Hey all. First post here, I’m about a month into my Octatrack and have my first non-RTFM question.
I’m having problems getting a flex machine sample to loop when I trigger playback and recording at the same time. Though I feel like that statement in itself is already getting me in pretty deep. Is it possible to do what I’m trying to do?
Here’s what I did:
On first four tracks I put sequenced electribe drum samples playing a house groove.
Set track 5 to a flex machine, track recorder 5
Set loop to ON in rec setup
set loop to ON in playback setup
set loop to ON in the rec buffer using the audio editor.
(just to cover my bases)
set rlen to 16
I put one-shot recorder trigs on every trig in a one-bar pattern. (track 5 still)
Then likewise filled up the playback page with one-shot trigs.
In rec setup I set the source to MAIN to resample the drum pattern of the first 4 tracks.
I disarmed all trigs and then started the sequencer.
What I expected to happen: I was hoping when I pressed YES, I would trigger both playback and recording of one of my 16th note trigs, making the rec buffer record and playback for a bar, and then start looping playback only.
What actually happened: playback and recording successfully started on track 5, and even whenever I wanted them to (I can stutter the yes button and watch both playheads in the rec buffer continually restart!) but the sample always stops after 16 steps of playback instead of looping. If I simply trig playback (not recording) of the sample once again it will keep looping after rlen like it should, so it’s not as though AMP or anything else is the issue. I can even trigger the sample, watch it rec/play, fail to loop itself, and then go delete all the rec trigs, then press YES again to trigger the sample and it loops properly.
Could it be that playback position is reaching the end of the buffer slightly before the recording playhead? can I fix this with the right F IN value?
Does this have to do with having so many one-shot trigs? It doesn’t seem to loop even if I only use one rec/play trig at the beginning of the pattern.
Anyone have any idea if this can work and if it can’t, why?