Hi! I’m new to the Octatrack, and I want a couple of patterns to be played in a certain order and loop them.
So now I have ended up in the arranger without understanding how to loop them, I’ve read the page 107 a couple of times and understand how I reach the LOOP but not in what order to place HALT, LOOP and the chosen patterns. Or is there a better way to do it than to use arranger?
Would be really happy for some help!
To make pattern A01 and A02 play and then loop this 4 times:
Row : Pat
000 : A01
001 : A02
002 : LOOP: 000/04
Use Halt only when you want playback to stop.
The alternative to using the Arranger is to use Pattern Chaining (see page 78 of the manual). This only works if the two Patterns are in the same Bank.
Apparently, I must be missing something. I am trying to create a loop exactly like the one Peter posted above. When I go to line 002, the only options available to me are REM, HALT, and the various patterns. I cannot get LOOP or JUMP to display for me. I have read the manual and it seems clear that LOOP should display right after HALT, but it does not. Any thoughts?
From the manual:
Turn the LEVEL knob anti-clockwise until the location before pattern A01 is reached. When “HALT:” appears, move the focus to the value located after “HALT:”. Turn the LEVEL knob one step anti-clock-wise and “LOOP:” will appear.
I think what you’ve missed here is the movement of the focus in between:
Alternative, use repeat function x64 pattern, increase its length, up to 512 steps IIRC > 512x64 = more than 1 hour at 120 bpm…
tnussb - Thank you. Step 2 is the part that did not register with me.
sezare56 - I appreciate the workaround. This became more of a personal mission, since I knew it had to be something I was doing wrong.
Take care and thanks again.
I thought so.
But to your rescue: move the focus to the value located after “HALT" is really a quite complicated (and unclear) way to say “press [RIGHT] once”. 
