Pressing T7 button trigging something or something

Hello long lost friends, hope you’re all well.

Was playing the OT tonight and encountered something new to me and I’m wondering if some of you super-sleuths can help me determine what it was.

I had track 7 assigned to RECORDER7, and was recording CUE SRC3. I had a recorder trig on step 1, and a normal playback trig on step 4. In this way one can get nice repeats by cue-ing different tracks and making careful adjustments to different cue levels and such.

That’s all well and good. Here’s where it got weird.

I was selecting different tracks relatively quickly making adjustments to their different effects and cue levels, and a few times when I pressed the T7 key I would hear something like the record buffer resetting or glitching out, or perhaps track 7 being re-trigged. Now, I do use RECORD QUICK mode, but that affects pressing the [REC1/2/3] keys, not the track keys, right?

Anyway, the audio glitches were short-lived, because everything seemed to go back to normal when the pattern would loop around and the record and normal trigs would get hit again.

So, I guess my question is, what can happen when you press a track key that could potentially re-trigger either a recording or playback or change a record buffer?

Anyway, thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

Track 7 might be in plays-free mode?

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Track buttons should select the active track only.
If you press Track T1-T8 button + Play or Stop, you can trigger or stop track machine
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Must have been something else going on then! Appreciate the confirmation - I’ll dig deeper.

I encountered something similar, and reported it to support - they confirmed it was a bug: pressing any track button caused recording and playback to stop. It only happened with TRIG set to HOLD in recording settings. Try changing the value of TRIG and see if it solves the issue.

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Thanks. It would be interesting to report it in OT bugs sections, as we are to sure it will be solved!
Octatrack OS Bug Reports - #309 by WeirdFishes

This actually seems to have helped! Wacky. Thanks!

I don’t even remember what the default for TRIG is, but my template project has HOLD for every track because I do a lot of one-shot sampling. In this case I was using recorder trigs, so any other value is fine.

I appreciate your help. Always grateful to the excellent members of this community. Happy music making to all.