#650

Getting back into sampling :slight_smile:

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#651

Dig the piano sample. Where’d you come up on that? (Unless of course you made it yourself)

Also, have you tried any of the live sampling? Still haven’t done that myself.

#652

Thanks! I did a YouTube search for jazzy piano or something along those lines and randomly sampled a section of one of the first few results … Not very romantic, but when I pick samples that are meaningful to me, I often end up with something that I don’t really enjoy. I think I just cant get around hearing the sample in a different way than I’ve always heard it.
I have messed with playing live into the tape buffer (if that’s what you’re talking about, if not, let me know :)), but in my limited experimentation it was challenging to get the levels right.

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#653

There’s live sampling? Last I tried, going into t sampler mode shut off the running sequence…

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#654

Yeah! And you can monitor from both the USB or the Audio port now. Haven’t tried it, so I don’t know the process or anything, but I’ve been meaning to!

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#655

I finally got around to playing with the live sampling (and monitoring) features that came out in firmware 1.2.8. It’s really fun!

To accomplish this with an iPhone, you need the official Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. A USB-C to lightning cable won’t work!

To monitor via USB, plug it into your iPhone, then press SCREEN+0. To effect USB audio with the tape track, press SCREEN+3 and enable the “module” channel. Start playing a Youtube video or Spotify track and you’re ready to go.

You can see how live sampling works in this video from Bruno Kramm:

Also, the above adapter allows you to record from your OP-Z directly to the iPhone, which is great when you’re keeping it minimal on the road. I had the most luck just using the Voice Memos app. Garage Band was more of a pain than it was worth.

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#656

Not having a chance to watch this t the moment, I’m curios: how does the act of ‘recording’ work? Do you end up getting g the audio in one of the synth’s slots and it gets chopped? Or is it played like a melodic sampler? Do you have a choice how each of those are done? Or is this just a method that can create cool tape effects?

The only sample work I’ve done is through computer based file transfer. The ‘synth’ slots would basically play it like a Kontact library while the drums would cut at transients and create chops. I would like to have a chance soon to really get down to it.

#657

I just sent my Z in as the warranty is almost up and I have all the issues: double trigs, encoders popping out, and my unit us extremely bowed.

I’m wondering if getting a metal backplate made would improve structural integrity and keep the new one they (hopefully) send me from turning into a banana. Has anyone else thought of this or looked into it?

#658

That is correct. Bruno’s video above demonstrates applying effects to live audio via the Tape track. It does not demonstrate sampling, which is a separate process.

#659

This is an odd question, but would the op lab module be capable of more or less converting incoming midi to cv in real time?

Like, could I almost use it like an ES-8? For example, have midi coming in to the OP-Z from VCV or a Norns and out of a CV and trig port in real time?

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#660

Cool - hadn’t thought of this use case but just experimented and verified it works!

All you need to do is send MIDI to Channel 14 of the OP-Z from your DAW, etc. and the given notes will be available via the CV/gate outs on the module.

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#661

Like, this is kinda a potentially indispensable tool! Basically turn any midi signal in to CV like that? Huh… damn…

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#662

@kasselvania There are modules that do that, like the Doepfer 190-4.
http://www.doepfer.de/a1904.htm

#663

Oh for sure. I just already have an OP-Z and a friend will be lending my his Op lab to try out for a while. Until I get a crow and/or an ES8 or something like this doepfer or a mutable yarns, this seems like a very good bang for the buck from the OP Lab.

#664

One thing I’m trying figure out with the oplab is how to use the step components on the the cv channel. Has anyone been able to get this working?

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#665

Which ones are you hoping to use? Things like the ratchet/repeat? Many of them are effects based, which probably won’t transfer over (i suspect there might be some that make use of the green and blue CV encoders, but they only work if you have a stereo input on your modular or a way to split ring and tip signals and have that broken out accordingly).

The only step component I’ve output with my OP-Z thus far is the ‘trigger’ port, which is the assignable Extra output. But I’m curious which you’re trying. I just built the beginnings of my first rack and have begun exploring all the options of the OP-Z in relation to it, so I would be curious to check some of what you’re after.

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#666

The module track does not have step components, unfortunately. The workaround is to set one of the first 8 channels to output on midi channel 14, which is the module cv output.

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#667

I hope you will forgive my shameless auto promotion but first track from this demo was made on OP-Z:

The first track is OP-Z into Eventide Space into microcassette recorder and thats it :smiley: I must admit it was kind of funny looking that reverb unit was so much bigger than main sound generator. I really like pitching down samples as this can quickly get into ambient territory and then only thing that you need to add is a steady kick and you have a song :wink:
And to anyone experiencing double triggs on keys etc. send it on warranty. I got mine OP-Z replaced and it is like a night and day difference in usability.

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#668

Damn, this knocks. That reverb wet/dry ratio is spot on.

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#669

Thank you Sean! That’s exactly what I was looking for.

Definitely curious to find out if some of the step components work with the encoders, but for now I am mostly interested in using ratchet/repeat/random.