Quite interesting to see the TE team explaining the field series, with some surprising response to the… “is there an OP-Z Field coming” question. As Oora said on his video.
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Answer @ 21.40
Another interesting thingy of note was that they tried to make a mixer half the size of the TX-6! But then a game of cards broke out in the office and the size-factor became obvious.
(I may have made that last sentence up).
I’d love to have been in that room just to ask them;
“One of the benefits of being a small company must be that you retain a tighter level of control, with regards to production runs. So at what point were you aware of the warping issues with the much-loved op-z? And would you care to explain what’s the cause of this, why it’s not been addressed, nor fixed, and why as a renowned design company you feel that it is perfectly ethical to still sell a relatively expensive product that you know is fundamentally flawed?”
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Another interesting thing of note from the video above was that they are releasing something new this year after summer.
My guess is that will be the Field-speaker. No one is gonna use those spare slots for an extra
TP-7 but I could defiantly see a mini speaker (or stereo pair) that looks like the CM-15 sitting in there.
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Most probably TX-6 was reworked prototype of mixing player TE tried to develop for Kanye West (but he picked another company for his Stem Player).
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- Metal body
- Better switches to avoid double triggers
- Screws to fix the board instead of melted plastic, so we can easily clean contacts
- Separate samples slots and engines slots, so they don’t compete with each other:
- Fixed slots for synths engines and FX, no need to assign them with the app
- Each of the 8 first tracks have 10 usable samples slots, always
- LFO on arp track
- Steps components on ALL tracks, incl. module, master, tape, fx & performance tracks
- Configurable filter tracking amount
- Configurable probability on the random step components value
- More sound engines, or better a port of Plaits engine: 2-op FM, waveshaping, wavetable, formant, additive, hypersaw…
- Switchable drum synth for the first 4 tracks, based on Microtonic
- Optional “advanced mode” with 4 added parameters per engine (= 1 extra page)
- Added insert FX per track (overdrive, phaser, chorus, bit/sample rate reduction…)
- Stereo sampling
- Up to 64 steps sequencer (4 pages)
- Records pitch bend data
- Built-in rumble and line-in modules
- Upgraded battery
- Full backup/restore from the OP-Z app
- Still no screen
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-Alu case with rounded corners
-OPZ App in AU format (now we have Logic for iPad ;))
-Stereo samples 24 bit
-Much more memory please
-Small screen (like the field mixer)
The small screen will only show the sample pack name or the dials selections
-Export Stems in separate audio files
-Export loops without effects option
-USB multi channel interface
-New reverb
-Side chain effect
-More Patterns use
-Same compact size please
-Bigger trigger buttons
-Stutter effect (like the logic iPad beat braker)
-Managing samples with the app
-2 extra send effects
-Tape echo simulation
-Recording much lager files
-Vocoder like effects
-Granular effect for samples
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Add: Resample to a drum sample track so you can slice & dice.
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I recently realized, that all the limitations of OP-Z don’t prevent me from making complete tracks on it, but there’s one thing that absolutely has to be done in post-production, and that’s compression. I really dislike single knob compressors, so I’ve found the built-in OP-Z compressor completely useless. It’s better to disable it and use MDES later.
If the OP-Z field ever blesses this world, I hope it has a decent compressor.
Well, I wouldn’t say no to better mixing tools in general, but at least please give me a usable compressor.
Personally I’m quite happy with the ergonomics and the UX.
1 - Would definitely love to have better live-effects intensity modulation using the pitch-touchbar (e.g. to modulate stereo effect or balance between clean and effected sound).
2 - Better stereo workflow (but that is probably already assured).
3 - More non-geek-oriented functions for integration in an electro live-set (e.g. dual op-z pairing or live file swapping if connected to USB c)
4 - Retro-lit or with a tiny led keys, this should have been on the OP1 field as it is hard to see what you press on in dim environments without external light (e.g. stage…).
Cheers
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