OTTO: open source DIY OP-1

trppng · 2017-09-23T21:05:44.875Z

Hi, I just found this and thought you guys might me interested in it:

GitHub

topisani/OTTO

Sampler, Sequencer, Multi-engine synth and effects - in a box! - topisani/OTTO

simonvanderveldt · 2017-09-23T23:03:50.311Z

Very cool, both the way it looks and what it tries to be as well as the implementation (Faust).
Thanks for sharing!

Zedkah · 2017-09-24T01:15:25.295Z

what hardware is this for?

DMR · 2017-09-24T02:45:57.893Z

It looks like the intention is for it to be run on the Raspberry Pi w/ a screen, but the development is being done in an Ubuntu Linux VM.

vehka · 2017-09-24T10:55:42.229Z

Now somebody needs to design open hardware to match this. I’d love a 3D-printable case for the Raspberry Pi in the spirit of an OP-1.

Zedkah · 2017-09-24T15:25:14.907Z

thanks simon - so pi and screen and… looking at pics online the op-1 has around 30 buttons a keyboard and 5 pots. so you add a mini kbd and self build a control with the buttons and pots?

jasonw22 · 2017-09-24T15:55:21.344Z

I think the authors are imagining you will use your computer keyboard? No idea how the pots would work. I guess I’d want MIDI support. I kind of wish they had not chosen to steal the OP-1 design. This could have been a fascinating original open source instrument. As it is, I would feel strange about contributing.

TheTechnobear · 2017-09-24T19:27:29.080Z

jasonw22:

I think the authors are imagining you will use your computer keyboard? No idea how the pots would work. I guess I’d want MIDI support. I kind of wish they had not chosen to steal the OP-1 design. This could have been a fascinating original open source instrument. As it is, I would feel strange about contributing.

looks like keyboard could be relatively easily substituted with a controller using midi.

agreed, about OP-1 , I see no reason to play off of TE reputation - when they could easily come up with something new - just feels wrong and lacking imagination. also I think it will be a ‘rod for their own back’, it will get accusations of not sounding like the OP-1, not having x, y, z… by TE users defending their machines.
surely, much easier to be new/unique, create your own reputation… if they are going to pull this off, then they certainly have the skills to do something new.

sam · 2017-09-24T20:55:06.992Z

@jasonw22 and @TheTechnobear

Looks like they’re (ever so slightly) ahead of you…

github.com/topisani/OTTO

Issue: Project rename

opened by topisani on 2017-09-23

closed by topisani on 2017-10-17

There are quite a few reasons why we need to rename the TOP-1.
First of all, i don't know if you noticed,...

jasonw22 · 2017-09-24T20:58:49.112Z

The name is part of it. The visual style and also the interaction design are really the more significant bits.

Not that copying such things is necessarily illegal or even should be. It’s just a question of acting with good will towards other innovators in the industry, and how the rest of us choose to react to the decision.

Jonathan_Riley · 2018-12-25T02:21:22.000Z

GitHub

topisani/OTTO

Sampler, Sequencer, Multi-engine synth and effects - in a box! - topisani/OTTO

“The OTTO is a complete hardware and software solution, with synths, a sampler, effects, sequencers, and studio modules. The interface is modal, easy to use, simple, but most of all, it encourages experimentation. The graphics are quirky, and the workflow is minimal.”