In the elektron octatrack, I’m trying to put in a bass pattern using the chromatic keyboard but the sample pattern keeps playing on top of it. Is there a way to shut off the sample pattern from playing?
Not sure if I understand, are you looking to disable audio and only play/record a midi pattern?
I’m in a static bass track in chromatic mode. I’m have the octatrack in play mode and am trying to figure out a base pattern but the sample of the base pattern keeps playing while I’m trying to do this.
So you have a sample from a song, you’re attempting to emulate the bassline of said song sample with a bass one-shot in chromatic mode, and you want to mute the song sample? Have you tried muting the track on which the track sample is playing?
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If I mute the track I can’t hear the bass line I’m trying to put in.
If it’s playing the track sample on loop one would assume that there is a trig laid down on the sequencer, but your issue is that you’ve confirmed there are no trigs on the track but the OT is acting as a looper and just repeatedly playing the sample of the bass note while you’re attempting to play that same sample chromatically?
You have to figure out why it’s treating the sample as a loop. Do you have the trig mode set to play the sample in the forwards direction only? Or are you using a short loop of the bass sample as a single cycle waveform and using that as a bass?
Sorry, I’ve only had the octatrack a few weeks and still figuring out the tricks. I’m still reading the downloaded manual. A lot of it is very confusing. I prefer YouTube videos. There are a lot but none that give an in-depth overview.
It’s ok, I know about elektron but not much about the specifics of the OT.
Why don’t you break down the steps for how you set this up, I bet the problem will become apparent and thus easier for us to help you solve.
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Yeah, the clarification needed is really more on general sampling convention versus specific OT ideosyncracies.
You have one wav loop of a bassline you’re trying to play chromatically as if it was a one-shot, but the loop is being triggered?
What happens when the end point of the sample is limited to the end of the note you’re playing chromatically vs running the sample in a loop? Or trimming it in the editor to exclude the rest of the bassline you don’t want to play?
http://www.elektron.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/octatrack_manual_OS1.25.pdf
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I suspect that the sample is a single one shot note playing from start to finish, and that this sample is playing along with the sequencer as it loops.
It sounds like there’s a trig on one of the steps which is triggering the note. Just saying it’s worth checking again.
To me this sounds like you’re trying to play a bassline on a track that already has some trigs on it. Either stop the sequencer while you play / remove the trigs on that track / or use a separate track so that the sequenced trigs don’t clash with your playing.
The Octatrack is a monophonic sampler per each track, so you can’t have a sequence playing on a single track and play additional notes on top of that without stealing the single voice.
Apologies if this isn’t quite what your problem is about, there’s not that much info to work with.
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Ok, I managed to record my base track and the sample did not play over it. I’m good to go. I’m still not sure how to shut off the sample if I want to do this again. Let me state, there were no trigs on the track I was trying to put the base in. I appreciate all the replies I got. You’re a good community and very tech savvy, I’m not.
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Ah ok. Along with turning the looping off in the SRC second page, you’ll also want to lower the release in the AMP page, if it’s maxed out the sample will just keep playing.
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Octatrack tracks are monophonic. You can’t play 2 samples at the same time on the same track, 1 single sample can’t be played twice with overlap. You can’t have a sample playing over.
From what I understood, you played a loop, hear the end of loop.
As others said, if you want to play one single note, you have to select it.
You can :
- Trim it in Audio Editor
- Slice it and select right slice
- Use Start and LENgth
- Use Hold and Release
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Old 1.25 manual ! 
My first OS…
I think everyone is confused about what I’m talking about. I’m using the elektron octatrack. I pulled a bass file from the elektron static machine. I inserted into a track. When you place a trig on trig 1 the base plays a bass line. I did not want the base line provided. I deselected the trig I placed and pulled up the chromatic keyboard. When I tried to record a live bass line the original bass line kept playing. When you play on the chromatic keyboard the bass line is muted out, but if you delay at all in playing, the original bass line plays. I was able to play my own bass line without the original bass line being recored. All I was asking was how to shut off the original bass line from playing while in chromatic mode. I still don’t know how to do it. I’m not sure if this is because the bass is from a static machine and maybe I should be using a flex machine instead.
The most likely thing that could have caused that would be the bass sample looping. Or if you have at some point increased the pattern length from 16 to 32/48/64 the OT will by default copy any trigs on the first 16 steps into the equivalent positions on the other pages of steps, this would lead to some trigs being played even though the first page of 16 steps looks blank.
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This is absolutely normal if you play a bass line loop sample, it will be played entirely if you don’t isolate a note.
If you have a trig playing the bass line, it is normal that it plays when you don’t play in chromatic mode.
The chromatic mode just play and pitch original sample. You have to edit parameters we mentioned, otherwise the original bass line is played entirely.
And yes loop off, unless you play a short loop as bass sound.
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All samples all come from the card, or recordings. In your case, Static or Flex wouldn’t make a difference.
Static machines play Static slots, streaming from the card. Very long files can be played (2GB, up to 3h30min !).
Statics can click if you change slices with the crossfader, play live or use a random lfo.
Flex machines play Flex slots, samples are loaded in RAM (85.5 MB). Suits shorter files, sliced loops you want to mangle, change slices with crossfader, play live or use a random lfo. FLEX allows recording buffers playback.
In the manual…
If you don’t understand the basics, you may be handicapped oftenly…
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← I believe this is the solution
I believe the user wants to use the first note of a loop like a one-shot.
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Different solutions to reduce sample length, but Release doesn’t suffice if Hold is still set to INF…
Trim, Start/Length, Slices…
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