I’m using the LFO designer to change the pitch of my audio sample in a flex machine and make custom arpeggios. Works great but it’s very time consuming. Is there a way to save these shapes to use in other projects? I’m pretty sure that it can be done with Octaedit but that’s not available right now.
Thanks hive.
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Make sure the parts with the LFO patterns you made have been saved. Start a new project that you want to copy the LFO patterns to, and save it. Connect to a computer in USB mode, copy the part file with the LFOs you made into the folder for the new project you want to use them in, overwriting the existing file. Then, after you leave USB mode, you can open the new project and the parts you copied over, including the LFO patterns, should be there.
I’m getting ready to leave town and have my stuff packed up, but I’m sure someone with the OT and a computer in front of them can write up more specific instructions.
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Hey Supercolor_T-120 this sounds great! I’ll give it a shot. Thanks.
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I haven’t done this, and @Supercolor_T-120 has got the right idea, but I’ll add that there is a save bank command in the menus, so I think you could use that and copy 4 parts at once.
If you kept the bank empty of patterns, you could just use it as a method to copy 4 parts, and once in the other project copy them to other banks if needed…
I think you can just move the saved bank file to the new project in the file manager, I’m pretty sure this will work, but I’m probably missing details about the exact process…
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I did this once last February maybe, a few weeks after I got the OT because I had a show booked and decided about two weeks in advance that I could probably get good enough at using the OT to play out with it, but since I was learning as I went everything was completely disorganized and I had to rearrange all of my banks so they actually made sense. It was no problem to change the order of banks in a project and move parts from one project into another but I haven’t done it since so I forget the specific file names etc. I did basically what Open_Mike described except at the time I didn’t know about the save bank command in the project menu. I don’t think the save bank command actually lets you specify a location though (to be honest I’ve never used it, I just reflexively save my whole project any time I make a major change, holdover from growing up around computers and later music hardware that didn’t have autosave or multiple levels of undo if they had undo at all) so I think in effect it’s no different from saving the whole project in this scenario. If I’m wrong and you can save the bank to a new location on the card that would be excellent, though (and I think you can actually do all of the file moving parts in the OT’s own file manager, but I rarely use that either so I’m not sure).
Anyhow, copy all of the parts you want to transfer into bank 16, save everything, switch to USB disk mode, copy the file for bank 16 from the source project folder into the destination project folder (overwriting the file that’s already in there) and then when you change to the destination project all of your parts with their custom LFO patterns will be in bank 16 waiting to be pasted into the banks where you’re actually working. As long as you always use bank 16 (or 15 and 16 if you have more than 4 parts worth of LFOs to transfer, obviously) then it’s really no problem t just copy them over and you’re unlikely to accidentally overwrite any patterns you wanted to keep or anything like that.
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Sounds good!
I don’t think you can choose where the bank is saved, but I do think you can move/copy the bank using the OT file manager if you don’t want to hook up a computer… 
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Thanks so much everyone.
This group is kinda awesome!
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Probably, I’ve used it so infrequently I can’t remember if it shows all the files on the card or just the OT compatible audio formats.
Yeah you can copy, rename, delete, paste.
So you can copy a bank 1, paste it somewhere, rename it bank 2, copy it, delete original bank 2, paste new bank 2.
I did it last year. It’s easier with a computer.
Save Bank function won’t help I think.
Banks are saved when you save the song.
We need a copy/paste bank function, like pattern copy/paste.
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How have I never thought of that, this box is full of surprises
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Yeah, that is a good idea. The newest samplers I can think of that had wave drawing were some Rolands and Casios in the early 90s.