That’s what I did dozens of times trying to make it work with OT only. Works like a charm now.
I wish there was a software letting me set all Octatrack parameters quicker. 
I planned many crasy multi Megabreaks automations ! 
Wrong order. Do it again. 
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haha, you wish! 
got them in the correct order and its fun, but yeah, lesson learned: spend more time for selecting breaks (and maybe break em down to 16 instead of 64). are there people who would share / trade their megabreaks? i’d be in for it!
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I found a new way to plock matrix samples, less slots consuming :
For a 8 steps x 8 loops, I have the 8 matrixed loops in one file instead of 8 files.
Instead of sample locks, I plock an lfo depth with Start dest. Crossfader assigned as usual to Slices.
The lfo depth add an offset to slices, in order to play the right loops.
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Anyone managed to automate this process ?
I can automate it in Octatrack but it is very complicated and limited.
@Abhoth’s Octachainer soft can automate it.
Limited to 16x16
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Great, thanks…16x16 will do just fine !
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Hi guys,
Set a load of these chains up about 18 months ago, and used them heavily. Thanks for the original tip @wascal
Just getting round to setting some new ones up for live shows this weekend, and have run into some problems, feels like I’m missing a step of the process.
I’ve done the following:
-Dragged the breaks into Ableton
-Time stretched within Ableton
-Chopper the 16 1 bar breaks into 16ths
-Created 16 files, 1st containing the 1st 16th of each break, 2nd containing the 2nd 16th of each break, 3rd containing the 3rd 16th of each break etc.
-Named these with the only number in the file being 136 for 136bpm, so that OT analyses tempo correctly, which it has done
-Imported the samples to the OT
-Added each file into empty slots on the OT
-P locked 1st trig, with the 1st file, 2nd trig with 2nd file, 3rd with 3rd file etc
-Set scene 1 to play Slice 1, and set Scene 2 to play Slice 16
-Sliced each file into 16 slices, and made sure to press NO to ‘align markers to zero crosses’ so that the timing remains intact. Also i assured there were no clicks or pops in the files before exporting from live. (edit: realised I missed this step, so imagine this is the problem?)
Within attributes each file is correctly analysed as a 1 bar file, and the Bpm value is correct.
But the timing is off, and the loops are not playing in time.
What am I missing? (In fact just realised i didn’t slice the loops within OT, so could this be it?) Anything else i could’ve missed?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions! And once i’ve sliced all the loops tomorrow, I’ll report back as to whether this solved it
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You definitely got all tracks with slices mode set to “on”
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Sorry bit of an obvious one… Master tempo correct ?
Slicing in Octatrack most obvious way of retrying I agree
Definitely slice the tracks in the OT
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Yep.
You can also prepare slices with @Abhoth’s Octachainer software, last version having Megabreak mode, which generate .ot files, with attributes and slices settings. Copy them with the generated .wav files.
Try also slice 17 for scene B, to match “perfectly” crossfader’s marks.
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99% sure i have but will tomorrow when back with my OT Thanks for your suggestions!
Thanks JuanSOLO almost certain it’s this as defo didn’t slice them
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Good to know! Thanks
Just needed to slice the loop as predicted
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It’s with a jealous heart that I admit, I totally want to give you a hard time for this brilliance! I wish I had time to figure out such a cool idea! That being said… I’m going to give it a shot. Thanks!
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