Top 5 Tips and Tricks Teenage Engineering OPZ and WHY they're useful

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Here are my Top 5 Tips and Tricks for the OP-Z synth from Teenage Engineering. BUT also why these functions are useful, so this video might also be of interest to those of you who don't own an OPZ ... yet 😉 If you enjoyed this video then click Subscribe and hit that notification bell (or future videos might get lost in the whirlwind of youtube content). If you just wanna skip to the bit that interests you, then click the timecodes below in the chapter index:
00:06 Random Preset
00:40 Tape Track Select Which Parts Get Borked
01:19 Odd Track Length
01:54 New Patterns and Pattern Chaining
03:40 Transpose Drum Parts to New Sounds
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@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Click *Subscribe* and hit that notification bell for more upcoming videos

@MrSkeletongelatin 2 жыл бұрын

This is easily the best of these OP Z videos I've seen yet. Straight to the point, helpful, and fun. No time wasted, no obnoxious attempts at humor, perfection. Instant sub.

@MartinYamMoller 2 жыл бұрын

🙏Glad you liked it…. I really need to get going again on these kinda vids

@thefishermenandthepriestess 2 жыл бұрын

For the tape track, one (undocumented) trick I use a lot is holding track and turning the red knob - this will adjust the level of the dry sound (0 by default). You can bring it up all the way to have a mix of the original track combined with the tape effect. It's really useful where you want to add the glitchiness of the tape track without losing the underlying rhythm (melody or beat).

@MartinYamMoller 2 жыл бұрын

Oh.... Very nice. Thanks🙏👌

@maunstermusic 5 жыл бұрын

The transpose thing on the drum tracks is a great idea, going to give that a go. (Once I stop sampling EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE.)

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

I really need to update.😳this is torture😉

@maunstermusic 5 жыл бұрын

@@MartinYamMoller You are probably more productive now though. So far I've made totally meaningless sampled things, but I've had great fun doing it. Get that dictaphone and cassettes ready for mastering and update that thing! ;-)

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Mister Maunster yeah.... That USB audio out function would really come in handy tho

@maunstermusic 5 жыл бұрын

@@MartinYamMoller It does come in handy. I was hoping that it would allow two channel audio to be CONSTANTLY put through the device, which could be use like this: Plug OP-Z into iPad > any iPad audio would be routed to the OP-Z's headphone out. That way we could only have one cable for audio and data/MIDI so there would be no need for an additional audio interface or mixer. Still a great and welcome update!

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Mister Maunster damn... I thought it did work like that🤔 but I'm also happy with just digital output to a mac

@C28_Music 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, mate! I’ll have to revisit this video once I get my OP-Z

@LiamShannon88 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic tutorial Martin, well structured and clear. Great tip on drum transposition with master track, haven’t tried that before.

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Liam Shannon Thanks... Editing took a while.😅 glad you liked the Drum transpose trick

@santanu-io 4 жыл бұрын

Very informative video on op-z. It would be nice if you make a longer version of the video with examples of the tricks. Specially putting melodic samples in the drum track and using them in different way.

@GiriGagan 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is the only part that I didn't quite understand!

@LiamKillen 4 жыл бұрын

Super clear and a huge help thank you!

@MartinYamMoller 4 жыл бұрын

Liam Killen sure thing....glad you liked the video👍

@garaughty 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial Martin... seriously impressive what can be done with this little beast !

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Marti🙏 yeah, and I recorded this way before the new update with sampling. Something nice been looking forward to since I got the Opz

@Khordmaster 4 жыл бұрын

For tip #4 you can also use mute groups for that same functionality and then make the copies pattern change up even more by record whole new, say, synth sections!

@MartinYamMoller 4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@hvrcat 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome tips, gotta try looping those drums now!

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

It's most useful with tuned samples... and now with recording of samples it's even more fun

@howardanderson3061 4 жыл бұрын

super helpful! thanks Martin...

@MartinYamMoller 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Glad it was useful

@lukebogacik2793 8 ай бұрын

Awesome !

