Hey all. I've been looking into getting a performance oriented sampler to incorporate into my live setup to mix in some loops of my recorded works on the fly. So one of the main machines that keeps coming up is the Elektron Octatrack. Seems to be the big daddy as far as live performance samplers go.
One thing I keep hearing is that the Octatrack is mainly a mangler or that it really excells at mangling. I feel like I can kind of suss out what the term mangling encompasses, ie changing pitch and direction, start/end and loop points, time stretching, etc. But it comes up so often it feels like set style or technique - like "The Art of Mangling". I want to be sure what I'm going into in considering this machine. So a standard agreed-upon definition or consice examples of what mangling is (especially in regards to the Octatrack) would be greatly appreciated.
Submitted January 24, 2018 at 07:09AM by themoonandthestars https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7sm4he/what_is_sample_mangling/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, January 24, 2018