Hi,
you can easily preview slices in realtime ( if you mean whilst creating slices in the Audio editor)
to do so → just select TRIG MODES → SLICES
open Audio Editor → set SLICES
you can preview your ceated slices with the sequencer trigs.
Have Fun.
the OctaTrack is my only elektron machine. I bought it instead of a modular step sequencer. i was pretty much fascinated and frustrated by it from the beginning.
can´t help but i always think of a (big) swiss army knife.
it can do such a lot but every aspect of it is limited.
i often use other equipment for pretty much everything what the octatrack could do,
but most of the time i still find some use for the octatrack.
that´s why it is a “keeper” for me.
the OT is really special.
when i say that cant preview slices i mean not in edit mode but when you put trigs to sequencer in grid mode you must wait to play the step to hear it and you lose time and the rythm you want to make,if you could just press the trigs and hear it while you put it there let say with function and the step trig this will be awesome,the only way to play some rythm with slices and preview them live was when i was in slice mode and playing it live in live record mode.the slices is very good for creating rythm patterns i believe some day i will buy it again as second hand because of the 8 midi tracks it fit very well with elektron concept of manipulating external synths from one master box
You need to use slices in that paragraph and OT needs auto-slice to transient/threshold!
It’s superior to the MnM’s sequencer in most, but not all ways. MnM’s midi LFOs are shared with the synth voices. That’s a bummer.
However, one feature I love about MnM’s sequencer is the ability to parameter lock Midi Program Change. This is also available on the MD (Routing… PCHG).
It’s great for giving “sound locks” to voice limited or timbral limited hardware synths. Because of this feature, I will probably never let go of my MnM. Sure, polyrhythms and micro timing are great, but this one feature just about makes up for what it cannot do.
Octatrack cannot do this. In a way, it is good that the older boxes have a few choice tricks up their sleeves that aren’t available elsewhere.
MnM with its own voices (especially the digipro waveform machine), sequencing a Nord Drum and a digitally controlled synth that instantly responds to program change (BS2, P6, Prophet12), add a zoom multi fx pedal, and that’s all you really need to make top quality electronic music.
That doesn’t dissuade my desire for an Octatrack, though! No matter its own limitations. 
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It’s superior to the MnM’s sequencer in most, but not all ways. MnM’s midi LFOs are shared with the synth voices. That’s a bummer.
However, one feature I love about MnM’s sequencer is the ability to parameter lock Midi Program Change. This is also available on the MD (Routing… PCHG).
It’s great for giving “sound locks” to voice limited or timbral limited hardware synths. Because of this feature, I will probably never let go of my MnM. Sure, polyrhythms and micro timing are great, but this one feature just about makes up for what it cannot do.
Octatrack cannot do this. In a way, it is good that the older boxes have a few choice tricks up their sleeves that aren’t available elsewhere.
MnM with its own voices (especially the digipro waveform machine), sequencing a Nord Drum and a digitally controlled synth that instantly responds to program change (BS2, P6, Prophet12), add a zoom multi fx pedal, and that’s all you really need to make top quality electronic music.
That doesn’t dissuade my desire for an Octatrack, though! No matter its own limitations.
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Being able to control Program Change via p-locks and LFOs is one of my favorite things about the Mono (and MD, although I tried using an LFO on Program Change the other day and had no joy…gotta explore this more). I actually just bought a Midiverb II again because I loved using this to lock effects to steps (those reverse reverbs set for individual snare hits is killer).
It’s a trade off…the OT has the arp as a lockable effect, which presents all sorts of options. The only solution is to get them all 
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so true!
Yeap ^
For everything the AR and A4 aren’t, the OT is. Complete the puzzle.
I sold my OT a year ago to switch to a foot-controlled full-featured looper. I’m primarily a bowed string player, hand percussionist and vocalist. But now, I’m not really writing “dance” music, which is what I was attempting on the OT. I want to go beyond what my looper can do, so I’m looking at getting an OT again.
The trick for me is that I won’t be doing the same music on it as before and thus my workflow will be totally different. I plan on using it for purely live sampling (no samples loaded on the CF card at all). But I’m glad I tried it previously, as now my music has evolved and my ideas for using the OT have evolved. There are a lot of users it seems who get the OT, sell it, and then get it again. There really are an infinite number of uses for it.