Saving Machines

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Once a static machine is loaded with 128 samples in the slots, can it be saved so it can be accessed by other projects?

Thanks!

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Just started with the OT so I might be wrong, but it appears that a Project are the highest level of hierarchy, they are basically states of conscious of the whole machine. So it doesn’t remember what the Project consisted of once you recall another Project.

However, recently there was a thread on moving Banks - somebody had a workaround. Also, Rusty’s OctaEdit might be the call.

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Think carefully about what you are trying to do and, therefore, what you need to ask.

The samples are not loaded into a “machine”, they (usually) come from the audio pool. The audio pool is available to all the projects in a set.

The sample slots belong to a project. You could save your current project as a new project if you wanted to duplicate the sample slot list.

Does one of these scenarios help you?

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Machines do not contain slots. Machines reference slots. You are telling a machine to reference slot nnn, regardless of what sample is in slot nnn

Edit: Refer to Peter’s post above. What exactly are you trying to achieve here?

Second, underneath a Set, but essentialy a Project is the current working state / settings.

'tis the answer.

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I guess what you want to do is build several tracks out of one collection of samples, without having to load up the slots again every time. Your options are:

  1. Get a “template” project set up with all the samples ready in the slots but no trigs, then use this as a starting point for every track (save as)

  2. Use BANKS for songs instead of projects. This is a pretty common technique, as songs usually aren’t complex enough to warrant the use of 16 banks (256 patterns, 64 scenes), and this way you can perform fades etc via the crossfader without having to stop the audio.

Some planning ahead required because at this point if you start a 5 tracks in 5 banks of project and 5 tracks in 5 banks another project and want to put them all in one project for performance you can’t - but octaedit will fix that.