Drum fills by Enter/Yes?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Hi, in the video linked below, the user keeps pressing Enter/Yes to activate a drum fill.

How is he achieving this and what’s actually happening in the OT?

#2

One shot Trigs are activated continously with Fn + Yes.
You have to put One Shot Trigs.

#3

This is very cool!

So do One Shots override whatever is playing already on that track?

#4

Nope. You can’t have regular trig + one shot trig.
You have to place one shots on free steps.

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#5

But if you have a 1 bar sample on step 1 which is looping, when you press Enter/Yes is that sample interrupted by the one shot?

#6

Ah ok, I see what you mean, of course because Ot tracks are monophonic so a one bar sample on step 1 would be stopped by a one shot on step 2.

#7

But only when you press Enter/Yes right? Otherwise it plays through?

#8

There are subtleties, check p 80.

If a track contains several one shot trigs, all one shot trigs of that track will be disarmed once one of the one shot trigs has been activated by the sequencer. This extends to the tracks of other patterns as well. If a one shot trig has been trigged on track 1 of pattern A01, any one shot trigs on the first track of patterns A02-P16 will also be disarmed.