Flex Machine audio input only audible on Inputs A and C

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Ok. I’m really hoping I don’t have a faulty Octatrack. I have only had it for a couple of months and I’m hoping I am doing something wrong.

Here are my settings:

Track one turned on. Set to a flex machine and record buffer set to 1.

Mix menu , DIR is set to 127 for both INAB and INCD

FUNC+ REC1 INAB A B and INCD C D.

All my levels are normal.

I have an external sound source (Digitone) sending audio to input A on the Octatrack via a mono cable. I can hear the audio fine on the Octatrack I can record/sample it no problem. If I take that sound source cable out of the input A and put it in input B in the Octatrack (Digitone is still playing) there is not sound. The LED on Input B shows there is a signal. I can record / sample it but I can’t hear it. Untill I hit Func+play via the sample edit menu.

The only way to hear audio on inputs B and D is if I set the track to a Thru machine and then designate the input to either B or D.

Has anyone else run into this? Do I have a faulty unit that can’t send audio via Input B or D when the track is a flex machine? What am I doing wrong?

I also started the unit up in Demo mode and I still couldn’t get (audible) sound out of B or D when the track was set to a flex machine even though I could when the sound was going in A and C.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#2

That’s really a good question. When using direct monitoring (via the mixer menu DIR parameter) the signals A/B are directly mixed into the main outs L/R. I cannot think of any way to prevent B from getting mixed into main/R (while A goes to main/L).

Neither the track recorders nor the used playback machine on a track has any influence on direct monitoring.

Since you even tried it with Demo mode your best chance for more informations is to contact Elektron’s support directly.

#3

Weird that it works with THRU and not FLEX.

What are your INAB / INCD settings in REC SETUP?

You can hear the recording in Audio Editor with Func+Yes, thats it?

#4

It’s even more weird that direct monitoring is not working. With flex and a track recorder there is always the possibility for misconfiguration. But direct monitoring has no parameters beside DIR and GAIN and both apply equally to A&B (or C&D).

1 Like
#5

Yes. Not very clear btw.
@Otisbeans, welcome, and, do you confirm you can’t hear B and D with DIR?

#6

Problem solved. I feel like a F**king idiot. I had only 1 mono cable plugged into the left main out. 🤦. I’m so used to mono synths that the first thing I did was put a mono cable into the left main and forgot about it. Everything worked fine until I tried to direct monitor from the B and D inputs.

2 Likes
#7

:laughing: It’s the number one Octatrack bug. :stuck_out_tongue:

1 Like
#8

Another wtf my OT is faulty good moment! :content:

Number 2 is no sounds in headphones, not plugged.