A way to use the “halt” feature live and easily start the section after with one button, or a midi command. For example, if I have a song split in 3 parts by 2 halts, but want to be able to freely trigger next part after a halt, there needs to be a way to trigger that part without scrolling, pressing yes, and then play. Makes halt kinda a silly feature without this…
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octatrack has no midi effects save the arp, it would be nice to see some other effects, one comes into mind, the delay… could be really fun to play the midi pattern back with the stutter that is available for the audio part.
and i would like to see a retrig parameter that changes retrig behavior, to start from the begining, or the current place in the sample, in effect becoming a granular synth.
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IMO, in a darkened setting the panel LEDs are waay too bright. I am not seeing a brightness setting anywhere in menus or on device?
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I can’t help for this but really agreed.
I wish Elektron upgrade on this.
The LED’s on the MKII can show any color, why stick us with with mostly 20th century green/red/yellow? Would be nice to “Personalize” those colors too, or assign to certain trigger types/variations etc 
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There is a similar closed second thread which may have useful info within it …
e.g. a feature request which has a serviceable solution or workaround
It’s worth noting that the OT is generally considered to be maxed out, so there is little chance of big changes, something stated officially
In any case, these threads are for documenting and discussing ideas, to ensure a request is seen you’d have to send it to Elektron: e-mail feature-request@elektron.se
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It would not be bad to add in the MK-2 function of inversion of the OLED display for its uniform burning out.
did someone say midi re-trigger already?
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Yep, doable with Trig Counts (microtiming menu), up to 128th notes, or Arp.
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thank you @sezare56. is that for midi trigs or just sample trigs? I’m only finding “trig count” on page 75 of the manual referring to sample trigs…?
There are also trig counts in midi tracks microtiming page (Press Trig + Left / Right Arrow)
2 > a trig is divided in 2 trigs (32th)
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8 > a trig is divided in 8 trigs (128th)
Scale setup multiplier change the speed.
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“Drum/Sound Design Mode” (Trig Mode).
It would be so helpful if Slot Mode or Slice Mode could store any parameter assigned to it’s trigs specifically. So each trig triggers the sample (like in Slot Mode) or the slice assigned to it (like in Slice Mode) but also stores any assigned parameters to that trig/slot. Then you can make each sample/slice sound exactly the way you want by setting the pitch, rate, env, filter etc. for that trig specifically and even play them live. Just like the Analog Rytm where each drum track stores all parameters assigned to it but I really like using the OT for drums since it is stereo and has more sound design possibilities with the FX etc… Actually I was hoping that Slots Mode would do this but any changed parameter applies to all slots which is not very intuitive and fun. It would still be monophonic of course. It would save a lot of time since you don’t have to make that specific sound as a PLock and wait for the sequencer to make its cycle each time in order to preview it again.
I hope Electron will bring this useful Trig Mode for drum sound design!
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I’ll add if you want longer retrigs with Trig Counts and TRig Conditions, you can use any TRC with several PRE following it.
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I thought about similar things with A4’s Sounds :
Store plocked parameters to a Sound directly, recall it simply, modify it, store it again…
That would be great with any Elektron.
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Hello. I’m new to the forum and the Octatrack, but I think I’ve been using it long enough now to pluck up the courage to post my feature requests. Some are based around my frustration on why they aren’t there in the first place, some are just desirable things that I could live without if they never happened. Apologies for ones that have been posted multiple times, and double apologies if they are things it does already and I haven’t discovered it yet.
- Repitch/Sync time stretching.
If it can work out bpm from the total length of the file plus a length in bars set by the user, then its really simple maths to transpose that to tempo.
- Create trigs from slice points.
Slicing via a grid or set number of slices is very nice, then creating linear locks based on that once trigs have been put in is also, but if you’re using slice points that are beat based but not grid based (like adding your own slice points at transients) creating linear locks isnt much help. Would be great in both circumstances if you could select from the slice menu “create trigs based on slice points”.
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Slice via transient detection.
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Simple polyphony.
I had the recent electribe sampler and that could handle a handful of voices on a fair few of the sampler engines. I understand it was a way more basic engine in comparison, but at a 3rd of the price of the OT, I never thought a sample at the price point of the OT couldnt handle just a tiny bit of polyphony on each sampler track.
- Send/Return/Buss machine.
like a neighbour or thru machine. Once one has been loaded on a track, a window appears in the other tracks where you can select send volume, or set it to route to that track, so you can sum tracks before the master.
- More octaves in chromatic mode.
Moving into more desirable requests now.
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A basic synth, or more comprehensive sampler engine.
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More destinations per LFO.
Would be nice to be able to route 1 LFO to 2 or maybe even 3 destinations, making a total of 9 modulation options.
- More gimicky ways to input trigs.
Playing them in is nice, but an arp, or note repeat, or preset scales, just fun ways to enter notes in a more performance orientated way would be nice.
- Qunatized trigging whilst record is on.
I love how you can set a trig quantize for tracks, and samples, so when you’re playing you can bash out stuff and its all in time. Its a shame its turned off when you hit record.
Can’t think of much else. I struggle with the set, project hierarchy menu system but I will learn it more before I start suggesting ways it could be easier to use. Otherwise I think the Octatrack is brilliant.
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True side chaining. This LFO sculpting workaround is 7 extra steps of tedious.
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Agree with all points but
That is to say? Maybe lfo on start / slices is a workaround, you can use it as a timestretch / pitch shifter. Try it, it can be surprising.
Did you try Cue send, plus a track recording Cue, Fx on it
Shame indeed. Resampling workaround.
Probably already been said, but I would really like an envelope follower on neighbour machines!
Elektron did tell me a while ago that the FX capacity of the CPU was maxed out. I reckon maybe replace one of the effects (my vote would be gate verb or flanger) with an envelope follower?
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#3 Slice via transient detection
I’d love to see this, pretty much every other modern sampler has that function. I miss that one the most on the ot.
a new OT 2019, in the style of the AR & A4 mkII could make this probably