Recently I’ve started to encounter a problem of hitting the trig lock ceiling on my Digitakt and I am starting to think about a necessity of an upgrade to OT. I am saying “necessity” only because I fell in love with Elektron’s sequencer and the OT should be twice as powerful as the DT, judging by the price.
But at the same time I don’t know if OT has this thing happening at the same point or not.
Here’s what is documented in their respective manuals.
Parameter lock limits, per pattern:
MD: 64
MM: 62
A4/AK: 128
AR: 72
Digitakt: 72
Digitone: 72
Octatrack: Not documented. (edit, however, there appears to be no limit)
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Wow. Never have noticed that.
Thank you for posting these limits!
Now I will at least know for sure how many locks I have on my DT.
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I’ve never hit the max plock count and I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere…
This one’s for the big guy, @Rusty ? 
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It appears there is no lock limit.
I just p-locked every possible audio track parameter on all 8 tracks to one trig without issue.
202 parameters. 
more than twice that if you include the MIDI tracks.
All hail the Octatrack!
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Great!
Thank you very much for your replies!
I think I’ll wait for a couple of months for any final decision, but if I’ll keep running into this limit on my DT I think I’ll have no options other then upgrading to OT.
P.S.
And AFAIK, OT also has the instant pattern change, unlike the DT.
Afraid not.
For Direct Change, you’ll need AR, AK, or A4.
OT does not have it.
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Damn.
Thanks for the heads up!
So I’ll still have to use the same workaround I use now with my DT and Pyramid.
Yes! That’s awesome…
@psypad, There’s no manual instant direct jump but you can program direct jump in the arranger…
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There is no max Parameter Lock count on the Octatrack.
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@psypad, There’s no manual instant direct jump but you can program direct jump in the arranger…
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Could you elaborate this?
How would you e.g. slave the OT to the DT?
Workaround with a midi processor :
Send a program change + stop + start = instant pattern change.
With the arranger among other things you can choose the starting step (offset: of) for patterns and set how many steps they play (length: ln).
It is possible to do this for example:
A1 of 0 ln 16
A2 of 17 ln 16
A3 of 33 ln 16
A4 of 49 ln 16
With the above the OT will play the first bar of A1, the second bar of A2, the third bar of A3, and the forth bar of A4…
When I mentioned this I wasn’t intending to suggest syncing devices to this, it’s just something that can be done. The OT menu program change only sends at the end of the pattern so that’s not ideal for this, midi track program change works but devices would have to be very responsive to them for good timing…