Something really weird happened while trying to program sets in the arranger yesterday.
Suddenly the knobs and button on the Octatrack stopped responding while in arranger mode. Some buttons did not do anything when pressed, and the knobs did not change the values. When pressing function + turning a knob it did not change the value in real time, but upon releasing the function key it jumped to that value. And when pressing buttons which should react to a certain parameter, it did nothing, but when pressing a totally different knob it changed that value. It was like the Midi in changed the knobs/buttons location internally…
After turning on and off the unit, it worked better once again.
But the behavior then continued when I had closed arranger mode and went into the midi page once again. When trying to change the midi channel of the active track it did not respond to knob turning. But when pressing function + value knob it jumped to a random midi channel upon releasing…
Not sure what is happening to be honest. Has anyone else experienced similar behavior? Is the Octatrack supposed to work differently (its knobs and buttons) while having the midi mode activated while in arranger mode? Should it even be possible to change which knobs react to which parameters via midi (under the hood so to speak). It may be that some of my gear sent it unwanted midi information, but since it has been working well until now I really don’t know what it could be. I have turned of all “receive midi” functions on the Octatrack just to see if it worked, but didn’t seem to do anything…