Octatrack safe workflow with patterns

[Open_Mike]

I really don’t think parts were intended to be changed for a pattern while that pattern is playing. They’re just like kits, you assign the to a pattern once and forget about it. Whenever you load that pattern again it loads the part you chose with it…

Parts are very useful for adding variations to the patterns of a bank. A part consists of machine, sample and effect assignments along with track parameter settings and up to 16 scenes. Each pattern is linked to a part and one part is thus always active. Each bank hosts 4 parts.
All patterns of a bank default to using part 1. If you for example want the machines of patterns A01 and A02 to use different sample slots or have different settings, it is important these patterns are linked to different parts.

Even the lingo in the manual suggests nothing about trying to switch them mid pattern. It implies they are useful for different patterns to be linked to different parts in order to have different sounds/settings…