Well, I just looked and I literally CAN NOT replicate it after powering off and on 
. Thanks for you help though.
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There was probably an explanation though.
MKI user ? Side note : I donât like Quick Rec because you canât open track buffer with AB+BANK, and it doesnât work with SRC3 (MIDI) except with particular conditionsâŚ
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Mk2. So also guessing a the Quick record mode doesnât effect me as I have the AED button to get to the buffer?
It must have been recording a track sent to Cue > Pedals > AB (CUE mutes track option ticked))
Buffer played from a trig on step 1 of the track recording from AB. Record length 16 and that corresponds to the track length too.
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OK, its done it again., Its something in the Part 1 (Iâm not using parts but I must have clicked âsave partâ by mistake at some point⌠If I clear the part the phasing goes away)
Yes. (I thought you had an MKI because you said âpress ABâ) 
Without Thru tracks and DIR AB set to 0, monitoring can be done with a Flex with a trig, playing a buffer recorded with a rec trig, but you said it wasnât the case.
You can also have DIR AB plocked to a scene, but it wouldnât start with REC1 pressâŚ
Still a mysteryâŚ
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At this point, Iâm now ready to tell you all that I passed one of the original product developers of the Octatrack yesterday. At an amusement park.
Thereâs some irony in there for sure.
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was he just laughing out loud? Like sides splitting sort of evil laugh?
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âŚooooookâŚi confessâŚapart from some weird realtime looper exercises, i never ever really sampled with my otâsâŚ
and when i saw stimming dealing with the most and pretty much only truuly fragile thing of this whole thing, itâs cv card and in particular itâs slot, it almost hurtâŚ
and i bet, he also never used THE realtime action sampler to actually truuly sample anything from the outside worldâŚ
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Note - AED will only show buffer if it is assigned to the track in focus, to view the buffer in AED independent of it is assigned to a track you can get to it by selecting the track of the buffer and pressing REC1/2/3+BANK eg for buffer 3 press track 3 then REC1/2/3+BANK. Handy to know if wanting to take lots of samples without tying up a flex track.
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Did it at least put the lotion back in the basket?
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Could be that youâre playing the source material and recorded sample at the same time, or you have recorded the source material twice some how.
5 octatracks and youâre still saying things like âitâs done it againâ.
Octatrack only ever does what you tell it to do. It literally will not do anything for you, like other machines/programmes will.
You are always using a Part, like it or not. Understand Parts, and you understand the octatrack.
So ask yourself, âwhat have I done?â âWhat are my part settings doing?â Take control of the machine.
This is the way.
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Yep. Important to know whatâs wrong to learn.
@brucegill did you mute tracks to check if one track was monitoring ?
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Thatâs what it sounds like, but after checking every possible (as far as I know) point that it could monitor the inputs, I canât see how it could be. Unless it can play a single buffer from two places maybe?
Fair point! Iâm trying.
Certainly realise this. Just a lot of places you can go wrong when you donât know it inside out.
Itâs only today that I finally sat down to really understand parts to be honest. Made a lot more sense when I started a new project with learning parts specifically in mind. But if Iâm always working in parts, and Iâm only using one on this project, I canât tell how Iâm going wrong. Though I think I read you need to save parts separately from the project, or they donât save automatically or something. Canât track back on the info I read thoughâŚ. But to find I can change machines and the default sample on another part is an eye opener! Very hand.
Trying. Honestly! Itâs not for sale, so thatâs a good sign haha.
I did, to the best of my knowledge. It can only monitor via the RECORD SETUP menus and the MIXER page right?
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- With Mixer (DIR AB/CD)
- Thru track
- trig on a Flex playing a buffer while recordingâŚ(with a rec trig normally)
(This can replace a Thru track and allows to use SRC(Playback) parameters while âmonitoringâ)
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Also good to know : a part change takes effect on a track only if there is a trig.
So if a track is set to Thru on a different pattern with a different part, itâs possible that the Thru track is still working on the next pattern (with different part, no trig on corresponding track)âŚ
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He had that thousand yard look in his eyes, like Roy at the end of Blade Runner, lamenting all those samples lost in time, like tears in the rain.
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Just a little OT story regarding things making sense with the OTâŚ
I havenât used my setup in a good while (a few months), just been too busy with work, family, life.
Anyway, today I had a free afternoon and I was like âlet me fire up the station and jam a little.â Came up with a nice line on the A4 that I decided to sample into the OTâŚso I did thatâŚthen I play back the sample and it just sounds dull, lacks high endâŚand Iâm like âwhaaaa??!! I NEVER noticed the OT sounded SO darkâŚis THIS what people complain about?! How come I havenât heard this difference before?!â
So I remove all the FX on the track (T5), check the gainstaging, check the mixer and the aux out that sent the synth to the OT inputsâŚall looks good so eventually Iâm like âdoes the OT really sound this bad after all?â
âŚthen I look at the screen again, see that my T8 is set up as Master from the last session I had with it, so I switch over to that track and there, in FX1 is a filter fx with the width turned down considerably⌠
Opened that filter up and boom, everything sounds wonderful and just as good as when it came out of the A4.
Man, how many times did I think my OT was broken when really it was user errorâŚthatâs such a classic, it should be a fat note in the manual âplease check yourself before contacting supportâ 
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Well, 20 days later and it does make sense, and I flipping love it!
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And I finally got my head around doing longer than 64step recordings 
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Reading this thread without having used an Octatrack before is like seeing a group of sorcerers discuss the steps of their arcane spells
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