Trigless locks on Pick Up Machine track(s)? Possible?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Forgive my blundering through this post. I’m a new user trying to wrap my head around this amazing sampler.

I have three, 64 step loops recorded using pick up machines. I think I’m drawn to using pick up machines caused from my past experience using various guitar looper pedals and overdubbing onto two separate tracks using primarily a TC Electronics DittoX4. My page scale is for 16 steps. What is interesting I’ve noticed is that my recorded loops are independent of the sequencer scale length.

I believe I’m able to use live record mode and assign trigless locks that are modulating the Filter Q, but I think it is only doing so for the first 16 steps. All the first sixteen steps are lit green. I think this is confirmation that trigless locks have been assigned?

There is allot going on and difficult to tell. It might be altering it through the entire 64 steps…I think it is but I can’t see them beyond the first 16 steps, but believe I’m hearing the changes (will try to isolate a track and solo it).

This combined with various LFO’s assigned to several Effects in the Neighbor tracks is really turning a 3 track, 64 step loop into an evolving soundscape. Finally got the Neighbor track working by pressing track and play although sometimes I have to stop the sequencer and restart it to turn it on oddly enough.

I’m wondering if anyone uses this method and how the results may differ from Flex track recording/looping. Have I gone nuts and falsely believe I believe can assign trigless locks to pick up machine tracks?

Thank you

On a side note, can I change the tracks to a flex track without deleting the recording buffer and save the loop with all tweaks to it or do I need to resample using REC3?

One last thing if anyone is feeling generous…a question related to recording the final mix. I wish to gradually fade in the separate tracks. When I press track + play they abruptly start. I’ve been turning the volume knobs down prior to playing, then slowly fading them in. Is this how most do it?

My thought was if I could figure out how to automate the initial fade into, I would bounce it all down to an open track, then finally play it as a backing tracking so I could play back over it with my guitar, having seven tracks available for improvising, tweaking even further.

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Long question. No trigs for pickups, but you can play it’s recording with another track with Flex, or a Neighbor track for additional Fx, depending on what you want to plock.

Recorders are independant from machines, except with Pickups, that plays corresponding track recorder only. Flex machines can play any recording buffer.

If you don’t need overdub, maybe you can record directly with the recorder of a flex track, playing it on that track, with plock ability.

You can apply a fade after recording with Amp page attack.

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Thank you. Will experiment with resampling what I record in the pick up machines into flex tracks. I can use a trig for the first loop, making it fade in gradually using the AMP envelope?

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With Flex track, yes. You can use an lfo on Vol too.

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