It’s been a fun discussion, and you had some good ideas about saving space with Flex tracks. I really enjoyed that video that you posted earlier with the acoustic guitar routed to OT. If you make any more interesting experiments, feel free to post them in this thread!
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Concerning FIN/FOUT I wondered if it could be used keeping rhythm quantize : 1 step rec with min FIN + 1 step FOUT.
Goal : record 2 steps you can loop.
Potential caveats : too much silence at the end….because of FOUT nature, adding silence rather than a progressive FOUT. 
Not sure if it works better than just FIN, PIPO loop…
I think I already tried it.
Short recordings in mind, looped…
I think is what I accidentally did first-
T1 - thru A (guitar)
R1 - A+Cue
T2 - playing R1 with delay and pitch shift
R2 - A+Cue
T1 and T2 Cued
This caused a crazy repeating increasing pitch feedback loop on T2.
I’ll have to throw a recording up here this weekend.
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I do it intentionally since a while an imo that it super efficient, also possible with Machinedrum. A bit dangerous for your brain.
Thank you, watching your “fun with Zoia and digitakt 2” video
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Yup, I did that yesterday on accident too 
. Because the rec buffer is listening to the inputs and the main outs (or cue in your case), you get cascading pitch shifts. Each time it feeds back, it goes up an octave. That gets you the increasingly high pitched chirps (aka “synth birds” as I call them). It’s a trick that you can also do in the Reverse Mode C pedal from Chase Bliss.
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Works well with reverb (shimmer reverb), or comb filters in the feedback loop…
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The track below is inspired by some of the ideas in this thread (reversing live loops, pitch shifting live loops). I also realized that you can use MIDI loopback to control the recording trigs. The benefit of that is that you can use use conditional trigs (probabilities in this case) for replacing the recording buffer. Makes for a more dynamic box. Fun!
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Very cool track! I like how it grabs long chunks of guitar and holds on them for reversed playback. The condition trigs for updating the buffer is a clever idea. That leans into more of a micro-looper than delay, which is a different flavor, but equally awesome.
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Ive got nothing to add other than: Good work and God, I love the octatrack.
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I wish I’d bought one years ago. This thing is so much fun.
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I primarily thought that video was interesting to understand algorithms, what presets do…but no. No rational changes for comparisons, different loops, melted in reverb…
Space should be off, filter nulled, mix maxed…(activity maxed ?)
Couldn’t find good videos for that purpose, with audio and no fkn blabla.
Manual doesn’t seem helpful either.
So to mimick Microcosm more accurately with different presets modes the simplest for me would be to have it. I don’t really need having OT, eventually put Tempera and Eventide Space in the feedback loop and I can travel the universe further confidently. 
Very interesting pedal though…pricey.
Anyway I found interesting stuff using the @Kacper’s FX1 Reverb Hack (Reverb in Slot 1, Delay in slot 2).
Microcosmic stuff using 2 tracks, Thru + Flex (pitch reverb CUE feedback stuff) using crossfader to morph between 2 different tastes. Hope you’ll enjoy it as I do…
Hoping to record something this weekend…
It is a bit expensive but to be honest, considering all what it iffers and the direct UI, it is zn excellent pedal for the price.
I use it extensively live and although some pedals look mire attractive like Chase Bliss or cheaper, i doubt many pedals offer the musicality and ease if use, functionalities (the looper and uts options are great and well implemented) the Microcosm does.
For me, a 200 eur pedal i won’t use is way more expensive than a 500 i’ll use and I already used the Microcosm on stage in so many different contexts that’s it’s already paid back 
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What if I sold my Eventide Space…
I searched a video with Microcosm reverb only. How did they commit that ?
