Hi,
one of the beautys of the machinedrum is the instant resampling. you place a trigger on the first beat in both the recording and playback track and the latter starts playing the recording immediately, i love it.
i´m not able to recreate this on the OT, i tried everything, keep the recording in loop, the differnt recordingmodes, one track for recording and one for playback …
am i missing something here or is this just not possible? any help greatly apprechiated.
cheers,
yourmama
dear mom,
you can replicate this feature on the OT. set your playback trigs and then hit FUNC + REC AB to go to recorder setup, put a trig (now it’s a recording trig) on the 1st step (preferably while holding down the FUNC button so it’s a one-shot recording trig, set the recording length to match the pattern length and - most importantly - set the IN AB and IN CD to none and SRC3 to the track number you wish to sample and it’s done.
mind you that the recording winds up in the recording buffer for that channel - you still have to save that to a file.
This is true, although if you set up a flex machine on this same track and have the sample as ‘recording number x’ where ‘x’ is the track number you’ve got selected you effectively have the same functionality as your machine drum (as I understand it.)
Thanks for the replies.
maybe i wash´t clear on the subject, it´s about contiuosly sampling my modular synth, once there´s something good happening i wan´t to be able to quickly grab the audio.
i think i can achieve that using your tipps!
cheers!
allright, thid dtill doesn´t work 
i want the track to not stop recording, i´m sure i had this going once but can´t get there again, too strange.
i try to explain again, forgive me, english isn´t my native language.
in recording window trig on step 1.
sequencer mode trig on step 1
the octatrack records as expected but stops after whatever there is set in the recording length.
if i keep the trigger in the recording window active it records on and on, but also the track doesn´t play because it´s obviously recording at the moment.
essentially the machinedrum records and plays the sam time what´s in the recordingbufffer, the octatrack doesn´t 
There is definitely a way to do this. Basically you want to use the OT like the RAM machines on the MD right ? Unfortunately I don’t know how to do this off the top of my head. Most of my samples are sent directly to the CF card by USB. No doubt Elektron have implemented this feature in there somehow. Maybe just a bit differently than on the MD. Gonna have a dig about in the manual myself here…
It works just fine here…
I mean…with these settings:
• T1 > Flex loaded with Recorder1
• Trig on step1
• Recorder1:
• trig on step1 with locked the input i want to sample
• length on 16
As soon as i press play i hear the Recorded Buffer…and i can manipulate it
(only up shifting and reversing doesnt work…but its obvious)
LEt us know…its strange…it works nicely!
Hi,yes im sure this works as i had the inverse problem before discovering “one shot” trigs
in that the recorder buffer kept on re-recording over itself every 4 bars
you just need to make sure you DONT use “one shot” trigs, and it should work a treat!
Good to know. Was sure that Elektron would have incorporated this feature (one of it’s best features) from the MD into the Octatrack
it does work but not reliable. audio cuts out here every few bars, like if the record buffer runs dry. sometimes it works as long as i stay in the recording window but if i switch to another screen or track it get´s messed up. i will try to make video tomorrow, maybe my unit has a fault
btw, yes …the idea is the same as the RAM/ROM machines on the md, i love this feature
Maybe it is the Memory for Flex?
How much is the value in the Flex Slot list?
never more then 32 steps/2bars
size is 2,69 mb for the slot
Mmmh…this is probably why…i say probably because 2,69MB are more than enough for 2 bars at whatever BPM.
But you should check in Memory settings in the Setup Menu.
I would try to create another project, fill just few slots in Static, keeping Flex free for a second .
Then try again to sample.
It goes really smoothly and way more fun than on MD. I have both ; )
hello Rael ,
I’m actually facing your problem… ON Track 7, I have a Flex machine with RECORDER 7, with a red trig on the first step. So it’s just supposed to play after record…but it keeps resampling itself…
can you help me on this one ?
thanks
Seb
This is a thread from 2013, so Rael is maybe long gone.
Try using a one-shot trig: hold the FUNC key while you add the record trig.
This is an interesting problem.
So from what I understand, some 12 years ago, OP wanted to create a setup like this:
Incoming audio is going continually in: .~ .~ .~ .~ where the dot is a first beat of the loop and the ~ is just input audio being passed directly though.
And continually out, same stuff, basically just though-in: .~ .~ .~ .~
But then, something cool happens coming in: .~ .~ .~ .~ .COOL
And I guess in the middle of the coolness, we love it and so we hit some kind of button or something to KEEP THE COOL, and the output looks like this:
.~ .~ .~ .~ .CO[!]OL .COOL .COOL .COOL where [!] is where we pressed the button.
So the “button” says: at this tempo, at the next first bar, loop the last four bars and shutoff the though-in.
Been trying to figure out how to do that, no luck so far. I’m thinking that the scooting trick on the rec trig is going to be important, also probably TWO patterns with different parts will be involved, one for THOUGH AND CAPTURE and another for STOP CAPTURE AND LOOP.
EDIT:
OK! Got it to work, I use two patterns, with tempo set to the same.
Pat1: T1 is set to THROUGH. Play trig on 1.1 and a rec trig on 1.1.
Pat2: T1 is set to FLEX. Play trig on 1.1
The gain was messing me up, I think I had a zombie setting from the part that I originally copied where gain was +12 in the AED.
This is default setting (normal) for recording buffers.
You can keep that value and set THRU VOL to +63 in SRC (Playback) page.
Wow, so eventually my Octatrack has a heck of a bug with this. I think it’s when you switch back and forth with the patterns, somehow the AED button stops working and nothing will record.
I think it’s cause the THRU machine has some sort of setting conflict when you hit AED button.