Is there a sampling in a thru track

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Hi, I don’t know if this question have done in the past but i didn’t find it. Is there a sampling process in the thru track or the audio pass thru this kind of machine analogicaly until the master output of the octatrack? Thanks

#2

Octatrack has 8 recorder tracks available any time, all the time. Regardless of what is happening on the 8 audio tracks/midi tracks.

8 audio tracks, available anytime all the time regardless of what is happening on recorder tracks/midi tracks

8 midi tracks available any time all the time regardels of what is happening on the recorder tracks/audio tracks.

So track 1-8 can record, pass audio through, and sequence midi, all at the same time

Does that help?

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#3

Thanks for the answer microtribe. may be is an stupid question, but I want to pass my eurorack gear thru the octatrack but i don’t want to convert the signal to digital and after to analogic again. Is this posible on thru track machine? Thanks

#4

as soon as the signal enters the octatrack it goes through a dac.

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#5

ok thanks gekkonier

#6

You can direct monitor the inputs on the OT, not sure if that’s technically still doing some conversion though.

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#7

As @gekkonier mentions the audio technically passes through an ADC/DAC on its way - but depending on what you mean I thought it worth clarifying that you’re not recording the audio when using a Thru track (unless you choose to) - it’s similar to if you ran the audio into a standard mixer. i.e. any colouration will be very minimal and what you do with the sound while it’s passing through is up to you. You can turn the 2 FX’s off and not use a Master track, in which case it’s essentially just passing straight through the device.

The Pickup machine is more like a looper and would be recording/playing back the audio.

#8

No.
Thru machine = digital.
OT mixer = digital.

If you dont want any digital processing at all, octatrack is the wrong machine for you.

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