Octatrack MKII crossfader - it often gets stuck

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Octatrack crossfader curve settings

On DJ mixers there is a setting for the crossfader to make a smooth slow fade. Or fast fade, so you can do a lot of scratching with your mixer!! I wish wish wish that this can be a setting for the octatrack. I have emailed elektron and have not had any reply yet. That was early this summer.

A very interesting @stutech trick

Octatrack Tips & Tricks (OT Tips)

My humble OT tip. I have been trying to come up with a really tight xfader curve for scratching with OT. Now there are several methods for this but I think I finally figured out the best way: Set up a delay fx for the track you wish to cut with the xfader. Configure the delay to do echofreeze. Now make that echofreeze output silence with a very short delaytime. Set up a scene which activates the echofreeze and Bob’s your uncle. While I find this method produces the fastest possible cut with t…