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Thank you so much for the kind words! I am happy you enjoy these sounds and if you are into ambient this one should be right up your alley :wink:

Also thanks for the heads up! I included a link to my GumRoad page in the above post now which I totally forgot haha

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Here here!

My two Rephazer soundpacks have been my go to for all things Field, other than playing with the sampler and vocoder. There’s 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 device…
oh well, I’ll no doubt pick it up in the near future.

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Wow, that’s very kind of you to say! :blush:

I am so happy to read people are enjoying these sounds and that it’s making them feel like they are having a ā€˜new/different’ experience with the OP-1 Field.

Thanks a lot!

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Does anybody know if there is a way to make the tape start recording as soon as you press play on the vinyl mixdown?

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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 it’s much lower than the rest of my samples and OP-1’s 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. I’d suggest recording much hotter and then using a limiter or mastering plugin on each sample.

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Thanks!

I am sorry that this bothers you and you are right regarding most of my melodic synth sample sounds. And it’s no excuse, but these sounds are all sampled on the OP-1 Field itself (no importing of normalised computer waveforms) and it’s quite sensitive for overdriving when sampling especially with harmonic rich content and believe me that doesn’t 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 don’t consider this a big problem myself, but I’ll promise if I ever find a way to normalise these samples without losing al meta data I’ll update these sounds.

Btw. My Field Rhythm and most of the Fantasy sound pack is all computer normalised sounds so it can’t be (much) lower compared to factory content…

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Press the buttons at the same time.

Hi, hopefully that didn’t come across as me thinking it was a big problem. I am not sure what your process is, but if it’s made within the OP-1 itself it makes sense that there is only so much you can do. Regardless, I love your packs.

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This is a really beautiful collection of patches. Just picked it up and 45 minutes later I was transported to a new sonic dimension.

I love that you keep making the kind of sounds I want to hear emanating from my OP-1F. Keep up the great work! I hope to post some examples soon.

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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 I’m 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 it’s four different BPM’s 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, that’s the CXM sort of ā€œsingingā€ along with the piano. Sort of.

And yeah. That was the song.

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@rephazer Thanks again for this amazing pack of sounds. Here’s a short little piece I put together last night using various patches from the collection. PlayBeat 3 from AudioModern is providing the drum elements.

Many thanks!

  • echo opera

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Lovely! I’m listening to Sigur Ros new album now, but took a break to enjoy this and Iceland just got some competition, I’ll say.

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You are far too kind sir.

Thank you :pray:t3::level_slider:

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More stuff to buy :laughing:
EDIT: In the best possible way :slight_smile: Hopefully I’ll 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.

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Thanks again for the support and you made a lovely track there! Cheers

Thanks mate! You should feel right at home with this pack if you like evolving pads :wink:

I just picked up a few more of your packs this week, love them! The drum pack especially has some great sounds.

I was curious why some of the packs have the sounds for some instruments in the drum section instead of the synth section?

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anyone using TX-6 with OP1F? I am having problems with stereo input. When I use the ā€œtele 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.

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A little something made with your patches only, good sir :slight_smile: thank you for the music -

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Very Vangelis.

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We all owe him, after all :slightly_smiling_face:

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