Elektron Octatrack - Manual (Page 64)

TRACK RECORDERS AND PICKUP MACHINES
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LOOP sets whether the captured sample will loop or not when played.
• If a source is set to “-” and you try to sample from it, only silence will be recorded.
RECORDING SETUP 2 MENU
Enter RECORDING SETUP 2 menu by pressing [FUNCTION] + [AUDIO REC CD].
FIN applies a fade in when starting the recording. The value is expressed in sequencer
steps. Applying a very short fade in can be used to avoid clicks that otherwise might occur
when a recorded sample loops.
FOUT applies a fade out to the recording. The value is expressed in sequencer steps. The
fade out is added after the recording stops. If for example recording occurs for 16 steps and
FOUT is set to 2, the total length of the sample will be 18 sequencer steps. This parameter
behaves differently for Pickup machines. In this scenario the fade out will be applied to the
beginning of the captured loop.
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.
QREC makes it possible to time quantize manual sampling and Pickup machine sampling.
• OFF disables recording quantization.
• PLEN will, after pressing the keys initiating recording, start the recording process
once the pattern has played its full length.
• 1... will time the start of the sampling process according to the set number of
sequencer steps. If for example 4 is selected, sampling will start on the next beat. If
8 is selected, sampling will start after half a bar.
QPL makes it possible to quantize manual trigging of the recorder buffers and Pickup
machines. Manual trigging is done by for example pressing [TRACK] + [PLAY] or the last
eight [TRIG] keys. This parameter has no effect on track recorders trigged by the
sequencer. This parameter is a reflection of the QUANTIZED TRIG setting available in the
ATTRIBUTES menu found in the audio editor. If the QPL parameter is changed, QUAN-
TIZED TRIG will thus be changed as well, which can be seen when the recorder buffer of