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
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13.2.1 TRIM .....................................................................................80
13.2.2 SLICE ...................................................................................81
13.2.3 EDIT ....................................................................................82
13.2.4 ATTRIBUTES ............................................................................84
13.2.5 FILE .....................................................................................86
14. THE ARRANGER ............................................................. 87
14.1 THE ARRANGER MENU ....................................................................87
14.1.1 EDIT ......................................................................................87
14.1.2 RENAME .................................................................................89
14.1.3 CHANGE .................................................................................89
14.1.4 CHAIN ...................................................................................89
14.1.5 CLEAR ...................................................................................89
14.1.6 SAVE ....................................................................................89
14.1.7 RELOAD .................................................................................89
15. THE MIDI SEQUENCER ......................................................90
15.1 ACCESSING THE MIDI SEQUENCER ........................................................90
15.2 HOW MIDI IS ROUTED .....................................................................90
15.3 MIDI MODE RECORDING AND PARAMETER LOCKING ...................................... 91
15.4 MIDI TRACK PARAMETER PAGES ......................................................... 91
15.4.1 NOTE MAIN ..............................................................................91
15.4.2 NOTE SETUP ............................................................................92
15.4.3 ARPEGGIATOR MAIN ....................................................................92
15.4.4 ARPEGGIATOR SETUP ...................................................................93
15.4.5 MIDI LFO MAIN ..........................................................................93
15.4.6 MIDI LFO SETUP .........................................................................94
15.4.7 CTRL 1 MAIN .............................................................................94
15.4.8 CTRL 1 SETUP ...........................................................................94
15.4.9 CTRL 2 MAIN ............................................................................95
15.4.10 CTRL 2 SETUP ..........................................................................95
16. OCTATRACK MKII SETUP EXAMPLES ........................................ 96
16.1 OCTATRACK MKII AS A PERFORMANCE HUB ..............................................96
16.1.1 DIR METHOD .............................................................................96
16.1.2 THRU MACHINES METHOD ..............................................................97
16.2 OCTATRACK MKII WITH EXTERNAL EFFECTS .............................................98
16.3 OCTATRACK MKII PROCESSING LIVE INSTRUMENTS ......................................99
16.4 OCTATRACK MKII AS A DJ MIXER AND SAMPLER .........................................100
16.4.1 DJ MIXING USING THE DIR METHOD ....................................................100
16.4.2 DJ MIXING USING THE THRU METHOD ................................................. 101
16.5 OCTATRACK MKII AS A MIDI CONTROL CENTER ..........................................102
16.5.1 MIDI CONTROL USING CC DIRECT CONNECT AND THE AUTO CHANNEL ................102
17. OCTATRACK MKII TUTORIALS .............................................. 104
17.1 TRACK RECORDER SAMPLING ............................................................104
17.1.1 MANUAL SAMPLING .....................................................................104
17.1.2 SAMPLING USING RECORDER TRIGS ....................................................104
17.1.3 PLAYBACK OF CAPTURED RECORDER SAMPLES .......................................105
17.1.4 PICKUP MACHINE SAMPLING ............................................................105
17.1.5 CONTROLLING THE PICK UP MACHINES WITH A MIDI FOOT CONTROLLER ..............106
17.2 LOOP REMIXING .........................................................................107
17.2.1 LOOP REMIXING USING SLICES .........................................................107
17.2.2 LOOP REMIXING USING THE CROSSFADER .............................................108
17.3 PREPARING LOOPS AND SAMPLES .......................................................109










