Record trigs & quantised recording

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I only know the basics of sampling on the OT I can sample from external,
Just using direct and record with one2 eg press button then again to end recording the edit the sample assign to flex etc…

But I’m trying to do quantised recording with record trigs and getting confused a bit…
First what is arm and disarm for I’ve looked in the manual can’t seem to know why I need this…

Also if I make a recording with a trig how can I play it back without recording again?
I hit disarm but that doesn’t seem to work. I put a new trig down and it records again.

I’ve tried searching the manual and on here but can’t find exact answers maybe I’m not searching correct terms

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You need arming only if you are using one shot rec trigs. [FUNC]+[TRIG] makes solid red trig one shot trig (solid yellow). Once your one shot rec trig starts recording, it becomes disarmed/unactive (blinking yellow) untill you arm it again.

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Solid red rec trigs are recording every pass so you need to remove them manualy if you don’t want them re-recording any more.

More on one shots trigs you can find in manual, p.66.

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Thanks!

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I’ve also just found out the trig on the record page is completely different to the trig when not on record page I thought it was the same trig and that was confusing me a lot

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Further to what @WeirdFishes has said…

" Also if I make a recording with a trig how can I play it back without recording again?"

When you hit Func+Rec 1 to set recording trigs, these are different trigs than the normal playback trigs you set. To playback what was just recorded, you also need a playback trig set. In grid recording mode (pressing the Record button on the transport controls (red circle)), put a playback trig on step one. Now, what you have just recorded will also playback.

If in Func+Rec 1 mode (I can’t remember the proper name for that mode so we’ll just call it Func+Rec 1 mode), you set RLEN to say, 64, then set your track length to 64. When you put your playback trig down it will play the 4 bars in a (hopefully) seamless loop.

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Thanks man this was exactly the problem I was having… cheers!

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If you’re recording loops and you find that they are clicking, hit Func+Rec 2 and set the FIN and FOUT lengths to the minimum values (0.063 I think). This adds a near imperceptible fade in/out to the recording. You have to set that on each track though (as you do for all recording parameters) if you are setting up machines for recording or more than one track. I thought the recording setup was global but it’s actually per track.

This helped me immensely to getting click-free loops. :slight_smile:

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Great thanks I’ll give that a try!

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Be cautious about using FIN and FOUT. They are not that useful as it sounds.

To not repeat what already got discussed in length multiple times (just two example threads - for more use the search function):

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Yes, if you use FOUT, it increases sample length > wrong loop with FLEX.
Works as a little crossfade with Pickups.

And use minimum values only, because increasing values don’t change the curve, it only add silence!!! :scream:
For FIN it moves the short curve and replace audio by silence, and for FOUT it adds silence after the short fade out, increasing sample length with silence. Useless.

Btw the FIN FOUT curves are wrong.

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Never knew this. Good to know about the one shot trig. Thanks for explaining that one!

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