There is a menu called memory where you can adjust the reserve memory for each track
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Warning that reserve memory can eat up RAM as its reserved…
Seems best use is to set it to the minimum tracks and lengths that you’d need to be able to still sample if you one way or another hit the mem limit, otherwise it eats up memory…
As a looper I reserve tracks one and two to the equivalent of 128 steps at 120bpm I think, just as a failsafe to know I can always still sample if I make some 512 or 1024 step loops on other tracks…
Dynamic recorders are your friends for looping…
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So just now I was messing around with some old stuff I’d recorded . Just adjusted all my samples to slices and started messing with xfade to show my gf what this nerd is doing . No flex machines, all static . Now I keep getting a warning pop up ‘rec memory full’ it keeps flashing up and I’m not even looping or anything ( that’s where I’ve had this message before but it was because I was a noob and kept filling the buffer and not deleting ) anyone had this error while not maxing the ram anywhere? Any ideas ?
Might be worth checking you don’t have any recorder trigs placed on any of the tracks?
Usually this message only appears if record trigs are trying to record and there is not enough allocated memory.
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yeah if you have a sample you like and want to keep it, go on ahead and save it then assign to a flex slot or static slot. Anything in the record buffer will be gone anyway if you power down or change projects.
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Shit . I definitely haven’t on purpose , I’ve never explored that type of thing . I’ll investigate .
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For me, I hadn’t reserved the RAM in the Memory settings of the project for the track in question (track 8).
Open_Mike
any chance you could elaborate on that?
sorry… I’m quite new to the OT. slowly getting used to its quirks.
some of your posts have helped me in the decision to purchase one and are now helping navigate the thing…
how do we get the most out of looping but still being able to trigger other samples?
just move to static machines for the rest? I want to start digging in to reserving memory etc… currently reading about dynamic recorders. befriend them you say?
Does getting a bigger (more GB) Flash Card improve sampling with Flex Machines?
At the moment, I’m still using the card that came in my Octatrack MK1, and I struggle to even get one recorder buffer per project, especially the lower BPM songs, because I keep getting the “recorder memory full” error even when the buffer has been cleared.
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Bummer. Thanks for the quick reply!
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@darenager
No, all of my samples are static. I’m only trying to run 1 flex machine per project, which is track 1 / recorder buffer 1, for the purpose of live sampling an external hardware synth. I have each individual song on a different project to save memory, and all settings selected according to the manual’s suggestion in my memory configuration. So I’m really not sure why I have no memory left.
Take a pic of your record memory config and post it here.
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Try setting dynamic recorders to yes, reserve recordings to T1 only, and take reserve length up to how many seconds you want to record for, what happens then?
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@darenager So when I set dynamic recorder to yes, reserve only T1 and increase the reserve length up to 18s which is all I need, and then save the setting, I’m getting a very familiar issue, which is that when I press play, suddenly no sound comes out. All my static samples are there, and appear as though they are playing, but everything goes silent. I’ve had this issue every time I’ve tried to reserve only T1 for recording.
Try power cycling after saving the memory config, make sure the green light has stopped flashing before turning off, leave it for 10 seconds then back on.
Also what OS is your OT on?
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Wow, power cycling totally did the trick. I was able to save the memory config and work with a longer sample at a higher bit rate w/ my dynamic recorders on. And sound came back as soon as it rebooted.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I really appreciate your advice, speedy replies, and patience. I always assume the issue must be complicated & over my head, but sometimes you just gotta turn shit off and back on again. 
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Cool, glad its working now.
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