Quick way to clear recording buffer

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Hi guys

How do you clear the recording buffer of a flex machine as fast as possible?

Cheers
T

#2

I’ve not actually tried this but have you tried func+clear in audio editor? Might not work just a shot in the dark

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#3
  1. make sure you’re not in any record mode
  2. open recording options
  3. func+clear, then yes.
    =
    Buffer cleared / reset.

I tend to keep recording options open by default for this purpose.

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#4

As always OT gives you more than one way to do what you want to and it depends why you want to clear recorder’s buffer - what do you want to do next?

You can overwrite if you need buffer for next recording. No need to clear anything.

You can press FUNC+CLEAR in slot list after selecting buffer. Then another press - YES to confirm. Like clearing other regular slots. Probably useful in case when you have trigs linked to buffer and want to make them silence at once.

Edit: I am responding to OP’s post :grinning:

You can turn off OT - if recordings are not saved and you don’t need them, they are gone for sure.

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#5

FUNC+CLEAR clears pattern or track trigs on my machine. I am not in any record mode.

#6

You have to be in Recording Setup.

#7

Bumping up an old thread, just to share this tip: I also need sometimes to clear as fast as possible like the OP, the goal being “no more sound from the record buffer” so I just hit rec twice. I use rec 3 for this and have no input assigned to rec 3. (I’m always in "quick record mode, OTMkII)
The recorder will clear the buffer and record a snippet of silence. That is a one-button, no-menu-diving live-performance-friendly solution.

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#8

This is a problem I’ve been trying to solve for years, and I think I’ve come up with a useful solution.
If you have a MIDI Pedal that can send multiple messages per press, here’s a method that can clear all your rec buffers in one step.

https://youtu.be/52cX7PU0rLQ

Basically, the solution is using a dedicated ‘clear buffer’ pattern to (very quickly) record over the buffers.
I didn’t think it would work at first, since the commands are sent in very quick succession, but it does!

I hope this helps anyone who’s been looking for a viable solution to this :smile: