Abusing a Track for Live Input (From Merlins Guide)

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#85

Don’t want to keep nothing. I want my second OT to be a portable live looper/recorder/remixer and not have to worry if space is being taken up.

#86

Overwriting will happen each time when you start recording with the same record buffer regardless if RAM gets maxed out.

So if you have a record trig on trig 1 of a pattern it will start to overwrite the buffer each time this trig gets hit.

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#87

That’s what I wanted to read. Thank you so much! Thank you to everybody else who chummed in also. My explanations sometimes make sense in my head and in my head only! Hehehe

So, @tnussb, I can take my Octatrack and plug in the stereo outs of my mixer to it. Set up a live trig recorder, live record the loop and it will just keep overwriting each loop? COOLIO!!!

#88

You’re right about that.

That’s what I get for trying to explain stuff that the Merlin doc already explains more effectively

#89

It seems like instead of abusing the recorder/flex machine like this, the “proper” way to do this (which doesn’t require micro-timing tricks), is to do the following:

  1. Setup flex machine with trig recorder to record in Track 1 buffer
  2. Setup 2nd part which has a flex machine with the same Track 1 buffer set as the Flex Sample
  3. Arm track 1 in Part 1.
  4. Record the 1 bar.
  5. Switch to Part 2 where it will start playing back.

Using the micro-timing trick for me has been inconsistent if whether I can hear the live input or not. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just plays silence until after the recording has finished.

#90

No, that’s not the “proper” way, because the discussion was about recording and playing back at the same time (live audio). That’s where the microtiming trick is required depending on which source (internal or external) you record from.

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