in different ways but I am a bit worried on the fact that the Octa may be too much sequencer-centric and I would like to avoid being too reliant on clocks (since as I said it's a live band situation).

I am a DAW user so I don't really need the Octa as a brain for my other gear.

Has anyone ever used an Octa in a live band setting with a drummer? How do you use it and how does it work for you? Thank you in advance!

¡Hola a todos! Unos amigos y yo somos músicos y vamos a estar en la CDMX durante una semana. ¿Hay algún lugar donde se organicen jam sessions de jazz? Nos encantaría poder tocar con gente de aquí.

¡Muchas gracias!

Hi everyone, a friend of mine lent me his volca sample 1 to load some samples into it. The first key of the touch strip isn't working (led regularly turns on) and I was thinking about cleaning it with some 99% IPA.

Is this a good course of action?

Has anyone else had similar problems?

Also, for whatever reason the sound in part 10 is super quiet in comparison to the other part (even with the same sample selected), no matter the parameters.

Thank you in advance!