I have a question about the d-box. It seems like some of the sounds in the default kit are at a lower octave than others. Setting all of the parameters of two slots exactly the same can result in different sounds because they appear to be at different octaves. Have you folks noticed this?
A little tip for anyone like me who isnāt the best keyboard player, but who still loves to compose music. When you try to find chord progressions that sound good, trying to play them isnāt the easiest thing if where they are on the keyboard isnāt second nature to you, but there is a solution:
Create a set of chords in your favourite DAW and with your favourite synth or other instrument. I made all the regular I-VII chords of the C major and C minor scales, as well as adding some of my most common non-standard chords, like a few seventh chords, add 9ās and suspended chords. I made each chord last half a second so I could get 24 chords, one for each key on the OP-1. That also means working at 120 bpm, which is what I usually compose at anyway.
I saved each chord as a separate audio file, then used Xferās brilliant OP-1 Drum toolkit to map them out onto my OP-1. I put the major chords on the white keys, the minor chords on the black keys, using the range from C to B for the normal chords and mapping the others to the left and right of that octave.
I imported it into my OP-1, fine-tuned the samples so that there were no annoying pops or clicks, saved a snapshot and then renamed and reimported that to my desired location in my drum folder.
And, voilĆ : I can now easily play chord progressions as easily as I play the OP-1 drums, finding new and interesting combinations, record them to tape, add melodies on top, and have even more fun with this amazing little synth.
I wasnāt able to add the file here, for some reason, nor would my website host allow me to upload an aiff file, but a zip file of my chords can be freely downloaded from www.galleryhakon.com/music/op1/pianochords.zip
For anyone interested, the chords in the file are, in order from left to right:
F(add9), fm7, G7, gm7, amsus2, Ab(add9), Bb, C, cm, dm, d dim, em, F, fm, G, gm, am, Ab, b dim, Csus2, cm7, dm7, dm7(b5), em7
A little tip for anyone like me who isn't the best keyboard player, but who still loves to compose music. When you try to find chord progressions that sound good, trying to play them isn't the easiest thing if where they are on the keyboard isn't second nature to you, but there is a solution:
Create a set of chords in your favourite DAW and with your favourite synth or other instrument. I made all the regular I-VII chords of the C major and C minor scales, as well as adding some of my most common non-standard chords, like a few seventh chords, add 9's and suspended chords. I made each chord last half a second so I could get 24 chords, one for each key on the OP-1. That also means working at 120 bpm, which is what I usually compose at anyway.
I saved each chord as a separate audio file, then used Xfer's brilliant OP-1 Drum toolkit to map them out onto my OP-1. I put the major chords on the white keys, the minor chords on the black keys, using the range from C to B for the normal chords and mapping the others to the left and right of that octave.
I imported it into my OP-1, fine-tuned the samples so that there were no annoying pops or clicks, saved a snapshot and then renamed and reimported that to my desired location in my drum folder.
And, voilĆ : I can now easily play chord progressions as easily as I play the OP-1 drums, finding new and interesting combinations, record them to tape, add melodies on top, and have even more fun with this amazing little synth.
I wasn't able to add the file here, for some reason, nor would my website host allow me to upload an aiff file, but a zip file of my chords can be freely downloaded from www.galleryhakon.com/music/op1/pianochords.zip
For anyone interested, the chords in the file are, in order from left to right:
F(add9), fm7, G7, gm7, amsus2, Ab(add9), Bb, C, cm, dm, d dim, em, F, fm, G, gm, am, Ab, b dim, Csus2, cm7, dm7, dm7(b5), em7
Sweet tip while I contemplate the KordBot lol!! I did something similar with hh rolls to make a trap hh kit.
@flybry Kordbot looks really cool. Never heard of that before. Iād not mind having one of those one day.
The spring 2016 stipulated shipping time is long past, though getting delayed is common with most crowdfunded projects as everyone tends to underestimate how long things take ā or deliberately lie about shipping dates as people will be more reluctant to fund something if it is too far ahead in time.
@<a href=āhttps://www.operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/2754/Hakonā class=āUsernameā style=āmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: ālucida grandeā, āLucida Sans Unicodeā, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);ā>Hakon<span style=ācolor: rgb(37, 38, 30); font-family: ālucida grandeā, āLucida Sans Unicodeā, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);ā> Thx, neat tip 
so i just discovered how to create distorted driven sounds with the master limiter. the input level at maximum will give a clean maximized hard limiting with around 50 drive but roll the input level (blue green) down & you get distorted drive. maybe someone can explain but ive never used input control like this on any other limiter or compressor vst. maybe some auto make-up gain/drive reduction. hard to tell. anyone know of any similar vst??
How to add one or more samples to an existing drumkit
Wow! Thanks man
A new āTremoloā tutorial is up on my YouTube. The goal is to show how the new wave shapes allow a āSidechainā sound (and more) which was harder to do in prior versions of the OS. It has been great for me:
https://youtu.be/qN--JpcVQC8
DJTW
+1
^ you can also use āarm recordā by pressing shift+rec.
^ you can also use "arm record" by pressing shift+rec.
Holly what ??!?
@LyingDalai op-1 online manual has description of this function:
8.11 Advanced Recording Techniques.
A quite special recording technique is to put the tape in Rec Arm mode and control the speed manually. To do this press SHIFT + Rec. You are now recording but the reels are still.
So you can push shift+rec, switch to mode you want, make preparations, and then to start recording just hit play button.
Very useful for more or less synced rerecording something from album back to tape (rec arm -> switch to album -> hit main play + 2[album play] simultaneously).
Itās been so much time since I last read this manual, it could have been totally rewritten, I wouldnāt have known !
@tralivallo Thank you so much, Iāve got to try this ! Totally the same about the manual fact as @LyingDalai said 
Hey all, apologies if this tip has already been put into the mix.
Yes indeed @winerz, this has already been detailed in this thread a couple of times 
Ah sorry didnāt see it
No worries! Good tips are worth repeatingā¦