James, thank you for taking the time and effort to make these videos, they are some of my favourite sources of information on the OP Z on the internet (as well as your posts on op forums). You go way past basic stuff that one can otherwise read in the manual and really put out some gems of insight. Cheers man!
Thank you! And same--most of my OP-Z videos and posts are my attempt to flood the internet with clear answers to questions that took forever to figure out on my own.
I have researched it even further and basically they always a tiiiny bleed a little in each other. Atleast the drums part really dont understand why. But the line out module isn’t which is a blessing basically 😊
Hey thanks bro, legendary, great you are also throwing it in the world for others to learn :) I am unfortauntely afraid that if I'd do that it would remove a lot of the cool step components and parameters fxs really adding to the track so to say, maybe use the lfo to pan the fx 1 left and fx 2 right and then hoping that the most tracks on the drums being on fx1 so they can go left and the melodies on the right side on fx 2, or just listen to which do not disturb too much :) also I have actually a bug with my opz now, i think i need firmware reboot(i hope i havent changed much since the latest backup, got a liveshow coming up in 15 juni with live dmx and visuals :-o ) but wasn't it like that you could just send the fx channels to the line output L and R? (not sure) or else I just have to wait until my faderfox ec4 comes in to midi map the mutes tracks and arrange in the flow live with that thing instead of the mackie mixer haha(i wanted to use it to get acces to the dmx, video, tape track, mixer, and perform track and some master tracks with drums only yellowed out to make funky drumbreak shifts in the beat instead of tonal key/chord shifting also and hope the midicontroller is capable of sending macros so you could basically combine punch in effects on seperate tracks for for example the hihat and the punch i track on the melodies and why not throw in a kickdrum revers too while we're at it! the device has 16 rotary encoders 16 / that are also push buttons / 16 x 4 digit screen and the update seems to do these things. I hope so because these was another brand that also had a really promising one which I now am thinking would be suited better called the Electra one =)
I was also thinking; isn't it a better idea to use the line out module and send all drum and melody channels via the line out to L and R and use those 2 as your main L and R out? Curious what you think :)
Ah yeah, that's a tough spot trying to separate them but keep the integrity of the mix! I really like the approach you suggest in the second comment you left, but it might be a bit tricky. I'd pan tracks 1-8 like you described before (drums one side, synths opposite) and would send them to the Line Out. Unlike what I show in the video, I would keep the Dry level at 100 instead of 0 and would audio mute tracks 1-8 with shift + mute. This way tracks 1-8 are kept in the mix and will be sent to FX1/FX2/Tape, but no audio will come from the tracks themselves. I'm pretty sure it's possible to use the LFO to pan the FX tracks and I've probably talked about that somewhere, but honestly I've never had enough of a need to fully test it out and get the hang of it.
James, thank you for taking the time and effort to make these videos, they are some of my favourite sources of information on the OP Z on the internet (as well as your posts on op forums). You go way past basic stuff that one can otherwise read in the manual and really put out some gems of insight. Cheers man!
Thank you for watching/reading and for the encouragement! I'm glad you find them to be helpful resources
Such a nice deconstruction 🎉 it’s things I learned over the course of years I think :D
Thank you! And same--most of my OP-Z videos and posts are my attempt to flood the internet with clear answers to questions that took forever to figure out on my own.
Great stuff
I have researched it even further and basically they always a tiiiny bleed a little in each other. Atleast the drums part really dont understand why. But the line out module isn’t which is a blessing basically 😊
Weird! Even with the master chorus off? I wonder what that's all about.
Hey thanks bro, legendary, great you are also throwing it in the world for others to learn :) I am unfortauntely afraid that if I'd do that it would remove a lot of the cool step components and parameters fxs really adding to the track so to say, maybe use the lfo to pan the fx 1 left and fx 2 right and then hoping that the most tracks on the drums being on fx1 so they can go left and the melodies on the right side on fx 2, or just listen to which do not disturb too much :) also I have actually a bug with my opz now, i think i need firmware reboot(i hope i havent changed much since the latest backup, got a liveshow coming up in 15 juni with live dmx and visuals :-o ) but wasn't it like that you could just send the fx channels to the line output L and R? (not sure)
or else I just have to wait until my faderfox ec4 comes in to midi map the mutes tracks and arrange in the flow live with that thing instead of the mackie mixer haha(i wanted to use it to get acces to the dmx, video, tape track, mixer, and perform track and some master tracks with drums only yellowed out to make funky drumbreak shifts in the beat instead of tonal key/chord shifting also and hope the midicontroller is capable of sending macros so you could basically combine punch in effects on seperate tracks for for example the hihat and the punch i track on the melodies and why not throw in a kickdrum revers too while we're at it! the device has 16 rotary encoders 16 / that are also push buttons / 16 x 4 digit screen and the update seems to do these things. I hope so because these was another brand that also had a really promising one which I now am thinking would be suited better called the Electra one =)
I was also thinking; isn't it a better idea to use the line out module and send all drum and melody channels via the line out to L and R and use those 2 as your main L and R out? Curious what you think :)
Ah yeah, that's a tough spot trying to separate them but keep the integrity of the mix! I really like the approach you suggest in the second comment you left, but it might be a bit tricky. I'd pan tracks 1-8 like you described before (drums one side, synths opposite) and would send them to the Line Out. Unlike what I show in the video, I would keep the Dry level at 100 instead of 0 and would audio mute tracks 1-8 with shift + mute. This way tracks 1-8 are kept in the mix and will be sent to FX1/FX2/Tape, but no audio will come from the tracks themselves. I'm pretty sure it's possible to use the LFO to pan the FX tracks and I've probably talked about that somewhere, but honestly I've never had enough of a need to fully test it out and get the hang of it.