@ThatsTooOP3 said:
I think for a lot of iOS users without an op1 this is a solid purchase. If you have an op1 and or use droids, there are way better uses of that money. I’m not sure who the portable maestros who sequence 3d and music on a device the size of a tv remote with no screen for $600 are. You could have a maschine mkIII or MPC touch (with an op1 if ya have one) and just not care about video… There are so many other options for music production, synths, and sound designs.
I think that electronic music gear is about sound and workflow.
If it sounds right, powerful and open possibilites to your musical explorations, then it’s an amazing piece, word. For me, isnt about the specs, it’s about the mojo - indeed, like the OP-1.
Inspiring industrial sound design can exist in apparentely simple and limited hardware - and high specs synths/sequencers/samplers can just sound dull.
Based on some comments that we see around in gear forums (not the case here), all those worldchangin’ amazing vintage Roland gear would be destroyed in the internet if they were released today, because they are monophonic or dont have this or that waveform or weren’t midi even if midi was already around etc I feel sorry for the TB-303 if it was released in the ~gear scene~ today ?
Based only on the OP-Z specs and videos, as we still cant see it truly in action, with more deep sound and workflow infos, that unit is exactly what I’m searching - and I own a MPC Live, a Digitakt, can sequence with Ableton Live 10 etc
My electronic music production is 100% based and focused on live performance. In my opinion, live performance is much about working with constrains, as more hardware and deeper gear maximizes the possibility of problems and rises the complexity bar to a point where it can impose stress and error.
And I perform sometimes in very precarious and spartan places, with limited space, bad electric systems, humidity, raves that can be raided by the police etc
Based on those premisses, I need light, very portable, fast programming and, if possible, battery powered gear. Packing and unpacking fast is important.
The OP-Z is exactly the kind of gear that i´m looking for: very portable (can´t be smaller without compromising the usability), straigthtforward/objective use (punch ins, quantize, accessible effects), have 4+1 drum tracks (the number of drum tracks that I usually use in lives) and can even sequence light (DMX is very common/accessible today) and videos, if we get projectors.
A live set with a Digitone and the OP-Z can be packed in an ecobag - or free me space for effects boxes or even another compact synth. It´s like gaining a sequencer/drum machine/synth without the physical constrains associated with - something that I can´t have with the MPC, or Maschine or even the Octatrack etc.
