you know i got it right before i read this…what is happening is that i am using the foot pedal i guess cc’d directly to a/b recorder, so when i arm it with my foot i was just arming the a and b. when i rearm the oneshot trigger by pressing the trigger it works correctly. if i remember there is a cc to arm both, which is what i need in this case. one more octatrack hurdle cleared. thanks again mike!
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So many possibilities !
Combo rec > Note 60
INAB rec > Note 61
INCD rec > Note 62
SRC3 rec > Note 63
Pickup Start / Stop > Note 64
CC 53 Recorder Arm
CC 59 let you send the notes above, with corresponding CC values.
With Pickups if you alternate note 60 and 64, you can rec, play, overdub, play etc…
I just got the record trig thing to work for the first time. But it only worked once haha back to the practice mobile.
It is hot shit when it works though! No more one hand on the flute and one on the OT shenanigans
i was just writing all that in. …ha. ok so. will try 53, that might work.
It’s possible as well to use qrec to quantize record for manual sampling or pickups. You can set it to pattern length or a number of steps I think up to 256, so you can press record and have it start on the next pattern cycle, or another quantized amount…
Do you overdub ?
If you can toggle between 2 CC values you can do this (CC59 tip) :
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hmm, no overdubbing for now. i’d rather keep tracks separate when using the octatrack like this.
ok, so i now have one footswitch doing INAB rec > Note 61
and the other doing INCD rec > Note 62
and then the last doing 69 (move to next track). all is working, only issue now is monitoring the individual signals (i wish that arming one when not arming all muted the input not in use) since i am using my digital piano as a controller for a streichfett as well as the piano sound. my workaround for this is turning down the synth i am not recording the moment. this would not be an issue using 2 synths, or 1 guitar and synth, etc.
i couldn’t get CC 53 Recorder Arm or
CC 59 to work.
i hear you… so many little details to get wrong. the good thing is that they cause so much frustration that once you understand what was going wrong it gets ingrained into your head…kind of like that one and only time as a kid that you stuck your finger into the wall socket.
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More monitoring possibilities with pickups.
so, got this to work with the above…footswitch for inAB and one for inCD. this way i don’t even have to pre-choose inputs for the flex track, just choose an empty track and step on either footswitch, which selects the input and arms the one-shot recorder trig. at the moment the 3rd footswitch is assigned to next track selection but seems like a waste will probably do sequence start instead
here’s a video with the waldorf streichfett cheese—-err-string machine. love it and then the piano, just manually bringing up the dir i need at the moment…
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Cool. I’m trying to stay interested in using the ot making music like this so this gives me hope 
where are the drums from? Sound nicfe.
Thanks. The octatrack is fantastic. Every day i learn something new and try to use it different ways. Keep at it.
Regarding the drum loop i usually “roll my own” but for these first looping experiments i was concentrating on the workflow and working out problems…so i just grabbed some loops i had downloaded from looperman.com (95% sure) and then sliced it a bit.
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Another improv looper jam, this time with the yamaha piano and a roland ju-06. I used drums made by our very own @sezare56 and just started layering stuff.
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Saying Hi poppin´ in,
got a question too regarding seamless sampling.
I´m basically aware how to achieve that, still:
When sampling drones/waves i don´t succeed that well, as
sometimes there is a gap. That can´t be avoided - or can it?
Big gap? Click?
How do you proceed?
For drones seamless loops you need fade in / out, overdub, in order to make a crossfade.
Unfortunately OT fade in / out curves are ridiculous. You can try minimum values, longer values add silence, which is totally crap.
I’m thinking about a workaround with Flex, using 2 tracks, in order to make decent fades and record with overdub.
totally agreed. Tryed it in several ways… at the end I decided doing that with a dedicated looper as shown here:
dead simple and quick. better sequencing a machine like this
Indeed. I have a Rc202 and I recommend Rc505, working really well slaved to Ot.
I get fine results using pickups synced to sequencer (sequencer running before record), fin/fout at lowest setting, and quantized record/play (qrec/qpl)…
OT can do so much with the loops, my OT would be upset with me if I feed them into another looper…
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