Yes I was just looking at it as the same thing!
Cool. Where I’m at right now I don’t see a practical use for it, but at least I know I don’t have to go into the track assignment settings and assign the track to a rec buffer…I can just go ahead and record. That’s pretty streamlined.
It seems there are quite a few of us around here who have recently bought an OT…Must be something in the air 
The mind boggles at the potential. For example, you could set up a more or less self-generating pattern, assigning flex machines to play back rec buffers, recording to several rec buffers from various internal and external sources, then play around as the sound plays- alternating between different recorder tracks and playback tracks. Great for long form experimental stuff.
Again…Where I’m at right now (less than a week with the OT) I don’t see a practical use for it 
Give me a few months at least!
Ha ha- fair enough!
One of the things I do often on the OT is to have external audio fed into a record buffer, with a flex machine playing the same buffer as it’s being recorded. That way it’s pretty instant to mess with the recording by retriggering it, pitching it (to a certain extent! otherwise it cuts off), etc. It’s probably a good introduction to live sampling on the OT, imo!
Oh, and you can restrain recording to only track 1.
I made use of it recently to sample long sequences of external source… This way I could use the full memory for recording track 1 only, with no space spoiled by other recording buffers…
How do you do that? By allocating all the memory to R1 in the settings?
You set only R1 as recording track, and set the memory to dynamic.
And don’t use FLEX on another track unless it is to listen to Recording buffer R1 
Got it!
Reminder :
Max recording :
16 bit : 508s, 8m28s
24 bit : 339s, 5m39s
ok, hold up. trying to wrap my head around this.
if you have a kick sample on track 1 with a couple of trigs laid down, you can then hit track1+AB to record to track 1’s recording buffer? I thought when setting up a Flex machine you had to choose between a recording buffer or a Flex sample. If you have a sample selected but then record to it’s recording buffer, what plays? Both at once, the kick and the new sample?
When you configured the flex to play a sample, than the sample will play (while in the background the record buffer may record something).
The record buffer of a track is its own thing and can be used in addition/parallel to what machine is configured for that track.
ahh ok, I was aware that the recording buffers were separate. I think I just misunderstood the original question. Thanks!
I’ll add you can load a sample in Recording 1-8 slots. It can be overdubed with Pickups or Flex, or replaced.
When you save a recording, SAVE TO SELF corresponds to a sample loaded in a Recording 1-8 slots.
When you use SAVE ALL RECORDINGS, samples are saved TO SELF. Not my favorite setting, I’d like a project setting for that.
It can be overdubbed with flex? You mean by sampling both the track and input or another way?
Yep. In Rec Setup select in AB or CD and the track you want to overdub, or CUE.
The track records itself > overdub.
I don’t remember if you have to set AMP VOL to +63 (or +12).
Ok, I knew this way but was curious if you found another way. I do wish for proper in-place overdub on track recorders like the pickups have, either that or the abilty to use rec trigs for pickups.
I experimented quite a lot, after I focused more on realtime recording / playing / mangling, but I’m still interested in improvements.
I succeeded to record / overdub with linear fades, using 2 tracks, 2 recorders overlapping, and slide trigs with VOL. I’d like do be able to do it with undefined length…doable I think, with lfo / release. Not simple at all. 
