Hello!
I’m running a hardware synth (ms20) thru Input A of my Oktatrack MK1, and manually recording+looping it using track recorder 1, while a Pattern of samples runs. Everything is recording and looping properly and sounds great, except that I hear no sound from the hardware synth as I’m recording - I can only hear it after it loops on the Oktatrack for the first time. I know there must be a way to “preview” the input sound on the recorder track before it loops, but I’m not finding anything about this in the Recorder and Pickup Machines section of the manual. I’ve tried messing with various settings in the recorder trig and recorder setup menus on the Okta itself, but I just can’t seem to figure it out!
Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time!
-M
I’m still new to octatrack but it sounds like maybe the AB level is set to 0?
Page 48 in manual
"AB sets the monitoring level of the signal coming from the input pair AB. The setting is only relevant
when a Pickup machine is assigned to the track. The INAB setting, located in the RECORDING SETUP 1
page, decides which input or inputs that should be monitored. If different track recorders contain different AB settings, the setting made for the track recorder of active track is the one that will dictate the
current Pickup machine monitoring level. The monitor signal is routed to the active track, meaning any
track effects will affect the signal. It will also be routed to the output destination of the active track. This
setting is useful if you want to monitor incoming audio a Pickup machine should sample, but don’t want to
use DIR parameter of the MIXER menu.
Also check the section at 1:53 on this video
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Yes! Thank you!
I didn’t know to use the DIR parameter in the mixer menu.
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