that would be awesome but there’s no way to map the buttons and knobs to the sequencer’s button and knobs. You’d have to use a different sequencer and use the individual instrument plugins, losing the awesome built in sequencer.
edit: while I’m annoyingly listing my dream features 
, I wish this had tables that I could set to only increment once per trigger, like the dirtywave M8 / LSDJ tables set to increment once per step.
Oh I did not realize that the Opal buttons and knobs aren’t MIDI mappable.
I may not have posts much, but I use Opal Ctl as my main sequencer of drum racks in Live, and I’m loving it. It’s phenomenal how well it integrates with Live, and how the Elektron p-lock workflow has been brought into Live.
yea same, it’s instantly become my go to. it’s transformed live for me.
Not sure if this has been posted here before but I just discovered the Max for live instrument called Opal, it’s a four part drum synth with a very heavily Elektron inspired sequencer that allows for control over everything from step count to probability to whatever it’s got four different synth engines that are very reminiscent of the MD (FM, Granular, resonant modeling etc). I just installed it this after noon and I’ve been messing around with it on and off all day, very fun and allows for a really wide range of tones.
Also very cool (and Machinedrum-like) is that you can have each pattern contain it’s own patches so for example you can switch from pattern 1 to pattern 2 and pattern 2 can have an entirely different set of sounds programmed…or you can copy and paste your pattern and have the pasted pattern contain subtle (or drastic) changes to your sounds…a feature that I love.
Found this article on it:
Personally I’m obsessed with drum machines (drum synths particularly) and there’s a bizarrely low number of good ones both hardware and software (compared to the amount of synths and workstations, sample based drum machines etc) so I was just searching for random stuff and stumbled across it. I highly recommend checking it out, the work flow is immediately obvious if you’re familiar with Elektron stuff.
My only gripes are that it has a randomizer available for every sound and for entire patterns, I personally hate randomization because it’s sucks the exploratory nature of synthesis out of it while at the same time is hard to resist fucking with.
And that I haven’t been able to figure out how to switch patterns via Ableton as opposed to manually triggering pattern changes…granted I haven’t read any manual for it yet as I try to avoid manuals until I absolutely need it.
I also wonder since it’s a Max for live instrument if one where to have Push 3 stand alone if it could be used without a computer and if so if the programmer wrote a nice interface for the Push, if so that would majorly power up the Push 3 standalone experience.
Sorry if this has been posted here before but I’m sure some of you will be into it. I wanted to spread the word on it here because I hadn’t heard about it before and this is the same place I found out about apps like Drambo (which I love). So any gear or software that has similar workflow to the Elektron stuff I assume would be of interest to many of you.
Ess is the developer of everything Fors, Opal included
there’s also dedicated Opal thread:
Guess I’m late to the party. Still I’m very impressed, checking out their other work now.
They are great and I ended up buy almost everything!
You can use Live’s automation to change patterns.
There’s no way to create preset kits of preprogrammed sounds in Opal, correct?
It would be nice to start in a different default state of each of the sounds that’s more in line with how I’m using it and being able to save banks of presets would be really useful to me, personally.
The current system does force my hands in a useful way as well, but I’d still love the option for being able to pull up sounds I’d created before.
I suppose this would entail 2 kinds of presets - the individual instruments in Opal and then the “kits” composed of all of the instruments.
You can export/import individual sounds and save a project which could be useful if you want a different starting point. Like if you create a default project, change the sounds in the first pattern into your preferred default state and then just copy/paste it into a couple of other pattern slots– export the project JSON and then load that whenever you want to start fresh.
But yeah, it would be handy to save/load something more like a kit structure. Wouldn’t be hard to do technically, but the UI is getting quite full. Might have to consider a tabbed layout for import/export in the settings screen then.
I think that would be sort of great. I just imagine a lot of folks uploading kits to Patch Storage and maybe you could even have some folks contribute kits and then have a preset browser that comes tied into the initial download/install. It would be really fun to write patterns and then load up a completely different kit just to see what happens, but easily be able to get back to your OG kit if things don’t pan out.
Also, this has perhaps been mentioned, but a single button click to initialize patterns would be really nice. Maybe do it per instrument so that you could decide to start over with just one of the patterns? Maybe incorporate it into the wildcard/generative sound/pattern engine interface you added recently as another option?
Thanks for the reply!
a note range limit for the randomiser would be amazing. dunno if it’s been mentioned.
say c1 - c2. b2 - e5 etc.
we can always throw a range plugin before opal, but having it integrated would be nice.
Wow, what a coincidence. Thank you for sharing my video playing with Opal here 
Been trying to find other Opal users. Real happy to find this thread here in elektronauts
man I wish you could map Opal to push, like proper integration - step sequencer & all. it’d be game over.
I would bet it is in the works…if it comes. gamechanger. If VSTs come to PUSH Game Over… Opal CTRL plus Noise Engineering BIA VST…plus Opal
Just got a Live license strictly to use Fors devices, primarily Opal.
Any tips for a tutorial?
That bia thing seems also to be a great vst, can you compare it to the Euro format thing?
I only have the Loquelic and Manis Plugins and the BIA as real Eurorack Piece. But I love the Noise Engineering Plugins, they sound amazing. They also have envelopes and filters so they are more like the percido version of the eurorack version. Don´t like the Interface thou, it looks really bad. I think they tried to go for something special but it just looks bad.
If Ableton really want to play Gameover and make Push3 something for the future. Full M4L and VST capability and done. The software to use then is already there.
Not sure full VST support would be tons of fun. How the controls map to Push would be a nightmare.