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Building an OP-1 in Drambo
I thought I’d have a crack at building my favorite parts of the OP-1 inside Drambo.
First up, radio. I have Ström, and Streemur, but they’re not AUv3. Any AU radio apps?
The tape is going to be the tricky part. For that I think I’ll use the sampler, or a recorder.
Any other suggestions welcome!
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I know no AUv3 'Radio/Streaming' apps but maybe we can ask @humbletune nicely for an AUv3 port of Ström?
(Preferably with more 'channel/station' slots if it gets an update).
+1
If you can reproduce the OP-1 without the tape limits, my head will explode.
Mine too😂
That'd be nice.
For now, I'm hosting and recording Streemur inside Audioshare and cut the parts that I really want, then export to Drambo. It's not a bad workflow and it saves space because Audioshare can cut files destructively. Most of the time I only want a few snippets out of a long recording anyway.
One suggestion is to add a Radio module to Drambo
I like that suggestion, have you tried contacting the developer?
That would be so fun. Instant inspiration.
He is in a feedback loop apparently.
The trouble with copying the OP-1 is that it’s so well designed: switch on the radio, and all you have to do to sample is press a key.
Still, it’ll be a fun exercise. I figure we need at minimum:
I'd love a radio module or AUv3 that connects to a webSDR host
Drambo has a sample-to-key function in the multi sampler module 😎 I use it with TubeAU all the time. Just hold a key and it’ll automatically sample.
DO TELL
Not trying to be the devils advocate, but i do think the core value of the OP1 might be absent in the discussions, its all-in-one box'ness.
I used to have one myself but the effects drove me to a opz and an ipad instead, but even though it is so much more full sounding synths and crazy options available (diving into Drambo and Mirack) some of the easy accessibility of just turning a device on and making music is missing for me.
For me a work flow solution seems to be making templates where stuff is loaded already and i don't have to choose anything major, just punch in notes and turn dials.
So I would argue that a key aspect of a DrambOP1 would be having a few prebuilit instrument racks of synth sounds (with a few and only a few knobs) ready to go!
That said i really like the idea of using Drambo as a playground to recreate workflow elements from elsewhere, the Octatrack project on patchstorage really opened my eyes to how useful a samping machine Drambo really is
Cool idea!
Brilliant! I have to try TubeAU!
Agreed. I have an OP-1, so this is a bit of a pointless exercise. It’s more about getting a Drambo preset that I can just load up and play with. For me, that’s the best thing about the OP-1. You just start playing.
Oh, man. I just tried TubeAU in Drambo, hooked it up to samp,er and wasn’t getting audio playing through so I blindly (deafly?) sampled this random suggested video and struck gold.
@giku_beepstreet wont your Looper module mimic tape recording?
Erik Sigth apps have an OP-1 feel to them.
strng: String synthesizer
shapesynth: draw oscillators and record to tape
Elsa: sampling keyboard
strom: radio sampling IAA
...and he is Swedish like Teenage Engineering!
I feel like Flexi is almost there: it just needs loop recording and and a longer recording time limit. Nice to haves would be loop/overdub decay, being able to set a predefined length and maybe disk streaming?
Definitely. String is a lot like the OP-1 string engine.
I think the tape might be the trickiest part here. It really needs to be built in or very tightly integrated.
I have an OP1 and will be very interested in how this project develops. Good luck guys.
Multitrack Recorder seems to be a decent way to record to tape, so far. It’s nowhere near as easy or fun as the OP-1 itself though.
I think a radio AUV3 app would be great. The problem for me is the fact that it works with URLs and what I’d love to sample is the noise present in FM/AM/LW/MW/SW analog style radio and that is not an option afaik.
I still miss analogue radios in phones, think my first android in 2011 was the last one, such a great feature that I used all the time...
I might just hook up a radio. I think I even have an old iPod nano with a radio in it.
I know you demonstrated a tape stop effect on a sampler in an earlier video using pitch+retrigger+EnvAD, but is there a way to adjust the speed of the stop and start and to have this is an FX rack preset that could be applied to synths as well as samplers?
Does this method apply the effect without disrupting the master timeline, so whenever the sound starts back up the track is still playing as if it never stopped?
Pardon my lack of understanding on this.
That's precisely one of the reasons I'd love a webSDR tuner as AU