Delving into the octatrack lately; always been a bit of a head scratcher.
So - unless I’m wrong, you can only select the various trigger modes, tracks, chromatic, slots etc for all tracks and not assign individual types to each of the 8 tracks? Is this right?
I swear I’m missing something here.
Think about what the various modes do:
Track mode means one trig button triggers each track;
Chromatic mode means each trig button triggers a different pitch on the current track;
Slots mode gives you access to slots instead of tracks;
Slices mode triggers slices from the sample assigned to the current track.
So the mode is like a global control for the OT as a whole; it cannot practically be assigned per track.
That’s what I feared. Seems like a weird limitation at this stage. I am admittedly, just getting under the hood of the thing, and I’m guessing there’s very good reasoning for it to be so.
Thanks for the speedy response 
I don’t find it weird but I prefer the normal screen in track view, with the knob position mark.
An option to keep normal view would be great, because in most modes, extra infos on the screen are not that helpful, and we can do without it, especially for Track Mute Mode !
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Lots of stuff seems weird and backwards on the OT at first until one day it makes perfect sense why it is that way. I suggest exploring and learning about the OT and how it wants to work for awhile at first before trying to make it do what you want it to do. Lots of things can be done, but they are done the way the OT wants to do them, which is not necessarily how you think it would be done at first. As time goes on it makes a lot more sense and you can flow with it to achieve things…
I need to write some proverbs about this…
The sounds of the OT being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window.
Uson, quoted in Sasaki Sanmi, Sadô Saijiki
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This is my hope that the octatrackarians play to the whims of the peach blossom and not be tempted to use the OT for powers of darkness…
I was thinking along the lines of
“Ask not what the OT can do for you, but what you can do for your OT”
Or
“You can lead an OT to music but you can’t make it (fill in your biggest gripe here)”
But yours is much more poetic…