The topic title says it all 
I’ve been reading the manual and all the shortcuts for the Octatrack but I could not find any similar combo like the one in Digitakt.
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It has its own special tricks, but nothing exactly like Control All … it’s hard coming from a Digi box to another and looking for this powerful method, but alas, they are all different in how the do their party tricks
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The scenes are sort of like saved control all states
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The individual tracks can be very different.
For one track you have a singlcycle waveform. In another you stream a very long sample and in a third you have a complete drum track.
A control-all function then very quickly becomes completely out of control.
As malus_mons said: use the scenes.
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Of course they can, but my actual OT setup is that of a “simple” drum machine so that’s why I thought it would fit so much having a CTRL ALL function on that. Of course I’ve been using scenes for pattern variation. Do you know instead if it’s possible to easily randomize parameters with some shortcut?
“Yes” + “PAGE”
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You can use the 8th track as a Master and from there have a scene that changes one global parameter.
For instance Scene 9 pushes up the filter distortion/reverb/whatever for all.
Then the crossfader towards the Scene 9 would be like the closest equivalent of the CTRL ALL on digi boxes.
Everything on OT needs setup. Everything. Twice.
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…yup…that’s what the crossfader is mostly used for…setting up all kinds of scenes are ur best friend…and the options are endless…
the spontaneous and genious but way later to the party idea of control all on the digis would be, as mentioned here already, only mess it all up too fast in the sonic maze of the ot…which remains the oldest workflow concept of all still available swedish devices…
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Yes, crossfader + scenes is the most powerful feature of all Elektrons. Morphing between up to 250 parameters.
If you set all tracks on the same channel, you can control all tracks from a midi track, but it is absolute value changes, not relative. (With midi loopback, midi cable between in and out)
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I came here to suggest this! It’s not exactly the same, but is the closest I’ve come to the Machinedrum-style control-all on the Octatrack. The Digi-style control-all can be really fun, and sometimes I stumble on cool stuff, but I would love if more instruments had a control-all track, like the MD
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Yep. Would be possible you use lfos, but crossfader is much more convenient.
Pseudo scenes randomize
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One trick I used a while back involves using the midi tracks of the Octatrack to modify the parameters of the audio tracks. If you set all the audio tracks to respond to the same midi channel, set the midi track to that channel, and then plug the Octatrack’s midi out into its midi in, you can assign the CC’s in the midi track to modify each of the audio track’s parameters.
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Mentioned above. 
I’ll add that you can do it in a faster way, without midi tracks :
- Same channel for “Control All” tracks
- Set Midi Control CC OUT to EXT (eventually INT+EXT)
- Midi Loopback (midi cable between in/out)
Turn knobs on any active “Control All” track, they will also control other tracks.
Reload part.
Once again, absolute changes, not relative. So it worth a try but I much prefer OT Crossfader / scenes.
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if the sound design idea allows it, each of the 3 LFO per track can be used as a mapping mechanism by assigning their target to the properties that shall be relative rather than absolute. Guessing you’d use a straight upper (the LFO design with all 16 edgepoints to max (127)) LFO… or any other LFO design of the ‘mapped’ tracks to be used in another tracks LFO wave form to have more progression control. From there controlling the 3 LFO from one single source (midi out->in) gives quite a lot possibilities still enjoying some predefined behaviour.
This has a side effect. The LFO are applied in sample speed and therefor can produce even more smooth transition, the direct CC values that map by their native number to one of the Audio track properties are still absolute then but define the base value the LFO and its multiplication is applied up on.
And another strange way… when Midi Out->IN is connected the slider (cc48) value (state between A&B) can also be controlled via midi of course… (correct me if i am wrong)
Oh, this means I can control all releases on all one shot tracks with one knob using midi cc. Nice. Almost certainly quicker to just set up with scenes, but I’m (genuinely) at the stage of octatrack abyss insanity where I actively enjoy a clever method.
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