I’m trying to work with pickup machines to make my octatrack a looper. I basically have my mixer run everything to a group and the group goes into input A/B. I want to do it like this that when I press record it records for 4 bars and then starts looping. I thought Qrec would do this but sometimes it still overdubs? I find it still a bit hard to wrap my head around this, could someone help me out?
I rarely use them but if I recall on a mki at least ab is Start recording/start-stop overdub. cd is stop recording or stop playback. If you’re using an external midi controller it’ll be different ccs for start overdubbing and stop overdubbing. Again not certain on that or if it’s different on the mkii
i didnt want to use trigs but just press record, the trig thing kinda confuses me tbh. I don’t know when a trig is armed or not or how that exactly works, even after watching a couple of tutorials.
Is non overdub possible with a pickup? or better to move over to flex?
Yes, but you have to press REC1/RECAB twice (replace mode). Not practical.
My advice : use Flex, RLEN 64, Qrec 64 or PLEN, Rec buttons. No trigs needed (except for playing the recording).
Long recordings possible, up to 8m28s (16 bit).
Possible to overdub (SRC3 recording the recording Flex).
One shots rec trigs are not that complicated, but now I prefer above solution.
I’ve attempted this solution, but if you try to rearm a oneshot recorder trig that’s placed right on top of a playback trig, then you will hear double tracking because there is a slight delay in the playback trig. Makes this unusable if you are trying to replace takes. adjusting the microtiming of the playback trig early by +1/384 gets rid of the double tracking but causes timing issues
I’m actually splitting the signal, from line out of my interface into the octa, with the signal mirrored to the monitor. I’m not monitoring with the octatrack at all because i don’t want to take up space with a thru track or have the mono audio signal only come out through one channel.
The issue is resolved if I use pick up machines…rearming seems to work great. But i’d like to make this work for a flextrack…more options etc.
There’s really only three ways you can get double tracking on the OT like you describe, you’re either monitoring the source signal somewhere at the same time as the playback of the recording, you’ve got the same buffer playing on another track at the same time (with a delay active or a differently timed trig), or you’re resampling some live monitoring or playback from the main/cue as well as recording from A/B or C/D.
The latter could be caused because you haven’t deselected Int as a record source on the record trig you placed. Hold the record trig and look at the LEDs above the Rec1/2/3 buttons to check.