when you hit any pattern related button (bank/pattern and so on) after you Exited the USB disk mode on the octatrack you are very prone to freeze when at that moment the cable is still connected. That is the message on screen that the cable is disconnected on the OT side was a new feature that was not available in the earlier firmware. And the freezes only appear since the new firmware has this feature. So when the OT can figure out the usb cable is disconnected means there is still some reader hosting up but the firmware seems not to take its own assumptions correctly and therefore does something that must be completed before it goes on. It can not complete, it freezes. I mean a freeze is a pretty heavy symptom. And there are not much scenarios in which a machine can freeze… It should rather carry on when the USB connected even gets accidentally disconnected. Even automatically reconnect when the cable is plugged again. So the question is why after unmounting does the new firmware tell me that the cable was disconnected? It can only be that after unmounting the usb disk mode is still doing stuff or never left - now we have an unknown state and can also not figure out the state but still try to figure out the state rather than assume the state is changed (disk mode off or disconnected therefore ‘likely’ off as well)… can you follow this idea, whats going on?
short: why do i need to get informed “USB CABLE REMOVED” after i dismounted already and the entire project is already reloaded. Why does the USB connection still do stuff after disk mode was exited? questions over questions… Elektron?
@Tapepusher you have an MK1?
the series of events is this…
- Connect cable and turn on USB DISK MODE
- computer recognises new usb device and mounts medium
- use cf card host by reading/writing.
- disconnect by unmounting in computer
- OT figures out unmount happened and exits USB DISK MODE on itself.
- “LOADING PROJECT” follows automatically to avoid a corrupt project state.
- now i unplug the cable, OT tells “USB CABLE REMOVED” but why would i need to know that when i already unmounted… unless something is still communicating and expected to be online.
now do same same but at 7) when you hit the bank button here the OT freezes
to me thats clearly a sign the sorting of events is messed up.