Can I set probability on both a one shot trigger and p-lock?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Sorry if this is dumb question. I picked up an Octatrack last week and have been trying to learn the concepts. This machine feels like a miracle. I love it so far.

I have an ambient sequence with one shot triggers that are set with a probability so they fire at random while the sequence is running. This works beautifully. What I’d like to do now is set a p-lock on the same step to change the parameters for even more diversity, and have it trigger on its own probability percentage. Is that possible? So far I’ve not been able to figure it out.

Thanks!

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hey,

I think you’d have to place it on the following step of the same track and then microtime that locked step backwards all the way so that it’s nearly on top of the preceding step, and then that way when the probability of the locked trig causes it to fire off, it will choke out the one shot trigger and only fire the locked step which you’ve assigned probability to.

Give it a try, there may be another way, but I think that this will be the most straight forward way to accomplish what you want to do.

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Yes, as shiggin mentions you have one p-lock on the exact step with a probability, if you want to overlap you will need to tweak the microtiming forward on the new step, you may not need to modify the timing backwards on the original step to match exactly, but hard to know the attack as executed without being there :slight_smile:

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I’ll try this, thank you!

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You can not have two different triggers on the same step.

What you can do to get parameters moving is to use trigless trigs (hold down function + trigger button, the LED will illuminate darker than a normal trig) on earlier/later steps and (this is important!) turn on Parameter Slide which will cause the parameter values to slide between the p-locked values. You can still apply probability to trigless trigs.

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Also, I don’t know whether it’s exactly what you’re after but perhaps it’s worth mentioning that you could also use the LFO designer to apply specific modulation to parameters that you want to change over time in the sequence? It’s not PLocking per se but might get similar results?