Feeling 50/50 on keeping OP I got a few days ago. Reminds me a lot of OT in terms of OS love/hate. Which I could cope with but just feeling like maybe it’s not worth £650 that could be spent elsewhere today. The workflow just isn’t as quick/tight as I’d imagined, tape feels mostly like a gimmick that makes simple things take too long and Ipad apps have progressed/diversiefied a ton since OP was released so I’m trying to balance it up and decide. I already have an Ipad. Maybe I just need a small in/out audio interface and new controller keyboard and velcro the whole thing to a small pedal board to use round the house… Would save like £500…
Hoping some of the following are things I’ve missed in manual/forum/vids. And also threw in a wishlist at the end for advice on poss (non-tedious) workarounds. Long post, guessing people have better things to do than reply, but any advice etc would be great. Thanks.
Can I? -
Synth/sample Note latch. (I know sequencers have ‘hold’, is there an equivalent?)
Kill effect tail (for instance on Octatrack hitting stop a couple of times does this). Annoying to sometimes have to wait 10 secs on long delays before you re-do a take.
Forward >backward rotation option for sample loop in synth sampler for smoother sound on swells/decays etc that otherwise jolt when they loop from the start each time.
Endless sequencer - browse through steps and edit individual. Seems like for now I can’t edit steps after sequence is made, except for the previously added step.
Zoom in/out on tape time line.
Basic individual synth patch volume control (maybe I’m being blind on this one and it’s already there?).
Traditional type of bipolar filter envelope control.
Pattern sequencer. Nudge selected notes.
Delete sample/snapshot without a computer straight from the hardware to free space. I don’t always have a laptop with me…
Overwrite snapshot from OP. Instead of forced to make new/use memory.
Wishlist -
Ability to delete factory presets… Memory is precious enough whiteout being forced to use it on stuff I’ll never use.
4 Separate tape track (or 4 separate mixer track) fx. If memory/cpu a problem maybe an option to disable synth/drum engine fx and switch to tape tracks fx?
Sequencer pattern memory banks
Tape track individual waveform view and zoom for precise start/end point selection. Same as the synth sample waveform view/editor would be fine. Fade in/out control for takes. (could eliminate pops/clicks this way and other creative uses).
Auto fade on Tape takes to get rid of clicks. This has been bumming me out already even after only one day…
Sample choke option (while keeping drumkit polyphony).
Clear tempo sync options (1/4, triplets etc) in any tempo related effects (delays etc).
Quick ‘erase’ individual tape track. No fun going along the 6 minute time line locating/deleting tons of little bricks of junk you need to get rid of. If the rotary push function is being developed now then maybe ‘1+blue push’ to delete track one. ‘2+green push’ for track 2 etc. And ‘lift’ also only works on takes under 90 secs.
Undo/redo. Even one level would be huge.
straight forward way of mixing and matching drumkit sounds without need for resample to tape and back just to put a kit together. Just a regular old drum sound library…
Probably not possible due to hardware/OS architecture but it would be so useful if you could have a drum sequence play and jam synth over the top simultaneously, without always having to put beats/synth down on tape to get a feel for both combined. Especially when layering patterns etc. For some reason I thought OP did this already.
Parameter locks. Would take op-1 next level.
More variation lfo destinations (+ 2nd LFO
Onboard Normalise sample option.
8 Song position markers users can place on tape mode time line for quick location jumping (1-8 + button/Push combo maybe). Would be great for remixing structure during bounce to album or another track.
Refined snapshot system. For example when editing a previously saved snapshot being able to choose whether to Overwrite current snapshot or create a new one.
Dynamic sample memory across OS, especially between synth and drum. Sometimes I don’t have any drumkits at all onboard and would like to use that available memory for synth samples. And vice versa.