A rather trivial long sample playback question

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hello all.

I have a question regarding the playback of rather long samples.

Let’s say I’m running on a 80bpm tempo and I have 64steps in the sequencer.
But when I have a sample that’s significantly longer than these 64 steps and I don’t want to “cut” it and play it from the start (whem getting to step 1 again), what should I do?

The problem can be that I’m basically only using normal trigs and not the one shot trigs, is that true? So if I place a one shot trig on step1 and I turn on sample looping, will it loop the entire length of the sample?

This is really an essential thing when I want to create the impression of an evolving soundscape where everything doesn’t just end at step 64 :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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A one shot trig is the obvious answer. The loop will be whatever region you define in the sample editor.

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Sounds like you should try plays free, especially for atmosphere if you do not want to adjust for tempo sync etc

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How long is the sample? If the sample length is less/equal to 512 steps – use normal trigs with tempo multiplier 1/8 for the track and set pattern length to 512 steps. Otherwise one-shot trigs is only one option…

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ok, just one more question to this.

I figured it out and one shot trigs are the way to go here. The only thing that bothers me is that sometimes I need to manually start the playback of the particular track with the one shot trig long loop. Meaning, I have to press Track+Play to make it start playing.

I don’t know why but the sample just won’t start playing along the other tracks when I hit the Play button. It doesn’t happen always, just sometimes, though.

Anyone has an idea why could this be happening?

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The 1-shot trig needs to be armed (press OK with grid mod on)