I’m a little bit confused about the different LFO modes on the OT. Had a long loop (128 steps) which i wanted to play in sync with a 64 step long pattern. So i sliced it in two equal parts, placed a trig on step 1 and set up lfo 1 to modulate the slice with a square wave in a way that it should switch between slice 1 and 2 every 64 steps. Set up lfo mode to “trig sync trig”, but it doesn’t work like expected, seems like the lfo is somewhat out of sync and “misses” the trig. When i set lfo mode to “free”, it changes between the two slices, but the lfo phase seems to be disconnected from the pattern sync.
What am i doing wrong? Isn’t there a way to start the lfo “phase synced” with pattern playback and then running continously as long as the pattern is played back? Or is there another way to accomplish the goal of playing back a 128 step sample to a 64 step loop?
Although the manual states, that in sync trig mode the lfo starts from step 1 and then continues to run, it actually restarts everytime the pattern loops.
Have to check on my OT how to solve this, but what about trig condition sample lock switching (or in this case slice lock switching)?
64 step length, one trig (trig condition 1:2) plays the first part, another trig on the next step, microtimed all the way to the left (trig condition 2:2) plays the second part. This would not involve an lfo at all.
I also want to suggest a 1:2 trig condition on step 1 playing the original 128 steps long sample. Why complicate things? No slicing and no LFO required.
Oh, I had a similar problem recently. I had a bass playing a melody with p-locked pitch, and I wanted to use the LFO to change key by modulating the rate. It would be very useful to have the LFO synchronised properly so we can do stuff like this, IMHO this is a bug and should be fixed, don’t you think? Also, imagine the variations that we could get with an LFO that cycles every n steps, different to the number of steps in the pattern. But it must start on the first step and it doesn’t have to reset when the pattern loops.
Sry, I meant extending master length to 128 steps and setting the track to 1/2x scale.
I already wrote about that in the thread we have about mistakes in manuals and someone from Elektron replied, that he would change the manual accordingly.
So it seems to be just a mistake in the manual, not a bug.
