Just want to add that I wasn’t trying to be a d*ck! This really looks like a dirty lens – if it’s not on the outside, then on the inside.
Think of it as when your car windshield gets dirty from the inside and then when you drive at night, the beams of the cars coming from the other direction will blind you twice as much.
Sorry for OT ;).
Well it turns you were right, though I didn’t realize it at the time. Apparently I was just to doing a lousy job, but after going at it with some force it’s much improved. Appreciate ya.
OP-1f and TV are great together, especially for guitar players like myself.
The new amp sim in the OP-1f allows me to plug my guitar straight into the line in. It’s simple with only volume, compressor, tone, drive controls, a tuner, and one FX slot. But it sounds good and more complex sounds can be achieved with the LFO, which includes an envelope follower that can be routed to any parameter. 8 preset slots are available to switch between without any menu dividing, so I can have clean, drive, tremolo, bass guitar, or whatever presets available at my fingertips. There’s also the master EQ, master drive, and master FX slot. So the OP-1f really turned into a great little practice amp for me with its built-in speaker, perfect for using it on the couch. 4 tape tracks to capture ideas quickly is great as well.
But it gets real nice when combined with the TV. Only one USB-C cable is needed for audio and midi. If I route the OP-1f through an audio track and a bus track on the TV, I’ve got four additional, p-lockable FX to play with for my guitar (plus 3 send FX). Per pattern! Degrader, dirt shaper, filter folder, daisy delay all sound wonderful with guitar and I haven’t even explored all the FX. I wish I could have a noise gate somewhere in the chain, because shit can get really dirty quickly. So it’s a unique multi FX unit for my guitar that integrates almost perfectly with whatever else is going on inside the TV. No need to send midi cc messages to guitar pedals, it’s all stored right within the project on the TV. Also, even if the current preset on the OP-1f is an amp preset, the velocity sensitive keyboard on the OP-1f can still be used to play the active track on the TV via midi simultaneously. It also doesn’t trigger any sound on the OP-1f this way, perfect! I could even use the built-in mic on the OP-1f to easily switch to my acoustic guitar. There is a bit of latency though, but I only notice it on really fast riffs.
It’s also nice and easy to sample any of the tape tracks from the OP-1f to the TV to process them further. One by one, so it’s a bit time consuming, but absolutely hassle free otherwise, now that the TV can start sampling by pressing play since the last update and syncs with the OP-1f.
I don’t like the term swiss army knife, but it’s a good description for the OP-1f. It can fulfill many roles simultaneously and most importantly in a very simple and fast manner. The TV takes it to another level and excels at all the things the OP-1f can’t do well, e.g. complex sounds with many LFOs, p-locks, messing with the sound after it’s recorded, many tracks, lots of storage space, polyphony, etc.
Especially for how I use these instruments, they are pretty much perfect together! I’m not going to get rid of my guitar pedal board any time soon, but I wanna see how far I can take the guitar → OP-1f → TV setup in the coming months.
I’ve been using my H9 as a guitar looper with the TV. I’m doing it with a little analog mixer, but it would work the same way without, thanks to the H9’s wet/dry routing option.
So, dry guitar goes into one TV input, 100% wet looper into the other. That way I can add, say, delay to my live playing and not to the loop.
I’ve only been using Filter Folder and the reverb and delay so far, but the FF is so good with guitar.
Also neat is that the H9 can be midi synced and controlled. It would be possible to sequence its fx with the TV, but right now I’m just using clock sync. When I make a good loop, I sample it.
I used to do something similar when I had an Octatrack, but for me the TV is way easier and has more interesting fx.
lol, that whole post sounded like it’s building towards „I‘m gonna sell all of my pedals“ 
. Sounds great though, good start into NGNy for you!
I think I wouldn’t have bought my pedals if the OP-1f had the amp sim at its release, even without the TV. With the TV, most of my pedals are kinda redundant, except maybe CB lossy, as it’s hard to replicate that special sound, even with all the options on the TV. But I’m getting a huge variety of other cool sounds out of the TV that aren’t possible with my pedal board, so all is well. Maybe I’ll get rid of my pedals after all, we’ll see. Simplicity and convenience trumps everything else for me these days, so the fewer devices and cables, midi, audio, or power, the better.
Even for band practice, I’d be fine with just a guitar, the OP-1f, and two audio cables now. It really can’t get any more convenient.
Edit: I played around some more and the phone FX on the OP-1f is actually quite suitable for getting into the CB lossy territory, especially for the jitter mode.
When the TV made some of my pedals redundant I mainly just thought “well that pedal will only be used for guitar now” because I generally don’t play the guitar through my Tonverk, I play it through a loud ass amp and I’ve been collecting dumb pedals to use for that a lot longer than I’ve been using samplers. Pedals were my first stupid gear obsession and I have to desperately need cash or really dislike one to sell any, honestly.
Consider also that if you do a lot of the FX you won’t sequence in pedals before you go into the groovebox, that frees up FX slots for stuff you can sequence.
I’ve just implemented a really fun answer to this question.
Tonverk out A/B + C/D → Minibay patchbay
Patchbay → OTO BIM, BAM, and BOUM
Patchbay → Bebe Cherie 6 channel mixer
Patchbay → Tonverk in A/B.
Now I can set up the OTO chain as an external effect on ouputs C/D, and bring them up as a separate channel in the mixer.
Yes. It’s super fun.
Just switched out and have mounted my ST along side the TV for live shows. Main reason is I just purchased @DaveMech’s DN2 Mastery course and want the DN2 always front and center on my desk to work on the course. Syntakt will be more than fine for live stuff, I’m thinking, if only for a window of time
Omnisphere 3. So many multisamples inside TV now.
