QUESTION 1 - Has 128GB CF Flash Card Been Tested/Does It Work?
the manual says it is not supported, but my experience tells me that sometimes these things are written with consideration given to WHAT was available and tested.
COMPACT FLASH CARD SPECIFICATIONS
Cards supporting UDMA and at least 133x (~20MB/s) for both reads and writes are com- patible with the Octatrack. Cards must be FAT16 or FAT32 formatted, preferably FAT32. Up to 64 GB Compact Flash cards are supported.
can anyone confirm that the 128gb cards available will not function?
QUESTION 2 - Is Streaming from a High Quality CF Card Safe for Live Performance?
merlin’s octatrack user guide mentions not actually streaming from the CF card. but it seems like it is just to be safe best practice.
i understand protecting the safety of your live performance and i even have a few rules like this for working with ableton. i adopted them earlier on, and likely don’t need them anymore on these snazzy modern laptops.
This puts a heavy burden on the cf-card and by doing so, you can run into timing problems when the card is cheap and not fast enough. Therefore, although streaming can be used, my personal attitude is that I avoid it as much as possible, just to be on the safe side. On the other hand: Elektron offers streaming as a valid technique, so if you use it, it should work as advertised, provided that your cf-card can handle the speed.