I know you are joking, but really this thread went off the rails with people starting to discuss various advanced techniques and pickup machines (OT’s looper).
But I think the original premise stands - it can feel overwhelming because there are so many options and techniques you could make use of, but once you get over that initial feeling of bewilderment, to do basic sampling is actually straightforward (and even quantized sampling is easy).
While I was reading this thread during my lunch I thought of using the OT as a polymetric multitap delay unit where the delays have probability. 
The OT isn’t overwhelming, it’s the land of opportunity and I’ll happily deal with some of its quirks as a trade off. 
well said.
Yeah, same.
YES, this works really well.
Pitch and feedback possible (resampling CUE, send back to CUE)
I was actually thinking of doing the ‘feedback ‘ with retrig amount and amp decay/release on the crossfader . And then have multiple scenes with different retrig times for the taps to make it even more weird 
I’m not home now, but I’ll try to record something later to demonstrate what I’m talking about.
I can see how it might sound a bit silly to simply record a bunch of buffers, but the thing is the buffer playback can be altered – you can change the pitch, add FX, change envelopes, retrigger, slice, etc. Also the playback itself can be smaller portions of audio, triggered rhythmically.
I like setting up all the recording buffers and playback tracks in a way that I can feed the OT a simple piece of audio and it will be manipulated into a complex, woven texture. But you’re right, it takes some careful planning for this to be musical, unless you’re like a noise artist or something 
This is blowing my mind. I could really use conditional record trigs! Gotta try this HUGE tip
got it working now 
thanks, i was trying to sample with pickup machines
the manual and tutorial videos i watched seemed to show a different way which wasn’t working
this vid confirmed that i was trying the correct button combo…
…so i loaded a clean set and new project and it started to work
Yeah, it blew my mind as well. I was reading the MIDI appendix in the manual and saw “SRC3 rec”… It was kinda crazy that it worked!
Other Elektron sequencers or MIDI loopback work really well. I’ve been working on a Blokas Midihub pipeline too, but honestly Elektron conditional trigs seem to be the best.
Yep. And with Midi Track Plays free you can send several notes or CCs at the same time.
Combo rec is even better, it depends on Rec Setup source settings…
I wish we could have a combo rec combo on OT ! (for Flex Overdub)
For recording experiments, hold is also interesting, if you randomize note length. With Rec/Flex, I experimented recordings played just after the end of the recording, rec and play quantized to 1 step, no trigs. Different lengths recordings played looped as result.
Are you referring to the hold stage in the amp envelope? Or some other hold? This sounds really interesting
No the Hold mode in REC SETUP.
Note On (press) : rec start
Note Off (release) : rec stop
IIRC the trick I found was to trig rec and flex sample playback with 2 midi notes (rec note first?
). At release, the recording is played looped. Doable with midi loopback and Plays Free tracks, quantize rec/play.
Do both at the same time. Trust me.
Both ?
Anyway @Oxenholme retrig isn’t feedback. You can get drastic fx with pitch and feedback. Retrig just repeat the sample. With feedback the sample can be pitched, repitched, repitched, repitched…
I’d definitely enjoy drinking beer with you.
Lol, I’m aware of how feedback works, hence the quotation marks. 
Ok ! Retrig only is a bit boring to me, but maybe you have a convincing example…I barely use it as a distinct delay, more as a pitched thing…
Let’s do it! Haha