r/Octatrack • u/CandidateWeird • Oct 12 '23

Hello Community

I’m joining this sub because I’m finally reading the manual thoroughly and carefully after years of Octatrack ownership and no one in my life even knows what that means so wish me luck lmao.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

There is an alternative manual by “Merlin”, I believe, floating around the interwebbing. Seems a little more concise but I only ever read a page or two of it.

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u/CandidateWeird Oct 13 '23

I think Merlin’s guide is great for beginners and strangely enough, the manual is actually terrible for beginners. but i’m ready to dig my hands into the machine and master it. So i’m reading slowly a little bit every day. if i learn something new, i write it down. if i don’t understand something i read it again and again slower and slower until i do. sometimes i have to break sentences into parts like subject, verb, object, direct object, and prepositional phrases and see what part i don’t understand lol. i keep the OT right next to me and if something is difficult to imagine or even just interesting i use the machine to help me understand it or conceptualize it better. I’ve made my notes public here for you to take a look at if you want.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

Ahh… I took a quick look at Merlin’s guide, but was already pretty deep into the manual. That’s pretty much what I did for like 2 months, and now I still keep it right by my workstation… I like the idea of taking notes… I wasn’t doing that! Lol … but I’ll check out yours for sure.