omfg
all is well with me and my Octa now
Same here !
Iām finding that when I conditional lock for a certain trig, say 4:4, the trig happens on the fourth time around like itās supposed to but, then is playing every single time around after instead of not playing until the fourth time around. Tried it with various conditions and theyāre all doing the same thing. Also, doesnāt the trig blink when it has a condition locked? Mine is not blinking unless I parameter lock something else.
Cond. trigs working fine for me.
A trig only flashes (currently) when a parameter is locked, not a condition or TRIG COUNT, apparently.
Iām not concerned with the blinking part but, the conditional locks arenāt working correctly. 2:2 should only work the second time around every time, not the second time and then every single time around. I may try reloading the update.
MY FAULT, PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS POST. I had the sample set to loop, duh. Conditional lock working perfectly. Thanks
@animystc - one for the facepalm thread? Might help others out, as this kind of thing is a common trip up.
So this of course applies to all Elektron instruments with conditional trigs, but Iāll share it here. This probably has been mentioned before, too, but itās worth a bump in any case.
One type of very musically useful structure that we couldnāt pull off with Elektron sequencers before conditional trigs and without chaining patterns is:
- variant A
- variant A
- variant A
- variant A
- variant A
- variant A
- variant B
- variant B
To make that within one pattern, you can set the trackās pattern length to 32 steps (with master length at least 32), lay a trigless trig early in the pattern thatās conditioned on 3:3, condition your āAā trigs on NOT-PRE, and condition your āBā trigs on PRE.
Besides being easier to manage and improvise on than chained patterns, a non-obvious benefit of this approach is that you contract and stretch this pattern structure, where A plays twice as many times as B, by changing the trigless trig to different valuesāe.g., 4:4 makes it 8 bars of A followed by 4 bars of B.
Hello! This is a long thread and I donāt know if someone asked before but is it possible to have trig conditions to remove beats? I have 4 on the floor going for 64 steps and I want to remove the last 4 beats on the 4/4 repitition.
I know how to add something so that it only plats on a specific beat in the 4th repitition but like I said I would like to remove the kick instead.
Thank you!
You can invert a TRC behavior with a /PRE preceded by a trigless trig with the condition you want to invert.
Ex :
Step 47 trigless with 4/4 TRC
Step 48 trig with /PRE
You can use microtiming, eventually /NEI if you want the trigless on another trackā¦
This is a clever workaround, I do wish for a _ (not) option for A/B still though.
Hmm I am quite new to the octatrack and I donāt fully understand. Now I am at work but will sit down with the octa when I get home and see if I can work it out. I will get back with results! But thanks!
/PRE is true when previous trig condition is not true, so it has an inverted behavior.
If you use a trigless as previous trig, it wonāt be played but it will determine /PRE inverted behavior.