I was recording into the OP-1f yesterday after not using it for a month and I was so blown away by the excellent sonics. Except for the clicks when I try to edit and move pieces of tape. If the tape merge function just added a 2ms crossfade at the joins I would be in heaven. It could be the most awesome tape loop editing thing ever. It breaks my heart that I can’t chop and rearrange. So close, TE. Crossfades PLEASE!
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totally agree. you should submit a feat request to TE! the more the merrier haha
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Good idea, done.
Edit: The TE automated reply doesn’t inspire hope.
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the world works in mysterious ways
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You have to carefully define loops on tape. SHIFT+LOOP around a take is not always the same as moving the tape head to the beginning of the take and pressing IN and then pressing OUT at the end of the take.
And always check the tape if some tiny pieces are left after lifting takes. If so you need drop the takes back then adjust the loops and lift again.
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that is a great point i have noticed that myself too. one thing that i do believe is a bug though is that if i strictly set IN and OUT points ahead of time on empty tape, and then record onto that loop some material/takes, and then later lift that with shift + lift, i will occasionally see those really tiny bits of tape hanging around beyond the IN/OUT points.
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These are good advices, I will work on my methods.
I wish lifting and dropping worked without fuss. I had a Fostex digital recorder when I was young, a long time ago, and it crossfaded when dropping a piece of audio, so no matter how I cut it was seamless. That was like 20 years ago.
With crossfades, working with the “tape” would be a lot of creative fun instead of having to try tedious micro-fixing.
TE are mysterious in this way. They remind me of Korg in that they like to stop running just a few feet before they make it to finish line.
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Ive been saying this for a while, a way to fade in and out of sections on the tape mode would be game changer, also a chorus effect on such a device is absolutely necessary… i would even add harmonizers, flangers and another cow effect but this time each stomach sets a delay time so u can go granular…
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For the love of god, teenage engineering. Add this feature! Been said so many times and it’s made so many of us nuts.
Also, can we get a drum decay envelope? Crazy they have not added that.
On a side note I’ve worked with this for the last year, and the work around I’ve settled on is always having one track I never add any overdubs to when looping, usually the drums but could be whatever. When I lift to drop to make the next loop I always set the loop container around that slice again. That usually helps with pops, but it also helps with those stranger little remnants that get added that can throw the loop time off.
It’s so freaking ridiculous that there’s a need for such things but I still use the field a ton. But even this workaround does not solve the basic pops that happen when you have a nice loop that you want to work with and it you drop a copy next to it and there’s a pop on the crossover. Freaking insane.
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This was a big issue for me since getting my OP-1 years ago. The clicks are a massive deterrent to recording straight from the OP-1 lineup and it should be really simple for them to add as a feature.
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Yeah i really wish they truly updated and made it better, listen to the actual users and not give us this crap about limitations being strengths because a lot of them make people actually not use it , just make small loops or record onto a daw instead lol its an amazing device but god they could be sooo much cooler. Just add a fat roster of effects n shit , be able to chain at least 2 at a time for one synth or what not…. 4 band eq…. I can literally come up with so many improvements they could just do on a computer rn but they re busy selling the. XY now so idk…. Makes me wanna make an op1 competitor device just to fuck with them lol wish i could, sell it for 800 bucks. Lol
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Having done a lot of embedded development in my career as a software engineer, I can safely say that if you did build a competitor, you would clearly see the trade-offs you would have to make to bring such a device to market at your target price point and in a reasonable amount of time before funding ran out so you could start taking revenue.
Tony
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I’ve been saying this is truly the last thing I want on the Op1f, the ability to add fades in the tape mode and drum sampler. I don’t care for anything else!!!
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