Playing samples longer than 4 bars without removing trig

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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I’m considering an Octatrack, and I am curious how to use it to play samples longer than four bars long without having to go in and turn on/off the trig.

I have a Rytm, which has conditional trigs such as once every four bars. Is this in the Octatrack? If not, how would I replicate this?

This is for recorded synth lines that are done in studio to a BPM, so the track is tightly synced to BPM and shouldn’t be an issue to time when it repeats (rather than a sample that is 3 minutes long and I want to loop asynchronous to the BPM)

If there is a thread that covers this, please link me. This isn’t the easiest questions to search for, given the ambiguity of what I’m asking, so sorry if its a duplicate.

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You got 3 options:

  • Manually trigger the sample, with or without quantizing.
  • Use a one-shot-trigger.
  • Seperate the track from the sequencer and dont have track loop, with or without quantizing.

Each of these ways have pitfulls… in my workflow the one-shot-trigger made me happy enough.
manual triggering means: you gotta be in correct mode
trigger the track got confusing :slight_smile:

Maybe others have 4th option. or more insight…

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Wait : i remembered option 4… just make longer sequence… change the tracklength. you can change timing /tracklength on a per track base… so if your vocal is 32bars. make THAT track 32bars long…

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That might be what I do … I want it quantized so some of these options don’t work. Thanks!

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Usually I set up the pattern to have independent track lengths and then change the scale of the track with the long sample to be longer.

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I’ve never toyed with individual track scale on my Rytm, but that seems like a lifesaver for the Octatrack

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option 5: make the individual track run slower, like half speed or quarter speed etc.

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