Teenage Engineering OP-1 | Tape and Album 

One really awesome thing I missed: When in tape mode, try hitting Shift+Stop to increase the grid resolution. This gives you the ability to really get in and make micro edits to your tape tracks in awesome ways.

I’m soooo close to pulling the trigger on an OP1 it just looks so much fun. I also appreciate that they included a beautiful OLED screen with 60hz animations. Most synths manufacturers have their screen as an afterthought as cheap as possible to keep price down, but this thing just looks amazing.

Re-watched this today, and caught more stuff than I did when I first got my field. You’re a fantastic teacher, Jeremy. Only thing I would add (unless I missed it?) is recording in reverse (shift + record + play)

Just got an OP-1 Field, never owned or used an OG. WOW THIS VIDEO IS USEFUL! So many RU-vid videos pack a solid 30 seconds of content into a 10-minute video. For this? Thank goodness for pause and slowdown! This is CHOCK FULL of useful tips and tells so much about the tape functions. I expect to spend a couple hours following along until I really "get it." THANK YOU!!

Probably the most important video out of all your op1 lessons

Just want to say thank you Jeremy for sharing and creating the OP1 series. Have a nice day! Greetings from Australia 🦘🦘

thanks so much for these videos, wanted an op-1 for a while. when i found these videos i knew it'll get me going so much quicker and i decided to buy it ❤️

This is probably the best video I’ve watched on the OP-1! You go over so much info that many others don’t cover. This has helped me a lot

This answered questions I had for years about the OP-1

These videos are so great and so helpful! Thanks man and keep spreading the knowledge, it is appreciated.

This is a great tutorial. It should come with the OP-1. Thank you Jeremy for sharing your greatness!

Just ordered one today! Going to watch your videos to learn before it gets here so I can get right to it once it gets here!! Super hyped

This series is FANTASTIC!!!! Thank you !!!!

friend just lent me his OP1, so excited to finally play with one of these things!! thanks for another great video Jeremy

This is honestly the best tutorial I’ve seen for the OP-1. Thank you!!!

Thank you - been looking for this sort of specific op-1 instructions for a while. A lot of people like to show off the machine, but few actually take the time to explain what they';re doing. Nice.

Love your OP-1 videos!

Thank you so much for the precious serie ! Having the OP-1 for more than 1 year it’s perfect for the beginner I am.

Great video, Jeremy!! Thanks for sharing with us. Stay safe!

CHEERS for this! I just got an OP-1 and I am so stoked. :D

Thanks for these vids! Your Op videos are the best, it’s nice to get some solid tutorials

Thank you for this series of videos! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

superb - watching and rewatching to glean all the learning!

Great stuff for a beginner here. I am one of them. Haha I’ve been doing a lot of pausing and rewinding. This is the tutorial I needed that answered many noob questions. Thanks for posting!

Thanks so much for this video! I learned a bunch of new ways around the OP-1!

Finally buying one today... So pumped.

This video made my day. Possibly my year.

You are amazing and making these videos was extremely generous! Thank you for doing this

Excellent tutorial! Thank you!!!

Excellent tutorial! I just got my OP-1 and learning it so cool. Way easier than Octatrack for sure. Like the tips and tricks.

This was extremely helpful, even years later for an OP-1 Field user. Thanks!

This is so helpful! Thank you!!

I’m going to get one of these soon and I’m going to rewatch this once I get it first thing! 🔥

this whole series of videos makes me want to get an op-1 again. in the whole time I owned it I didn't know about the way to make the sequencers start on the beat >.> maybe in the future.

Picking up my OP-1 in 20 mins, so these will be useful. Thanks!

finally buying an OP1 today, cant wait to watch all of these again when its in front of me and mess around and go crazy

been looking for this machine for a while now .. it's time to get it .. very cool videos .. tnx

Thanks Jeremy. A nice Tip is to press Shift+Stop. It will add bars between the main section bars, and that's very usefull ;) And, by making a loop between two bars it will zoom in :)

very nice turorials! thank you!

