I see it, there it is. Source is called playback on the mk1 lol
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ooooh the classic!
Honestly stick with it. Eventually it will be muscle memory, just like how eventually even an RPG item/inventory system will become second nature after enough playing…
Good luck with your project!
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Thank you, thats an apt analogy for me too.
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Yup, its sitting next to me right now. It’s not well written for reference though, like the index sucks. It needs to be read cover to cover with a highlighter I am in the middle of that process
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great resource here too
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I dunno, I think its one of the best manuals going. Roland and Korg manuals are woeful. The OT manual is extremely concise.
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I agree, some synths don’t even include manuals, just a quick start card. Quick start in the OT manual is like 20 pages long, lol. However, not comparatively, just in terms of pure reference, its hard to find stuff, and that could sort of make your point as well. Its deep and long and involved. But, try looking up delay ctrl in the index, or anything in the FUnC + Down arrow menu. Slices, tracks, etc. They’re not there, so the way to make it a good reference manual is to read it cover to cover and highlight your own spots.
Was not disparaging it in comparison to other companies, just in comparison to my needs. 
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Ha! Yeah! Starting out with the Octatrack it’s impossible to know whether the machine is broken or if the user is dumb.
I had a few of these moments when I first started out 
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If weird shit is happening to your sample clear everything. For instance you can hold the AMP button and press clear and it will reset all the parameters. Do this to everything
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Some of them aren’t manuals so much as engrish plan-o-grams. The only way to find anything is with a keyword search on the PDF. The paper version is this impractical single piece of paper that unfolds like an old road map.
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Another of the many many cool things that seem super logical, and I didn’t know. Lol
Thanks
But in 99.999% of the cases the user (more or less) quickly finds out it’s him …
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I’ve had my OT2 for two years and didn’t realize you could solo tracks in the mix page by holding cue + hitting trig 1-8. Couldn’t get any of my thru tracks to play audio with scenes off and thought I was losing my mind. Nope, just a track with nothing on it was soloed. Pretty sure something in AUM sent the midi signal to solo it though, which didn’t help with all the confusion…
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It’s funny because the old Korg manuals are hard to use for the opposite reason.
I’ve got a Wavestation SR and the manual is about 350 pages in three separate volumes.
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Lol, yeah, the older korg sound creation stations were like the Stephen King library, and as scary.
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In the first months, learning OT is very often debugging a situation where the machine doesn’t do what you want it to do.
Frustration is a part of it I guess…
With patience and some time, you’ll get your own workflow.
And see how rewarding a machine it is.
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Yeah, I was about to suggest that too. Sometimes a knob LOOKS like it is in default position, but it isn’t, really.
Don’t. OT doesn’t like claps.
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No one likes claps, that’s why it’s there.
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