How to have one long track running against others that are 16 steps

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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I’d like to trigger some long samples that play for an indefinite amount of time or across 4 bars, but half time or even slower. Example sounds are dialogue and background noise, and then LFO the parameters slowly over time while the audio plays.

Most of my other tracks are 1 bar/16 steps. I tried this before and everything got weird. I had patterns playing for 2 steps and resetting, it was crazy. Ill try and outline what I did, because I have dug into this, I just didn’t execute properly.

First thing I did was go to Func+PTN and changed the scale mode to per track. Then I went to track I wanted to trigger once and long play and I selected “plays free” .

I am wondering if I was supposed to use a oneshot trk instead, but I’m not sure if that would ever retrigger. I was following a YT video and the guy just went to func+page and changed the scale to 1/8 so it would play slow, but when I did that it would only play for 2 steps and then reset.

So I’m just trying to figure out the settings so I can do this properly.

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Do you want to loop those samples freely ?

With sequencer :
Set them to loop and trigger them once with 1st trig condition, one shots.

Manual trigger :
Trigs 9-16, track buttons 1-8 + Play, plays free tracks, slots mode, slice mode…

If you want a specific cycle, you can use A:B TRig Conditions, and Scale Per track.
Ex with TRC 1:8, Scale 1/8, 64 steps you can loop every 8x8x64 = 4096 steps, 256 bars.

(You can see your samples length in AED Attributes (set pattern tempo to know trim length)

(Trig conditions are my preference)

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Thank you, the 1st trig with loop on seems like a good starting point for me.

Still need to wrap my head around why the scale per track was acting so odd before. I will mess with that later, but thats a key feature for me. Will let me run one bar patterns that are super long.

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Should work similarly with OT, compared to other Elektrons. Never heard about a different behaviour. But…don’t hesitate to report something weird !

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