Editing same sample in multiple machines differently

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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I had made a Bassline out of a sample put into a flex machine using randomised trig locks, I then wanted to try using the same sample in another Flex machine and use randomised locks again, I originally thought if I copy and paste the sample into the same audio pool I would be able to load it again with no problem, but after I loaded and randomised, it had also effected my previous trig locks on machine 1 so that they were both identical rather then two separate and different sounding loops, I went searching and found this.

Page 97 Octa manual

“Slices are not linked to samples per se, but to sample slots. It is therefore possible to load
the same sample to two different slots and slice them in completely different ways. Note
though that slice point information will be lost when assigning a new sample to a sample slot containing a sliced sample”.

Does anyone have a better explanation?
do I have to save my sliced sample in say machine 1 as new sample and then reload the original again in machine 2 and then re edit again and save?

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Not sure what is going wrong here unless you have saved over the sample somehow. Someone will explain better than I can!

I’ve done what you;ve wanted to do plenty of times. Well I think I have. At work so can’t quite test it out. f you save your sample settings in track two it will change the core sample in track one unless you save down and assign to another free flex slot though.

Someone else can chime in and correct any of that. Im no OT master, still finding my feet at times after a year!!!

I always thought that slices are independent of the sample and are linked to tracks.

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I’m pretty sure you want to save the sample settings in each slot. They aren’t saved by machine.

Page 27 in the manual, “…Copying a sample slot will copy all its attributes, slices and trim settings.” This suggests slices are per slot.

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Thank you for your reply’s and help, yes the sample grids are saved per slot :slight_smile: as I have found out.