ELEKTRON Octatrack MKII [16/32] Audio pool

as the number of projects, are limited only by the size of the Compact Flash card.

The samples in the audio pool are available to all projects of the set.

3.2 AUDIO POOL

Each set contains one audio pool which is stored on the Compact Flash card. The audio

pool contains the samples that can be loaded to the Flex and Static sample slot lists.

3.3 PROJECTS

For the Octatrack MKII to work as intended, a set needs to be mounted and a project

needs to be loaded. A project contains 16 banks, 8 arrangements, 8 track recorders and

their recorder buers, 128 sample slots dedicated to Flex machines, 128 slots dedicated to

Static machines, various project speciﬁc settings and the BPM setting for all the patterns

of the project.

3.4 FLEX AND STATIC SAMPLE SLOT LISTS

For samples to be available to Flex and Static machines they ﬁrst need to be loaded from

the audio pool to the Flex or Static sample slot lists. When samples are present in these

lists they can be assigned to, and thus processed by, Flex and Static machines assigned

to the audio tracks of a pattern.

3.5 BANKS

Each project hosts 16 banks and each bank hosts 16 patterns and 4 parts. This makes a

bank suited for hosting a complete composition as the available patterns and parts allow a

large number of song variations.

3.6 PATTERNS

There are 16 patterns are available for each bank, meaning 256 patterns are always at

hand. A pattern consists of sequencer data like trigs, parameter locks, track lengths and

time signatures for the eight audio tracks and the eight MIDI tracks.

3.7 PARTS

Four parts are available to each bank. A part contains machine assignments and their