The most important reading for OT starts is the manual. The next most referenced document is Merlin’s Guide, a user perspective and review of the workflow.
Added here for easy reference. Link collection originally found at MuffWiggler.com and provided by user jumbomonkey in this thread.
Octatrack Know-How series
Lesson 1 – Sets, Audio Pool & Projects
Lesson 2 – Selecting A Machine & Assigning Samples
Lesson 3 – Manual Sampling
Lesson 4 – Recorder Trig Sampling
Lesson 5 – Working With Scenes
Lesson 6 – Individual Track Lengths
Lesson 7 – Trig Modes
Lesson 8 – Pickup machines
Lesson 9 – The audio editor and loop slicing
Lesson 1 – Sets, Audio Pool & Projects
Lesson 2 – Selecting A Machine & Assigning Samples
Lesson 3 – Manual Sampling
Lesson 4 – Recorder Trig Sampling
Lesson 5 – Working With Scenes
Lesson 6 – Individual Track Lengths
Lesson 7 – Trig Modes
Lesson 8 – Pickup machines
Lesson 9 – The audio editor and loop slicing
Octatrack Pro Tip series
Lesson 1 – LFO Designer
Lesson 2 – Part Variations and Quantized Sampling
Lesson 3 – Sampling and crossfader transitions
Lesson 4 – Controlling Slices With The Crossfader
Lesson 5 – Rearranging a sample
Lesson 6 – Internal resampling & pattern variations
Lesson 7 – Single Cycle Waveform Pattern
Lesson 8 – Remixing Loops with the Audio Editor
Lesson 9 – Track Trigging
Lesson 1 – LFO Designer
Lesson 2 – Part Variations and Quantized Sampling
Lesson 3 – Sampling and crossfader transitions
Lesson 4 – Controlling Slices With The Crossfader
Lesson 5 – Rearranging a sample
Lesson 6 – Internal resampling & pattern variations
Lesson 7 – Single Cycle Waveform Pattern
Lesson 8 – Remixing Loops with the Audio Editor
Lesson 9 – Track Trigging
Octatrack Tip Video series
Lesson 1 – Amp page and Amp Menu
Lesson 2 – Playback page and Menu
Lesson 3 – Slices and Retrigger
Lesson 4 – LFOs Part 1
Lesson 5 – LFOs Part 2
Lesson 6 – Resampling
Lesson 7 – Midi
Lesson 1 – Amp page and Amp Menu
Lesson 2 – Playback page and Menu
Lesson 3 – Slices and Retrigger
Lesson 4 – LFOs Part 1
Lesson 5 – LFOs Part 2
Lesson 6 – Resampling
Lesson 7 – Midi
Cuckoo’s Octatrack Series
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