It may also depend on material and believe it or not, slice number !!
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Sure, I’ll probably encounter the limitations at some point, but I tried all slice numbers and until now I didn’t hear clicks. Do faster cards matter? (EDIT: I read the thread you linked to, but it was not very informative concerning card-speed) Mine is the stock one. I bought my OT new in january’19, so I guess I have the latest generation of CF cards installed.
Not as much in playback terms - i doubt it is that significant - certainly when uploading though and projects load faster
i doubt it’ll be much faster than 266x which seems to be ample as far as 
are concerned, though these will be hard to come by
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As per the manual:
Cards supporting UDMA and at least 133x (~20MB/s) for both reads and writes are compatible with the Octatrack MKII. Cards must be FAT16 or FAT32 formatted, preferably FAT32. Up to 64 GB Compact Flash cards are supported
The Sandisk Extreme Pro card advertises 150MB/sec and this has been tested and proven correct (I am into photography as well and CF card speed is a frequently discussed topic). That’s about 7 times faster than the stock card… and they go for approx 50€ for the 32GB version, and 90€ for the 64GB. I’ll probably get one of those.
why though, if you look through the CF cards thread you’ll find absolutely no correlating evidence that the OT is faster in any notable terms let alone those factors, it’ll be faster loading stuff from your computer for sure, but the calculation i did showed that in the worst case scenario, the OT should not hit a bottleneck with a stock card if all possible i/o was happening - this is what you would of course expect the manufacturer to be cognisant of when they ship these stock cards, it’s not going to show up the OT, that would be embarrassing - that’s not to say that later CF cards are not more robust potentially and there’s the speed bump writing from a PC - each to their own, but it’s not going to be 7 times faster where it counts, be prepared for that (or read through the thread for anecdotal feedback)
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Yeah, I just read through it but there’s basically no information in there, no evidence that it’s faster but noone really tested. Mine is a 50MB/sec, I just checked. I thought it would be a 20MB/sec as that’s the minimum requirement . Maybe that’s fast enough then. But I will need a higher capacity in the near future!
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Only when using a separate CF card reader, which don’t uses USB2 but a faster protocol 
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I would use resampling. One-shot recorders on all tracks pointing to their own tracks, press Yes, then switch to a different pattern/part playing only recorder buffers.
Additional advantage: records your fader movements!
@pinup57
That does Control ALL for any audio track parameter !
Did you try it ?
Set all audio tracks and a midi track on midi channel 1, select right CCs, done.
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I will, it’s on my shortlist! (no OT testing today yet, tomorrow should be OK)
Brilliant. I don’t why I hadn’t thought about that myself… Works like a charm. Instant selection out of a choice of 64 kits. Perfect!
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Woah you have a terabyte of kick
Samples ?
That was a bit exagerated But I do have a terabyte of samples, I think. Dozens of favors of XOX, tons of weird stuff… I started sampling and collecting sets when I got my Roland S550 in the late 80’s
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Can never have enough samples for OT! Lemme know you want some Rytm samples have some one shots somewhere from a album I did with GBA nanoloop 2 