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
9. TRACK RECORDERS AND PICKUP MACHINES
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recorders are directly linked to the tracks, the track whose track recorder you wish to edit must be active.
Pressing [FUNC] + [PLAY] while inside the RECORDING SETUP menus will clear the recorder buer of
the active track recorder from any audio content. GRID RECORDING mode needs to be inactive for this to
function.
9.1.1 RECORDING EDIT MENU
Press [FUNC] + [REC3]. to open the RECORDING EDIT menu. This menu oers various commands
relating to the track recorder.
EDIT THIS RECORDING will open the recorded sample in the audio editor. For more information,
please see “13. THE AUDIO EDITOR” on page 80.
SAVE THIS RECORDING will save the recording made by the active track recorder to the Compact
Flash card.
SAVE ALL RECORDINGS will save all recordings of all track recorders to the Compact Flash card.
GO TO MEMORY CONFIG will open the MEMORY menu, where the allocation of the RAM memory
can be set. For more information, please see “8.6.5 MEMORY” on page 37.
9.1.2 RECORDING SETUP 1 MENU
Enter RECORDING SETUP 1 menu by pressing [FUNC] + [REC1].
The bar at the bottom of the window indicates track recorder sampling and playback. It represents the
length (or projected length) of the recorder buer. The two arrows visible when sampling or playing back
samples show the record- and playback positions. The top arrow, pointing towards the bar, shows the
recording position. The bottom arrow shows the playback position. To the right of the bar, the amount
of sampling time available to the active track recorder is expressed in seconds as well as in sequencer
steps.
When sampling or playing back a recorded sample, the tape recorder wheel will start to spin.
INAB selects which input or inputs of the input pair AB the recorder should sample from.
• - makes the recorder disregard input AB when sampling.
• A B makes the recorder capture a stereo file in which the signal from input A is panned hard left
and the signal from input B is panned hard right. This is the default option.
• A makes the recorder sample from input A. The captured sample will be in stereo even though
only one input is used.
• B makes the recorder sample from input B. The captured sample will be in stereo even though
only one input is used.
• A+B makes the recorder capture a stereo file in which the signals from input A and input B are
summed.
INCD selects which input or inputs of the input pair CD the recorder should sample from. Five options
exist.
• - makes the recorder disregard input CD when sampling.
• C D makes the recorder capture a stereo file in which the signal from input C is panned hard left
and the signal from input D is panned hard right. This is the default option.










