Okay I’m hoping I’m just silly and this is an obvious solution that I just missed, but for the life of me I don’t know how to get the Elektron sequencers to do a super simple thing.
Is there not a way to arm recording of a track so that once you play the first note, the track starts playing/recording in time? I know how to do quantized/unquantized recording, how to set up a count in via the metronome, and how to set for recording in step mode, but I don’t know how to do what I thought was a simple thing who’s got the secret here?
Do you mean pressing record than play so that you can play the steps in real time? It’s been a second but I believe you hold rec when pressing play. I think sequencer has to be already running.
I get what you’re saying. The Elektron gear I’m aware of doesn’t have a mode in which record is triggered by input of the first note. I think that there is a way to start the step sequencer moving by inputting the first trig, but it’s not recording per say, it’s just input of notes into trigs and moves one step at a time.
Your best bet in this case is to record with quantization on, and let the sequencer play one time through before you come in on the second pass.
because of the LED page lights, you have a pretty good visual indication of where you’re at in the sequence even if it’s just the metronome.
A bit labored, but in this regard Elektron machines don’t work the same way as if you were recording audio into a daw, and I do know that various other hardware does have this function, but unfortunately the closest you get to this with Elektron is the recording gate on the samplers like digitakt, and that only works when sampling.
Yeah, since he said he knew how to do a count in I was just trying to give another option. Not speaking for him, but for myself I was just thinking that count in is a lot of pressure, sometimes I just feel like if I’m so fixated on a 2 bar or 4 bar count in, I don’t even always get my fingers where I want them because I’m just thinking about the count in lol.
Yeah, so it seems like I’m as out of luck as I initially expected. To be clear, the function I’m looking for is similar to what you’d find on the OP-Z, for example, where you can press record + play and that puts it in an armed position, awaiting an input, and then once you hit your first trigger it starts the sequencer and is recording the input in real time (or quantized).
Otherwise it’s been a PITA trying to play into the sequencer when I want something starting on 1, instead I need to resort to setting the 1 manually, which just feels silly and annoying when basically every other piece of what I’m saying is easily done in the sequencer as it is.
Lol okay then what am I doing wrong? I can set it up to pre roll, have it ready to go quantized, but it isn’t recording trigger on 1. Do you have a secret trick?
If you have to, record the first note last, at the end of the recording sequence (meaning even if you start it by playing the first note, end it by playing the first note one more time as the sequence comes back around. I’m pretty sure it will just overdub the note with your last entered note even if there was a first trig registered).
If you’re pressing the trig even a split second before the recorder (the transport) starts then I don’t believe any data is recorded, however a split second after will quantize back to the first beat when it loops.
Try recording the first trig with a timing that feels slightly late to you, and if it lays a trig on the first step, then the way you’re playing it puts the first note before the downbeat of the 1. If it still doesn’t lay the first trig on the first pass through even playing it a little late, then the issue may be with the device, but let’s cross that bridge when we come to it.
If it in fact needs to be micro-timed back to slightly before the first step to feel “right” then you can absolutely do that once the trig is already in place.
It’s called “Live Recording” and its in the manual. Just start it by pressing play and then press “Record” + “Play” again and wait for the moment you want to start playing. It can be quantized or unquantized and that’s also documented in the manual.
Cheers.
who’s got the secret here?
Found it in the manual, it’s called preroll 
