OXI Playbook #5: Multitrack Step Locks on OXI ONE MKII

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The OXI Playbook is our series of the OXI team's favorite workflows, patches and sequencing tricks. In Playbook #5, From Simple Seeds to Complex Patterns, you lock velocity, note and trig on single steps in Multitrack Mode on OXI ONE MKII, and one simple pattern grows into many complex ones.

The short version

One simple pattern, many complex ones

It works well for drum sequences, and it works just as well for melodic parts. Apply different locks to a pattern seed and you get subtle variations, unexpected accents and melodic twists. A simple starting pattern becomes a series of complex, evolving iterations, without rebuilding each one.

Chapters

What is in the video

00:00	Introduction	1 min
01:00	Creating a drum part	5 min 10 s
06:10	Creating a melodic part	2 min 37 s

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Background

Multitrack Mode in one paragraph

Multitrack Mode lets you sequence and control 8 tracks at the same time. In our First Steps lessons we describe it as 8 sequencers in one. OXI ONE MKII has 8 sequencers and up to 64 tracks, so there is plenty of room to build a seed and grow it.

New to Multitrack? Watch First Steps with OXI One MKII, EP. 9: Multitrack Mode on rhythms and EP. 10: Multitrack Mode applications, then come back to this Playbook.

Gear

What you need

The technique is shown on OXI ONE MKII, our MIDI and CV hardware sequencer. Our polyphonic, multitimbral Eurorack synth OXI Coral is linked in the video description too.

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