Ok panning makes it more obvious but it is still weird but hey… I am wondering if I use a mono sample if that makes a difference. Will play with it some more…
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Is that ironic response or serious?
It is a (forum in) joke related to another thread, which asked the question if buying an Octatrack “makes sense” in…insert year (it was 2021, or 2020, or 2022, I don’t recall and can’t find it with a quick search.)
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Anyhow yes, big mistake, couldn’t make a bigger mistake, you should get it out of your life by sending it to me etc. etc.
ello ello, many greetings to you all two years ago…
my mk2 is coming Today and i want to load five years worth of my best jams into it to fuck with - any pointers for this exact task? essentially long music stems up to three minutes or more maybe to blend and fuck with…best machine to use? strategies to organise? rookie errors to avoid?
Connect to computer.
Drag and drop folders over USB.
Organise your folders in the computer, name everything etc then its just drag and drop.
Static machine for long samples. Remember you can slice samples.
Rookie error to avoid : not reading the manual.
Literally everything you could ever want to to know and how to do it, is contained in those pages.
Rookie error to avoid : not reading Merlins Guide. Free pdf download.
Rookie error to avoid : posting ’ my OT had a bug’ no it doesnt. There are no bugs, only user error.
Rookie error to avoid: not actually being a rookie because you’ve bought and sold octatrack X times before. You already know why you didnt like it, yet here you are again.
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well thats good advice - i have the manual, merlins guide, synthdawg
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thanks dude
this!!
ummm…too late
It probably helps to read up on the different kind of trigs you can set. E. g. one shot trigs for triggering a long sample once or “normal” ones that repeat whenever the trig is hit again. Also learn how to set different track lengths, how to use track divisions for playing back long samples without using one shot trigs, and learn how to set loop points within the sample so that you can make stuff repeat even when using one shot trigs.
Also learn how to set up recorders and try to internalize quickly how to not accidentally confuse recorder trigs with playback trigs. Also learn how to increase max record length. And then learn how to slice, use slice grids and assign (random) trig locks.
Maybe also good to establish some structure for yourself that you can learn and memorize. Like what stuff goes on one what track (which track will always play back long stems? Which one will be used for one shot trigs of a kick, snare etc.? Which one is always a thru track for processing incoming audio? Which one will always play your record buffer?) etc. etc. - depending on what you want to usually do with OT. And then maybe save a few templates for different use cases so that you don’t have to always setup everything from scratch.
Oh and learn how to make track 8 the master track and make that default to your template projects if you prefer that.
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thanks that sounds like a lot of good advice - i will have to take it very slowly and unpick it - if i can learn a4 mk1 and md sps1 i can learn ot mk2
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Great advice there
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Start building yourself a TEMPLATE project. That will become very useful if you intend a very specific use of the OT.
I have one that serves as mixer, live resampler and MIDI sequencer for my modular.
thanks man so how would you advise setting up these templates?
so far i have put a bunch of random jams in the first project and called the project random jams - then its like mixing my own jams together - i can’t work out how to change the start points and the waveform looks a bit crappy and sometimes goes into negative so no idea about all that yet - but i prefer working on mk2 by a country mile - either because of associating with bad mk1 experience or because there is a stupid button for me to save stuff other than mk1 saving which i never understood - mk2 seems to have fixed that for me at least and i got a grey one which was a nice surprise because on the website it was a black one - i am not complaining and may not have read the small print but i love the look of those grey boxes - even the first run grey rytm with the iffy problems - mk2 octatrack so far so good - would be better if it was battery powered but i know i can always get the bird cord and plug it into my power bank
Hi 
There is no obligation to have templates.
I just find it easier/quicker when opening up a new project.
For instance, you could have a template where the OT just serves as a mixer for your external sources (synths). You could have another one with just FLEX tracks, another one just with STATIC etc…
The way to do this is simple enough: you set up a new project and SAVE IT AS a new project (Better save it as TEMPLATE_XXX). Next time you want to use this template, just open the template and straight away SAVE IT AS your new project.
With time, you can then refine your settings in the template. Which is what I have been doing over the last year.
There are a lot of general settings in the OT which can relate to the way a project can be set up so for me, templates have been the way to work.
My 2 cents of knowledge (ie, none) on the OT
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thanks pal - this is very clear advice and i will follow it
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Maybe start with a basic template that has your track 8 as MASTER, your MIDI settings (if you need MIDI), some FLEX tracks, some STATIC tracks, a FLEX track that could be a ready to sample track etc…
Then refine it
some others have said ‘track 8 for master’ not sure what this means - and so i suppose its just a case of double tapping track 8 and scrolling for something that says master?
It means you can use track 8 as an end of chain; meaning all your other tracks will eventually go through this master track.
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