Octatrack Beat Repeat Effect?

thanks!

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I love OT, but even more so. Cause of Elektronauts.
Thanks

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awesome!

now if my sound is cutting off while performing this trick, could that be due to having all static machines vs flex on right now? (which is what I am doing atm)

Set feedback to max on your master delay

I get a few stutters, then sound cuts off entirely on scene B.

Normally I’d load up 7 flex machines, but I was watching a cuckoo tutorial and ended up loading 8 static machines.

Not sure if that makes it an issue.

I have Scene A as

Time - 48
FB - 0
VOL - 127
Base - 0
Width - 127
Send - 1

Scene B

Time - 48
FB - 127
Vol - 127
Base - 0
wdth - 127
Send - 0

Hmm! I can’t figure why sound would cut off like that. Maybe try maxing the send on Scene A. No logic behind that answer, but that’s what I’ve always done…

I think I was using a combo of it on the master and on an actual track and it was cutting stuff off, I just cleared the scene and did it again and it worked. Thanks Ryan!

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Glad you figured it out! Freeze Delay on the OT is one of my favorite things about it

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hell yea, and while i’ve had ableton for years and used beat repeat, I just never got into it until this OT way of doing things.

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Howdy everyone Thrice here. I have a question I have all of the settings the way everyone mentioned I have the audio going to master which is track 8 and the lock on in the delay and I still can’t get the effect to work unless I turn of lock which sends the effect into a delay frenzy. My other question is does it matter if I use flex or static machines cause I am currently using static machines to do this. To sum it all up master track isn’t affecting the whole track when lock is on in the advanced delay settings need help!

hey, beeing new to octatrack i explored those scenes for the fader.
i seem to see ppl also just pressing trigs for fx, without using the scene slider.
couldnt find what / how. can someone please point me towards that?

You can have 8 different scenes for both A and B slots/sides of the crossfader. You can immediately switch between them by holding A or B scene button and selecting another scene on the trig keys.

Pg. 54 of manual

hey Kpucski. thanks - i am aware of that. maybe i expressed myself bad. but i also saw ppl triggering effects without! sliding to a scene. But maybe i am wrong, and all i mean is seeing scenes beeing switched…for example here, right in the beginning:

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That’s the delay control, func + down arrow all the way to the bottom. Still have to set up your delay to repeat tho

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ok, thanks for the direction!
so theres kinda “trig-mode-layout” just for the delay-ctrl’s!

edit:
just in case someone else searchs for this too, i found this for explanation:

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Yes indeed.
Last 8 trigs let you choose the track (freeze delay must have been setup correctly of course).
If you have a master track, 16 is the one.

First 8 trigs set the repeat time. You’d better set your delay time setting to max btw, cause when you shorten the time the rest of the sound is lost and doesn’t come back.
So you’ll most likely go from 8 to lower numbers, not the opposite.

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thx LyingDalai !

Yes lots of fun changing the repeat times while the effect is on

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Other interesting parameters are

  • Feedback to max
  • (on the secondary menu) Tape=0

Assigning the crossfader to Delay’s Base or Width can let you set the kind of filter you want. In real time if you have long fingers, beforehand otherwise.

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