Tracks mode is the heart and soul of the OT’s step sequencer. Though you can live record hits and one shots and loop triggering (worry about that later), you’re going to want to familiarlize yourself with machines (static and flex- the benefits of one vs the other) that you load onto the 8 individual tracks and load samples into each.
Record is off, tracks mode allows you to place different kinds of trigs, but don’t worry about those for now either. Just load a sample on a machine that is loaded onto a track (double tap a track, load a machine, then toggle over to your samples with right arrow and then navigate the folders). Once you’ve loaded a sample (so the screen displays the sample name), hit record and place playback trigs (trigger lights up red) onto your track and hit play.
Then you’ll understand.
Consider you machines (static and flex) banks.
Resampling is a great idea, especially for building drum tracks (recording multiple tracks into a loop).