Ways to loose your work

The Lounge General Discussion
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Hi,

I’d like a list of ways to loose your work unintentionally on elektron devices, so that everyone who reads this can avoid these situations:

Octatrack

  • Function + Cue (reloads without warning, everything lost up till last save, no undo)
  • Eject CF card (Everything in OT buffer is lost, no undo)
  • Function + play in live record mode (clears entire pattern instead of your last recording
  • Changing any of record reserve lengths in the OT’s memory management screen will clear all record buffers.

Analog Four

  • Turning off the A4 looses unsaved performance macro’s (kits/patterns are saved automatically, but performance macro’s need a explicit save)
  • Function + play in live record mode (clears entire pattern instead of your last recording
  • Function + no (reloads kit, no undo)
  • Clearing a pattern also unlinks a kit. When you navigate back and forth to this pattern, the kit of the last pattern you were at is assigned. Very easy to mistakenly change the kit of that last pattern unintentionally

Machinedrum

  • Changing kits will discard unsaved changes to previous kit

+Drive

  • Loading a snapshot discards all changes of previous snapshot (use change snapshot to get intended behaviour)

There are probably more situations, please add them to the list if you know any more.

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On Octatrack, - Change bank (all unsaved changes to parts are lost)

Are you sure about this? Each PART on each BANK in the OT has a Buffer which is stored in the memory all the time.

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That FUNCTION CUE trauma… :s Especially unintentionally triggered when playing live :s :s :s :s

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No that’s actually the only one I haven’t checked out myself, I heard this from a friend. I’ll check it out.

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Done all of these, also lost a bunch of mono machine stuff by changing snapshot without saving the previous one.

The most annoying on is hitting function cue in the OT, done that a bunch of times lol.

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Yes these are so close together you could press it on a fingerslip. Tough one. I’ve added the snapshot thing to the list.

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Thanks for the list, good job!

Did the Function +Cue combo on the OT more than once and sort of learned from it.

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No that’s actually the only one I haven’t checked out myself, I heard this from a friend. I’ll check it out.[/quote]
Maybe you should edit your post as changing BANK does not make you lose unsaved PART settings.

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This is on the MD and MnM (I don’t won A4 or OT …maybe same?):

Changing to a new pattern before saving the currently loaded kit will cause any tweaks you’ve made to the kit to vanish. This only happens if you switch to a pattern that uses a different kit than the one being used by the currently loaded pattern. Switching to a pattern that uses the same kit as the currently loaded kit, will retain any tweaks (until you switch to a pattern that uses a different kit).

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Yeah the parts stay as they were but with as asterix to indicate they have been modified since the last “save part”
however i think if you change bank you loose the unsaved audio on the recording buffers
may be wrong?

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The buffers are only cleared if you manually clear them, or if you record something else over them. Otherwise the contents are global to the project.

Here’s another one, changing any of record reserve lengths in the OT’s memory managemetn screen will clear all record buffers.

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Best way:

Accidentally step on the power switch on your surge protector.

Even worse:

Step on the power switch of your OTHER surge protector- the one that has your audio interface plugged into it- so you spend an hour straight thinking you are recording 3 machines simultaneously, only to find out you got 8 seconds.

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No that’s actually the only one I haven’t checked out myself, I heard this from a friend. I’ll check it out.[/quote]
Maybe you should edit your post as changing BANK does not make you lose unsaved PART settings.[/quote]
Done. And added a new one:

  • Clearing a pattern also unlinks a kit. When you navigate back and forth to this pattern, the kit of the last pattern you were at is assigned. Very easy to mistakenly change the kit of that last pattern unintentionally