That’s just dynamic style sampling. You can stream from disk using static slots. I hardly ever use flex machines unless I’m doing recording or super crazy autonmations
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Unfortunately in my scenario I plan to be recording my musical passages on the spot (so basically looping), and there is no way to record onto the CF, so the 85 MB is pretty much all I have to work with
I’ve been thinking of getting an OT, so I was surprised to read this. Can’t a sample in a buffer be saved as a sample for later use?
spoiler alert:
forum threads in 5 months: Is buying an octatrack a mistake in 2022?
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Yes it can 
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I went and looked it up, but I really appreciate your reply anyway. Thanks.
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Yeah, I had posted this link a bit earlier in this thread
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Brad Fiedel is awesome, I love his soundtracks.
To make an accusation of trolling you cant just say it because someone thinks differently than you. Thats not democratic.
This blows all your negative comments out of the water. They’re not worth thinking about them let alone committing them to a forum thread compared with this one.
You literally said the negatives made you angry, which is very hard for your readers to fit alongside the view that it’s best-in-class. It presents a kind of cognitive dissonance that’s hard to respond to and probably hard to live with.
A guitar has six strings, and a piano has 264 (or close). No-one gets angry about that.
Personally, I don’t find anything confusing about me saying the OT is amazing, but has a couple flaws which I find annoying…
Guitars are actually technically speaking quite poor instruments. Impossible to tune correctly & strings break in the middle of a performance. A digital synthesizer on the other hand is always in tune and won’t break, you can even program it to be always 100% correct so margin of error during a performance is negligent. Thus digital synthesizers are better than guitars and music producers should stop using guitars altogether.
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Furthermore, guitars don’t have any memory. You need to play the parts all over again each time you perform live, unlike modern instruments, that allow you to step-record everything and recall the whole ‘performance’ with a simple button push. No onboard fx either. Basically worthless.
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classic Hector
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Woah ,lets go easy on OP 
He’s already said how he feels and that’s allowed 
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So why do synths have “detune” knobs? 
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Pianist envy?
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nice…
I used an Akai Live 2 for 2 hours and it felt like I was trying to run an extremely limited version of ableton on an iPhone. It truly is ableton in a box.
While the Octatrack does have some of the same functionality as a daw, the workflow feels completely different. Different enough where most people seem to make music on both depending on their creative process for the day.
With something like an Akai, it would be a complete clusterfuck trying to figure out when to use which workflow, and because of this the daw integration is meaningless.
Another point - in 5 years most of the gear you listed above will be close to irrelevant. In 10 years an octatrack mkii will still be in the studios of many. This is because the software is built around the hardware workflow. It takes more time to learn it, but once someone understands it, it would be hard to rely on all of the inherent shortcuts baked into the above gear.
Prosumer grade versus pro grade is an accurate way of thinking this. Pro grade often give up functionality for workflow and creative control for a reason.
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