User Manual

12. PATTERNS
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TEMPO MULTIPLIER oers seven possible settings, 1/8X, 1/4X, 1/2X, 3/4X, 1X, 3/2X and 2X. A setting
of 1/8X will play back the pattern at one-eighth of the original tempo. 3/4X plays the pattern back at
three-quarters of the global tempo. 3/2X will play back the pattern twice as fast as the 3/4X setting.
2X will make the pattern play at twice the BPM. Double speed is useful for increasing the base reso-
lution of the step sequencer to 32nd notes. Three quarter-speed is useful when the Octatrack MKII
is playing alongside other instruments set to the same BPM and you want the Octatrack MKII to play
triplets.
Trigs are automatically copied when extending the length of a pattern. If a pattern con-
sists of for example two pages and the pattern length is increased to four pages, the
two added pattern pages will be copies of the first two pattern pages. This functionality
can be turned o in the PERSONALIZE menu. For more information please see “8.5.4
PERSONALIZE” on page 33.
Press the [PAGE] key for quickly changing the total length of the pattern. Press the
[TRIG] keys to quickly change the number of steps of the pattern.
12.15.2 PER TRACK
In this mode the tracks of the pattern can have individual length and time signature settings. This screen
will appear when the PER TRACK setting, found in the PATTERN SETTINGS menu, is active.
SCALE TRACK sets the length of the active track. The setting works in a similar way to the corre-
sponding setting in NORMAL mode.
TEMPO MULTIPLIER controls the playback speed of the active track. The available settings are the
same as those in NORMAL mode.
MASTER LENGTH selects how many steps the pattern will play before all tracks are restarted. An INF
setting will make the tracks of the pattern loop infinitely, without being restarted. Adjust the setting
using the LEVEL knob. Note that the master length setting also aects for how long the active pattern
will play before a chained pattern will start playing.
If INF is selected you need to specify either a CHAIN AFTER length or a USE PAT.
SETTING length, otherwise no other patterns can be chained when the pattern with the
INF setting is playing. The INF pattern will just go on playing infinitely. Read more about
CHAIN AFTER in section “8.6.3 SEQUENCER” on page 36. Read more about USE
PAT. SETTING in section “12.11.1 PATTERN” on page 75.
MASTER SCALE sets the general time signature of the pattern. This setting is completely indepen-
dent of the individual track tempo multiplier settings. It is used to define the overall time signature of
the pattern, which aects MIDI clock if sent out by the Octatrack MKII. When an Octatrack MKII ar-
rangement is being controlled from an external MIDI device, the song pointer position will be aected
as well.
• The sequencer needs to be in FILL mode to activate the FILL conditional lock.
• Press the [PAGE] key for quickly changing the total length of the track. Press the
[TRIG] keys to quickly change the number of steps of the track.
• Press [FUNC] + [UP]/[DOWN] to set the MASTER LENGTH in increments of 16.