User Manual

TRACK RECORDERS AND PICKUP MACHINES
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enough to make the track recorder of the active track start sampling. Read more
about RECORD QUICK MODE on page 33.
• The QREC p arameter is very use ful when manually sampling external gea r synced
to the Octatrack. Perfect loops are then easy to capture. When manually trigging
the loops, use QPL to ensure they are played in perfect sync with the Octatrack
pattern.
RECORDER TRIG SAMPLING
Recorder trigs allow an automa ted sampling process as each reco rder trig initiates sam-
pling. Recorder trigs can be placed on the sequencer while being in either the RECORD-
ING SETUP menus or in the TRACK TRIG EDIT menu, cove red on p age 87. To be able to
place recorder trigs on the se quencer GRID RECORDING mode must be active. Recorder
trigs are entered by pressing the [TRIG] keys.
A recorder trig defaults to sampling from all three input sources, but the source selection
can be changed for each recorder trig. When in the RECORDING SETUP 1 menu, the
source a re corder trig samples from can be seen by p ressing and holding the [TRIG] key of
the recorder trig. The activated sources are indicated by inverted graphics in the LCD and
by lit <AUDIO RECORD> and <MIDI> LEDs.
To activate or deactivate a sampling source for a recorder trig, keep the [TRIG] button of
the recorder trig pressed while pressing eith er [AUDIO REC AB], [AUDIO REC CD] or
[MIDI]. Subsequent recorder trigs being placed on the sequencer will default to the latest
activated source selection.
Recorder trigs can be turned into one shot recorder trigs. They trig sampling only once,
which can be very useful when for example sampling live and not wanting to have to
remove a recorder trig once it has initiated sampling. One shot recorder trigs are entered
by pressing [FUNCTION] + [TRIG] and are indicated by yellow <TRIG> LEDs. Read mor e
about one shot trigs section “ONE SHOT TRIGS” on page 79.
• If a recorder buffer c ont ain s a sample and the corr esponding tr ack recor der starts
to sample, the original buffer sample will be overwritten by the new sample.
• When sampling using recorder trigs the captured sample will be assigned the
same BPM as the current BPM setting of the Octatrack. In the ATTRIBUTES menu
of the audio editor the BPM as signment of the sample can be change d. Read more
in “ATTRIBUTES” on page 102.
PLAYBACK OF CAPTURED RECORDER SAMPLES
Each track recorder sa mple s to a dedica t ed recor der bu ffer. The eight recorder buf fers ar e
located in the Flex sample slot list, directly above the first sample slot position.