I like this feature on the DT. Is there a way to make it last longer in time. I’ve noticed that the slower I set the SPD of the lfo, the less likely I’m able to hear it’s effect on my sample. Fundamentally, I’m seeking a deeper understanding of how the LFO works. About 75% of the time I’m not hearing any change to the sound of the sample. I’m missing something.
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Maybe this video I did can help you out…
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Thank you Carl. I’m going to watch it now. Today I spent most of the day not developing anything of a track but gradually working my way through the lfo parameters and trying to decipher their interactions with time. Very, very deep. I say it was very hard not to drop a kick in the work I was doing and get to making a track with some of the LFO modulated samples I dug up. Having a blast.
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Assign lfo to sample start point , you’ll be able to visually see how it impacts the parameter…
Move initial start point to middle of sample so you can see it go + and -
If you leave trig lfo on , every time you trigger the sample you’ll see the bar move when looking at the waveform of the sample.
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That helped! I’m now checking the SRC wav file to get a visual. I don’t think I realized how other parameters were determining the modulation output. Very cool
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Yay!
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great LFO video Carl! i’ve been wondering if there’s any way or trick, when in Destination - Sample Slot mode, to have it cycle around only specifically desired samples in the sample list?
You can only use whichever lfo cycle type to select sample slot and use depth the narrow down the range used , you can’t do a list ( i.e. 1,4,6,22,55,3)
Best to arrange samples how you want to go through sequentially and start from there ( i.e. 11,12,13,14,15,16) as it’ll be easier to fine tune values to avoid playing unwanted samples.
Or put your samples into a chain and use plocks / conditional trigs to get controlled randomness
Lots of related tutorials on setting up a sample chain in octatrack area.
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aHa! ok re5et, thanks for this - i’ll have a another jam now that i know how to line up the samples! 
i personally try to keep things simple.
setup your initial SRC in the middle and use sine/triangle to go up/down the set of samples.
i think , if you want to go through 10 samples in total , set SRC sample to number 5 , set depth to 4 or 5 , it’ll go up 4/5 , down to -4/5 of the initial value… basically cycling through 10 in total.
if you use ramp it’ll just go up 10 , then reset back to your initial value.
as a test just try ramping / cyling through the initial 10 drum samples , when it goes silent reduce the depth value until there is no silence.
as mentioned before , alter the initial value of SRC depending on the waveform type you plan to use.
i havent got my machine on at the moment , or done this for a few months , so hopefully it gets you heading in the right direction.
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terrific. thanks! yeah on the LFO free mode with lowest speeds - it seems the interplay between the MULTiplier and very light DEPth is where it’s at for a a full run of samples without gaps (blank notes). at least a good starting point to get bearings.
p-locking the first trig on LFO Trig mode, kinda gets you a repeatable groove.
If you use this with a nice synth sound and waveform samples you can get some very unique sounds with very little sample memory used.
I often use the multiplyer as an easy way to choose how a fake time stretch sample is stretched , easier than fine increments on lfo speed.
I haven’t had much luck understanding lfo fade though. Yet …
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