Fors Opal users thread

Seelachsfilet1337 · 2025-05-01T07:46:27.777Z

Hey, does anyone else experience the issue with Opal Ctl not saving locks / settings / anything when saving and closing a project?
Is that a known issue? I read in this thread that currently there are some max4live related issues, could that be a reason and if so, is there a fix coming in the foreseeable future?
It’s a shame cause recently I built some cool randomizer synths with Opal Ctl, it’s pretty powerful. But in the current state you have to bounce if you wanna keep the sequence.

Another unrelated question, does Opal not randomize pitch ? When hitting the random button I noticed that a #C just changes the octave, becoming a #c-3 or something, but it doesn’t change to a different note. Am I overseeing something?

Greetings , Markus

Ess · 2025-05-01T09:35:40.079Z

Did you email us about this? Sorry I’ve been a bit slow, we had this Intonal festival in Malmö all of last week where Felisha and other friends were playing so that took up a lot of time – and then we got hit with some sort of cold after, haha…

In any case, will look into this today. I’ll email you back to troubleshoot/pin down the issue.

FWIW doesn’t seem to happen on my end, and haven’t gotten other emails about it so could be a Max version/setup issue but will try to figure out what could be going on.

Seelachsfilet1337 · 2025-05-01T10:32:14.234Z

Hello, yes, I emailed Fors about it 2 days ago.
And you have replied today and tried to fix it with me, thanks. Like I said, I noticed I have opal and it’s single devices all over Ableton places. In several different locations I have multiple copies of it for some reason. First I will do a clean removal and install again. Thanks

marcomueller · 2025-05-14T18:29:13.162Z

Hi!
I’m afraid the release version of Max 9.0.6. bundled in the latest Ableton Beta 12.2.b17 breaks both Opal and Dyad
Strange, because the Beta of 9.0.6. worked great…

Thoow · 2025-05-18T17:48:40.909Z

Can confirm, especially Dyad is broken. Works fine on the stable version of Ableton 12, but no longer on 12.2b17 with the update to Max 9.0.6.

Peter118 · 2025-05-18T19:38:03.543Z

@Ess Is this a problem in the Ableton Beta or does Opal and Dyad need a update?

marcomueller · 2025-05-18T20:29:16.087Z

The Max developers confirmed the bug and are working on a fix, says on the Cycling74 forum.
Hopefully they fix it before the Ableton 12.2 release.

Kammo · 2025-05-19T10:49:38.952Z

If this bug goes live with 12.2 release I won’t update immediately.

mcetilia · 2025-05-19T11:49:17.516Z

For what it’s worth, I was able to get Opal working in 12.2.b17 by installing Max 9.0.4 (but strangely not 9.0.5) and making it the Max Application in Settings > File & Folder. Not an ideal solution but at least it gets the job done and you can always switch back over to 9.0.6 in projects where you aren’t using Opal…

Ess · 2025-05-19T12:15:34.808Z

This is a bug in Max 9.0.6, the plugsync~ object is broken which handles all the transpose/sync stuff for Dyad, Opal etc… A very unfortunate bug that somehow made it through to the public release. I saw that Cycling74 is working on a hotfix that’s supposed to be released asap.

Ess · 2025-05-20T19:03:10.525Z

FYI Max 9.0.7 is now available and fixes the transport issues.

Kammo · 2025-05-20T19:49:33.515Z

Will Ableton 12.2 come with bundled version 9.0.7 or do I need to download the latest standalone Max version from Cycling74?

Ess · 2025-05-20T19:52:16.421Z

I would assume it’ll ship with 9.0.7! This bug is pretty severe and affects a vast amount of Max for Live devices, so I would think it’s in their interest to make sure it ships with the stable version of Live.

Peter118 · 2025-05-20T20:16:40.271Z

I think Ableton had the intention to release 12.2 final this week, but the Max 9.0.6 bug has delayed it. But the release is not far away, next week maybe?

Kammo · 2025-05-20T20:35:32.155Z

Peter118:

But the release is not far away, next week maybe?

Idk, bought Live few days ago and using it again after 10 years so dunno when they gonna release it, hopefully soon but prevention is better than cure.

Ess · 2025-06-16T12:48:43.797Z

PSA there was an issue with Opal in Live 12.2 where creating new patterns did not work correctly. I just uploaded a fix (v1.3b) to address this.

pseudophysics · 2025-07-03T12:29:53.646Z

will this work well on my MacBook Pro late 2013?

LyingDalai · 2025-07-03T21:59:09.541Z

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tlvid · 2025-07-08T17:41:00.531Z

Is Opal-Ctl designed to be two octaves out? E.g. the starting note says C5 but it actually plays C3?

pseudophysics · 2025-07-08T20:46:46.250Z

this works well on my MacBook Pro late 2013