Apologies in advance if there is a bleeding obvious answer ( only had the Octatrack a month )to what I’m about to ask. Have searched for an answer through Google and the manual but have come up stumped.
Trying to bounce down drums using a flex recorder buffer.
As a test - New project, basic one shot samples in tracks 1-4, recorder buffer on track 5,
One shot trig recorder, SRC set to main.
Everything samples fine up to an RLEN of 48 but try 64 and it turns to cactus, recording sometimes only 8 steps. There are inconsistancies in the results which leads me to believe there i something I’m doing wrong?
The recorder file attribute window shows that it is not recording consistanly passed RLEN of 48.
Have played with Memeory settings, Dynamic sampling on/off to no avail!
Crisis averted. The one shot recorder trig was red as opposed to yellow ( Function trig ). Was recording over the 64 steps and stopping record manually which was causing the weird results.
[quote=“”…But I just realised something, I never use the red record trigs, and I’m not sure exactly how they should be used, they always caused problems… so… my question is:“”]
Can anyone explain properly how to use the red record trigs, avoiding this kind of issue described above?
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You would use them on Pattern X if you always want to start recording when the OT switches to Pattern X.
You would use them on Pattern X if you always want to start recording when the OT switches to Pattern X.
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OK, yep that makes sense… I can see how that might be useful - cheers
But, and please forgive my slowness here, how do you avoid the problem where the recording restarts after the end of the pattern, is this a manual ‘de-trig’ as it were?[/quote]
It’s not a problem if you want it to keep recording. Yes, switching patterns is your ‘manual de-trig’.
Or, if you are using the arranger, the octatrack switches patterns for you
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~This keeps coming up tis a very common stumbling block for folks learning the machine. I too tripped over it before I sorted the one-shot trigs.
But I just realised something, I never use the red record trigs, and I’m not sure exactly how they should be used, they always caused problems… so… my question is:
Can anyone explain properly how to use the red record trigs, avoiding this kind of issue described above?
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I might do something like leave a red recorder trig on the first step of the fourth bar with a playback trig on the ninth step of that bar. The playback settings might play in reverse with delay, panning LFO, filter sweep or whatever to make a cool build up. This is cool because your build up is only based on the tracks you have unmuted for that pass (or any live audio coming through A/B or C/D depending on setup). Just one example.
Another example would be if source three and one of the inputs was selected as a record source. Example: you could play a monophonic keyboard line along with a backing beat or something while recording both the keyboard’s output and the flex playback track as source three. This would allow you to play multiple part melodies, or even chords on one track out of your mono synth in multiple passes. Just another example. I’m sure there are plenty of reasons people want to keep live recorder trigs active… probably cool stuff with vocals and vinyl beat matching too. The sky is the limit.
