Octatrack: Altering samples for 8 patterns (A1-A8) with only 4 parts?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#21

@Simulacrumb, this isn’t directed at you, just a general thought about how parts confuse people…

I think what confuses people the most is the “part quick select” menu…
This leads people to think it should be used in the middle of a playing pattern, when really I see its use more to just link your pattern to a part one time when you first make the pattern, and then leave it be.

The rytm for example doesn’t have a “kit quick select” menu, if it did it might make users think they should switch drum kits mid pattern and expect musical results. Personally I don’t know anyone that often switches drum kits on a drum machine in the middle of a pattern, same goes for OT parts…

That being said, there are next level tricks awaiting in switching parts mid pattern, but it seems to me a more advanced technique to be used occasionally by those willing to dive in and come up with good uses for it, but the general use is just to link a pattern to the part you want and then forget about it, just like loading the drum kit you want to build your pattern out of before you start making it…

#22

This is great stuff. Thank you very much!

What you say about the part quick menu rings true for me - it looks to me like a performance tool. The part-reload thing I can completely imagine using, like the reload-pattern feature in the digitakt, but switching parts during a pattern seems uncomfortable to me, because trigs on one machine might not make sense against a different machine (or effects p-locks…)

I’m going to start out by assigning 1-4 to 1, 5-8 to 2, etc, (like someone else on the forum suggested a while back) and see if I can make it seem useful to me.

Zoink!

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#23

Yea Part term is very confusing. For example, on SP-16 it is called a Scene. So you can have 16 scenes per project, each has 16 patterns and custom samples/effects e.t.c. Hoever once I got Octatrack first time, I took me a while to figure out Part concept.