OP-1 Field Sampler - An Ambient Music Exploration
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2025
- Hello there!
Here’s a video which is a bit of a walkthrough of making some ambient music on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field using its built in stereo sampler. This is something that a few people asked for or where excited about, so thanks for being patient!
I guess it’s not a traditional walkthrough, and still very much in the style of my other videos, but I show you a bit more of the behind the scenes, of the making process, so hopefully it’s useful, informative and maybe sounds good too!
Anyway let me know if you have any questions, or if there’s anything I didn’t touch on that you’d like me to.
Anyway, enjoy! MM.
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Loved this video man! Would also love to see how you create the samples from instruments onto the Op1!
Thank you! Happy to, most of them are pretty basic, but with the CM-15 microphone you could sample a lot with great quality, the line in too, I’ll do some more sampling and start putting a video together!
@@megamodularis I have the whole Field system so I always love to see how others use it. I’d love to see a video on your process!
Oh nice! The only thing I’m missing is the TX-6 although I think it would be a useful addition (and complete the collection!) I think most of my samples were either recorded line in, or from the on board mic, so I’d like to explore using the CM-15 more for sample capture, I’ll have to get started on a video! (It’ll be a while, I have a backlog of maybe 6 videos I need to get edited)
@ceanwav How do you like the TX-6? It’s something I’m starting to look at more seriously now! I’m definitely interested in the dawless power, having EQ & compression etc seems great..
@@megamodularis For me personally, it’s an Audio Interface first before anything. Then I’ll use it as a Mixer from time to time just for fun with the Tp-7 to record or mix a song. I then will record the mixed audio into a track on the Op1f for an additional 3 tracks or for an added effect on the master if I want. But I mainly use it as an Audio interface with ableton it has 6 stereo (12 mono) inputs with gain control, compression, 3 band Eq, panning, a filter, or effects 2 banks of effects which you can only occupy 1 at a time with each respective bank. It has an Aux send and a Cue output to use to send and return outboard gear. I personally use 5 of the 6 stereo inputs. And I occupy both the aux and cue outputs always. But it’s also a synth and it has midi capabilities amongst a few other things I’ve not yet delve into. The minimalistic nature of the device is inviting and the fact that you’re using 3.5mm cables also makes the cable management easier. I will say though, The only flaw for me is not being able to connect my monitors to it. I have not found a good single stereo 3.5mm jack to dual quarter inch long enough to split and separate to go into left and right monitors, so I keep my SSL2+ for that.
That was AWESOME! 👏😎
Thanks you! Very kind!! 👍😀
Really nice piece! Reminds me a bit of Sigur Ros. Thanks for showing your workflow - I had no idea you could record backwards on the op-1 field!
Thank you! Happy to share, and I’m glad you were able to take something useful away! I’ve got some more cool OP-1 ideas coming in the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
Great to see how you design a ‘piece’ , very similar workflow in someways to me, would like to see how you ‘sample’ and make instruments as well - ps like your video aesthetic 😊
Thanks, yeh this video was more of a how I try an approach it, than a finished piece, I was actually filming some of my sample making yesterday, to start getting a video together, And thanks I enjoy the filming and I’m trying to improve all of it (the music making and the filming!)
Awesome man.
Cheers!
I would use the tp-7 as a scratching device. What you made would sound great in a film.
Thank you Jeff, I have occasionally experimented with the tape reel mechanism and a little bit of scratching, but I don’t think it’s something I’m brilliant at, I’d be happy to try and make a bit of a video about it, if that’d be of any interest to you!
Nice , would love more on the TP7
Cheers, happy to make something 😀 about the TP-7 in general? or how I use it specifically?
Both !
Great! it may take a while with my current video backlog, but I’ll give it a go soon!
Yeah man - I really think the way you are using it is interesting - want to see more!
