The poor man's OP-1

This is an ambient piece done with a Casio VL-Tone VL-1, a DIY Monome Norns and a Digitech Polara reverb pedal. I have never owned or played a Teenage Engineering OP-1, but it sure seems like a very fun and powerful machine I would love to own. All the sounds (but the rain sample) come from the Casio. You can hear Piano, Flute, Fantasy and Violin (in order of appearance). The DIY Norns is running the Reels script from @its_your_bedtime, a great looper 4 track tape simulation inspired by the OP-1. The Polara is running the Halo algorithm for the whole piece.

More info about Monome Norns: https://monome.org/docs/norns/
More info about the Reels script for Norns: https://llllllll.co/t/reels/21030

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very nice. i’ve often thought of using a favorite synth and making tracks with only the presets like this.

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Beautiful. Poor man with a Norns? Like emotionally poor or what? :slight_smile: :man_shrugging:t5:

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The DIY ones are pretty cheap!

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Ah true that. Were looking at parts but the assembly were a deal breaker. Hmu if you can point me to someone that could take the job :slight_smile:

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Hahaha. Don’t take the tittle too seriously. It’s just an ambient track using the simple Casio as a sound source.

Yes. You can build a kit from Monome for 200$

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