that was my initial thought, but after viewing the macprovideos, the instructor says something about the MIDI learn feature of the OT with the digitakt(?). I will try to have the OT be the master, though. Thanks!
You notice that I’m not saying which is better as the master. 
I tend to use the OT, but lots of people like to use the DT as the master because it stores tempo with the pattern info.
good point 
I shall experiment. Greatly appreciate the assistance!
This. I have like $25k in music gear and these days I spend all my free time playing my keyboard on vpiano, learning how to read music and become a better keys player.
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I know right? I still do spend a bit of time with my gear to learn about sound design etc,
But I don’t want to just rely on production tricks to make my music sound good anymore…
I want to enter the right notes with out faking it, so I’m going back to the beginning…
I guess it’s because I come from djing rather than band/instrument player background
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You asked the same question in more than one place, and I posted an answer here:
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Our son watches a cartoon, I take a copy of the audio into the OT and mess it up into different tracks - crossfader style - and back.
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I figured out a trick which didn’t occur to me before today, using slices and setting LEN to full the duration of all slices is very handy for using with trig conditions.
Simple example:
Load in a 16 step beat sample, slice to 16, set LEN to 16 (or more) place trig on step 1, now lay out some other trigs with trig conditions, p-lock slice number, reverse em, pitch em, LFO em, filter em etc.
Your variations will only occur when trig condition is met, meaning the beat will play normal when no trig conditions are active, really cool for coming up with variations and getting a lot of mileage out of a 16 step pattern, obviously with longer samples, more steps, things can get quite complex and even more interesting.
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what is the difference between length and hold time on the OT?
LEN when set to slice will play for exact slice length, HOLD will play for exact step length.
BTW in the example above using a 16 slice sample to play in its entirety it is only necessary to set LEN to 16.
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So can play two slices with LEN=2?
Theoretically, could I turn looping on and loop between the starting slice and the LEN value?
This is really very interesting indeed!
If you want to play 2 slices one after another from a single trig, then yes, just set or P-Lock LEN to 2 (making sure LEN is set to SLICES, not TIME in SRC/Playback setup)
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and just to clarify, how does LEN work when it is set to TIME?
TIME is based on fractions of sequencer steps, IIRC a setting of 4 = 1 step.
Edit: Nope, if SLICE is on TIME means LEN controls the length of the slice. If SLICE is off TIME means LEN parameter will linearly control length of sample played.
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Did you know there are two shades of green lights?
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Positive:
Last few days I’ve been completely excited about using an OT track or two for first sampling another percussion or synth track into the track recorder buffer, playing it as a loop, and then make the track recorder continually record it’s own track. What are we calling this? Feedback looping? Self-overdubbing? …? Anyways it’s freeking amazing for developing techno loops, that morph over time by the small changes you can bring in with filters, effects, or simply the continual degradation of the sampling loop. Hope I’m not blowing up my speakers in the process.
Difficult:
I keep trying every now and then to work with longer samples. For example longer speeches. But I can’t seem to apply them very creatively yet. I keep ending up sticking too close to the original recording. Today I tried cutting one up into slices, and used an LFO on conditional trigs to trigger random slices. Still, not too interesting still. Maybe I’ll get there with more techniques, but perhaps this type of sound/approach just doesn’t really spark my creative itches.
Anyways, the feedback looping has got me covered for a while, just some one shot percs or synth notes and a flex track recorder or two and I’m off 
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I’ll begin: lately, I’ve been craving doing some old school jungle. So, today, I’m learning break processing with the OT, from sampling these dusty old breaks to cleaning and giving them some attitude. Then, mangling to oblivion! Lots of resampling and neighbour tracks involved.
Ooh this is on my list. Just found a ton of nice breaks online and I’m excited to get chopping. First things first… do you timestretch them? And if so, do you already import them to the OT knowing their original BPM, or do you figure that out the OT? Would love to know your process!
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Could you expand on this? So, you record, lets say using the master track, then play that recorded loop in a buffer track…What do you do with it then? Do you mean the buffer is continually getting changed from using filters and effects and then at some point you stop the record buffer? Or are you effecting the loop afterward? I’m interested. Thank you.
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Awesome, I was unsure exactly how to use the Len, just tried this and it makes perfect sense now!
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What I really want to learn and make use of is the “Plays Free” mode sequenced by another sequencer o with midi-feedback from the OT. I just haven’t been able to get anything useful out of it that doesn’t just sound off.
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