can you record the long sample to card from the octatrack itself?
No, you can only record to RAM. Btw, technically, the OTās midi sequencer will do 8 voice true poly using all midi tracks.
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thatās a pity. deal breaker right there ok thanks. you mean with overbridge? trying to get rid of the daw.
Why donāt you just stick to your DAW, and get a new laptop. Itās obvious, from my perspective, that the OT is not for you.
its obvious from my perspective too now, but i gotta go through this process to come to that conclusion. it canāt do what i want. ok.
maybe going to try the rc-505. keep it nice and simple.
Or maybe Push/Ableton, Maschine, or Reason with a Nektar controller.
Selling the MPC-X (I managed to get a second copy of MPC2.X software for free during a license transfer of my old MPC-Live!!!)
My new workaround is to use the Analog Heat as a sound card/VST effect for MPC2.0 software(Only downside its a non industry standard 48KHZ 24Bit) Record long samples and prepare loops and slices in the MPC2.0
-------I then export the prepaid loops or slices to 44.1KHZ Octatrack format for playback and managing.
I only do this if i need to sample an entire song from a record.99% of time Iām just using the Octatrack to on a trigger recording mode --set RLEN to 64 set BPM to 30 and capture a long 4 bars worth of music on auto record to find a potential loop or beat in that sample on the fly.
disco boogie breaks huh? I doubt it would even slice neatly. I recommend just recording it to a DAW and prepping the slices ITB.
I know it might be very disappointing for some to hear that OT only plays back CF datastreams, one would expect it to also be able to record them? Unfortunately this is not the case. OT is not meant to be a PCM field recorder obviouslyā¦ Itās more of a live performance tool than a studio one.
Having said that, itās the only dijital device in the elektron lineup that uses 44.1kHzā¦ and thatās a major PITA IMO as every other box does 48k.
Maybe Iām just missing something obvious but how do I sample in static mode?
I know how to do it in flex mode but I want to take advantage of the longer sampling time in static mode, i.e I want to sample several minuties. But I canāt even sample a few seconds in static mode. what am I missing here?
Not a feature dude, you can only sample flex slots. Go into your memory settings and set up longer reserves to sample for minutes
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so you sample flex slots and then used them either in static or flex machines? The manual says that you can load gigabyte sized samples to a static machine, but you canāt sample directly to a static machine?
For me itās better to sample straight to octatrack so I can get second nature with its setup. I find it builds confidence and I am far more impressed with what it can, rather than canāt, do.
so basically you sample to a flex machine, set the bitrate accordingly for longer time and then loads it into a static machine, and there is no way to sample directly into a static machine?
Strictly speaking, the OT samples into its recorder buffers, which are in RAM. So the sampling time is limited by the amount of RAM that is assigned to the recorder buffers.
The contents of the recorder buffers can be played back by a Flex playback machine.
A Static playback machine plays back samples from the Compact Flash card; these samples can be very long.
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ok, good.
just to make this super clear, beacuse I find the manual a bit unclear on this:
so you have to transfer the very long files that you have to the CF card, and then load them into static? The ram limitation is on hte flex machine and itās altogether, meaning that you cannot have to large samples on the flex?
Store long samples in the Audio Pool on the CF card. To play a long sample, assign a slot in the projectās Static sample slot list to that sample, then load a Static playback machine into an audio track.
The OTās RAM is only 85.5 MB and is shared between the recorder buffers and the samples in the Flex sample slot list.
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ok, thanks. finally flex/static makes sense.
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For some more clarity, the recorders are not directly related to flex or static, they are independent recorders that record to ram regardless of any track machine selection, and are always availableā¦
Once a recording it is made it is held in ram. You donāt need to play it on a track, you can just record if you want. If you want to play it from ram you can load the recorder buffer to flex machine. You can also save it as a sample and play it from staticā¦
The neat part is that the empty recorder buffers are available in the flex list before you record into them. This way you can use flex machines to make patterns with them before you even record, and they will change imediately when you record new material into themā¦
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Your right @Ray-Ray_Velouria(except itās a cf card not sd 
) but I donāt get a feeling that that user will like to use an OTā¦
I try to catch a vibe and see if other things will potentially frustrate someone before recommending the ol OTā¦
The āhateā part of this should be consideredā¦ The OT is a hard thing to recommendā¦ 
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