Octatrack Tips & Tricks (OT Tips)

[jbone1313]

My best tips for quick, click-free sampling:

Declick

I did some testing yesterday, and I can confirm what @sezare56 says about the delayed application of FIN and FOUT. Those settings are pretty useless, especially when sampling looping patterns where there is some latency. The reason is that the placement of the fade will probably not necessarily line up with the placement of the audio due to the latency. In the course of my testing, I learned some other important things. I am sharing here in case it helps anyone else. When you are sampling a l…

OT Ableton audio printer: No excuses for bad sounding OT mixes.

Transferring Octatrack audio tracks to computer?

Update: Adding my template file. I was reluctant to do that, because I still have not tried it for a real song; I have only used it for tests. OctatrackPrinterFollowActions.als (293.6 KB). I added one thing using a MIDI loopback, which causes the set to stop after the last pass. If you look at the MIDI mapping, you should see a note mapped to the stop button, and that note is being fired in the last clip on the MIDI loopback track. Also added a picture below. This is insane. I have a test Ablet…

No more latency when sequencing Ableton from OT or monitoring OT (or other synced hardware) through Ableton:

Solution for ITB-OTB clock sync and latency in Ableton

Well, I think I discovered an even better solution for all this, and I updated the OP to refer to this post accordingly. Turn on Reduced Latency When Monitoring. Do not place any latency inducing devices in any signal path through which you are monitoring machines you are syncing or instruments you are playing or triggering with a hardware sequencer, EXCEPT for External Instrument device. The External Instrument device does not seem to add latency to the INSTRUMENT tracks on which they are pla…