Pardon for asking a question that has probably been asked a number of times before. I’ve spend a good deal of time trying to find the concise answer here, but alas. Feel free to point me to the right post if there is one.
I am the proud new owner of an Octatrack MKII, and is having a great time digging around in it and its manual.
One thing that surprised me was finding that Muting in the MIX page (using the [TRIG] buttons) or using [FUNC] + [TRACK] essentially zeros the volume of the corresponding track, rather than Muting its Trigs, like I know it from Machinedrum, Digitakt and Analog Rytm.
Is there a straight forward way of muting all Trigs of a Track? If the answer is NO, I am happy to receive that.
As a follow question, I anticipated that perhaps one could use the MIDI Tracks to trigger the Audio tracks, similar to how it would be possible from an external MIDI controller. I understand that with a simple MIDI cable looping back from OUT to IN could allow this, but I am in need of that Input for external control.
Question: Is there a setting I’ve missed that allows routing MIDI Tracks’ output internally to either of the the Audio tracks?
The latter would be a passable shortcut for achieving Trig Muting.
Again, if the answer is simply NO, I am ready to accept that and move on with what it does a good job at.
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Unfortunately the OT mutes the audio, not the trigs. You can work around that by using the amp volume (amp vol is pre fx, so turning it down does not kill fx tails). You can map amp vol to scenes or indeed control OTs audio tracks from it’s midi tracks. Loop back the midi out to the midi in and check the manual for the correct notes and maybe midi ccs you want to use.
Also OT has different midi note mappings. Check APPENDIX C: MIDI CONTROL REFERENCE
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Appreciate the swift answer. All is as I expected then. Will work with what is in front of me then 
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Glad I could help. I guess it actually makes sense that OT does not just mute the trigs as every loop would continue to run and even longer samples and thru machines would run until they completed the release stage. I sometimes run into this problem when I use a 1 bar loop in my Analog Rytm. Muting the track at the end of the bar means it will continue to be audible for the length I’ve set my amp hold and release to. When release times are too short, I often get clicks, especially with low freq content, so I have to leave some room. With some fiddling around, I can usually make it work, but OT is basically built around spontaneous sampling, looping and mangling, so it’s probably a good idea to not mute at the trig level.
Btw, OT works really well when you use the midi tracks to trigger its audio tracks.