Hi guys! 
Can someone tell me if there is a way for the Octatrack to record from an external source for more than 16 seconds?
Thanks!
Of course!
if you have all Flex Slots free then you can record up to circa 8 min of audio coming from the INPUTS or the THRU track or its NEIGHBOR or whaéva
Or that amount divided by the number of tracks that are sampling simultaneously.
All you have to do is to deal with MEMORY configuration in the menus
pag.39 in the manual
Easy to config, too much to type.
Hit up p.39 of the manual.
Thanks a lot!! I will try.
Is there any other, more full of fast and helpful people, forum in the world??? Don’t think so!
Yes.
The default setting for the track recorders is 16 seconds but this can be changed per track in the memory settings for reserve recordings and reserve length ( Function / Mixer/ Memory/ Reserve recordings.)
The OT has 85.5 megs of flex ram available to a project which can be freely distributed between the 8 recorder buffers and the 128 flex machine slots. The more sampling time that is allocated to the recorder buffers the less is available to the flex machine slots for loading samples and vice versa.
Ultimately how much live sampling time is available will be dictated by how many flex samples you have loaded and the settings you make as outlined above. For example, with no samples loaded into flex machine slots and no sampling time reserved for the track recorders, you can in effect sample directly to the flex ram up to a max of 85.5 megs, meaning that it is possible to sample about 8.5 mins of stereo material at 16 bit 44.1khz.
I see. Thanks! That is great!
One more question even though may appear stupid.
I just simply want to record audio from an external synth , me playing it. For the time being I don t care of quantize and any other features.
I just want to straight record me playing the synth.
I watched the videos and read manual rec in the manual with no success… When I play the synth, I hear it in the Octatrack, but even though I pressed Track and Record, it doesn’t SEEM to record anything… 
Got it! I had to save and look in audio folder… hard until I will get this machine 
Excellent ! Stick at it . The OT takes a good while to get familiar with, but as with anything else, persistence pays…
all good stuff, it does take a while, i’m new and still learning basic stuff, but it feels great when it starts to come together - anyway, based on your comment of recording a straight synth, i thought i’d pitch in - the OT seems to have an unusual gain structure, you get a 12dB drop at the ins, from my experiments, and the default recorder setting puts 12dB back on the recorded file - just thought i’d point that out in case you’re using the OT as a pure recorder as opposed to just getting samples in to have fun with - the 24bit mode will at least be less problematic as you’ll retain more of the good stuff when it goes down and up through the inputs !
Since this question (which I’d been wondering about myself) seems to have been resolved, I hope no one will mind me threadjacking with a not-really-but-kind-of related question.
Is it possible to have a count in before recording?
At the moment, I just hit play and then quickly put a recorder trig down and wait for it to loop.
It’s not really a problem but it’d be nice, when working with four bar loops, to not have to sit through all four bars before recording.
there’s a recent thread on this, i hadn’t tried it out, there may be pre-roll help - and for me the quantized recording has been an eye opener, rather than using trigs and removing them or one shots you can just record the track with Track + Record(or midi) and it’ll start at a subdivision of your choice, so in your case - just prime the recorder just before you get to 1 (more waiting than pre-roll admittedly and not much better than one shot, but could be used well)
Thanks yet again for your helpful and prompt response!
what is 24bit mode? I mean is it a setting for it?
what is 24bit mode? I mean is it a setting for it?[/quote]
It’s just under the Dynamic recorders settings in Control/Memory via Fn+Project(Mixer)
24bit mode changes the bit depth of the recording, more resolution on the data captured - start here if you’re curious
Thanks a lot!!!