Populating Sample Slots (file management, browsing)

lwpweb · 2023-02-26T12:55:04.339Z

i use now the octatrack since 3 weeks. Getting more and more familiar i wish to take advantage of my own samples packs. While loading my first samples into the slots i see what pain in the a… it is dealing with larger amount of data. OK 128 slots once populated how do change this in a minute to anather thing of 128 slots. I feel like living in times of win95 or earlier.

Is that realy what i have to deal with? The slot lists are global? Not per track?

Do i missed something in the manual?

Schnork · 2023-02-26T13:07:36.553Z

lwpweb:

Is that realy what i have to deal with? The slot lists are global? Not per track?

Yes, 128 Static and 128 (+8 Recorder) Flex slots per project. Why do you want individual slots per track? You can play any sample from those slots in any step on any track.
If you feel those are not enough for a project, sample chains can have many samples in one file, a whole drum kit, 64 single cycle waveforms, 64 whatever samples accessed with the slice knob.

Remember the four parts per bank save which sample is assigned to a machine in a track, but you can use sample Locks to play any sample on any step on any track. Hold a trig and turn the level encoder to select a sample for that step.

melisshki · 2023-02-26T13:16:49.662Z

The word “browsing” in the post title might suggest you’re wanting to just listen to sample packs, before you choose to load them per project?

If you’re just wanting to audition samples, you can press FUNC + YES while browsing in the audio folders to preview them.

OverneathTheSkybridge · 2023-02-26T13:22:02.372Z

Building on what Schnork was saying, you can download a program called Octachainer here: OctaChainer v1.3.1 – Tic Tic

This allows you to select multiple files that the program will merge into a single .WAV file with an accompanying .OT file that has the slice data. You can have up to 64 sounds in a single sample chain file, but the Octachainer program can batch out many more over multiple files. Definitely a must have program to go with the Octatrack.

lwpweb · 2023-02-27T11:55:25.785Z

Thanks for this tip. It works and i like it. The only thing i miss is a documentation about this tool with its various parameters. F.e. the ‘trig quant direct’ etc , says nothing for me.

Schnork · 2023-02-27T12:01:46.660Z

lwpweb:

The only thing i miss is a documentation about this tool with its various parameters. F.e. the ‘trig quant direct’ etc , says nothing for me.

Page 77 Mk1 pdf manual, page 76 Mk2 pdf manual.

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It’s all in the manual, Search function in your pdf editor will find it.