I’m really thinking time to swap octatrack for digitakt

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@Skypainter

i.e. manually setting sample start point per trig is all that’s available? To avoid confusion, by slice you mean sample?

I mean for each trig you can PLock a start point and a lenght. Then the killer feature the DT have but not the OT is that you can press on a trig + press on the YES button to hear the sound of this trig (with all enveloppe, FX, filter etc applied to it).
You can then easily make some slice of your sample by setting differents trigs start point and copy them across your track.
Tips: if you have a perfect loop, the start point will be always the same to get the sound of every 8th note (0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105)

Digitakt Unofficial Guide

Template trig slices: Make a template project, and before create a new project, just load template project and “save project as” In the template project, choose a bank and a pattern you will never use: maybe bank H pattern 16. Set the lenght per track to track 1 to 16. Set up every trig and for each trigs, p-lock start point every 7,5: *0 7,5 15 22,5 30 37,5, 45 52,5 * 60 67,5 75 82,5 90 97,5 105 112,5 In track 2, set the lenght to 32 and do the same but trigs every 3,75 *0 3,75 7,5 11,…