My two Rephazer soundpacks have been my go to for all things Field, other than playing with the sampler and vocoder. Thereās so much in them in terms of variety and quality, and I hardly scratched the surface in terms of using them creatively.
Another soundpack, another universe to explore over several lifetimes⦠it almost feels like buying another music making deviceā¦
oh well, Iāll no doubt pick it up in the near future.
I am so happy to read people are enjoying these sounds and that itās making them feel like they are having a ānew/differentā experience with the OP-1 Field.
I have all your packs and they are great! My only complaint is that your sample volume on all packs are too low. I have to crank all of them to max and even then itās much lower than the rest of my samples and OP-1ās built in synth volumes. Looking at the waveforms it seems they are recorded too low from the start and then compensated in the op-1 with max volume on the sample player. Iād suggest recording much hotter and then using a limiter or mastering plugin on each sample.
I am sorry that this bothers you and you are right regarding most of my melodic synth sample sounds. And itās no excuse, but these sounds are all sampled on the OP-1 Field itself (no importing of normalised computer waveforms) and itās quite sensitive for overdriving when sampling especially with harmonic rich content and believe me that doesnāt sound nice, which is why some of the sounds are sampled softer and compensated for afterwards.
Since there are so many places on the OP-1 where you can manage volume (tape,envelop + shift red dial,sample + shift red dial) I donāt consider this a big problem myself, but Iāll promise if I ever find a way to normalise these samples without losing al meta data Iāll update these sounds.
Btw. My Field Rhythm and most of the Fantasy sound pack is all computer normalised sounds so it canāt be (much) lower compared to factory contentā¦
Hi, hopefully that didnāt come across as me thinking it was a big problem. I am not sure what your process is, but if itās made within the OP-1 itself it makes sense that there is only so much you can do. Regardless, I love your packs.
A little cross posting here, but I think it might be relevant both for OP-1 users and people thinking about the TP-7 -
But Iām getting comfortable with the TP-7 in my workflow now and this one came from a collection of storm ambience, as the rain and wind came down on our home -
Once the storm had passed and the kids went out to play in the streams and pools that emerged, those sounds became the ambient foundation for this track. So I made a few takes with those sounds on the TP-7.
Then, I recorded the piano lead in one take, using the microphone, not line in, to get a certain room-ish vibe to the sound. I ran that through the Chase Bliss GenLossMKII into the OP-1, with a slight pitch shift from the TP-7 (I really like the pitch algorithm in this one) and then added the ambience on top of it. I tapped the TP-7 recording wheel from time to time, to get that cut tape feeling.
The textures and beat-like things you hear, were done on an OP-Z in four layers. Each layer was recorded at its own tempo into the TP-7, so itās four different BPMās and performance effects layered into its own four-track thing in the TP-7. I mixed the result in the TX-6 and that became the fourth and last stereo track into the OP-1 Field.
Final master was done when I moved all four OP-1 tracks back onto the TP-7 and then mixed on the TX-6. I added a fifth layer, an effect loop where the piano went through a Chase Bliss CXM 1978 and to its own track, not to add reverb to the actual piano but to become its own thing. So the slight hint of a choir you hear, thatās the CXM sort of āsingingā along with the piano. Sort of.
@rephazer Thanks again for this amazing pack of sounds. Hereās a short little piece I put together last night using various patches from the collection. PlayBeat 3 from AudioModern is providing the drum elements.
More stuff to buy
EDIT: In the best possible way Hopefully Iāll get some OP-1f time this weekend, and buy it then. Have all the other packs, which are excellent. Just I love long evolving pad type sounds, just picked up an old Ensoniq TS-12 which has a few nice patches covering that territory.
anyone using TX-6 with OP1F? I am having problems with stereo input. When I use the ātele to 3.5mmā cable to run the Digitakt into the mixer, stereo is fine. I can center the track on the TX-6, and pan left and right on Digitakt, and the signal correctly goes to the left or right channel. When using the OP1 using slimline cables, there is some sort of weird mirroring effect going on with the stereo image, and I have no idea how to resolve it. signals panned left start on the left side then echo on the right side, and vice-versa. If i pan the track to the left, right side signals are silenced; if i pan it to the right, then right side signals play in mono. Any thoughts?
EDIT: Solved. I had chorus on strong on that channel. Unbelievable incompetence. please laugh at my struggle.