great use of m1/m2 and Track mute!
chill and melodic:
I love my op-1 for harder electronic styles like Hardtek and Frenchcore. For production in this styles i think its even better than an electribe. I’m sure if you are a bit creativ you can make good music in every styles on it. I still belive that the op-1 is in the eyes of a lot of “mainstream style musicians” a hippster toy and thats the reason no one ever buys it and makes some good fucking music on it. And the ones who have an op-1 are hippsters and don’t make mainstream styles… When i buyed the op-1 i didn’t hear any song from it that i liked. And 3 years later i maybe saw 2 videos with nice d’n’b and thats it. Sorry guys XD
Unfortunately the OP1 can only be used to make country music, however with the beta OS I’ve heard you can also do Reggae!
Love my OP to do some old school hip hop. Haven’t used my MPC since. That happened this afternoon 
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@masterofstuff124 link to this OP-1 metal?
I’d be interested as well!
Not sure if this is what @masterofstuff124 was referring to, but I made this DETHWAVE album using the OP-1 for synthesis over some sampled metal:Sounds nice but personally I’d not classify it as metal (which you didn’t) so I hope that maybe someone really made Heavy Metal and then saw that it was good. I would even play it louder than hell, I promise that I would…
I still belive that the op-1 is in the eyes of a lot of “mainstream style musicians” a hippster toy and thats the reason no one ever buys it and makes some good fucking music on it. And the ones who have an op-1 are hippsters and don’t make mainstream styles… When i buyed the op-1 i didn’t hear any song from it that i liked. And 3 years later i maybe saw 2 videos with nice d’n’b and thats it. Sorry guys XD
Are you saying you want to hear mainstream electronic music made on op-1?
Given recent trends in “EDM” I don’t think that’s really possible without painstaking edits in the tape section…I think the op-1 just lends itself more to loose/improvised styles, rather than anything meticulously crafted.
It’d be interesting to hear someone try though.
I just tried inputting chords into the endless sequencer, randomly picking a pattern, and jamming along with the sequencer on my electric violin, occasionally pressing a key on the keyboard to transpose the sequence.
Dunno what to call the style, but it was kinda neat. The patterns in endless sequencer can generate some odd rhythms.
I just tried inputting chords into the endless sequencer, randomly picking a pattern, and jamming along with the sequencer on my electric violin, occasionally pressing a key on the keyboard to transpose the sequence.Dunno what to call the style, but it was kinda neat. The patterns in endless sequencer can generate some odd rhythms.
Isn’t endless just a linear step sequencer? Confused about your meaning when you say you randomly picked a pattern after inputting random chords? But yeah, that does sound like exactly the kind of thing op-1 excels at
I just tried inputting chords into the endless sequencer, randomly picking a pattern, and jamming along with the sequencer on my electric violin, occasionally pressing a key on the keyboard to transpose the sequence.Dunno what to call the style, but it was kinda neat. The patterns in endless sequencer can generate some odd rhythms.Isn’t endless just a linear step sequencer? Confused about your meaning when you say you randomly picked a pattern after inputting random chords? But yeah, that does sound like exactly the kind of thing op-1 excels at
To clarify, the chords were not random - they were a specific chord progression for practicing some violin lines.
Endless is a step sequencer, which lets you enter rest “notes” and tie “notes”, but if you twist the white knob, you see patterns show up on the upper left of the display. These patterns will impose their own rhythm on the sequence. It’s easiest to hear if you just enter a note/chord on consecutive steps of the sequencer instead trying to enter your own rests.
I just tried inputting chords into the endless sequencer, randomly picking a pattern, and jamming along with the sequencer on my electric violin, occasionally pressing a key on the keyboard to transpose the sequence.Dunno what to call the style, but it was kinda neat. The patterns in endless sequencer can generate some odd rhythms.Isn’t endless just a linear step sequencer? Confused about your meaning when you say you randomly picked a pattern after inputting random chords? But yeah, that does sound like exactly the kind of thing op-1 excels at
To clarify, the chords were not random - they were a specific chord progression for practicing some violin lines.
Endless is a step sequencer, which lets you enter rest “notes” and tie “notes”, but if you twist the white knob, you see patterns show up on the upper left of the display. These patterns will impose their own rhythm on the sequence. It’s easiest to hear if you just enter a note/chord on consecutive steps of the sequencer instead trying to enter your own rests.
Sweet, I’ve been using endless a lot and somehow totally missed the white knob function! Thanks for heads up, sounds interesting 
Shift & Orange is good to reverse/random note direction.
Shift & white will shift start point of white pattern.
By mainstream music i don’t mean Deep House or Trap or what ever is trend by the moment. There is also mainstream music in Hardcore-Techno or Hardtekno but Hardcore or Hardtek aren’t mainstream music genres. Yes i would like more mainstream music in not so mainstream genres from the op-1. Electribes for example, you find a lot of mainstream frenchcore and hardtek from the emx-1 and the esx-1 (Suburbass, Audiogenic records…) but i never heard anything mainstream from the new electribe 2 and not because you can’t do it with it. Videos on youtube tell you more what kind of people are using this instrument and not for what style it is the best or how good it can sound.
Shift & Orange is good to reverse/random note direction. Shift & white will shift start point of white pattern.
Ooh, nice tips! Will try soon. Thanks!
I’ll be using my OP-1 in a loud, Jesus and Mary Chain-ish, post-punk band. For our two upcoming shows, it’s just playing back audio from Tape, using the “region loop” function, but the 2nd audio loop was done using a tweaked OP-1 synth preset - kind of a wind-like thing.
Glad to of helped @GovernorSilver