I’ve watched the intro and function tutorials - which has some tips / shortcuts advice that’s helped your enjoyment of your OP1?
Xposted in OP-Z thread but since there is a OP1 version included posting here too.
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So, the OG OP-1’s are still sold by TE on their website. But most retailers (Thomann for example) do not list them anymore. Are they being phased out?
good question, probably noone knows 
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Somebody knows 
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See the last comment on that article.
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yes, this isn´t true, but bloggers don´t give a fuck if they can write a catchy clickbait article…
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Bye bye OP-1 
Sold it yesterday to my friend @funkylsk…
Maybe one day I’ll get the newcomer… Maybe not. We’ll see next year.
Op-1f is all I wanted the OP-1 to be. Except the insane price tag.
To be honest I was a bit disappointed that TE wouldn’t let me get an OP-1 field for a good price, after 3 years of being admin/moderator at op-forums… I was not surprised, as the community has not even been part of the 10Y celebration.
So yeah, getting rid of everything TE now.
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That’s rough.
Here I am trying out the OP-1 for the first time. I’m more curious than anything, but not sure I’ll hang onto it, or even if I’ll want an OP-1 field later. It’s an interesting workflow.
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I really love it, it was my first real synth and going through all the different areas to show my friend how to use it, I could tell I still have a thing for this little beast.
But I also know its flaws, especially after having mastered the Elektron ways.
You have to accept it for what it does, like every piece of hardware, and see where it leads you.
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I have a OP-z that I had long before the Elektron gear (just March of this year). I’ve learned there’s tons of creativity in limitations.
I can see how this can do the same, but I’m not so sure that I want to, if that makes sense?
I’m gonna give it a fair shot. The size makes it extremely easy to have in a separate room so there’s no competing between gear and workflows.
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Hi Nauts, I just released Original Generator. A unique sound / sample pack for the Teenage Engineering OP-1 which is available at OP1 | OG | Teenage Engineering OP-1 Sound Pack | Original Generator | Patches | Samples
Featuring 5 multi-sampled drum kits, 15 multi-sampled vintage instruments like the Orchestron, Mellotron and various Pianos which you can load using a drum (sampler) channel and 30 single-sampled instruments which you can load using a synth (sampler) channel for a total of 50 sounds!
All Patches are crafted with great care using (multi) samples of my personal sample library so these are not just simple presets, but custom sounds.
Here are some musical examples and a simple patch play through which I hope you’ll enjoy. Cheers!
The lo-bit Op1: there must be 1000s of them out there.
there is still unlimited amazing music to be made on them. Sure your 4 stems might be mono and a little bitty but … if the idea has socks you can make it walk and run in post production.
Field is a luxury, but OG has all you need if you like the workflow.
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Hello, I randomly figured out how to resolve this issue and wanted to share. I was trying to just use the internal mic on my laptop to record some audio in to Live and it wasn’t working. I Googled the solution and then thought… Maybe this will fix the OP-1 problem with audio not coming in. It does now work, I undid the process just to double check and the problem of not getting audio over usb came back.
Go to System Preferences
Click Security & Privacy
Click on the Privacy tab
Find Microphone in the left column
Make sure Live is check marked
Cheers and Happy New Year!
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Just put one of these in the Share Your Tunes thread so figured it belonged here as well, along with the others I’ve done. Basically, OLD Tape and Album files from 10 years ago. It’s cool to go back and here some of the little tricks I was doing when first learning how to be an Operator. Now I have the field and I use it a little differently but, this inspires me to do more with it and maybe not take it so seriously. Some of these beats are extremely goofy or downright weird but you can hear I was having fun doing it.
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Cross posting this request here, thanks!
I recorded 26 sketches to tape. Made on the OG OP-1 during warm summer evenings/nights sampling all kinds of rare random vocal jazz, soul and funk snippets from the Tube to chop up and play with for inspiration and new ideas.
Bandcamp for the ones interested:
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Sorry for the late reply, but I completely sorted out ground hum issue, just wanna share my experience. Tried a lot of solutions, rearranging the power supply chain, buying ferrite bids for USB cable, tried “hum remover” kind of cables (with simple little transformer in it) and even special “ground disconnecting” USB dongle. After spending lot of time and money for all this shit, I just came to the most expencive solution. It’s a passive Direct Box with transformer inside and Ground Lift feature. All the noise went out completely once I had reached it. In my case I use Radial Engineering Pro D2, which is not cheap for this kind of issue. But trust me, other solutions are just weak and useless.
Good quality DI transfers the signal from the synth as careful as it can do. While other “hum removers” can pickup even more hum being not isolated properly. USB dongle did nothing! Just waste of money. As well as ferrite rings on USB cable.
Transformes of good DI also reach your sound in some barely noticeable way that you can’t work without once you tried them. May be some other brand: I just tried three kind of different DIs with transformers inside, they all top class and worked such well. Also you need to concider that after DI you’ll get balanced connection and need to go to XLR preamp input on interface or mixer.
Though, there is still lot of hum produced by my OP-1. Afrer careful investigation I just found out that this is other kind of noise. It was produced by Cow FX, both on master and channel, multiplied it. And if you in addition using compressor on master of your OP-1, it increases the noise even more. So, I just turned off those FXs, turned down compressor and got totally clean sound.
But being connected simultaneously by audio and USB cables, you absolutely need to use good Direct Box anyway. Engage ground lift and you’ll get your sound without ground loop.
Cheers!
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