Interaction of Pickup and Flex Machines

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Hi All,

I’m working on building a live looping setup for electric bass and octatrack. There are some things I don’t really understand about the interaction of pickup machines and other tracks.

I’m running my bass into input C. On input D I have the send of a EHX Superego pedal, which for our purposes, let’s call another instrument.

I record and overdub a loop onto track 1, set to input C. No problem. I then start a sequence and the OT syncs perfectly to my playing.

BUT I have track 3 set to a flex recorder with a 1-shot, 16-step trig recording the input D. The problem is, I’m getting no so sound. If I turn up direct in the mixer, it’s there, but I can’t seem to sample. Any ideas? Just for kicks I tried the same thing on track 7. Also no love. So:

When I’m running a pickup machine on track 1, are all flex recorders disabled? Is there a workaround?

Thanks. I’m posting a separate question on another thread just to keep things simple.

–JES

#2

Have you placed a trig in both the play back and record mode?

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#3

Hello JES,

could you solve your problem in the meantime?
I have a similar issue here i think…

Cheers, Duumvir

#4

OP doesn’t mention if they placed a play trig to play the recording buffer as its recording…

Each recorder buffer has a fixed number according to what track you access it from. To set up a recorder and be able to hear it from flex, you place your recorder trig usually on step one and hold it down and choose your input selection. Next go to the play track load a flex machine, assign the recording buffer with the same number as the track your on where the track recorder is, and place a play trig on the same step as the recorder, usually step one…

Let us know if that’s not what you needed to know… :slight_smile: