OT Feature Requests Thread (active)

Maybe mentioned before but a global mixer would really be great for performances.

Either that or a trig page with velocity to p-lock like on the DT.

Here’s the scenario, I’m making patterns on the OT to perform, I p-lock amp vol either for dynamics on one sample or simply for volume difference when P-locking another sample on the same track. So I lose the ability to use that for fading channels in and out whilst performing.

Then I use the track volume to mix the track together, let’s say track 1 is a kick and it’s at 127 but track 2 is a snare at 105, I can’t remember the exact level of each track to put it back in the right place if I use it to perform fades etc.

A global mixer which was just basically all channels at 127 (or full volume) would be great to map to a controller to perform fade ins and outs. Right now I’m just muting channels which is quite limited (especially as it’s just audio mute not pattern mutes like on DT)

These small differences between the DT and OT are really frustrating tbh…

I was really suprirsed the other night how limited the LFO desitnations are. I went away to set an LFO to SRC SLC so that the slice number playing back was set by the LFO, nope, it’s not there.

Try Sample Start instead (PB STRT)?

when slice mode is turned on the sample start parameter in the LFO’s controls the slice number.

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Oh handy to know thanks, could be less cryptic though.

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I would need more arranger slots…8 is to few for my project, at least 16 would be great!

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Indeed, as it is now, i don’t see how someone would take time to set up different modes to have to redo it after power cycle. I would gladly use it otherwise.

This was not even acceptable in 1996 :rofl:

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Can’t you use scenes and fade in/out with the crossfader?
Or having new pattern with LFO to Volume and Hold?

Yeah but you’d only be able to fade in or out one at a time unless you used up like a gazillion scene slots for all the different combinations. I use 4 audio tracks so that would mean I’d need 16 different scenes just for volume lol! And then volume jumps if I change scene to an fx one.

And LFO and hold is a good idea but not very flexible especially live.

Velocity or master volume faders would solve all of this!

I would opt for a controller with faders like the UC4.

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Reread my first post. The problem with a controller is that if you’ve mixed a track with say 127 on track 1, 101 on track 2 how do you then remember where to set the faders again unless you mix your levels live?

Pen & paper? :wink:

Currently the limitation of RLEN to 64/MAX is the thing that’s causing me the most headaches with the OT. Maybe I’m missing something about the technical implementation but it feels a bit like an arbitrary limitation when you’re able to set things like QREC and other lengths to be much greater. If I could just choose to set RLEN to like 128 or whatever it would make things much easier, workarounds with QREC and timing are not ideal for live performance.

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You need a controller that receive the info -CC63 i think- from the OT.
I know another Faderfox does this, not sure for the UC4

I’d certainly buy the Octatrack 2 if you could store and crossfade midi scenes. With 10 cc parameters, that would bring it into Max territories with ever-morphing timbres.
I don’t know if it’s possible to implement such a feature, but this this the kind of option that is lacking in the current market. The OT could remain cutting edge with it.

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It has been said many times, it seems they prevented MIDI scenes to avoid MIDI messages overload and freeze the box. And yes, we already ask to have it even with limited CCs :wink:

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Ok, that would probably imply way too much information to transmit on a midi cable.

Maybe a MIDI 2.0 equipped OT MK.3 could manage it?..

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Yeah this type of thing seems like what midi 2.0 was made for, but I don’t actually know if it is possible. Obviously everything connected to it would have to be midi 2.0 as well. I hope it can also do audio rate modulation, but that is a serious edge case.

Option to have the Start button restart the pattern instead of pausing it. I never use pause at all and I think most users don’t use it either. Restarting would be much more useful – especially if several connected machines get out of sync.

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Holding stop and pressing play will start the pattern from the beginning.

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