Adding scenes and the arranger next! 
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There’s no bottom to the abyss…
Be safe, journey well… 
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Ooopp… He/she? (it 
) was ready after all… Hard to tell sometimes… 
Sometimes learning to walk is quickly followed by flying the plane!
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I also made some chains today and finally updated the OS with conditional trigs–it was a load of fun.
Putting down hi hat trigs and sending a hold LFO to the start point? Wowee. Watch your hat come alive, baby. Then a conditional trig set for a nice little fill at the end of eight bars? Give it to me
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did all my chains in ableton.
I knew there is octachainer but never tried it.
Looks pretty convenient
Wow, I just applied your recipe to the hats.
the video is in the post but pisstagram won’t let me embed it. boo.
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Haha good job dude. You’re well on your way. You should partake in the Octatrack science labs, you’ll learn a lot (by getting stuck and overcoming, that is :p)
Sell the octa, buy a TR-8s.
If it has to happen quickly, set your sale price low (ps I’m interested)
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You can create and resample your sample chains in OT.
64 steps of drums, slow tempo (or lower scale setup division).
Use 1 trig lasting several steps for long sounds. Remove the concerned slices after aplying the 64 slices grid.
hahahah too, late, thanks to these gents, I cracked it and I absolutely love this machine and its intuitive headfuck.
Getting results. Although, haven’t yet loaded the Octachain.
There is a snippet of 1 bar making use of conditional trigs and scenes, I can’t believe I have gotten this far after a day.
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Your actually among the top if not the fastest accelerating beginner OT user I’ve ever “scene” thats started with questions here on the forum… 
Look out for this one!
Cooking with gas!
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I am honoured and surprised!
Thanks for your help 
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with 4 parts per bank you could have 4x16 per project. (so that’s 64 “parts” per project.)
if you were just doing 8 different drum hits per part (like T1 = kick, T2=snare, etc…) you could have 64 kits per project. here each part can be a “KIT”
BUT… (and this is a big ol’ booty!!):
You could do sample chains on a per track basis, too. So, 8x sample chains per part. (and slice them)
Now you’re getting into exponential kits.
If you had only 10 kicks, 10 snares, etc, per sample chain, multiplied by 8 tracks, you could have up to 800 variations of kits per part to choose from and use the patterns within each bank to create KITS via slices. Pattern one, for instance, plays SLICE 1 from each chain, pattern 2 plays slice 2, and so on… So you could have 16 kits stored per part. A hybrid pattern-kit could play T1 slice 1, T2 slice 9, T3 slice 4 or whatever.
i believe what i just said is all true. im going to wrap my head around what i just typed for a second. I got sweaty thinking that through.
edit: i suppose this is totally beyond the ‘how to turn OT into a TR-8’ scope. this was more of a ‘how-to-create-a-giant-drum-kit-monster’
…and am i right on the 800? oh jeez. i’m not deleting this until i try and fail to create this beast.
You might run short in memory though
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true dat!
i want to create what i just typed up and see what happens. i need more time!!!
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Keep us updated. I, for one, am enjoying this thread 
If I only do the octatrack I have kits prepared as one audiofile and sliced them in the Octatrack that represents always the same structure to keep it simple.
That way I can program a beat and change the kit for it really fast if i feel lucky.
My kit’s first 8 slices are layouted exactly like the digitakt, and the next ones in that audio file are for sublte Variations of that sounds. So I can do the same fingerdrumming on dt, oct slice keyboard buttons 1-8 and slice buttons 9-16.
It’s good for finger drumming, if you have both, the digitakt and octatrack configured for that in a similar fashion. At least it is for me to keep it simple. Well, on the Octatrack you need maybe 2-4 tracks if you really intend to play it this way. later on you can downmix that beat (also on the dt) if you need more space.
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This correct.
I suggest 8 Sample chains of 64 (same type)sounds loaded into static slots 1-8 to start your project.
Then you just load these to each part in same order. After that its just choosing what slice you play via plocking each step to slice you want. Then you can have 16 different kits/patterns per bank. Only limitations are your fx etc. You only have 4 parts per bank so 4 types of fx setups.
Good place to start and only using 8 static sample slots. Plenty more space for the odd sample etc to switch thing up if you wish.
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This is how I got more comfy using the OT. Great advice here.
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