@@erniecf Nice, thanks! I’ve had some success with recording to it, then recording its output back onto the OP-1 to add more FX for example, like a weird reel to reel thing! I’ll start work on a video about it soon! 👍
Incredible! I would love to see how you made them . Subbed
Thank you! I have a video in the works going from recording a sample to an ambient piece, going through the process a bit, so hopefully that’ll show you how I go about it! Welcome to the channel & thanks for coming along on the journey 😀
@@megamodularis Thank you so much! I really look forward to it
@@dzerobeatz yeh! I’m actually quite excited about that video, but I don’t want to give too much away yet that’s all! Hoping to get it out after this little Arbhar series I’m working on, which should be another 3 videos (so unfortunately it’ll be a few weeks away so hopefully you can wait that long!!) but really glad to have you on this sound exploring journey! 😀
Nice post!
Thanks! This was more of a behind the scenes, than a finished piece, so glad you enjoyed it 😀
Still trying to understand the real benefit of getting the TP-7 when the field is a much more capable multitrack recorder.
That’s a good question, the field is obviously very capable, I do find the TP-7 really useful for recording the audio for these videos (which of course you could do on the field) but is really easy, intuitive & seamless with the TP-7, I was experimenting with recording a video and doing a voice over at the same time, and plugging in the CM-15, then giving me multi-track recording, was great, and quick, which I could then adjust afterwards. It would also be good for on the fly podcast recording I’d think, or some general field recording where size and portability are paramount, but I suppose in the end, the real benefit massively depends on your own individual use case, for me it seems to have fit really well into my workflows, so I don’t have any complaints! Even recording my modular setup, it’s so quick and easy to do - also, I like it for recording these videos to show experimentation over loops already committed onto the field, it’s probably quite an extravagant purchase/studio addition, but on one level I personally think it’s one of the most beautifully designed pieces of hardware I’ve come across, that wasn’t an insignificant part of the consideration for me! Sorry to waffle on, but hope this helps in some way 🙂
Beautiful music. The title is misleading though. Your description is more precise. I thought that I'd see some waltkhrough through OP1 field's sampler. Instead it's an ambient music walktrhough...
Thank you! And apologies, you’re right! Still trying to figure out how best to name videos etc, I may make a change to this title so it’s less misleading, glad you enjoyed it despite that!
@@megamodularis An idea: Do you even need the synthesizer and the engine you use as a title? What are your videos about? I don't get the impression that you want to advertise Teenage Engineering. I think it would be nicer (and more honest) if the music you make was in the foreground, including the content. In the worst case, the musical material degenerates into a background painting for your product video. In the end, UA-cam is full of these fancy videos (with or without succulents) that ultimately only serve to further fuel the music industry (and GAS). After buying a wickedly expensive modular system, I figured maybe I should make videos like this too (if only to show how cool all these lights look). But in the end I decided to do what is most important to me: music. And that comes up a bit short in your videos (at least in my perception). It seems like you're still undecided whether you want to make a tutorial (which I don't think is necessary) or share your music. Just my honest, unfiltered thoughts on this.
Yeh I think this is pretty spot on, I definitely want to put my music at the forefront (I do also love the craft of making and filming videos and always want to improve that) I guess I figured that including pieces of gear in the title means people looking for videos about that gear would stumble across my music? But you’re probably right that I’ve been wrestling with wanting to put my music/exploration first and that other side of this stuff (although you’re right I don’t want to do tutorials etc) but I’m still trying to find a balance, and be relatively happy with my creations (the videos & music combined) Perhaps sometimes it is relevant what module is the focus of the exploration, often that’s a basis around me starting a piece, wanting to explore a certain module, setting myself constraints etc, I want to put the music first, but I suppose it would be nice to be informative/helpful, and not misleading either?
I'm not sure you know what you're doing. You might. And you can tell you know how to use the OP-1. But musically speaking, I can't tell. And I left 1/3rd the way thru as the story had no plot. But I did enjoy the sounds I experienced until that point. Just not sure they are connected, musically.
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck
passing by a music school?
Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?
What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?
I think this video was less about showing a final finished piece, and more about showing some of the process, with a focus on experimentation, trying different things, without fear if they work or not. I explain a little of the thought process in this video, maybe around the half-way mark, and there is a piece at the end of the video, though it may not be a ‘finished piece of music’ - again I say later on in the video about the importance of having fun and not taking things too seriously, maybe you left the video a little too soon? Anyway, glad you enjoyed what you did hear
That makes sense, TY! @@megamodularis
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@@MyNameJeff.. whoosh