Problems with switching between banks etc

Boldenburg · 2015-01-03T13:56:36.000Z

I’m sorry for creating a topic on something that has probably been discussed many times, but I have a few questions that I am stuck with after buying an octatrack in November 2014. I have succeeded in understanding the basic structure and workflow aspects of the octatrack, Except for the changes between Banks, parts and patterns.

First of all the octatrack will not load a new bank or part unless I press either pause or stop after selecting the next part or bank. This should not be happening as the individual parts and banks should flow over in each other seamlessly as stated in the manual right? I do not know if this is because of something I have looked over (selecting some box in some obscure menu that I can`t find because I don’t know what the menu is called) or because of something that is not functioning correctly.

The second thing I want to address is more of a advice kind of question. If I want to tie my songs together in to one big beautiful set, I can’t have samples from one bank playing whilst the second bank is starting up some new samples right? Or is there a way to keep T1 – T4 playing samples from a previous part or bank until I command the OT otherwise? If this is not the case I would probably need to create more parts and banks that function as transition pieces right?

Any help with the first issue, and advice on the second is highly appreciated.

B

musicmagus · 2015-01-03T14:42:42.000Z

Have you read Merlin’s guide? Patterns parts and banks ARE the workflow on the OT.
You should not have to stop to switch any of these.

Boldenburg · 2015-01-03T15:18:27.000Z

I have not read merlins guide. I have read the user manual. I know that I should not have to press stop or pause in order to switch banks or parts but I was wondering if this is my own fault or somehow an error in the OT. That was basically my point in posting the above.

the_dreammer · 2015-01-03T15:54:34.000Z

To answer your first question:

the default behaviour of an octatrack should enable you to seamlessly switch patterns and banks… by default it should switch after end of pattern. (that means if you have a 4 bar pattern, and you switch to another pattern… you wait until patternA ends its 4bars… and patternB will automagicly play)…

UNLESS !!
you start to work with difrent length tracks… u might have set your patternlength to inf … which is an easy way to do different length tracks to keep on going… but also prevents you from ever getting an “end to a pattern”…

ok here goes:
if your octatrack is NOT in grid-recording mode. press function+bank.
and you will get a dialog, where you see if your octatrack is set to play different length tracks yes / no … and It should say what the main-pattern-length is… if this is set correctly… then look at
function+scale setup… and see what pattern-length is there…
make sure nothing says “inf”

Now for your sample-question:

if you record something in a track-recorder-buffer… it will exist until:
you rerecord something into it (you get new recording instead of the old) or when you reboot your octatrack…

so build your patterns in such a way, that they do not automagicly rewrite your buffers… but do write them in a way they use the buffers…
so you can switch banks, or do weird trickery on the just recorded or still recording sample…

and all this should work seamless…

Boldenburg · 2015-01-03T16:04:26.000Z

[font=Calibri","sans-serif]Thank you so much. Now I can book some progression.

the_dreammer · 2015-01-03T16:08:23.000Z

Enjoy buddy