Is it possible to edit the slices after the grid does the initial slicing? For example, if almost all of the sounds fit in four steps but some need longer.
Otherwise for now I will remove the longer slices to avoid a real waste of space.
Yes editing possible.
The particular thing to know is you have to be out of slices selection to add a new slice.
This new slice with change consecutive slice numbers, same if you delete one.
To make it simpler I’d do it like this :
Let’s say if average sample length is a quarter note; you can have whole note samples, apply a slice grid corresponding to a quarter note, then delete slices for longer notes (remove 3 slices for a whole note).
Not very clear explanation, hope you’ll get it.
That’s exactly what I was thinking! But in the meantime I am preparing 64 drum hits in the same grid, as a start.
Maybe this isn’t really the very first thing one should do with an Octratrack… but you have to start somewhere!
Maybe it is. 
With 64 samples of course you won’t be able to delete slices, (64 slices max).
You can also consider start points (128), with length = 1, and change length for longer samples.
Btw in slice mode you can also increase Length with slice numbers as unit (a whole note is 4 slices). Length = Slices in Playback /SRC SETUP.
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Using this all the time recently, so good being able to use samples of arbitrary lengths and having them pre-sliced as soon as they go in!
So which version should I use? v1.2?
I use 1.3, more features. 1.2 didn’t work for @robin0112358 too.
Windows 10 problem? Any W10 users using Octachainer?
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Win10 user here, OctaChainer 1.3 works (haven’t used it extensively so there could be Win10-related bugs I missed) but I made some 64-slices drums chains and they worked fine (no drag 'n drop is a bummer though)
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Such a cool app, I’ve been using it for it’s wav creation for my blackbox and digitakt for chains. Super neat. I was wondering if the functionality could include disabling the creat of the Oct. File or whatever it’s called.
For Digitakt, don’t you use Evenly spaced grid mode? I guess it doesn’t generate .ot files.
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Every other program in the known universe works on my computer, and all the audio files are also perfectly compatible with my many audio apps. I typically use Reaktor, Max, and Samplitude, all much more sophisticated programs. So why OctaChainer fails to produce a WAV file is beyond me. Version 1.2 and 1.3 exactly the same… the resulting WAV is only 44 bytes, presumably the stub of the header.
I didn’t do anything special in the installation, simply put the unzipped folder somewhere convenient. No errors are reported.
Besides the primary concatenation function, I noticed that Play does not work. This doesn’t bother me.
Besides drag and drop, another nice feature would be a way to select and remove multiple files. Because once there are 64 added, removing them individually is tedious. Currently it’s quicker to close and reopen the app.
I don’t use any other feature of the octachainer except to create wav files for my samplers, so it’s just me being to lazy to want to delete the ot file 
edit, thats good to know, I guess i thought I was limited to my usage not owning the octatrack (yet)
Octachainer is some amazing straightforward software and I appreciate that its freely available.
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Did you tried it with something like 16 samples?
I have tried 2, 4, 16, etc. Really have rung the changes on this one! Using the equal slice method at the moment. Works fine for me at this time.
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the octachainer is great it’s so helpful and time saving !!
but I’m having a problem it’s not playing the slices within the app,
If want to delete certain slices I can’t check which ones I want to delete
Is anyone else have this problem…?
I’m using version 1.3 … windows 10
I’m having the same problem. Not much of an issue for me, but I can see why it would be annoying. One thing I’d appreciate is the ability to select more than one sample in the list to enable faster removal, as it is removing one sample at a time, or opening and closing the program to clear the list is a bit of a frustration.
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Still working out fine for me, and on Catalina to boot. Kind of amazing.
Just made a load of fresh chains for my OT’s static slot list.
Yea, it’s a little clunky, but for the price it gets the job done quite well. 
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I use this tool alot. Thanks so much Abhoth. If you are around Frankfurt, Germany, I’ll get you drunk.
If only there was an option in AR for setting the used chain length so each step skips exactly one sample, it would be perfect working with samplechains.
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