These videos are super helpful. I’ve wanted an OP-1 for years but never really watched any technical videos on it. Just got one in a trade and now I’m diving head first into this series. Thanks for your perfect timing!

Thank you so much for this!!

15:55 is when you get in that zen loopy mood with your OP-1 I LOVE IT

This Sunday, finally, I had the time to watch all the episodes of this fantastic video series. Thank you for this, a couple of years ago I got this little monster second hand and it was a blast. For me it is very hard to finish a track because my music skills are pretty basic but, even with this limitation, I can spend hours tweaking some ipnotic loop I got just fiddling with all the stuff op-1 provide. It is an incredible and powerful device and your videos and guides are always informative and well produced. What I would like to see is maybe something on your post-production with Ableton just to get an idea of what kind of improvement you make after exporting from op-1. Thank you again 💖.

Very nice these lessons of yours on OP-1, for me it was a pleasant review. Good job :-)

15:52 this is the most crazy moment in this vid. this tape speed effect is similar to Half time or Gross beat but pretty powerful. I loved it. damn I need to save my money from today.

That overdubbing tip was genius, don't know why I didn't think of that myself! I've been afraid to overdub out of fear of messing up what I have but you just alleviated that fear! Thanks : )

gonna be coming back to this video alot

Thank you so much for making all these videos! They should pay you

Great video.....for ME, as a beginner, the speed of your speech is really a challenge! But, I try my very best to keep up...thank you soooo much for all the input! F.

"I have gotten off so much, from accidentally pasting something wrong". Whatever floats your boat! ;p

Thank you!

you do a good job on these 🐱‍👤

Great! Inspiration to create music!

This is a super powerful portable device. Expensive little critter, however from the vids I have seen of this device it most definitely is capable of making tracks fast and efficiently on the go. The battery life is supposed to be excellent as well. Out of my budget at the moment. I’m more of a vdrums guy but this is super 😎

9.37….sounds like award winning music to me bro!!!!

Super, thanks!

Fantastic!!

Great, thanks a lot!

For me it would be interesting to see a video that explains/shows different ways of joining different sections of a song because I tend to add stuff to a "loop" and then i get stuck with the loop and have a hard time changing section. I find it hard to do risers / drops in a way that works, on the op1.

I bought an OP-1 and OP-z after I saw your videos Jeremy. I have the instruments, I just need some of your tutoring and all of your creativity and I'm good to go..

This video made me really miss my OP-1. The Tape is IMO its finess feature and still quiet unique

Thanks for your very valuable tutorials! Form good foundation and are very inspiring. However, I use the RU-vid "Slower Speed 0.75%" function, otherwise I would not keep up. your processor is somehow clocked faster than mine 😊

I.m french and i love tour vidéo

It's a fascinating design, it goes against any traditional format for the multi functional studio in a box that it is.

thank *YOU*

you should get paid by te for these, really great tutorials!!

Thanks for the videos! Did you notice that the 8th default finger sequence is the Sesame Street melody? I am probably super late but I just got my op-1 yesterday:-)

I wish TE made an OP-T which is purely a digital tape machine. Remove the speaker, shift the screen across, remove the keys and put the knobs under the screen. Then have 4 mono inputs. I would buy it

15:50 and when u are like "huh this is dull" and then magic begins and your mind is blown and u are like damn this thing actually grooves !

Great🤩

i really learn a lot from your videos! can you also teach us how to master eq with op-1?

Does anyone know of tutorials for Ableton Live that are this well-made? I'm so overwhelmed by it, even though I only have the lite version.

this is a beautiful machine that will end up being priceless i will have one

Awesome video Jeremy! Thank you! (14th comment💪🏼🤣)

It's strange that there is no way to queue up a record without holding the record button. That seems like a weird oversight.

hi. first healty happy new year jeremy this is pehaps my 8 time watching this video and it helped alot. one question: you said you can save 2,5 minutes to the vinyl, right? what if you wanna save the whole 6 minuts of the tape length?!

