Octatrack + 0-Coast : setup help required

Ok thanks buddy

Yea you make sense.

I watched Cuckoos vid and somehow he created a whole track with just the 0 Coast and using chromatic mode.

He just did not explain how he setup the recording at all… but he did it.

His gentle, loose style hides how deep his knowledge goes. He makes everything look effortless, but he’s done his research and then some.

I imagine he recorded MIDI and played it back.

Or he set up sampling in such a way that even in MIDI mode the sampler is set to record (via a one-shot trig and/or quantised rec start end time). You can do some fiddly, clever stuff. I can’t explain it because I haven’t got the quantised recording to work for myself yet.

Seems I‘m not grasping what you‘re trying to achieve. My bad

Thats ok man you tried to help and I appreciate that.

I saw him hit the track + record but you cant do that when on chromatic mode so Im stumped.

This is the vid

To live record midi notes while in Chromatic mode, just hold record and hit play at the same time to enter live recording mode (this is possible while in Chromatic mode). You can record up to 64-step patterns like this, or use the scale setup to slow the sequencer down (you’ll get a longer sequence that way at the expense of less note resolution). Once the midi is recorded, you can have it played back over and over, sample whatever you want into one of the audio recording buffers (even while tweaking 0-Coast settings), save the sample and assign it to either a static or a flex machine track, then repeat the process to add other parts, using different midi tracks (to preserve your original midi in case you want to return to it) and different audio tracks. But that’s a lot to figure out as a new user, so take each stage bit by bit. Just experiment with recording midi in live recording mode to begin with until it’s second nature. Then break out the manual and get the sampling process down (there are more than a few ways of sampling on the OT, so it’s hard to say which one’s best for you).

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Thanks Craig — That is what I will do.

Save the recorded sample first.

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Split the two things … but seriously … your tone is a bit off. You’re lucky we’re still helpfull.

I’d approach it this way (just one of the many ways the OT can do it):

In Audio track go to REC (1, 2 or 3 … if you got mk2) mode (the three buttons at the top) and set to your likings (rec length etc.)€

Place a rec trig on trig 1 …or with shift + 1 which will be a one shot that can be activated or deactivated or it deactivates itself after it ran once.

Then go to MIDI track / chromatic mode and play your sequence and activate that oneshot rec trig with Func + Yes (should activate all oneshot rec trigs even the REC trigs, right?)

Try to learn this. Took days and weeks for me but I’m also very lazy :grinning:

Go to audio mode track 1 and place a trig in Flex machine to play back the recording buffer 1.

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seems like I’m nuts after I took a lot of my lifetime to write you that tutorial. Yep, I’m nuts! Working on it 🥸

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