I havent been able to reliably use it for some time Mac OS 13.1
Def has been a major buzzkill when you’re trying to prep youre live setup to then have to worry about if octachainer will crash, make an unusable file, or work
hoping it is fixed
Does anyone still have an older Mac version that doesn’t crash? I’m able to use the Windows version with Wine, but it’s not ideal.
What do you mean?
I have OctaChainer_1_3_OSX and it works on Monterey (MacOS 12.6)
I mean it just crashes when I try to create a chain. Seems to happen to a lot of people. I’m on High Sierra (lol)
Oh. By old Mac I was meaning mid-2015 MBP…
Maybe try a new install after removing your current one with something like AppCleaner.
Last version is
That’s what my partner’s on and she’s still on High Sierra. Though, I think you can go up two more OS versions (Catalina I believe). So she’s old system and old OS. >.<
Monterey is the latest OS to be compatible with MBP mid-2015. And as I said, OctaChainer runs fine enough (I do OT sample chains regularly).
Do a TimeMachine backup before upgrading.
There is a serious change with Catalina, iirc, where Data and System are separated.
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if i add 8 loops, all at the same BPM and lenght, i select 8 slices in the megabreak mode and export it into a folder -
i get 8 WAV files and 8 ‘’.ot’’ files.
if i play the WAV file, it plays 1 slice of every loop - is that the right behaviour?
will test it in a few hours with my octa
Yes. Make sample locks (hold trig + Turn Level). Assign to scene B the number of slices +1.
Exemple with 8 one bar loops divided in 8 slices :
Make sample locks with the 8 matrixed samples, each 2 steps.
Assign Slice = 9 to scene B.
Slice mode.
Result :
but where and how do i have to place the trigs?
i put a trig every two steps (1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15) so now it plays the first beat of the sample on every two steps…
cant get it to sound right and i think i am missing something big here
do i parameter lock slice 1 on trig 1
slice 2 on trig 2 and so on? doesnt work either…
EDIT:
i have to parameter lock the samples in order! so trig 1 sample 1, trig 2 sample 2, trig 3 sample 3 and so on! now it sounds kiiiinda right
EDITEDIT:
now i prepare my own loops, consolidating in ableton, all same lenght all same BPM. creating 4,8,16,64 files didnt work. it just created the first slice of each sample and silence in all slices except the first… ? i wonder there is no manual or something?
EDITEDITEDIT:
i now used 8 drum loops i got from some sample library, using these works fine… whats the difference with my own drums? all same length, bpm, consolidated?
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Hey there, having an issue where the wav files generated by the octachainer are completely silent. MacOS monterey 12.6.1 and last version of octachainer. Anybody having same issues that could find a solution?
Look on the forum for a topic called Digichain.
It’s a web app created by one of the members and it will do everything you need and more. 
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Even unequal length slices with generated OT files, Megabreak ? 
I think he implemented that recently.
Edit: I just checked his release notes.
He indeed added the possibility to have uneven slices and generates .ot files when exported.
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Worked perfectly, thanks !!
Yes, it’s probably the format of the wavs you’re feeding into Octachainer. It doesn’t like 32-bit from my experience.
I’ve got a question about file format, as I’m about to create lots of chains for my AR mk1.
In the bitrate/Channels/Samplerate section, is it the source or the export settings ?
Does Octachainer convert the files before sending them ?
Salut.
Export.
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Yeah, ignore that, allergies melt my brain. Thanks !
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