I also went from DT to OT.
Parts are a superior system, because when you copy a pattern to create a variation the part gets copied with it.
Of course it can be annoying, because you have to keep track of your parts and remember to save them at the right times. But it’s much less annoying than manually copying tracks across patterns in the DT, and having to constantly go back to copy/paste as things evolve…
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Someone said this wasn’t true and maybe I worded it wrong, but if you go to another pattern and hold down pattern while you choose a new sound you can basically p-lock the whole track with a new sound. Whole new machine one button per track. I can go to bed now.
My biggest hang up has been how everything is spread across the bank, this little find, just changed my life.
Nope. If you stay in the same bank you actually keep the same default Part 1. It doesn’t copy the part. You can check copying a pattern in another bank.
You just need 2 patterns with 2 different parts.
The quickest is to change bank, so that you don’t need to set parts.
Bank 1 pattern 1 > Bank 2 pattern 2
The OT can do 99.9% of what DT can do.
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Ok, here goes what is probably a total rtfm question, but hey, Thom York doesn’t read manuals, and I’m sure he bugs Johnny Greenwood when he can’t figure shit out, so you’re like Johnny Greenwood.
1st of all I have a killer early Jan Hammer thing happening, like throw on your linen suits and pastel T-shirts and fight some crime in 1985 business.
I have 4 tracks I have sampled on. This samples are in the recording buffer on each track. They are also in the Audio Pool on my card.
How do I move them from the buffer to the project directory?
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Using Flex machines, I select the track, hit FUNC and Rec3, then Save Recording and Assign to Self. There’s probably a million other ways to do it.
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Thanks Craig, I can save them, I want to move them, if thats even a thing…
Heres my issue…
When I turn my OT off and on, when it come on, the samples I have recorded don’t play. I see them in the recording buffer, but I have to reload them again.
you can “save and assign to free flex slot”. then just pick that flex slot on the desired track that had the record buffer selected.
better to use flex slots rather than record buffers for samples unless you’re resampling or something.
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You can save up to 8 recordings with REC SETUP 1 > FN+BANK > SAVE ALL RECORDINGS.
Problem : it assigns to Self only (save in Flex Recording slots). Btw you can load any sample in these slots, overdub them with Pickups.
I save long recordings like main mix to free Statics slots, and shorter ones to free Flex slots.
They should be played correctly even if assigned to self.
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Ok, slow learning here! so you can change all the setting of the parts, but the trigs carry over to each part??
This is at least what I’m experiencing.
Part 2 has a bass line sequenced on track 5
Part 3 I’ve swapped the sample out for toms but want to sequence something different with he toms on track 5
Is this possible?
You want to use two patterns, one with part 2 assigned and your bass trigs on track 5. Next switch to a new pattern, assign part 3, and put your tom trigs on track 5…
There’s 16 patterns and 4 parts in a bank, when you assign a part to a pattern it remains linked to it unless you change it. So if pattern 1 is assigned part 2 and pattern 2 part 3, they will each play with those parts every time you switch to them…
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Good practice in the first month or so is to expect that things won’t make sense and you’ll run into roadblocks, that way when you do you won’t be frustrated…
You may even think your OT is buggy or broken, or just a mess of a confusing instrument… This is normal phase one OT experience…
After some time and effort it starts to turn around and things make more and more sense. Then you drink the Octahuasca and go through the rites of passage ceremony with the flex overlords… 
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No it doesn’t. Patterns contain trig/sequence data, NOT parts. Parts contain track data… I. E. what sample is being played and what fx for a track.
There is a super helpful graph floating around (merlin’s guide maybe?) that shows the Octatrack hierarchy and what contains what. Study that until your eyes bleed.
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Yeah, it’s really hard for me to comprehend it, but I’ve been messing between parts and patterns and I get it now. I’m super slow.
week one:
Can sample, sequence, P-lock
General comprehension of parts and scenes.
It’s a process.
So many hours remedying one weird thing I did that messed everything up!
Maybe by this time next week I’ll be able to drive it around the block haha.
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Last night I really got trigg sampling. Since the majority of my samples are midi sequences from my synths, this was huge.
Tonight I really comprehended parts.
Im not moving to a fresh project throughout all this. Just morphing and morphing and sampling new shit or beating the original samples. Definitely getting trip over here.
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You’re all so nice and helpful. thanks.
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Besides trig sampling you can also manually activate sampling by pressing the track button of the recorder you want to use plus either rec1, rec2, or rec3 (I’m assuming your on a MKII) which will initiate sampling, according to the sources you have setup for any of those in rec setup 1. By setting the qrec parameter in record setup 2 you can quantize the sampling, by setting qrec to plen (pattern length) you press track+rec during a pattern cycle and the sampling will begin on the next pattern cycle…
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Yeah, I haven’t tried that yet. One thing I get hung up on, if I want to sample on a track I’ve sampled on already, I find that I can’t sample, it’s just dead. I hit a bunch of buttons and fixed it but don’t know what it is. DO I have to bring bak the recording buffer?
It might be time to start a new project, or at least move to another bank which will give you 4 fresh parts and 16 blank patterns. When your learning the OT it’s easy to mess with some setting that interferes with something you try to do later…
The buffers are always available, what happened is you either saved a buffer sample and assigned to self, or loaded a sample to the buffer. Either of those actions will put the sample name in the recorder buffer slot instead of recording1, recording2, etc… They are still buffers though and can always be overwritten by sampling again (except for you right now but it probably just seems that way and something else is going on)…
To make you feel better, go into the audio editor, navigate to the file section, scroll to “clear slot” and press yes. This will bring back your “recordingX” name to the buffer…
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