However, that (the bold text in your quote) seems to indicate for me that it might still having a recorder trig after all?
I don´t know how familiar you are (or are not) with the OT and its OS-structure, so forgive me if I´m telling things that are perfectly clear for you already. I´m just trying to help you out to nail down where the problem lies…
You are not talking about not having a playback trig somewhere in the step sequencer (which can be seen in the grid recording mode = rec button)?
Recorder trigs would be found if you (still in grid recording mode) press and hold function while pressing Record/Setup A/B or C/D (the small red buttons). A thing to remember (that works for me at least): you´ll always see the “recording tape” graphics in the screen whenever you´re dealing with any variation of the recorder trigs in the grid recording mode. Everything else would be any variation of playback trigs in the grid recording mode…