The Touring Musician's Dream Synth? 

no europe 😢snif

Always the same. Brutal

😥

US shite

Thanks for the new video and giveaway Hainbach!!

He probably had it velcro to his pants

anxiety inducing

Yeah there are legal restrictions for giveaways, so they can only do it in North America, where they are based.

Not even all of NA. USA only. Sad Canadian here.

@@CatFish107 Yeah sorry I had thought Canada was also in, but since every country has different rules on giveaways it is US only.

(Empathic silence from Belarusian musicians who cannot leave country)

...and Australian mate....

Thank you buddy!

I am sorry - the contest is only for US residents, which I mixed up in my head myself.

@@Hainbach seen! Well maybe you can give a listen to my band "I Am The Mountain"'s latest music video called 'Overthinking Conversations' or my electronic music project called "Fake James" and then everything will be alright!

I love how funky the track gets, I surely did not expect that from the muted beginning. You got a new subscriber.

Thank you! I will make more with it - it feel just so nice.

I was more scared of the phone I filmed this with falling in the water. There was a lot of wind.

It was my phone I was scared about - I used it to film and any gust could have thrown it into the sea.

@@Hainbach The phone is water proof. The OP-1 is not. I would have used some kind of tether. 😁

I have a deluge but even so... That keyboard on the op1 f makes more sense. Also it sounds better here. My humble opinion

My phone that I used for filming was in way more danger. I breathed a sigh of relief for it after.

Visa cost is sadly prohibitive at the moment

@@Hainbach I completely understand, and thanks for the reply! I hope someday you are able to come over, but if not I'll make sure I can make it over there. Either way I'm still going to keep checking out the videos you delight us with. :)

I wish I could have done that giveaway internationally, but that was not up to me.

Gifted? This is a commissioned video, so it is an exchange of goods and services :-)

Cool story bro 😂

Thank you! Some additional background that did not make it into the video - Perfect Circuit asked me for a collaboration and I could basically pick anything from their stock. I chose the Field because it was the instrument I was most interested in.

@@Hainbach Thank you for explaining, I was wrong then haha. I had the OG OP-1 but could not get used to the tape workflow. I wonder if there is something similar to the OP-1 in size and functionalities, but with a more classic workflow…

Funny enough the original had holders for a guitar strap. That would indeed be useful for the more adventurous playing opportunities.

@@Hainbach I bought the original less than a year before the Field came out, discovered how much I liked using it as a multitrack tape recorder except for the pops and clicks in the firmware at the time, and being mono - dismissed the Field and then upgraded. The stereo and sound quality are massive upgrades - luckily at the time I was in a position where I could upgrade. But yeah the mounting option change is very very strange. The original as you say had screw holes and could properly be secured - the Field has velcro. Really weird. I can only assume those deep screw holes were removed to make room for internal changes - the built in speaker is night and day different and quite usable on the Feild, very tinny on the original. You're totally right though - the original looks WAY better, and they've even removed some of the button labels for shift functions on the Field, although those features are still there. Pretty odd choices.

It is a mixture of the internal synthesizers and an orchestral sample I have ben using for a long time. The new reverb on the field has a wonderful "glue" to it that meshes everything in a very alive way.

You've got to get us that Sample!! @hainbach

Ueckermünde at the Ostsee

@@Hainbach Danke ! ! !

A little off topic question. Do you have any idea on how to simulate PWM on an sampled square wave?

From an orchestral piece I wrote. This is a snippet from the rehearsal session in an old chapel. Never get tired of that sound.

@@Hainbach wow. It is so atmospheric esp with that video. Nevermind the tech!

Yeah I feel you. I am honestly now at the point where I would be ok to sell the MK1. I haven’t used it since the Field came around. But the memories!

@@Hainbach the mk1 will be considered an antique, might as well hold onto it!!

Yeah I am sorry. It has to do with gambling laws being different all over, so they stick with the U.S.

Yes, I played Digitizmir there.

Thank you stu!

Thank you! I have discovered some cool tricks - you can do Mini-Disc glitch if you fast forward and rewind in that mode and record it to the vinyl. Then you re-record that to tape to smooth out the digital sound. I used that in the last track.

