The most obvious limitation is RAM size. All samples for flex machines for all your songs needs to be in the sound pool at the same time (unless you want to change the soundpool on the fly which isn’t really practical). Add to this the maximum recorder buffer requirements of your songs and you may hit the RAM limit.
Another limitation are global settings, because all songs share the same global settings and reconfiguring on the fly isn’t everyone’s cup of coffee.
But beside these two limitations it should be as stable as with single song projects.
I’m in the process to make a live set with about 12 songs / 1 hour. To do so, i will create a big project on Octa, with one song per bank.
I use Octatrack as master and Rytm as slave. Octa sends program changes to Rytm , so when Octa goes to pattern A2, Rytm also goes.
This works very well until the moment i realized Octa has 16 banks but Rytm only 8. So if i want a project with 12 songs, one song per bank, some songs on the Octa have to share banks on Rytm.
And now is the problem : is there a way to ‘override’ the program change automically sent by Octa ? Let’s say i’m on pattern H16 and when Octa goes to I01 (Rytm has no I01), i want to specify which pattern Rytm should go, let’s say H10 instead of I01.
Yes. Instead of the default correspondence between pattern numbers on the two instruments, you can set MIDI Program Change numbers in the Parts that are linked to your OT’s patterns.
However, there are only four Parts for each of the OT’s 16 pattern banks.
And, of course, there are still only 128 patterns on the AR.
About conditional trigs, i know i can program like 1:2, 2:4 and so on. But what if i want the trig to play in all patterns, EXCEPT the last one ? For instance, in a 4:4, i want it to play on 1:4, 2:4,
3:4 , but NOT on 4:4 ?
Thank you, i did not understand well but you gave me an idea : i could achieve what i was looking by doing the following :
1 - Mark all trigs on 4:4 as PRE with a upperline (these are the trigs i don’t want to play on 4:4)
2 - Put a green trig on the last trig of 3:4 with 4:4 condition.
When in arranger mode, we can specify how many times a pattern should be played. Assuming i set to 4 times, is there a way to see where in this 4 repetitions the ‘cursor’ is current playing (2/4, 3/4 and so on) ?
If there isn’t, could be a really useful feature !
Since getting started in earnest last week, I’ve had limited success syncing external hardware to MIDI clock.
Seems as simple as enabling clock send in MIDI sync prefs, I just have there’s some sort of typical OT type best practice or common thing I’m missing. “Oh, OT doesn’t like Roland boxes on Tuesdays and doesn’t sync with anything red.”
