if you want to stay in the OT to make chains rather than use Live etc:
this is a direct port from the ableton method of making chains using drum racks and midi triggers.
Keep things organised and set up a dedicated chain making project.
lets say you want to make a chain of short one shot percussion sounds. if necessary set your project tempo accordingly (and turn time stretch off for the samples) to give the individual hits time to play to completion without being cut off by the following trig or use trigs at the correct beat divisions for your material 1/16ths, 1/8ths, 1/4ths etc
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[li]load up slots with as many samples as you want in your chain (up to 64)[/li]
[li]lay out the same number of trigs[/li]
[li]sample lock each trig to the samples in your slots[/li]
[li]set up a track recorder with a one shot trig to record the track you’re placing trigs on (default amount of ram assigned to the track recorders is 16 seconds. 64 steps or 4 bars at 120 bpm is 8 seconds for example.)[/li]
[li]press play[/li]
[li]save your recorded sample[/li]
[li]load the sample to a slot, slice it, name it and save it (important as the slice info is not by default saved with the sample)[/li]
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This method ensures you have the same temporal distance between your sample starts in the chain for the OT’s auto slice divisions to work. I don’t know whether it’s quicker than having samples of silence to paste hits into but I suspect when the dedicated project is set up properly , it is.
Also by setting up the correct tempo multipliers at fractions (timestretch on or off depending) you can even make chains of quite long phrases that you have sampled previously.