Page 2 Parameter Locks

FX2 setup page with trig 1 held for parameter locking.

FX2 setup page with trig 1 held for parameter locking.

Use page 2 parameter locks to automate FX1 or FX2 parameters that are not available on stock page 1.

A step can carry locks for both FX pages.

Create and Remove a Lock

Open the FX1 or FX2 SETUP page, hold one or more trigs and turn a knob: each held step gets that slot's page-2 lock. Hold FUNC while turning to remove it. The trig plays the lock, and the next trig puts the Part's value back — the same as page 1.

The locks move with the data: trig copy and paste, clear a trig's locks, pattern copy and paste, clear a pattern and its undo each carry or clear them. SAVE PROJECT writes them and a power cycle loads them back.

Limits and Saving

  • Page 2 has no slide: a slide trig moves page 1 only.
  • A held step with no trig takes a page-2 lock that never plays.
  • The power-off copy of the current bank holds 4,768 locks. A bank with more has no power-cut copy: a power cut loses its unsaved page-2 locks back to the last save.

Status: on hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026).

Module facts (developers)

Parameter locks on FX1/FX2 page 2 (hold trigs, turn a knob on the SETUP page).

Detail Value
Author sambanks
Category Machines and the sequencer
Kind cf_patch
Test status on hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026)
Requires SCENES P2, STORE
Included in octabam-bus, octabam-core, octabam-inserts

On GitHub: https://github.com/sambanks/octabam/blob/main/modules/plocks-p2/README.md

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