I am pretty new to Elektron stuff - and wondering if there might be an update of “how to handle samples” without a DAW or a computer.
I know that I can choose audio pool or set folder from the OT personalise menu for defining a sample destination.
As an alternative I saved the files to the project root folder and copied them one by one to a sub-folder structure (unfortunately it looks like that only a single file could be selected??? really?) .
Anybody of you having a more clever workaround in order to avoid messing up your CF?
Welcome to the forum Florian ! I hope you enjoy your time her and learn lots
I treat my card like any windows folder, I assume mac works the same way in case you are not Windows.
I basically placed the OT into USB mode, opened up the top level folder in the card and created a sub folder called jamie.
I also created one called my audio.
In that is where all my transferred samples go but in there own respective sub folders, kicks, synths bla bla.
When I create a track/project in OT I save all audio to project file, that way when I finish an OT project I can simply transfer from the card to the PC and know for a fact when I need to recall it back for performance it’ll all be there, no deleted files, no cock ups.
Works perfect for me
Others do different, try and find the best for your head space
I forgot to mention: I was talking about samples to be saved while sampling directly on the machine!
Here I saved a sample after editing to a separate file (might be better with slices?)
Same way I did after sampling my piano to a pickup machine (in order to remove the recorded stuff from the buffers and to assign it via a flex machine)…
Or might it be better to leave recordings in the PU machines - without saving the samples separately?
You mean Audio Editor > File > Sample copy?
A .ot file with Trim, Slices, Attributes is saved with the sample :
supercoolsample.wav
supercoolsample.ot
Parameters are recalled with this file.
On power down, recordings a deleted. You have to save if you want to keep them anyway.
Each track have a recorder. Their recording is located in first Flex slots : Recordings 1-8
Any Flex machines can use Recordings 1-8 slots.
A sample can be loaded in Recordings 1-8 slots, and played in a Flex, or a Pickup.
Pickups use their track recorder buffer.
A Pickup on track 1 will use Recording 1.
So with any Flex, you can play and mangle Recording 1 as you like without saving, even while recording with a Pickup or a track recorder.
You can save samples to self (in the Flex Recording slots), so that you can find them on power up with Flex or Pickups.
I usually save short samples / loops to Flex, and long recordings (more than 1mn) to Statics.
But I hoped to find a way to copy several files from root to ny destination of choice just with the octatrack
You can save samples to self (in the Flex Recording slots), so that you can find them on power up with Flex or Pickups.
Ok - but here you ‘block’ your entire track with just one sample (?)
(In the end it shouldn’t matter - because you could just jump to another pattern?)
Thanks again! One reason for saving the PU content as a file was to try to link and trigger it with a certain step in the sequence - via a flexmachine…
Is there a way to trigger the content of a PU machine to a specific step?
Each Pickup recording is in the Recording 1-8 slot list, according to the track number. You can plock them with a Flex track even while recording with your Pickup.
You can switch from Pickup to Flex with the crossfader and / or scenes.
