Tape workflow advice

OP-1
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Getting my head round OP after first proper session on it. So quick/fun. Stoked to have it in the arsenal :slight_smile: Couple of things. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Recorded 4 bars of various overdubs on track one. Trimmed in/out and got it looping fine in tape player. Accidently hit ‘in’ and it started looping a very short (non quantized) section and sounded nice, possibly new part for later. I found a synth sound/hook that worked on top. But the synth hook is like 8 times through the looping section of tape. What’s best workflow for getting this new section down On tape to throw in to the song structure at some point in future? Without destroying where I’m currently at with the 4 bars I’ve already got down on track one. Not sure even possible as kind of involves track 1 looping while another track (or track 1 overdub) records the longer synth riff. Guessing copy/paste the short loop region maybe? Is that possible without destroying the main 4 bar loop? I’ll go through the manual again this morning…

Also, for future ref could I record couple of overdubs on track 1. Then bounce this track across to track 2 + new realtime effects (or realtime added synth/drums) ?

‘Grid’ fx - a lot of clicks when tweaking X (blue) in realtime. Anyone got a workaround or is this just intrinsic element of that parameter?

I can tell OP-1 is gonna be rad, just gotta get my head around the way it thinks! Seems like the perfect portable Radiophonic Workshop box :slight_smile: Is there an OP-1 equivalent to Merlin’s guide for Octatrack out there?

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  1. You can do cuts at the in and out marks, and then lift the looped parts of all four tracks at once with shift + lift. Drop it into the sampler and glue the cuttet points on the tape… check the quickguide from blueskyrepublique(?) Or have a look at go-p1.net for resources
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Thanks man. Seems like almost everything i do on other units (resample/bounce/loop etc) is centred around tape on OP-1 so I just wanna make sure I’m not doing stuff backwards/long-winded or missing tricks from the get go :wink: New way of working/thinking, cool though.

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yes, it´s very simple and a lot of tricks are there to find…i´m even surprised what people do with that thing…