Slice grid

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hello! I created a 64 note sample of a grand piano stepping up the notes, rendered it to a wav, loaded into Octa1, created 64 slice grid… but now won’t the slices don’t ring out.

The end goal is to have the slices be utilized on an 88 key midi keyboard.

Am I on the right track? Any help would be appreciated!!
:pray:t2:

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If by ring out you mean play polyphonicly…
Octatrack is monophonic.

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Well damn it all then @ the poly.

But no the slices when played sounds like the length is being cut off. But I thought I made the proper adjustments with no luck. Clearly I’m missing something.

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If you want to control the slices from a MIDI keyboard you’ll need to make sure you’re using either FOLLOW TM or MAP/TRACK mode -

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  • Page 40 of the manual

Then these notes should trigger the slices if you’re sending to the correct channel for the track -

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And make sure you’ve enabled slice mode in the SRC settings for the track.

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Check time stretch off, amp env full open. Check all LFOs, filter amp env, scenes, P locks etc. Also check slice mode ON.

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After you have it all working monophonically for one track… There are tricks to make the OT polyphonic with a maximum of 8 voices:

  • Copy the working track to all other 8 tracks of the OT (or less if you don’t need 8 voices).
  • Set them to different midi channels.
  • Use a midi processor (like a Blokas MidiHub) to distribute the notes between the 8 different midi channels.

(several threads on this forum discribed this trick for OT and DT)

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Or just avoid all the elektron samplers and get an akai with auto sample / maschine / a 30 yr old rack sampler from akai / emu / Roland / Yamaha

Or a vst / iPad piano plug-in which is probably going to be the most realistic sounding way to get a piano … except having an actual piano

All Obvious need £££ .

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