Hello, got a few questions on snapshots and how you guys go about organising/renaming.
1: Firstly, am I right in thinking that only the user slots 1-8 have the handy preview sound for synth patches when using the OP-1 in disc mode to listen on a laptop?
2: Given the above, what’s your methodolgy for re-naming synth snapshots, given that you can’t actually hear what they are when you’re looking at them on a laptop? Listen first on the OP-1 and make notes alongside the default date/time name of the snapshot?
3: If you’re like me, and you’ve maybe done a couple of complete dumps across to the laptop (I make a folder with the current date) and so have duplicate snapshots in multiple dump folders, how do you deal with renaming the snapshots and making sure the duplicates are also renamed? Or do you use a duplicate folder to delete the older copies of the duplicates?
Revisiting this quandary now, and one of the ideas i had was to have a shared snapshots folder on my computer (rather than my current usual method of putting the entire contents of the OP-1 into a folder with the day’s date on), this way any snapshots with the same name won’t be duplicated.
The downside to this method is that it won’t be possible to know which snapshots were on the device, in case I ever want to revisit ideas that are on the tape and figure out which sounds I used, unless I take a screen shot or somehow otherwise make a note of the contents of the snapshots folders and rename the snapshots whilst retaining the original time/date format either at the start (Like “20241030_2045_MoogBass.aif”) or the end (MoogBass_20241030_2045.aif
Leaving the time/date at the start will allow for sorting by time/date, but then you won’t be able to see the descriptive name on the OP-1 as it only shows the first 13 characters
i find the saving snapshots thing to be so convoluted
that i just dont even bother
try to build new sounds from scratch every time
good practice
its prettty quick w/ the OP as theres not too many params to mess w/
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True, I think that a lot of my issues with the OP-1 are due to me overthinking and wanting to do things in a ‘proper’ way so that if I want to revisit a project at a later date I can (ie, having all parts isolated somewhere on the tape, being able to recall patches/samples)
i’ve been using the op1 for almost? a decade now
and fwiw things didn’t really start taking off for me
until i sorta let go of that type of sentiment
and just embraced what the device was and how it wanted to work
instead of trying to force it to cater to me
i also realized over many years of making music in general
that i almost never actually went back to revisit my old things once i had moved on
(nor did i need access to all the project files etc etc)
i know not everyone is like that but it was freeing for me
i still try to save stuff // back up when i can
but i dont worry about it too much in the long term
build and destroy and rebuild again
the circle of life as they say
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