New OT MKII owner here. I am having some really odd trouble sampling. I’m hoping you all can help. I’ve read through many other threads on this, and understand a couple of things about posting this question here.
I will give you as much info as possible, I promise.
I have read manual on this, read posts here, watched videos, even successfully sampled prior to this post.
People seem to get quite heated in here when it comes to questions about the OT. I am NOT that guy. I love all of y’all and will appreciate any help you can give me.
My issue is likely user error, but I can not find that error.
Here’s what’s I’m doing:
I have my Digitakt output routed to inputs AB on the OT. I am trying to sample tracks from my DT to the OT to free up space on the DT as well as to learn the OT with all it’s glorious quirks. I have FLEX machines on tracks 1, 2, and 3 on the OT. I have sampled into record buffers 1 and 2 and saved those samples and placed them on tracks 1 and 2 without issue, but for SOME reason, I can sample to record buffer 3 but CAN NOT hear the resulting audio. I can even see the waveform in the Audio Editor. I can not preview it there with FUNC+Yes. I can not place the sample on track 3 and hear it by pressing the Track Trig key like I can with tracks 1 and 2. I can place a playback trig on the track 3, but can’t hear the sample. I have no clue why. I hear everything else just fine.
Record settings:
INAB = AB
INCD = -
RLEN = MAX
TRIG = ONE2
SRC3 = -
LOOP = ON
FIN = 0.063
FOUT = 0.063
AB = 0
QREC = OFF
QPL = OFF
CD = 0
I took these settings from the manual and videos, and they are exactly the same across all three record buffers I am using. I have checked AMP settings, and they all match. I can not find a single setting that is not the same between these 3 FLEX tracks. Again, everything is working great on tracks 1 and 2. However no matter what, I can not hear the audio of this sample. Not in the Editor or on a track, even though I CAN SEE THE WAVEFORM IN THE EDITOR! I am lost on what I’ve done wrong here.
Please send help!
EDIT: so it seems it must have been an effect or scene. Not sure how this happened as all settings matched from working tracks to this not working track. If I ever figure out what I did wrong, I will update again. Thanks as always to this FAST responding community.
I have chosen empty scenes to make sure, and deselected all FX. No change. Still can’t hear sample. T4 is set as a Flex also, however it is completely unused.
Ok, I am at a loss. It’s playing now. I don’t know what happened. At LyingDalai’s request, I turned off all FX and Scenes. It didn’t work. I walk away for ten minutes to come back and try different audio on the track, and i didn’t have to cause now it works!
Man this thing is quirky. So it must have been an effect or a scene.
But what I don’t understand is I made sure that all settings in all ways was the same among all three of the FLEX tracks. So what am I missing here?
Either way, thanks for going through it with me gang. It helps to just talk to people who get it.
There is a lot going on with the OT. Never underestimate it is really a 24 track machine. 3 sets of 8 tracks all available concurrently, all totally modular. Plus 16 scenes, 4 parts and what ever FX, Plocks, slide trigs etc.
Its very easy to get lost. Its unrealistic to grasp all of it in a matter of weeks. Glad you got your problem solved. Enjoy!
I was learning sampling on the OT yesterday and also came across similar problems.
I cleared the settings on/ LFO / FX1 and FX 2 (press down and press clear) as usually something I had accidentally adjusted was screwing up the sample.
Today I got to grips with setting record trigs for recording (resampling) internal tracks and thru machines. . Sometimes my recording would work and sometimes it wouldnt. Finally realised I was making the dumb mistake of setting them outside of the recording track on the odd occasion lol.
The challenge of this machine is definitely half the fun
Honestly, no. It’s been a while so I forget what was really causing my issue, even if I ever figured it out. It could have been a glitch, I could have just like had the track volume down. Who knows? BUT I have learned a lot and kept working and I do find it much easier than I used to. Here’s a couple of things to look out for.
Check, double check, and even triple check everything. Got a flex machine on track 3? Trying to sample into it to play it back? What record buffer are you recording to? Does track 3 even have a record buffer selected? Is it record buffer 3?
What I’ve just done is over complicated something that you’d think would be easy. But the OT doesn’t do easy, it does EVERYTHING. I’ve found that trying to stick to a VERY linear workflow helps me. If I want to sample onto track 3, I want to record into THAT buffer, when I am done I want to save that sample and (unless otherwise planned) then apply that sample to track 3 and do my next sample recording on a different track AND buffer.
GO SLOW. I find that when I start moving too fast while working, I end up accidentally recording over a sample. This goes back to double and triple checking also. I like hitting the record button, THEN making my sample settings. This allows you to ONLY arm the one track, and not others. You’ll notice when you press FUNC+Yes/No that the screen says ALL TRACKS ARMED (or something like that) normally. BUT when you have a track selected, and the Record button lit, FUNC+Yes/No doesn’t say ALL and only arms/disarms that one track. This has saved me a lot of headache.
Another good workflow (and especially useful when trying to sample stuff in time of a sequence) is using record trigs, and one shot trigs. Forgive me for not remembering exactly how, because every time I have to relearn it, but doing this allows you to essentially “punch-in” a sample. You can use these to start a record buffer say on the second pass of a pattern, record what you want and then stop at exactly the end of that pattern. JUST MAKE SURE you go in and remove the record triggers after (going slow and double checking).
Like I said in the OP, this machine is quirky and it never assumes anything you are doing. So always be sure, and always be deliberate. I’m sorry if this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but that’s just kinda how things go with the OT.
Feel free to keep asking questions though! I love this machine, and want everyone else to also.