Hey, I got an OG OPLab (not the OP-Z module) a while ago… mainly for reasons of connecting ext. Keyboard to OG OP1 as mobile solution. I never went into the other crazy stuff you can do with it, and it seams quite full of hidden possibilities. Would like to get deeper into that. To me it seams like a brain of interconnecting all your stuff, never did CV or anything before. What are it’s features and what cool things are possible?
Thanks☺️
i was fortunate to get the TS-3 motion sensor (like the G-force accelerometer in the OP-1/field/Z) with mine and did a concert in August with the motion sensor triggering visual effects via a M4L patch sending CCs to the OP-Z running Photomatic short video clips! The gate input puts out MIDI note ons so i remapped those in the M4L patch so that the flutist’s foot switch would change random parameters of the videos as well!
Tinkered with the CV/Gate I/O a bit too.
Be advised that if you have the original OP-1, you would have to downgrade its firmware to 242 or earlier as the USB audio in 243 and later doesn’t play nice with the OPLAB. Same issue on OPZ but i don’t remember which firmware worked (used it direct from laptop running Ableton, so nonissue for me at least in the concert)
(No experience with it on OP-1 Field or XY)
HTH,
psound74
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That’s a nice drop:smiling_face:
think I will dig deeper into this.
The 424 thing loosing USB is sad, but can’t have everything…
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True! Part of the OP-1’s mystique is making it work in spite of all its “limitations breed creativity” ethos!
Thanks for watching, commenting, and complimenting!
Best,
psound74
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My gotcha was that the unit I bought had never had its firmware upgraded, so some modes that are mentioned in the documentation weren’t working. Or at least Mode 5. There was info about the new features in the release notes.
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i use the oplab occasionally as a cv to midi converter to record sequences from a detroit modular du-seq to whatever instrument i want in ableton live. the du-seq is basically an un-quantised version of the metropolis (slider based sequencer, but un-quantised pitch). it works very well for this. either the op-lab sends the cv with pitch bend or ableton interprets cv and applies pitch bend accordingly. i imagine you can use it for other types of cv signals as well – to me thats the only practical use i’ve found for the oplab, but its a good one (mode 7)
edit bad example, but its un-quantised pitch (warning, loud). du-seq → oplab → ableton wavetable: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_W5rG5JRKMlzVGgtVRlgkO-S5Bfz1pwb/view?usp=sharing
its probably possible to do the same thing but with the op-1 as the destination, but would require downgrading the firmware of the op-1, not a big deal imo, the firmwares are so easy to up-down grade
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