Octatrack ate my projects

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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After the OT was switched off for a few weeks while I was doing other stuff, I switched it on recently and all the projects I loaded had corrupted.

e.g. there were random trigs in a lot of the patterns, and track lengths were messed up all over. BPM settings of some samples were wrong too. Restoring the project folders from backup only partially repaired it! I had to spend a couple of evenings repairing everything by hand. This makes me very nervous about relying on the OT as a gigging instrument.

Anyone else had this experience?

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Anyone else had this experience?

yes.

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try with the option “save to new” in the project settings. save always your project and make backups… a separate cf card for gigs and your sessions cf card are your good friends…
it’s annoyng, i know…

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Thanks Van. I’ll take that advice. Does it generally happen if the thing is not used for a long time? It hadn’t happened before when I was using it regularly.