Hi. New (and delighted) Octatrack owner here. Actually I guess this question applies to all Elektron gear, but it’s cropped up while I’ve been using the Octratrack, so I’ll ask it here. I haven’t been able to find an answer in the manual or by searching, or indeed by randomly pressing buttons.
Say I’m editing a 64-step pattern and I add a p-lock to step 64, on page four of the pattern. Is there a way to start playback from the beginning of page four? With a low BPM, it can be quite a wait to hear the results of that tweak, and then you have to go through it again if you want to make a change. I guess there are some potential issues with samples that have been triggered on one of the earlier pages, but it’d still be really helpful to play back a specific page and hear just its own trigs back without sitting through the whole thing.
The best workaround I have at the moment is to use a spare 16-step pattern slot to create and tweak a bar and then paste it into a specific page in a longer pattern, but that’s not ideal.
Maybe I just have manual fatigue and I’ve missed a simple option - that’d be great. If not I guess short patterns and chains are the way forward…