There is a multiply so that you can first record one bar or so on a track then double or qaduble that. You can also set the slave tracks to be a multiply of the master track. You can sync to external source not sure how.. don't know if you can sync to sequencer.. As far as I undetstand you can create an empty loop if desired lenght and have all other loops + sequencer looked to that.. OR you could use a ordinary "flex" machine for synchronized looping.. I have been looping woth the octatrack with great sucess without the pickup machine..
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:58:40 -0500
> Subject: Re: Octatrack 1.2 -- a new looper
> From:
marcusloops@gmail.com> To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Can you sync a pickup machine to a drum track? Or can you only go vice versa?
>
> There's no multiply function, right? The length is set for all tracks,
> and can't be adjusted per track?
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, <
cpr@musetrap.com> wrote:
> > Here's a video demoing that.
> >
> >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtXyfHP7LW8> >
> >
> > Quoting Andrew Koenig <
ark@acm.org>:
> >
> >> Elektron today announced version 1.2 of their Octatrack operating system.
> >> Among its many new features is the ability to use it as a looper: Any one
> >> of its eight tracks can be assigned a "Pickup machine," which allows
> >> real-time recording, playback, and overdubbing.
> >>
> >> When you've recorded a loop for the first time on a pickup machine, you
> >> can
> >> make that loop the tempo master, which means that all of the other tracks
> >> will be time-stretched to play in sync with it. That lets you, for
> >> example,
> >> record a loop with a live instrument, then later bring in a drum track in
> >> perfect sync with what you just recorded.
> >>
> >> Details here:
http://www.elektron.se/products/octatrack> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
