It also requires fewer samples buffered, which can be an important factor when implementing other parts of the overall system.
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What is your interest in the Octatrack with regard to this? Because if it is because you are considering it for melodic playback of a single sample primarily, then the Digitakt or another sampler would probably be better suited. The Octatrack is not really ideal for melodic playback of a single sample in my opinion - this is not to say that it can’t do it, but it’s strengths lie elsewhere. Note that the pitch range is limited to +/-12 unless you use rate (with TS off) to give additional octaves (64,32,16,8,4,2,1)
If I want no artifacts and to use the Octatrack for melodic playback then I’d be inclined to use slices of individual pitches, that way you won’t get any artifacts as long as you have samples recorded at the pitches of interest.
As I said in the other thread sinc can give artifacts too, not aliasing but smeared attack when moving too far from the original pitch - although in my experience it only tends to be noticeable with large pitch changes over around 12 semitones.
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The most concrete one for me is when playing back something like a drum break, sliced or not, at +/-1 or 2 semitones or something like that to make it match the song tempo. For example, with drum breaks that have lots of action in cymbals and hats, linear interpolated resampling can cause some loss of highs. You can generally recover it to sound equivalent with a little bit of an EQ boost, but it’s something you have to keep in mind.
I wasn’t planning on sequencing a bunch of melodic stuff with lots of per-step pitch adjustments with an Octatrack, no.
I don’t think you are going to notice anything showstopping with a few semitones change, at least I have not and I don’t ever recall any other Octatrack users mentioning it.
BTW Deluge has sinc interpolation as an option, have you considered it? A brilliant machine also.
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I know to look out for this from past experience using samplers that use linear interpolation, which is why interpolation methods are one of the things I look out for. Actually, with linear interpolation, small adjustments can sometimes have bigger impacts on comb filtering/aliasing in the highs than large ones. It all depends on how the frequencies line up. A lot of the time (most of the time) nothing will happen and it’s fine.
Well that’s wrong that does not sound like an amiga… it has not such a high impact as using those old dac. But thanks for the describing later what you mean.
The Amiga doesn’t sound the way it does because of its DAC. It’s because its sample playback is uninterpolated, as I described.
I am not much keen on this topic (maybe a bit), but really appreciate low-level technical discussions and algorithms breakdowns. Remind me the times of good Gearslutz…
Oh, yeah, sorry I forgot to reply to this part. I have looked at it, and it’s on my list, but I think I prefer the Elektron sequencer more, the sequencing is much more important to me overall. The sample interpolation thing is only a small factor, but it’s one I had no answer to with the Octatrack.
The Deluge sequencer is very much like the Elektron in terms of conditionals, probability, parameter locks in case that was something that you were unaware of, it also has a few extra things like kit row independent length and direction.
Of course though the Octatrack is awesome in terms of realtime use.
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Ah. Hmm. One of the reviews I watched of it — which I can’t recall now — said that you can’t p-lock as many things as you can on an Octatrack. Maybe it was wrong or outdated?
Careful we could go from one OT hornet’s nest to another 
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Please, go ahead ! 
Octatrack forum became too quiet…
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Better sustain with Octatrack.
…as said…pitch this, tiger…
but sure enough, if u don’t go nuts to get aaaaaaall the details right, all u end up wih, would be a tumult, for real…
so whatever level of accuracy makes ur day, so be it…