Question for an Op1 owner - incoming Midi from a DAW

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Apologies, I know people ask questions about OP1’s confusing midi implementation a lot.

But I cant seem to get an answer to a couple of questions I have regarding Midi.
So point me in the direction of the thread if its been answered elsewhere.
Watched all the youtube vids I can find and Yes I’ve read the manual.

1) Does the OP1 properly sync to a DAW - I’ve read something about having put midi notes at the start of and arrangement so sync isn’t lost?
2) How is does the OP1 respond to incoming Midi? Can a synth or sampler say respond to a specific incoming midi channel?
3) The four channels, do these operate a four seperate voices? can they be accessed independently or simultaneously (responding to incoming midi notes on specific channels)
or is it merely a 4-track tape recorder?

Thanks in advance.



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  1. Good luck getting it to sync with Logic Pro… I found it impossible whatever I tried to get it to sync accurately. With Ableton Live it is possible to get a good sync with OP1 as slave

    2) One (selectable) channel which is global - it is assigned to whatever instrument you have activated

    3) 4 track tape recorder and one instrument. OP1 is not multitimbral
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@limesoft Thanks for the response

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the drum sampler responds to notes 53-77 i believe

the synth is all notes 0 - 127

u can’t record into sequencers via midi but you can trigger the seq’s
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  1. no
    2. it receives midi and some midi CCs. the CCs all mean different things depending on which OP1 engine is on - sometimes they add to parameters within a range, sometimes they control the whole range. it’s messy. you can configure the global channel number but not the CC numbers (1,2,3,4)
    3. the channels are audio - hence tape tracks. there’s no run-time access to them, merely to their sum, it’s not an audio interface. the synth and drum parts are only one at a time. monotimbral, 6 voice polyphonic