It’s 4x as big as the official guide as way more detailed. The only disadvantage is that it puts actual usability over design, so no gray text on gray background unfortunately.
It’s unclear though whether the updates will be included or sold separately.
I’m going to give this a bump, in case you missed it the first time around.
I bought this for the price of a cup of coffee (before tax and tip, even). I think it’s very well done, and very thorough; worth the price for sure. I wish I had had this when I was learning to play the op-z, it would have saved me a bunch of guessing.
I haven’t had it long enough to rate it as a reference, but it’s well organized, so I’m guessing it will be good for that, too. I know from now on I will check here first from now on when I’m trying to remember how to do certain things I always forget.
Interesting but, what does this guide have that the official doesn’t? Yes, I know that there’s a bunch of stuff that’s not mentioned in the official and yes, the official isn’t that clear all the time. So I can absolutly see the use for a better guide.
I could be interested, but have had the Op-Z since day one and have read pretty much every thread here. I would absolutly buy it if it would give me some new information, tips, tricks etc. But as of now I find the description of this guide too vague for me to buy it.
The way I look at it is this:
The official guide tells you what, this guide tells you how.
It also flows really well.
If you’re an experienced user of the OP-Z then there maybe isn’t as much for you in there (I’d argue that could be debated though as I don’t know what you do/don’t know), but it’s £2.90 so even if it’s not of massive use and it’s something that helps support the community so I personally had no problem buying it for that reason as well as the above.
Found the OP-1 Notebook demo on YouTube…shows what the content looks like and might look like for OP-Z:
Got my OP-Z on Saturday and bought this OP-Z Notebook The next day. It’s well worth the few quid and way better laid out than the manual. Very clear with detailed instructions. I’d say plough through this first and then go thru the official manual afterwards.
Bought mine tooday. Keeping in mind that it can help community or Synthdawg directly=)). The main downside that you see immediately: they don’t use these specific OP-Z pictograms, instead you get something like
(Track) + Step (1) - (16) e. g. Kick - Step (1)
Unreadable. Imho. Especially after those nice manuals-guides from Teenage Engineering site.
One page has 27 lines. And 1/3 of pages is a blank space for “Notes”. And several blank pages after every chapter also for “Notes”
But still worth this “cup of coffee in rich countries” price.
I’m quite new to TE (and music making in general), so I’m being reading this guide, after having watched many videos and, of course read the official manual and taken tons of notes.
I agree that there are blank spaces and its own notation.
Actually this didn’t disturb me and I got used to it very quickly.
Even, the advantage is that I can copy/paste into a text file without needing special symbols.
I don’t get some of the schematics though but that’s perhaps a matter of different own logic, and with trial/error, I get it quickly.
Most of all, I’m very happy to have a manual that covers everything from A to Z without removing information or capital letters, just to look like styled and make the user feel special.
A real manual is the job that TE should have done and @iceritchie did it.
Many thanks for that!
Thanks @Hopeeasy. Yeah the aim is to compliment the community such as this forum, videos, tutorials, manual etc with another option. The books keep evolving and TE have been very supportive. The Synthdawg guides are only based on gear in the studio and we use. So we are part of the community too. The price is based on the cost of a coffee but is mainly aimed to keep the projects running. It quickly drops after card fees, web cost etc. some people like the books and a few don’t. Most do so keeps our motivation and inspiration high. That’s ok as it’s always a personal taste. Thanks again.