For me it works only sometimes when I hit stop only once, while stop-play-stop-play always works.✱
Edit: I just worked on my track a bit more, and stop-play never worked, only stop-play-stop-play. I prefer Digis: there I don’t have to press anything or stop anything.
But anyway, that was the last straw for me, every feature I use A LOT needs more button presses than on any other modern Elektron (another example: trig conditions), and while I got used to those more or less (and did start to enjoy the Octa) this is just too much and sucks the joy (and “joy” starts for me with “fast”) out of it for me
IIRC there is something particular with Arranger mutes, they may have to be triggered by trigs on the concerned track or something…
Ah and yes, if your amp enveloppe is set to inf, samples continue to play.
Maybe you’re talking about midi tracks mutes ?
Have to check.
I stumbled on this yesterday. There are lots of folk, around the forums, annoyed that octatrack track mute instantly stops the note from ringing out, killing its release tail, reverb tail, everything. Essentially it works like mixer channel mute rather than midi channel mute. Weirdly, Arranger has the functionality they crave. As someone mentioned above, it works like midi note mute rather than mixer channel mute.
Weird to not have this as an option for normal track mutes! But to have it obligatorily in Arranger!
IIRC muting in the arranger mutes as soon the sequencer hits a trig.
For instance, you have a pattern A1 going on then you wanna switch to A2 and have the track 1 muted, it will “wait” to hit a trig to mute. So if the trig is on step 12, impossible to mute the track before that when switching to pattern A2.
You’ll need to put what i call a phantom trig on step 1, another thing to think about and breaking the flow…
After using an Octatrack for almost 9 years I’m only now beginning to explore the arranger mode.
I’m sure it’s already been mentioned many times but the arranger is excellent for making off kilter rhythms since you can chain short sections of varying lengths, from any point in a pattern. The M8 can do these things and much more, but I really enjoy the simplicity and focus of the Octatrack approach. I just wish that there was a way to copy and paste multiple sections at a time, then it would be perfect
Here’s a composition I made using snippets from a four bar pattern, adding repeats at different points, looping sections, adding mutes and using scenes to create variation:
I just found a new powerfull trick to manage arrangements in the OT’s arranger which might be of interest for some of you. I hope I’m not saying again what somebody did already explain.
For the context, I’ve been using the arranger a lot for my live gigs along the years but was always frustrated by the difficulty of managing my songs inside the arranger. Specially the inability (as far as I know) to copy and paste multiple lines at once from an arrangement to another.
As you know the Arranger has 8 slots/lines for 8 arrangements you can chain. If you open up one of your projects once you are in USB disk mode, your arrangements appear numbered from 1 to 8 as two files like so:
These files show up no matter if you did or not edit arrangements.
So what did I find?
If you want to change the order of your tracks or use ancient compositions from older arrangements (as long as you did not alter your banks from one project to the other) you can simply create a copy of your project, along with one (or more) folder on your computer where you can just alter the numbers of these arrangements.
For instance, I had a teckno gig where I wanted to go straight to the point. While in arranger mode editing, in arrangement 2 (arr02.strd and arr02.work) I deleted the beginning where it was too chill for what I wanted. I also made some changes in my project I was happy with.
So now I have a new gig that will be a bit more chilled. So what I do is just editing the numbers of the files while in USB disk mode. Arrangement 2 (the tekno version) becomes Arr6 which wasent used. Of course I kept the original project with the original Arr2 containing the chill part. So from this older project I copy Arr2 to the new project.
Now I can get out of USB disk mode back to the arrangement editor and delete the tekno part at the end of Arr2. Also Arr2 and Arr6 will have the same name. You can just edit that in the arranger editor.
