Chain settings are not saved apparently, but it doesn’t seem a bug. Seems totally usable in live conditions.
If you want to plan everything, you can use only 1 arrangement. Still possible to use JUMP fonction if you want to reorder songs or parts of songs…
Yes, it’s usable but it would a lot more usable if I could edit the live setlist beforehand and make it flow seamlessly from one arrangement to another automatically since I have my hands full anyway during the song change. This sucks.
I use arrangements a lot and find it a very powerful tool especially since my songs are more structured, they have different parts and stuff. An overlooked aspect of Octatrack and I also find it very irritating that there are only 8 of them, there’s no real reason for that in the machine UI or anywhere. 16 arrangements and an ability to quick select them with sequencer buttons would be very useful. And a Next-button for loops like in MPCs (now next is 3 button clicks, 2 down arrows and a Yes).
That is how I find arrangements to work - the chain is not saved and needs to be done manually every time. It is a bit of a pain and all the boxes seem to lack song chaining.
My workaround is to find a bit in my arrangement where I have time to make the chain and I write a line of text in the arranger to remind myself to do this.
The arranger is relatively underused. Even though it seems a major feature and the OT is pretty old now, you can just tell by subjects discussed here that there are whole areas that just haven’t had anything like the same user attention.
& considering even some quite top level stuff still has bugs, just going a little deeper throws light on more issues.
So I’m not surprised by this behaviour. A candidate for the minor tweaks thread?
I programmed a whole set of songs with the arranger, in blocks of 3 songs for flexibility of reordering in the future. And now I am surprised about the chain feature, that doesnt work properly. That’s really bad!
The chained arrangement doesnt get saved with every arrangement.
