Recording buffer, rate issue during playback?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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hi,

I’ve run into a weird problem in my OT… I’m sampling a sequence from a modular… i’ve tried manually sampling and w rec trigs and have had the same result… the issue is the phrase gets sampled in but then when playback is tiggered from a play back trig in the flex machine… it seems to be playing slightly slower than the original sound… I can verify this because I still have the sequence running through the DIR input…

the really weird part is if I save the sample to a static slot and then use a play back trig its all fine, plays totally in time exactly as sampled…

my question is, is there some global rate setting for the flex machine i accidentally tweaked? or is it a RAM issue?

its really frustrating… any ideas would be much appreciated

thanks!

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pitch and rate settings of the flex playback page? 0 and +64, respectively? (pitch does not matter if you have timestretch: on, but playback rate always does)

second idea, maybe you p-locked your flex playback trig?

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I dont think I P-locked it… I’ve erased and rewrote the playback trig a couple times

I’ll check the flex playback page but i dont think thats it unless it can be set to a particular setting by default?

just an aside i had a similar issue with a sample that i loaded from my computer

like it wasnt wrong when i first loaded the sample into a flex machine… just one time when i played it was off time, then i couldnt figure out how to get it back… then when i changed the track to a static machine and loaded the sample into a static slot, it all worked fine??

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Does the recorded sample play slower at original pitch or is the pitch lower?

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it might be slightly slower pitch wise… the whole thing kind of drifts slow… if that makes sense?

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2 likely scenarios:

1 Timestretch: off. Pitch or rate on playback page is not set to default.

2 ts: on. Rate on pb page is not at default, maximum value.

Also look at the tempo of the sample in the sample attributes page… Should be the same as master tempo.

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timestretch is definitely on… that was my first thought too… I also doubled checked the tempo, it matched the master… I didnt think of rate setting till doing some research this morning but I’ll have to wait till i get back from work to test… I hope its that simple!

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ok so I just checked it… rate is set to default (max) and timestretch is on…

I also tried it on another track just to see if it was something i did in the first track… no dice, same problem… I"m going to upgrade to 1.25e see if it does anything…

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ok i think that it was something to do w the rate knob… thanks for people that helped out… case closed :+1: