Is there a way to remove a copied track? For example, I have copied track 5 to track 6. As we know at this point, if I change the sample in track 5, it automatically changes the sample in track 6, and vice versa. Say I want to keep track 5 as is, but “uncopy” track 6, like decoupling it from the original track, track 5. Can this be done or have I essentially lost track 6 as permanent slave to track 5?
Thanks in advance for any help with this. The issue has been dogging me for some time.
Copy the sample used to a different name and different slot number then reference the renamed sample in track 6
Sorry if I’m being dense here, but I’m not following exactly. Save the original sample with a different name, put this sample in a new slot and assign it to track 5? At this point in your explanation I’m not sure what you mean by “reference the renamed sample.” Again, sorry if I’m being dense.
Like @oldgearguy says, you’ve copied Track05 (referencing Static005) to Track06 (which is also referencing Static005); as both tracks/machines are referencing the same sample.
Go to Track06, go into the Samples list and add in the same sample that is in Static005 into slot Static006, and point Track06 at Static006.
Net result, is Track/Machine05 is looking at Static005 and Track/Machine06 is looking at Static006; thus changes to Slot005 won’t affect Track06 playback and vice versa.
As Rusty said - the issue you have comes down to both tracks referring to the same sample. So, you have to make a copy of the sample (now you have 2). Since you have 2 spearate copies of the sample, each track can point to it’s own individual copy and whatever edits/locks you do to the track or the sample stays in that place only and does not effect the other sample/track.
There’s one more thing I should have said. I want to use a completely new sample in the track 6 slot. I no longer want the track 5 sample in the track 6 slot. What baffles me about the way elektron seems to have designed it is that even if the track 5 sample was the original sample, if I change the copied track 6 sample, it will force the track 5 sample to change as well. It’s a sort of constantly shifting master sample. And of course you can’t reset a track back to it’s original sample-less state because, well, god knows why. Hoping this is resolved in a future update.
That’s not a bug,
You assign samples to SLOTS, and then a slot to a track (in fact, you assign a slot to a flex or static machine in this track). You don’t assign a sample directly to a track.
Sample 1 is assigned to slot 1, and slot 1 to your track 1.
If you want a different sample on track 2, you must assign sample 2 to ANOTHER slot, say slot2, then you assign slot 2 to track 2.
If you change the sample in slot 1 to sample 2, the track 1 will now play sample 2 because track 1 is assigned to slot 1.
DON’T CHANGE SAMPLES WITHIN SLOTS, CHANGE SLOTS!
Cheers
BTW, you don’t need to duplicate the sample if you want the same sample on 2 tracks and if you only change machine and FX parameters. You can keep only one sample in the audio pool, that will be assigned to 2 different slots, these 2 slots being used by the 2 different tracks.
You need to duplicate the sample only if your changes apply at the sample level (if you edit with trim, crop, volume modifications per slices, etc, all stuff that is done in the sample edition window).
Thank you. I didn’t understand this before. Still new to Elektron.