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“In Vert” - Live OP-Z performance deep in the woods of Washington State, mastered and edited on iPad
I took my Teenage Engineering OP-Z deep into the woods near the Middlefork Snoqualmie trail system in Washington State and recorded a live set inspired by my surroundings. Everything was recorded in one pass into a Zoom H4n, then lightly mastered in Cubasis with the Fabfilter Pro-Q3 and Pro-L2 Audio Units.
Video was recorded with a Sony A7C and iPhone 12 Pro, then edited in LumaFusion on an M1 iPad Pro. Hope you enjoy, happy to answer any questions people might have about the set too.
Comments
Nice setting for inspiration.
Ok so I have some questions…. First of all I am halfway through watching this and I think its great!! I am amazed at how fast you set up camp😁.
Are all these sounds just from the OP-Z???? If so…. I am in trouble. GAS!!!!
Did you feel safe out where you were?? I would be so into it that if someone or something walked up to me I would freak. 😂
Lol, yes I feel very safe in the woods out here. I'm an Eagle Scout and have spent most of my life out in the woods, going solo is not a big deal for me. I've been quite a bit more remote than this on my own, even ran into bears a few times. Plus I carry a big knife
Also, all the sounds except for a couple percussion hit samples are from the OP-Z. Either it's stock samples (most of the drums in this set) or the synth sounds. The OP-Z sounds FANTASTIC, ten times better sounding than the OP-1 IMVHO having owned both.
thanks for making the video. I still have a half way to go and I am amazed by the sounds out of that. So I am scared to ask this as my credit card is half way out my wallet.. is there easy integration with IPad with OP-Z??
The only thing I've ever really used the iPad for with the OP-Z directly is putting it in disk mode and backing up my work now and then. For that it works great. I'm pretty sure you can send MIDI over USB to the iPad as well, guessing @echoopera has more experience with that than I do though.
MIDI and audio with the iPad—it’s a USB audio interface.
I use it with Beatmaker 3.
@onerez Additionally, the official OP-Z app acts as a screen for the device, and also allows you to control 2D/3D graphics packs created in the Unity game engine.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/op-z/id1088232296
This is great. I also enjoyed your review. I had an op-z in 2019, but traded it for an op-1. I’ve been watching YouTube videos recently, and picked up synthdawg's guide, and I think letting it go may have been a mistake. I sold the op-1 a few months back, and there's a teenage engineering sized hole in my musical life. My main issue was the struggle to extend patterns beyond 16 steps, but it was user error.
I recommended your channel on Jeff Gibbons' op-z video, hopefully will send a few folks your way.
@iansainsbury DO IT
It really is tempting. Do you have one? If so, how are you using it? With iOS, or more on its own?
I watched the whole thing and I really enjoyed it. I am amazed by the op-z and want one…. I also want an MPC live. And still be married. 😁
Thanks everyone for the comments. Yeah the OP-Z is nice in that you can have up to 8 bar patterns if you record in real time. And then throw in some clever use of step components and you can take that much, much farther.
Wow!
I don’t know what to be more impressed by… that M35i, this amazing production, or the fact that you’re an Eagle Scout! (That, on its own is a highly respectable achievement! Which U.S. president did you get your letter from?)
AND you have almost 5 thousand subscribers?? Holeeeey shiiite!
I honestly don’t remember who signed the letter, it’s been 30 years. I have the medal/badge still, but I think my dad has my paperwork still so I’ll ask him to take a look.
Yeah, kinda surprised me recently to see how many subscribers I have. Almost at a million views for my channel too, which is kinda crazy even though it’s still small times compared to a lot of others here.
We hear the talk, but where are the trousers?
Pants are over rated.
Thanks for the reminder about it being an audio interface, now I wish I would have recorded it via the iPad and not the H4n!
I'm still confused as to why we Brits don't call pants 'undertrousers'
40:57ish our Eagle Scout about takes a fall. 😀😀😀
German maybe? Ündertroüsers?
Damn, was hoping no one would catch that! 😵💫
Mostly I use it on it’s own, and then record into BM3 for arrangement.
I sample into it from the iPad, but I don’t use it to sequence iPad apps. For me, the best thing about the OP-Z is the step components, and you lose a lot of that power when you sequence outboard stuff. It depends on how you sequence, though.
As an idea generator the OP-Z is unrivaled, for me. I love it. The Digitakt is a better sampler, even the OP-1 has a better sampler, but I still prefer using the OP-Z for playing samples.
Thanks for the info. I had an OP-1, but the tape paradigm didn't suit me when developing longer ideas (other people manage perfectly well, so it's an issue with the user, not the device).
I read in an OP-Z forum that it was easy to export audio and midi into a DAW, giving you the option to double instruments to fatten, or—if wanted—replace them. Can you do this on ios?
There’s no true export of audio or midi really. You can bounce down a ten second audio sample of your current pattern, and access that via the Files App on iOS. That’s about it though, if you want midi or longer audio you need to record them in real time.
@iansainsbury Yes, pretty easy. It depends how you want to do it. If you want to multitrack an entire song out into a DAW, that's a pain whether you're on iOS or a Mac. You can only output one track at a time.
But if you want to capture loops, then do it in BM3. With midi sync, it's amazingly solid. Better than Ableton, which never syncs right. Midi is easy to record to. And with USB audio, sampling back into the OP-Z is easy too.
One note: sampling into the OP-Z requires that you manually hit the record button. There's no auto start, or sound threshold trigger. I work around this by recording my guitar int a looper and then sampling into the Z.
Great info, thank you.
Great video, sounds and scenery! I've been on the fence about getting an OP-Z. I had a couple of OP-1s (lol) but always sold them because I always spent more time using iPad apps. The OP-Z is a lot more compact, integrates with IOS a lot easier thanks to the app. and bluetooth. The recent sampling addition is icing on the cake. Finally, it looks like a perfect compliment to my favorite app. Beatmaker 3. Checkout Mikromix Studios' brilliant demo:
Thanks. I'll have to give BM3 another go one of these days. I was always impressed that it seemed more like Maschine than iMaschine did