Elektron Octatrack - Manual (Page 63)

TRACK RECORDERS AND PICKUP MACHINES
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• D will make the recorder sample from input D. The captured sample will be in ste-
reo even though only one input is used.
• C+D will make the recorder capture a stereo file in which the signals from input C
and input D are summed.
RLEN sets the duration of the recording once the track recorder starts to sample. This set-
ting is dependent of the BPM of the sequencer but disregards any scale settings of the
track. A setting of 16 will for example always record the equivalent of 16 1/16th notes with
a scale setting of 1x. If RLEN is set to MAX the track recorder will sample for as long as the
reserved sampling time allows. By default this is 16 seconds, but this be increased in the
MEMORY menu. Read more on page 39.
TRIG offers three different approaches to the sampling process. This setting also controls
how a Pickup machine assigned to the track will work.
• ONE will make the recorder, once the sampling process is initiated either manually
or by recorder trigs, sample according to the length set by RLEN. The sampling pro-
cess is restarted when pressing [TRACK] + [AUDIO RECORD]/[MIDI].
• ONE-2 will make the recorder, once the sampling process is initiated either manu-
ally or by recorder trigs, sample according to the length set by RLEN. The sampling
process can be stopped prematurely by pressing [TRACK] + [AUDIO RECORD]/
[MIDI].
• HOLD will make the recorder, once the sampling process is initiated, sample for as
long as the [TRACK] + [AUDIO RECORD]/[MIDI] buttons are pressed and held,
given they are not pressed longer than the time frame of the RLEN setting allows.
The outcome of the sample depends on if manual sampling or recorder trigs are
used.
When sampling through the use of a recorder trig, the trig will capture only silence as
long as [TRACK] + [AUDIO RECORD]/[MIDI] are not manually pressed. An exam-
ple: a recorder trig with an INAB setting of A+B, TRIG set to HOLD and with an
RLEN setting of 16 is placed on the first step of the sequencer. [PLAY] is pressed to
start the sequencer. When the sequencer reaches step 4 [TRACK] + [AUDIO REC
AB] is pressed and held and just before the sequencer reaches step 6 the button
combination is released. The recorded sample will then consist of 3 inital 1/16th
notes of silence, 2 1/16th notes of audio and finally 11 1/16th notes of silence.
SRC3 chooses which internal source should be recorded. The source selection also
defines how sample playback will work when a track recorder trig and a recorder buffer trig
are placed on the same sequencer step. If SRC3 is set to - and a track recorder trig records
the audio inputs, the sound the sample trig will play back will be the sound that at the same
time is being captured by the recorder trig. All other SRC3 settings will in a similar scenario
make the sample trig play back the sound recorded by the previous trig.
• - will make the recorder disregard any internal sources when sampling.
• MAIN will make the recorder sample the mix routed to the main outputs.
• CUE will make the recorder sample the mix routed to the cue outputs.
• T1 - T8 will make the recorder sample the output of the selected audio track.