From Pickup Machine to Sample Bank

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

I’ve searched the forum and other niche crevices’ of the internet, but have not been able to find a solution. I have been using pickup machines to loop and mangle sounds on my OT but after I attempt to save them to the sample library they come out not sounding like I had originally sculpted them too. It seems like the role effects play on the sample are not kept, and it always comes out to sounding closer to the unprocessed loop.

My process has been:

Set pickup machine on T1
Assign neighbor on T2 & 3
Pickup machine on T4

Record the sample in T1 and apply effects from T2&3, as well as the scene functions. Capture all this with a pickup machine on T4 and then attempt to save sample to sample slot, I believe.

The problem is the sample is stripped down and not the same as the Pickup machine on T4 is looping. So I guess my question is, how the heck do I save a sample from Pickup machines and have it actually sound exactly like it did while being played back. I’ve got to be missing something here.

I hope this explanation is helpful. I’m fairly new to the OT

#2

You need to sample post fx. Use a track recorder for that no need for PU. So in your case, record last neighbour machine in your chain.

Save sample in audio editor of track recorder.

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#3

Oh, that makes sense. I have not used the track recorder features yet and just figured the pickup machines were the go to for this. Thanks for the tip! I think this will solve my issue

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#4

100% it will.

Your melon will get a slight twist when you realise you have been using track recorders all along. Pick up machines are just extended controls for track recorders… but thats another story for another time.

Happy sampling.

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