@GregAdamsEternal 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this. Please make more and have fun :D

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Greg Adams thanks... I'm gonna do a vid on sampling. just need to get a feel for it first👍

@stefanoehlin 3 жыл бұрын

Great tipps! Thanks a lot! :)

@MartinYamMoller 3 жыл бұрын

Stefan Öhlin glad you found it useful🤘

@tobiasvonhofsten 5 жыл бұрын

hey makker, love the video. like the #5, haven't really thought about controlling drum variations like that. cool! as for #4 have you looked into using mute groups at all? (hold mixer and choose mute group using the black value keys) here you can have mute variations per pattern which is kinda like you describe, except per pattern. can be good if you are short of patterns at some point. currently the mute groups can only be sequenced externally so thats a difference from having separate patterns. any way, thanks for sharing, take care and have a good one! subscribed! /T

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Tobias von Hofsten Tak ska du have! 😉 Glad you like the video and that even you got something out of it that you hadn't seen before. I've not really used mute groups that much since, as you say its not sequence-able, and I use separate patterns and chains to structure songs. But maybe if I play live more... Then it would be great to use mute groups. Fantastic update by the way. I gotta get into the sampling features and make a video on it in the future. I can already see a few things that make it ekstra special on the Opz

@howardanderson3061 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff thanks for posting this

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It's nice to share

@howardanderson3061 5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is...

@tonyrustlips 3 жыл бұрын

ahhhhh the first tip soooooo good!!! thank you!!!!

@MartinYamMoller 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent👍 great you found it useful

@williamvine6887 24 күн бұрын

GrGreat help thanks

@vorbaud 5 жыл бұрын

Short but great!!!

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Dirk Vorbau that's what she said😻oh wait🤔

@RolyGuacamole 2 жыл бұрын

Love the tips -- just subbed too!!! any links to those awesome stickers? specifically the Ganesh? :)

@MartinYamMoller 2 жыл бұрын

Great😉 I got the Ganesh from my wife, who got them on a trip to India. So nope dunno where to getem sorry

@ChumpyDumps 5 жыл бұрын

I liked the video and like the mustache. Had a quick question, how do you go about recording the OP-Z to mix? Mix in the box and record the master or are you recording each phrase?

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Greg Menzies I actually often record the whole song onto a dictaphone for lofi grungyness (not the 90s thing). Then record to a PC and use izotopw ozone to master. But it's nice to have the option for digital recording with the lastest firmware👍

@charliedronkers 5 ай бұрын

thank you

@dreamlogic1563 5 жыл бұрын

You can achive #4 easier with only a single pattern by using Mute-Groups (Shift & Buttons 1-0). I would use this for Mute Variations in a single pattern and different patterns for musical variations in a project.

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

x1983x yep, that's also a cool way to do it. But I use it with pattern chaining to structure songs. Mute groups seem more like a live playing thing.

@JoeLaRocca 5 жыл бұрын

I was just about to write that, also you don't have to hold play when selecting patterns to chain you just have to press it once. Cheers! Also Martin it is "IDEA" not "IDEAR"

@grey2105 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mario 🙏

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

Grey sure thing👌

@dorianml704 3 жыл бұрын

Thxxx

@MartinYamMoller 3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing👍 I'm glad you liked it

@StephenMcLeod 3 жыл бұрын

Useful! I think I prefer the OP-Z to the OP-1...

@MartinYamMoller 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too😉

@elshuffles 5 жыл бұрын

great stuff Martin, at 3.18 you mention reversing samples to get some more drone like stuff going on - any chance you could do a video on this (or explain it)? As I find its not easy to create drones on the OP-Z.

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

elshuffles you this was one thing in the video that I was not satisfied with how I explained. It was an off the cuff improvisation and I should have just cut it.🤔 But I will certainly do a video on that, it's something I use often to make drones

@elshuffles 5 жыл бұрын

@@MartinYamMoller look forward to it #subscribed

@deadmidi5684 5 жыл бұрын

Yes this would be super useful.

@GiriGagan 2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinYamMoller did you get the time to make this video?🤔 if not then please do try to make it.

@alienanxiety 5 жыл бұрын

My first thought was "why is Timothy Olyphant teaching me about the OP-Z". My second thought was "thanks for the cool tips!"

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

honjok i had to look up who that was.... My 👨🏻is much morgio goroder😻

@alienanxiety 5 жыл бұрын

Martin Yam Moller haha that true! Just ordered my OP-Z! It's on the way!

@MartinYamMoller 5 жыл бұрын

honjok excellent.... I honestly think it's a classic synth already

@maxenceluage 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the first tip ! I didn't know about random sounds ! I instantly find a great one in 3 try and boom I have a melodic part ready for new song. Song I made with OPZ and Vocals and some Kontact stuff: soundcloud.com/bashanglh/stopthefall