Make sure that the match is on so that your step indicator line show up. I made a mistake and made those go away and then figure this out. If you run into this problem you know what I'm talking about

Very Good Video, thanks! I have a question I wasn’t able to get answered yet by web search, so I had a op 1 few years back and backed up everything on my Mac when I sold it , I just got one again and loaded all the files onto it, now the tape tracks are on there , but somehow don’t fit the grid markers, so looping the different beats I made is very hard. It seems the files didn’t include the tape speed info … how do I get the tape tracks to fit the grid again… ??

Do any of you record straight into ur DAW directly, then separate all four tracks for manipulation or what's the process for mastering in the DAW?

Question: Around the 17min mark...How did you lift and drop that drum loop into the sampler? I got a little confused there

Can you record different recordings to each track on tape and playback individual tracks or multiple tracks at the same time? Also if I want to delete a blank section of tape in the middle of a track how would I do that? I just got my OP-1 and learning it so fun!

Hello! Thanks for the tutorial and all your content. The question is not specific related to the video but If you could help that would be awesome. I just got an Op1 and what I've been finding weird is why my volume changes from tape to synth. I mean If I'm on the tape about to record something and playing, my synth sounds lower than when I'm actually in the synth panel. I don't get this variation of the sound level. For instance the level of recording affects both pages, also the master volume. So why is it a bit lower on the tape panel? Appreciate the help! Thanks a lot.

19:33 love these experimental digital tape recording effects

Is this a good machine for someone who just wants to have fun and do music as a hobby in 2020? I’m new to music but this product seems to have a lot of cool features and also looks user friendly? I understand the price is on the high side, but honestly I haven’t seen any other machine I like the look of compared to this one. Edit: great video btw, thank you!

@21:22 he shows how to record your voice (or an acoustic instrument etc) through the mic straight to the ALBUM. I’m following the steps precisely but its not picking up my voice. Trigger is down, gain is up. I can record the tape and synth to ALBUM but its not picking up anything through the mic when I press the mic button (while in REC mode on ALBUM. Any thoughts?

is there a technical reason why they only made 4 tapes? why not 20 or so?

Can you record from the Album --->>> back to the tape?

Firstly - I love these videos. I learned a ton. Question, though - Why don't you lift your finger off of record immediately after you place the first chord? The recording keeps going...

Does recording to the album consolidate the tracks into one file upon export or are they still separate?

I know that op1 doesn't have undo button. If I understood correctly from this video, you can copy a part before overriding it, so you could in practice "undo" the 2nd take by pasting what you copied?

Could you tell me how much is the recording time in álbum?

Thanks for this, for all the videos you have done to help bring awareness to the OP-1 do you think Teenage Engineering would do a giveaway for and OP-1 for those of us who can’t afford one?

Second again 😅

Oh nice, I thought M1 and M2 were only for track vol memory

I don't know if you read old comments, but any idea why when I hold shift in tape mode it doesn't highlight all 4 tracks the way it does for you? I'm still learning this machine, so I presume it's user error more than anything else.

So it’s completely linear music making then? Can you quickly get to different sections ie verse chorus etc??

I’ve been wanting one of these for years. But I fear it won’t get dirty enough. Anyone pull off decent industrial and ambient tunes with this thing?

Hey mate, I really love your videos! They have so much of a teaching characteristic, that I was able to learn lots of new things about the OP-1. I have one question according the recording in Stereo. I know that all the synth engines, FX and also the tape recorder are Mono. Except for the main mixer, the EQ, Drive etc. How do you record you tracks, so they sound perfectly clear and wide? Is the only workaround to use two separate tracks one panned to the left channel and one to the right and duplicating the records within these two tracks? Thank you! :)

how can I zoom in on tape?

hey! does anyone know what cable he uses specifically? appreciate it if someone can tell me! :)