To be a bit more precise: Perfect Circuit is running the giveaway, and since they are U.S. based they can only do it there.

@@Hainbach oh yeah i understand its not your fault, was just a funny idea to me hah

I wish you luck!

One you will get to know very soon...:-)

@@Hainbach I promise you I will get to know it! 😁😁😁

Yes! There is a cool trick I used for that - used the "mini-disc", recorded the glitter part, glitched through it with fast forward and rewind while recording to vinyl. re-recorded the master to a track, pitched that 17 steps down. Added other instruments, recorded to vinyl, then re-recorded to tape to smooth everything out. Sounds like a lot but its rather fun.

@@Hainbach sounds like you're digging deep into it...but it's worth it. Sounds superb.

You got to watch to the end, buddy :-)

Waiting on Perfect Circuit to tell me :)

aged like milk

@@jives.hahahahaha facts

@@DylanParisMusic did you end up selling it?

@@jives.yeah back in July I think, had it for about 4 or 5 months, maybe a bit longer. The limitations were way too much for me for the price. Got 1750 for the sale so basically paid 250 to rent it and make some videos.

Classical musicians tour with instruments that are often more than a year worth of income. A well-made bow for contrabass alone is 3K. It is all relative to what you require professionally.

@@Hainbach They tend to have an extremely sturdy (flight)case around it. They also tend to not play in shitty clubs with people flinging beer around.

@@_DRMR_ Neither here nor there, just a little beer and gear story: I had a thrown glass beer bottle smack into my laptop once. It sent the laptop crashing to the floor. Weirdly enough it was fine…the amp it was resting precariously on however shorted out from the beer. 😂 …I’d have rather lost the laptop. I’ve kept that laptop ever since (1997). All it’s been through it deserves a good retirement I figured.

Yeah, you can get cases for the Field that are just as sturdy. But if you fear that your gear might get beered at a noise show, I would take gear that fits that venue. Contact mic + Metalzone ❤️

You're comparing excel spreadsheets to the op-1F

@@xxxSupahskillzz48275 What's the matter, can't read excel spreadsheets?

@@Rilkir rather do something else in my free time

@@xxxSupahskillzz48275 Personally I don’t think the two are a fair comparison but how a device opts to display things on a screen does not make it that thing. Based on that we might as well say we are comparing a spreadsheet to a cows digestive system because the M8 shows a cow on the screen. The spreadsheet look is far more informative than a cassette reel approximation anyway.

@@AveragePicker It's just a tape recorder vs a sequencer. To each their own

iPad is fantastic, too! I just made the instrument I always wanted for it, comes out this Monday.

You seem to be in two minds about Apple.

@@Hainbach Yes, i love Apple but its to expensive

It is. But mostly, if you get a good year of their tools, they work flawlessly and become invisible. If you get a bad year, it sucks.

" so they must be doing something right!" It's called marketing, the youtubers that use n OP-1 Field got it a big discount, not the full $2000 that you will have to pay for it. The irony is that Andrew Huang has a video out where he shows that you can basically do everything the $2000 OP-1 does on a $10 app. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HaFdzar209o.html

Yes, marketing. :)

Portable sampling and arranging in the space of a phone, with a rather polarizing company behind it, seems to bring the views one way or another.

Already changed, thanks

I make the sponsor clear (which was not the manufacturer) and all opinions are my own. Nothing here is shilling.

@@Hainbach at least then it's honest shilling. The message seems to be along the lines of 'it was a bad idea until I was given one for free; for when my laptop crashes'. Love your work, but this and the robots is getting a bit Balenciaga.

Not for free - that is a misconception. The OP-1 was payment for making a giveaway and announcing it in a video with the sponsor. Sure, they had no input on the video except from including the announcement, but it’s still a lot of work. I could have done a much simpler video, but instead I used this opportunity to test it under real life circumstances. It could have gone horribly wrong if the Field sucked, which I had feared initially, and I would have said so or cancelled the deal. It’s an exchange of goods and services - luckily for me I am getting paid for the work I love anyway - creating music and filming it interesting ways.