You’re looking at the wrong bit. The Scale is set for the whole pattern, it doesn’t look like you can change that for individual tracks… but length can be
10.9.2 LENGTH PER TRACK MODE
In this mode, the tracks of the pattern can be assigned individual lengths. Press [FUNC] + [YES] to switch between the two scale modes. In LENGTH PER TRACK mode, two columns exist, TRACK and PATTERN.
what is time signature?
I’m new to the Elektron world and the world of conditional trigs. Would it be possible to setup a conditional trig with the microtiming to say have the sample start within a specific range (slightly early or slightly late or in a specific range after the beat) to add a human feel to the drums?
they’re not really different things. the length of the track is how you set the time signature.
the device (like the OT) works in amount of steps not time signatures, so you define the time signature yourself by choosing the amount of steps in a pattern or track.
e.g. you could set one track to 16 steps which would allow 4/4
and another track to 12 steps for allowing 3/4
so it’s possible to have different time signatures on different tracks in the same pattern.
@wouzer a time signature is the amount of beats in a measure (bar) of music.
so if your time signature is 4/4 that means 4 beats per bar of music.
3/4 would mean 3 beats (like a waltz ). you might find this video helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtvx57P4oKo
EDIT - actually this one has sound examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZqJpp4EixE
thanks, I understand it, didn’t know the English therm for it…
so in DT, whats the difference with individual track length?
if you can accent yourself with like volume?
i think i see why you’re getting confused. When it says ‘scale sets the general time signature’ what it means is the lower half of time signature.
so for example -
if you had 6 steps in one track and 8 steps in another and the scale was set to 1/1
then you would have 6/8 and 8/8 playing together (assuming you put some emphasis on the downbeat)
but if you set the scale to 1/2
you would have 3/4 and 4/4 feel wise (though with the emphasis left in it would sound like half speed)
because if you have the full 16 steps playing but you only want to emphasise a 3/4 beat then it wouldn’t cycle correctly, so your track length would need to be divisible by 3 (e.g. 12)
the conditional trigs just determine whether a trig is played or not, depending on the condition.
you cannot use them to randomize or change specific values…
for dynamically modulating timing, it’s probably best to use a sample which has a bit of silence at the beginning, then use an LFO to randomly (or not randomly) change the sample start point, so the silence bit becomes longer or shorter…
you can kind of use a condition instead, but only for conditionally choosing between 2 pre-determined timing values:
now, the trig which is on time will fire with a 50% chance. the second trig fires only if the first trig didn’t fire.
(trying the conditional timing thing on the Analog Rytm right now… yep, sounds like a rookie drummer 
)
I may be missing something here about kits, but i copied a pattern and then cleared the sequences so it saved the kit info? Sorry if I am not getting the issues with kits!
So I loaded a bunch of samples to my DT using the transfer app. Went fine and I can access them when I press the settings button and go into samples. However, when I press the sound browser knob it says the +drive is empty. I’m confused…
Samples and Sounds are not the same thing.
Sounds are in the sound browser.
Samples are on the + Drive.
So is the MIDI controlling side of it functional at all yet?
I’m v. curious about
-whether you can use the buttons as a chromatic MIDI keyboard
-whether the control knobs might be assignable to different CCs on different MIDI channels
I assume the MIDI options will be decent at some point, given it has a MIDI thru port!
Any idea why projects are limited to 128 samples? Shouldn’t it be a much higher number provided the combined file size is less than 64 mb?
feature request: please add an outline to the manual so we can select the chapters in PDF viewers
example:
I see. So to get the samples into the sound browser they have to be saved as sounds? Also, are none of the sounds in the presets saved into the sound browser?
Yes to the first question.
As I don’t have one, I cannot answer the second question.
Thanks
Yeah man unhappily time divisions are global (like A4/AR), not per track (OT)
Exactly, from the manual: “A pattern contains up to eight
sounds (one for each audio track), sequencer data like trigs and parameter locks. It also contains the
settings on the TRIG page and BPM, length, swing and time signature settings.”
Wait so if I plock additional sounds it doesn’t save them!! So if I have eight sounds per track for example
