#448

It would be great if that component could be programmed to play every ‘nth, nth and nth’ step. You can achieve this using the above technique on multiple steps but it’s hard to keep track of. Glad you figured this out, I realise your question was asked some time ago but I was skimming through here, looking for secrets, when I spotted it. Great when you hope a gizmo can do something, think it can’t, then learn it can!

I wish there were a way to ‘mark’ by colour, steps you wished to leave alone, so that when adding to a sequence you could identify your original and add between. I do this by adding unnoticeable step components to steps I don’t wish to alter but it is of limited utility. I know holding a step reveals it’s properties but it would be great (for me) to be able to colour code steps in the sequence.

#450

Trying to pair op-z with Novation Launch Control (not XL). I have them directly connected via b to c cable. I have midi in turned on in the op-z. When powered on, op-z gets stuck in a strange mode; all encoder LEDS are lit white, track 1 flashes white and black key 1, white key 1 and black key 7 flash alternately white whilst holding track. Other than this the unit is unresponsive. Also, this disconnects the app. This happens when connecting the Launch Control to op-z when turned on and when powering on whilst connected. The lights on Launch Control also cycle rather than behaving normally and is also unresponsive. When Launch Control is disconnected I have to power cycle op-z to return it to normal. Any advice would be great! I’m a modular guy so this midi business is strange to me.

#451

Happy FW update day!
1.2.5 ft. Sampling… Finally!

Enjoy.

https://teenage.engineering/downloads/op-z

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#452

Waaaaaaait a minute,

  • 2 channel audio interface

That’s in the release notes. Is it a usb audio interface now?

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#453

Yes you can do audio in/out over USB now! Pretty rad. Sampling can be done this way, or you can record the output of the Z into your DAW of choice using USB audio.

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#454

Killer upgrade! Such a game changer for me, been sampling random shit all morning and having a blast. I love how gritty it sounds too. Can’t wait to get into some serious sampling as soon as I get the farts out of my system.

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#455

wow this is for sure putting the opz on my radar again

#456

Loving sampling!


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#457

Wonder if that’ll work plugged into a USB-C iPad Pro.

(I will not buy an OP-Z! I will not buy an OP-Z! :boom:)

#458

20 characters of it does

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#459

When the OP-Z turns into an sp404 overnight…

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#460

So if I understand it correct, the sampling engines in the OPZ are the same as the OP1s but without the envelopes, right?

Edit: Oh, I think I got it wrong, envelopes seem to be on a separate paramter page.

Maybe someone can explain it a bit for non OPZ users.

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#461

I don’t have an OP-1 but basically the OPZ has two types of samplers: drum sampler and melodic sampler. You can set filter, envelope, lfos etc. for all of them but they differ a little in how they treat the sampled audio. I think that guide on TE site explains it better than I could https://teenage.engineering/guides/op-z/sampling but if you will wonder if something is possible I could try to do it on OPZ and get back to you :slight_smile:
What I love right now about this sampling update is that the sampling is really fast with built in microphone and in few seconds you can sample something and start creating pattern with it. It doesn’t result in pristine sampling quality but you don’t need anything besides OPZ and for me that is great.

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#462

It’s unfortunate that the envelopes for the drum sampler are not “adsr” Seems that when you manipulate either the attack or release it is controlling the start and end of the sample. So there is no way to set a sample to gate which creates a slight problem when you don’t want to have 2-note poly

#463

Thanks for the info and the offer, that’s very kind of you. I watched a couple of overview videos but I’m still not sure what to think of the OPZ. I can’t help but find it a bit disappointing that they recycled so much from the OP-1 after so many years. And no dedicated audio input is just a huge oversight in my opinion. But a sequencer based workflow with OP-1 like sampling still is very attractive.

#464

I won’t act as a cheerleader for the OP-Z but I do find that it’s very much unlike an OP-1, a completely different experience. Granted, some features have their roots in the OP-1, but the end result is still its own.

That probably helps very little with deciding if the OPZ is for you, but maybe these two cents still amount to something :slight_smile:

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#465

Sure. I absolutely believe that the results are very different. Sequencer vs tape is a whole different workflow. But seeing the sample based engines to be more or less the same feels a bit cheap to me. Totally viable decision, but I would have appreciated a different approach.

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#466

Yes, agreed – after all these years, maybe they could’ve taken the engines a bit further.

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#467

Here is a little one take of my first experience with the sampler. I resampled a loop from the morphagene into a couple of the OP-Z tracks. Lots of potential.

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#468

I don’t have op-1 so it is hard to be 100% sure but I treat op-z more as a pocket operators on steroids workstation. If you every played one and loved it but thought stuff like: I wish it was possible to mute parts, have more steps than 16etc then I think you will also love op-z. I think it is great for creating drafts while laying on bed or when on vacations. The sound engines are nothing to write poems about but they serve as a nice sound source for modular processing. But I guess as an op-1 owner you already have most of these things.