I experienced this too (on AR), adding trig conditions.
When the kick is off, side chain fx is off.
Track 1 Kick, /FILL TRCs
Track 2 audio with Side chain, trigless, NEI TRCs.
When you use FILL with page, the kick is cut, and NEI trigless to, so no more side chain.
-23/384 Microtiming can be used for the first trigless after a regular trig.
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Hi ya’ll I shared a tutorial on ORCA livecoding software a few months back and it seemed many of you really enjoyed it so here is another one. This time we are building a tracker from scratch and it functions very similarly to an elektron device except it reads from top to bottom. I hope you enjoy it!
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I just wanted to say that I recently discovered the EZBOT Octatrack tutorials on YouTube, and I think they are the clearest explanation of specific Octatrack use cases I have seen. Great job!
Loved that tutorial- not too deep or long but certainly enough info to make it worth while - more than just the main focus, ie I learnt that max vol and track vol was unity gain for Thrus . I’ve been stumbling with this and it was super helpful, thanks.
I’ll check you on YouTube EZBot, good stuff.
Ahhh schucks. Making me blush! Thanks for the kind words, I do love making concise tutorials for everyone.
really cool!
Can do this on a Digitone too…
What about simply assign a scene to Vol at - 64 for track 1 and LFO depth at 0 for track 2?
In that way it can also work nice with in beetween crossfader positions so at lower kick volume it lower the sidechain fx gradually.
Or you could achieve a nice fx with an HPF on the kick so the more the kick get filtered the less sidechain you got.
By muting/unmuting scene you should get te same results if you’re looking for an instant fx
Tape and a pen are your friends but after a bit you get used to where you place what.
Of course everytime you will assign to different parameters but overall you’re going to get the same kind of “mood”.
My scene layout is divide in groups of 4 so I can visually divide them easily.
Scene 1-4 are original, lpf, hpf, filter with built up(generally with a delay)
Scene 5-8 are related to kinda mode mainly with a vinyl fx, dark, bright, reverse sweep
Scene 9-12 are bonkers 1,2,3,4 with 4 been the max bonkers level 
Scene 13-16 are used for transition generally
transition 1 is for intro to verse/chorus and outro
Transition 2 for verse to chorus 1
Transition 3 for chorus to verse
Transition 4 for verse to chorus 2/bridge
Transition 4 become the crossfader track for live set up.
And when I don’t use my usual set up as I said I use tape and pen.
I don’t use scene for super precise stuff like my transition scene are not heavily mapped what I do instead is using another Part where I sampled the transition so I can record the transition I’m happy with it and I know it’s going to sound exactly like I want it,well almost… You know OT 
Yep. Everything’s better with OT’s crossfader! 
I experimented the quoted trc thing with AR and DN with FILL and /FILL, they don’t have crossfader. AR Perf would work though.
Oh yeah and in some situations better 
Hi friends! It’s been a while since I made an Octatrack tutorial but my procrastination has ended. This is the workflow that I use to make my “Sampling Sessions” videos. It quickly allows you to make 4 bar quantized loops of external audio - than you are able to resample, layer, and slice the loops without much effort at all. It’s just fast and easy, check it out!
Thank you! Very helpful. Got to check out your other tutorials now as I’m gradually loosing my @@@@ trying to get the OT working with my set up…
Don’t give up! It will eventually reveal it’s perfect workflow just for you 
One question. Your method for keeping unity gain , is that method applicable to the Mk 1 ?
Absolutely! That is the ONLY method as far as I am concerned. The Octatrack manual does mention this but not nearly enough. In the AMP menu going over 0 is adding volume being below 0 is attenuating volume. The track level being under 127 is attenuating the volume. In the mixer being below 127 is attenuating volumes. In the THRU machine being below 63 is attenuating volume. This is how I approach the OT and what I hear is what I get from my recordings.
Thanks! I’ll have another read and play around next time I get the OT out. (Its hiding at the moment while I work on other things)
Another top tutorial @mpiecora, concise, zero blah. Props.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words very much