8 years on and I wonder how many people (like me) are landing on this page in 2022 thinking wtf the volume knob isn’t working - and I’m already half way through the manual 
MKI user ?
On MKIIs it’s written Headphones Vol below the knob.
In MKI manual, it’s clearly written on page 12.
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Lol just got my octatrack mk1 yesterday and wondered why the volume knob wasn’t doing anything either… Still gotta do more of that RTFM stuff and watch tutorial videos! 
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At least you can read page 12. 
Read the manual doesn’t suffice, you also need to experiment to understand, go back to the manual, etc.
So maybe it’s better to learn by manual sections, depending on your priorities.
Reading the whole manual once linearly is not enough imho.
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This is a good thing to do while you wait for your OT to be delivered, though. Read the whole thing like a book, then when you actually have the OT go back and reread the parts that were hard to follow without actually having it in front of you. At least that worked well for me when I got mine.
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Or hesitate to buy a second hand one !
I think I tried to read it, or read some parts without understanding before buying it.
Expectecting a decent regular looper I’ve been disapointed, then I understood after 2 weeks of experimentations the unique and crazy sequenced resampling potential. The manual didn’t tell me that clearly. 
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Yep, this was my problem. When I ordered the MK1, I got the manual printed and bound, and wanted to read it cover to cover before using it. But over the past week, I’ve been rewiring everything and was doing a sound check to see if all the cabling was working… and then I hit this page 
You’re right though - reading cover to cover is ok to get familiar with this, but because it’s so damn deep, you’re probably far better off reading a few pages and then trying things out - in order let grok it better.
A good practise before getting any tool is reading the manual, basically to understand what it can make for you 
In any case, good read on manual, forums, and YouTube videos should be good to get you started.
OT is an amazing machine that needs time to dedicate in order to get the most of it.
Enjoy the ride and congrats on your new purchased creatine tool.