User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. THE BACKGROUND OF THE OCTATRACK MKII
- 3. PANEL LAYOUT AND CONNECTORS
- 4. OVERVIEW OF THE OCTATRACK MKII STRUCTURE
- 5. THE USER INTERFACE
- 6. QUICK START
- 7. SETS
- 8. PROJECTS
- 9. TRACK RECORDERS AND PICKUP MACHINES
- 10. BANKS, PARTS AND SCENES
- 11. TRACKS
- 12. PATTERNS
- 12.1 TRIG INDICATIONS
- 12.2 BASIC PATTERN OPERATIONS
- 12.3 RECORDING MODES
- 12.4 TRIG TYPES
- 12.5 PARAMETER LOCKS
- 12.6 SAMPLE LOCKS
- 12.7 TRIG MODES
- 12.8 MIDI NOTE MAPPING FOR AUDIO TRACKS
- 12.9 SEQUENCER COPY, PASTE AND CLEAR OPERATIONS
- 12.10 TRACK TRIG EDIT MENU
- 12.11 PATTERN SETTINGS MENU
- 12.12 MICRO TIMING
- 12.13 CONDITIONAL LOCKS
- 12.14 FILL MODE
- 12.15 SCALE SETUP
- 13. THE AUDIO EDITOR
- 14. THE ARRANGER
- 15. THE MIDI SEQUENCER
- 16. OCTATRACK MKII SETUP EXAMPLES
- 17. OCTATRACK MKII TUTORIALS
- 18. STARTUP MENU
- 19. SUMMARY OF KEY PRESS COMBINATIONS
- 20. TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- 21. CREDITS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
- APPENDIX A: MACHINE REFERENCE
- APPENDIX B: EFFECTS REFERENCE
- APPENDIX C: MIDI CONTROL REFERENCE
- INDEX
8. PROJECTS
36
TRACK 8 oers two settings. Only one setting can be activated at a time.
• MASTER will when active turn track 8 into a master track. The track eects of track 8 will then
aect all the other tracks as well as any audio coming from the external inputs.
• NORMAL will make track 8 function like all the other tracks.
AMP SETUP, LFO MAIN/SETUP and FX1 and FX2 MAIN/SETUP are the only TRACK
PARAMETER pages available to a master track.
CUE CFG oers settings which can make the cue outputs function as an assignable pair of outputs.
Two settings are available. Only one setting can be activated at a time. Read more about the cue out-
puts in section “11.6 MAIN AND CUE OUTPUTS ROUTING” on page 63.
• NORMAL will make the cue outputs function normally, meaning a track will be routed to the cue
outputs when [CUE] + [TRACK] is pressed.
• STUDIO will disable the normal cue functionality. Audio tracks can now be routed to the cue out-
puts as if they were a standard pair of assignable outputs. Each audio track gets two independent
LEV settings, one for the main outs and one for the cue outs. Adjust the LEV setting for the main
outputs by turning the LEVEL knob. Adjust the LEV setting for the cue outputs by pressing [CUE]
and turning the LEVEL knob. Muting a track while STUDIO mode is enabled will mute the sound
from both the main and cue outputs.
8.6.2 INPUT
Controls the noise gates and the delay compensation of the audio inputs.
NOISE GATE AB sets the dB level of the noise gate for input pair AB. The threshold is set with the
LEVEL knob. Any signal below the threshold will be cut. An -INF setting deactivates the noise gate.
NOISE GATE CD sets the dB level of the noise gate for input pair CD. The threshold is set with the
LEVEL knob. Any signal below the threshold will be cut. An -INF setting deactivates the noise gate.
DELAY COMPENSATE will when activated introduce a very short delay to the audio signal listened to
via the DIR setting. If for example an audio signal is listened to through both the DIR input and a Thru
machine/Pickup machine, both signals will then be in sync. If DELAY COMPENSATE would have been
deactivated in the above scenario, the delay caused by the internal processing would make the audio
signal routed to the Thru/Pickup machine play a few milliseconds later than the DIR signal. The com-
bined DIR and Thru/Pickup signal would then exhibit a slightly phased sound.
8.6.3 SEQUENCER
Here the default behavior of the sequencer is set.










