Recording Setup 2 Menu - Elektron Octatrack MKII User Manual

9. TRACK RECORDERS AND PICKUP MACHINES
• C makes the recorder sample from input C. The captured sample will be in stereo even though
only one input is used.
• D makes the recorder sample from input D. The captured sample will be in stereo even though
only one input is used.
• C+D makes the recorder capture a stereo file in which the signals from input C and input D are
summed.
RLEN sets the duration of the recording once the track recorder starts to sample. This setting is
dependent of the BPM of the sequencer but disregards any scale settings of the track. A setting of 16
will for example always record the equivalent of 16 1/16th notes with a scale setting of 1x. If RLEN is
set to MAX the track recorder will sample for as long as the reserved sampling time allows. By default
this is 16 seconds, but this be increased in the MEMORY menu. For more information, please see
"8.6.5 MEMORY" on page 38.
TRIG offers three different approaches to the sampling process. This setting also controls how a Pick-
up machine assigned to the track will work.
• ONE makes the recorder, once the sampling process is initiated either manually or by recorder
trigs, sample according to the length set by RLEN. The sampling process is restarted when press-
ing [TRACK] + [REC1/2]/[MIDI].
• ONE2 makes the recorder, once the sampling process is initiated either manually or by recorder
trigs, sample according to the length set by RLEN. The sampling process can be stopped prema-
turely by pressing [TRACK] + [REC1/2]/[MIDI].
• HOLD makes the recorder, once the sampling process is initiated, sample for as long as the
[TRACK] + [REC1/2]/[MIDI] keys are pressed and held, given they are not pressed longer than the
time frame of the RLEN setting allows. The outcome of the sample depends on if manual sampling
or recorder trigs are used.
When sampling through the use of a recorder trig, the trig will capture only silence as long as
[TRACK] + [REC1/2]/[MIDI] are not manually pressed. An example: a recorder trig with an INAB
setting of A+B, TRIG set to HOLD and with an RLEN setting of 16 is placed on the first step of the
sequencer. [PLAY] is pressed to start the sequencer. When the sequencer reaches step 4 [TRACK]
+ [REC1] is pressed and held and just before the sequencer reaches step 6 the key combination is re-
leased. The recorded sample will then consist of 3 inital 1/16th notes of silence, 2 1/16th notes of audio
and finally 11 1/16th notes of silence.
SRC3 chooses which internal source should be recorded. The source selection also defines how
sample playback will work when a track recorder trig and a recorder buffer trig are placed on the
same sequencer step. If SRC3 is set to - and a track recorder trig records the audio inputs, the sound
the sample trig will play back will be the sound that at the same time is being captured by the recorder
trig. All other SRC3 settings will in a similar scenario make the sample trig play back the sound record-
ed by the previous trig.
• - makes the recorder disregard any internal sources when sampling.
• MAIN makes the recorder sample the mix routed to the main outputs.
• CUE makes the recorder sample the mix routed to the cue outputs.
• T1 - T8 makes the recorder sample the output of the selected audio track.
LOOP sets whether the captured sample will loop or not when played.
If a source is set to "-" and you try to sample from it, only silence will be recorded.

9.1.3 RECORDING SETUP 2 MENU

Enter RECORDING SETUP 2 menu by pressing [FUNC] + [REC2].
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