I suppose this update will save my OLED from burn in. None the less I appreciate something vs nothing. But back to that laundry list of bugs that still need to be fixed. 
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I was so excited to see a new update for OTmk2 that I jumped out of bed (yep, I check elektronauts everyday before feet hit the floor).
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling let down by it just being a screensaver.
I’ve never really had issues with ghosting or with the screen in general…like at all.
Am I in the minority?
Super duper +1 on the page bank LED. I also have to cycle a bunch to figure out what page I’m on…very frustrating at times.
What a lackluster update. Hopefully they’ve got better tricks coming soon…real soon
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It’s a welcomed update for longevity freaks like myself but… I mean… I could’ve waited until whenever literally anything else came along with it to receive such an update…
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Yeah, I’ve come across this kind of [reason for inaction] before. To those wanting to make music with common gear that uses MSB and LSB (such as Roland JVs, Blofeld, Minilogue xd as I am today), it doesn’t really matter who did it wrong.
I reckon this update is a massive troll and the real one is coming.
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Just played with slide trigs for the first time. Is there any way of making a slide trig conditional? Oh that’d be sweet
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Someone will surely correct me if I’m wrong but I believe only note tris are conditional
12.12 CONDITIONAL LOCKS
On the MICRO TIMING menu, there is a parameter called TRIG CONDITION with which a set of conditional rules can be applied to sample/note trigs, lock trigs, trigless trigs, and one shot trigs, using a parameter lock.
So no conditional locks for slide trigs and also none for recording or swing trigs.
12.4.7 SLIDE TRIGS Slide trigs can make the parameter values of a sample trig slide to the parameter values of the subsequent sample trig.
That was the first rule. Sample trig have new rules (TRC)… didn’t try, but, why not when condition is false (edited) ?
It doesn’t work for A4/AR apparently.
Apparently slides are active with the subsequent sample trig, trigless trig, one shot trig, but not trigless lock trig.
Armed, not armed, TRC true or not, don’t seem to change slices behavior.
There is a thread for “happy with update 1.31 people only” apparently.
I just found a workaround : 
Example test :
Trig 8 > pitch = 0, TRC = 50%, microtiming +23/384
Trig 9 > pitch = +12, TRC = /PRE
Trig 13 > pitch = 0
Slide trig on step 9
Enjoy Conditional Slides!
Apparently the first trig concerned by the slide can be conditional, not the following. More tests needed.
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Octatrack firmware feature request:
When in GRID REC mode, active page lights GREEN
Assuming these are RBG leds on both OTs:
any other colour than slightly brighter red. I can almost never tell which is the active page without tapping page a couple of times
I know these LEDs are capable of lighting green. in the delay control mode they light green to indicate triplets & even divisions - but you can’t use this mode in GRID REC mode. Is there any conflicts with grid recording and other modes that use a green LED?
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This a million times. Green LED indicator for page would be unbelievably helpful.
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They have to be RGB… Red obviously because they toast my eyeballs everyday, green happens on the startup animation, and green is a mix of yellow and blue. Yellow + red indicates the current page while the pattern is playing, which leaves blue as the only one we never really see directly…
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MIDI record trigs
(just trying to find a feature that hasn’t been requested yet)
Most wanted features for me are quality of life improvements to the sequencer. All of these have definitely been mentioned before… 
- Being able to hear the note played as I hold a trig + a midi key on a keyboard
- A way to play back (p-locked) sounds like on the rytm and A4 (trig + yes perhaps?)
- The ability to use the different playback modes over midi. 64 slices mapped to a keyboard or launchpad would be pretty mindblowing
I love my OT mk2, but the newer sequencers have spoiled me.
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From the Great Book of Magic & Wisdom (aka OT-Manual):
[TRIG] + [YES] will turn a lock trig into a trigless trig.
You can already do this when you utilize a midi translator (long but interesting thread ahead):
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Darn the OT has so many features it’s hard to keep track of some of the shortcuts. Surely there’s one trig shortcut that hasnt been taken yet?
Shame it seems to either sacrifice the crossfader or introduce a noticable amount of latency.
Either way I’m not really holding out for a big update. Just figured I’d share some of the things I wish the OT did better as it’s a bit cumbersome in grid recording mode compared to newer devices. I suppose the best workflow for it is to record in live recording mode, using the trig buttons in chromatic or slice mode. Then going into grid recording to do clean-up.
All I want is to be able to copy and paste between patterns while the sequencer is running.
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You can. I guess you mean copy / paste pattern A to pattern B while playing pattern A?
Transition trick may help.
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