12 PM so still time for using the OP-1 
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Quick field report to add to the mix.
Iām really enjoying using the Field and it has proved to be a worthy upgrade.
I enjoyed using the OG but this was immediately (and continues to be) a much more complete experience as far as creating compositions goes. Everything just feels much more polished, professional and inviting.
I canāt really add more than that except for the fact that I filled my Peli-Case with little musical gizmos (OP1-F, electric kalimba, MOOD MKII, field recorder, PO33, TX-6) to bring to the USA for 6 weeks at my in-laws, and so far the majority of my time has been spent solely with the OP1-F.
As they say in the land of the free; go figure!
One of my favourite pastimes has been to make layers of sound with the vocoder processing scrapes and taps from whatever surface I happen to be playing on, then use this as a synthesised sample. Great fun.
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The chromatic guitar idea sounds amazing. How do you record it though? Donāt you have to hold down a key on the field the entire time itās recording? Is there a way to do it hands free?
I recorded it to the tape, then lifted and dropped it into the drum sampler.
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Wow, didnāt know you could do this!! Thanks for the tip.
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Weekly jam with the almighty field
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Welcome! New to OP-1 or you upgraded?
I flirted with one briefly years ago but have forgotten most of the workflow.
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So a friend of mine got an OG OP1 and itās great fun. Really inspires you to come up with happy accidents in seconds.
We recorded a sequence via OP1 sequencer that is set to 13 steps at 1/8 t and 100 BPM. We sampled that into DT but are unable to find a setting in DT sequencer to make the weirdly timed sample loop perfectly. Any ideas?
It works perfectly via track scale with all OP1 sequences that are set to 1/16 on OP1. I think thatās the default setting of Elektrons, right? But Digitakt can only be set to 1/8 or 1/4 via setting track scale to 1/2 or 1/4, but not triplets.
Now you can parameter the length of the loop to be recorded in the Digitakt. By manually doing it, I think it could be possible. Also, you can reduce the number of steps to match with the loop length. Regarding the triplets to convert it in binary time signature I think there is to do some maths and I am too lazy to do it but it should be possible (through trial and error). I have sold my Digitakt so I canāt try it out.
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Thanks! My thinking was that itās easiest to record the loop a bit longer and let the sequencer determine when it will restart because it will hit the first trig again. So Iām basically just trying to find the exact amount of steps the sequencer has to run for l on this track. Any ideas how to do the maths? Would be easy with timings available in Elektron scale settings. Iāve already set master length to infinite so that shouldnāt be an issue.
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I think this could be a starting point for doing the maths:
If possible I would crop one triplet maybe to have like a more Digitakt friendly pattern:
For this you could use the nudge function in a Digitakt trigger to adjust exactly
But I am not a specialist so not sure if that makes sense 
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Wow, thanks a lot. I donāt fully understand but will try it out later. Maybe it would be easiest to record three runs of the sequence and set the sequence length to 52 steps (because 17.3x3 is almost 52).
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I think in fact that you have to multiply 13 by 0.66 as each step is a triplet member so it would be to find a rounding on 8.6
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Ah, gotcha. So alternatively, if I record five 13 step loops it should work with 43 steps. I will try this as soon as I can. So I donāt have to microtime trigs.
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First recording out of the Field.
Put together on a sun lounger whilst my kids were making mud-pies.
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Great texture and atmosphere!
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Fabulous songā¦and yes, I used the word, āfabulousā 
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Thank you! I love your songs so really appreciate the compliment