Master pickup machines

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Hi,

I’m trying to learn to master the P machine. I’ve got an experimental Project loaded. On track 1 I placed a PUM. On track 2 and 3 I put something else.

I recorded a 128-step loop into the PUM on track 1.

On track 4, later, I made another PUM. I recorded another loop into it. Then I realised it must be a “slave” PUM, because its length was set to 128, like the master.

I replaced the PUM in track 1 with something else.

Should the PUM in track 4 now behave as if it is standalone/master? Or is the logic in those machines a bit non-dynamic and weird? Or am I being a bit non-dynamic and weird?

#2

By that I mean, should I now be able to erase and record a new loop with its own new length, on the PUM on track 4? (It was previously a slave. Now it’s alone.)

#3

In theory, yes you are correct.

In theory.

The PUMs are eccentric in their behavior. People have been able to get both the slave and master symbols displayed in a PUM track. Spend an afternoon tracking down the various PUM threads here and reading through them.

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#4

Haha. Ok. Understood :slight_smile: I actually had a master+slave together on track 4 (I didn’t realise this was noteworthy) so I will put it down to experience and treat the machines with care.

#5

well, experience of a bug :zonked:

a long long standing bug

nearly 4.y.o. at least

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#6

Are you using the first pickup to define tempo or having the sequencer going first to get sequencer tempo PU loops?

The latter is what I do, and I’ve found if recording pattern length recordings or multiples like 128, 256, 512, if I turn all PU len parameters to off, and use qpl, qrec, and one2mode to define length, it seems I never have to worry about the master/slave paradigm…
I can start and stop them when I want, they stay in sync, and they don’t change the bpm…

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