How can I transpose a pattern and save it to another pattern?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Thanks for the links, etc.
Never realized how powerful the LFO’s are, haven’t worked with them much to this point.
Transposing is done in a different way than I am used to, much more surgical on OT.
Great.

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Starting to get Parts a bit better. But how does the LFO as a Square, Speed and Trig effect/change/determine the Transposition? trying to understand why the LFO causes this…

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Look at the square wave; one half of the waveform is basically a flat line and the other half is also a flat line, but offset.

So a square wave with speed zero means it’s static, the lfo won’t ever reach the other half of the waveform so it is essentially offsetting the modulation target by the modulation depth.
We use the “flat line” to “move” the modulation target.

The amount of modulation depth dialed in determines how much the target is offset.

Same as normal lfo modulation, but with static waveform.

The way lfos work in the Octatrack, we only have positive lfo depth available - Analog 4/Keys/Rytm/DT/DN offer positive and negative lfo depth - but OT has inverted waveforms, that are used for negative modulation depths, so if you wanted to pitch down, you’d use the inverted square.

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thanks, awesome, I am starting to grasp the concept of the LFO.

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Lfo on pitch depth 5 corresponds to 1 semitone.

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Thanks Sezare!

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I have another question: maybe not directly related (I don’t know) to LFOs on OT. I started a new project, and have 4-different samples(loops) on flex tracks 1 to 4.
I did 4 patterns, one with each different single sample track playing:
(Pattern1 has trk1 sample, Patrn2 has Trk 2 sample, etc.). But when I go to play pattern 2, which has sample 2 on track 2, I am still hearing sample 1/track 1 playingI dont see any trigs for track one on, and all the patterns 1 thru 4 are set on Part 1… Any ideas why I am hearing the track 1 playing, on pattern 2? I dont have them set to INF in the pitch, and the LFOs are down, I’m not sure if I had the samples set to Loop or not…

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my kick drum has fallen noticeably out of sync with my sample loop track havent changed anything that I’m aware of … whats going on ?

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Chances are you did…

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haha

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Too long sample, or looped.
You can set sample duration in steps with AMP HOLD. RELease is added.

You can use this to stop samples from a previous pattern :
PROJECT > CONTROL > SEQUENCER > SILENCE TRACKS

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thanks Sez, will try tomorrow.