will try when I get some time, and report. thanks
when I initialize Copy button and it turns red for record, ABCD Light up red when holding down Trig A-T1 Yes
Okay, try recording internally. If you can hear the sound coming from the source you want to record. I am assuming, because you haven’t told me in detail whats happening really…that you are recording without using a thru machine. Go to your record setup. Go down to SRC3, knob E and turn it until is says main. Now again try to record whatever is happening on the OT…Also check your level in the mixer. check DIR and turn that up.
There were a few things in my sampling process that I did wrong a lot. I’m trying to remember them, but after loads of practice and making a crap load of mistakes I have a hard time remembering.
yeah thanks, will do now.
If that doesn’t work. Sit down and write the entire process that you are doing to achieve sampling. I will do the same on my box, and then we might find out whats going on.
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It didn’t work, I will keep trying different configs. I dont get the assignment of the recording slots and the slots below the 8 slots… I hear playback of what I recorded as little white noise puffs, basically just blank noise. but I heard the volume going in fine. there was no ‘Recording’ indicator on, when recording, just says recording as the tape recorder icon spins, no other identifiable different recording indicator. I will start a new Project and see what happens. I just bought this OT 1 used, but it is in pristine condition, the protector is still on the screen, and should work 100%, so it must be me.
Think of your sample list as 8 recorder playheads/slots, the tape that gets recorded. The rest of the slots are sample slots. thats where you load samples after they are recorded. When you press function record, whatever track you are looking at is that track recorder. There are 8 recorders. And 8 sample players. 8 recorder buffers, and 8 sample players. They are separate machines on each track.
its sad too, because I have been in the audio recording biz for 40 years… go figure, I worked on 4/8/16/24 track 1/4" to 2" tape machines and I cant get this little damn machine to work
Its fine…I’m young and beautiful and it took me 2+ years to even feel acquainted with this machine. Now write out your process. I will try it on my machine, and I’ll tell you whats up.
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young whippersnapper, you probably never cut a tape with a razor blade either… lol. anyway, setting up a new project with Flex machines. I have a wav file sample on track 1, plays fine, so its just the Live recording that is an issue.
I feel like I’m teaching my mom how to post on facebook. 
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yep. about right. And I owned 2 Octatracks before this.
Okay. MK1 or MK2?
MK1 this time. Editing a sample was a lot easier on MK2. I might want to eventually get a MK2 again, and still keep the MK1 (oh well, another discussion).
I have an MK1, so that makes it a little easier.
Go to track one, so the red light is on track one. Double click the button. Select Recording1. Load that slot into into that track. The first one on the list. This is your recorder. It can also play samples. But it is important now to look at it as a recorder buffer.
Now, hit function/record. Turn knob A for input and knob B…ab and cd (inputs), so that this recorder is recording what is coming into the inputs. This view is your recorder machine. Different from the other view, where you selected the recorder- R1. The first one you loaded into track one Player. These two views are different machines. Does that make sense?
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Think of the first 8 slots in your sample list as recorders. One each slot, and it is important as hell that, recorder1 is in track 1, and that rcorder2 is in track two, and so on. As an example, you could load all your tracks 1-8 with recorder1 in slot one and 2 in 2 and three in 3…The first 8 slots on your sample list- Recorder1, into, Recorder two into 2 ect-into each corresponding track. Now you have 8 track recorders loaded into those tracks. Go to each recorder screen (Record Setup), by pressing function record…enable inputs on all of them…put trigs all over the place track by track and bobs your uncle.
Another important thing is when recording at first. If I were recording on track one, when I wanted to record into that track I would press function record and stay in that view, in Record Setup view, making sure the trig is on. When you are in recording setup view, this is where you place a trig. Once you hit func/record again, you are no longer looking at the Recorder’s sequencer. There is the play sequencer. The first view you are seeing when you turn on the OT, and all the recorders have their own sequencer, which can be viewed by the corresponding track’s Recording set-up view. Two different views, two different sequencers. Two different machines. So, 8 sampler recorder machines and 8 sample play machines.
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will work with that instruction, thanks.
It’s more important that you read what I said and try to understand that the tracks have a sample player with a sequencer, and a recorder machine in the background with it’s own sequencer. Two sequencers. Two different machines. Its almost like having two different devices…3 devices. You have a midi seq, recorder sequencer and a sample player, it’s own sequencer… They can all work together, or independently.
If you want to record, you go to the recorder screen(fnction/Record). If you want to play samples, you go to the play back screen(normal play view)…and if you want to do midi stuff. You hit the midi button. It’s understanding that concept that made it all click for me. The zing moment.
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Yeah!
The moment it turns from an Octatrack, to a Groktatrack.
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