OP-1 synthesizer, software equivalent
category: music [glöplog]
Hi,
On my way to scratch that demoing itch, I would like to address the musical department. I feel lot of love for the Teenage Engineering OP-1, I'm happy with the sounds that comes out of it, the possibilities and I like the interface. Unfortunately, it's too expensive for me, and it's likely to be out of reach for a little while :(
Is there a software which is more or less equivalent to the OP-1 ?
- Simple design for the signal processing part
- A little keyboard, 2 octaves will do
- Create/save/restore synthesizer settings
- Mixing layers I created before
Note that I don't ask for a tracker, but a software emulation of an hardware synthesizer similar to the OP-1, and an UI that mimic this kind of hardware as well.
On my way to scratch that demoing itch, I would like to address the musical department. I feel lot of love for the Teenage Engineering OP-1, I'm happy with the sounds that comes out of it, the possibilities and I like the interface. Unfortunately, it's too expensive for me, and it's likely to be out of reach for a little while :(
Is there a software which is more or less equivalent to the OP-1 ?
- Simple design for the signal processing part
- A little keyboard, 2 octaves will do
- Create/save/restore synthesizer settings
- Mixing layers I created before
Note that I don't ask for a tracker, but a software emulation of an hardware synthesizer similar to the OP-1, and an UI that mimic this kind of hardware as well.
Tried messing around with http://www.audiotool.com/?
I dont think so, as OP-1 also has sample/resample functionality and multiple different synthesis methods. You're looking at least DAW+synths+fx's stuff.
@Gargaj It's very impressive ! I should confess I'm not musician, and apart from toying with the tone matrix, I'm lost >_<
@qmotvs Since I'm a total beginner, less features would be quite helpful I think. sample/resample, really don't need.
So let's reformulate : I'm not musician, I look for something *really* simple to play with, tonematrix being a very good example of such toy. Is there some software which is like "tone matrix on steroids" ? Sounds like a nice little coding project ^^
@qmotvs Since I'm a total beginner, less features would be quite helpful I think. sample/resample, really don't need.
So let's reformulate : I'm not musician, I look for something *really* simple to play with, tonematrix being a very good example of such toy. Is there some software which is like "tone matrix on steroids" ? Sounds like a nice little coding project ^^
If you like processing you can quickly cook up something like this and go from there. (I assume by "tone matrix", you mean "ordinary 2d step sequencer")
(the actual answer to your question would be something like bidule,max/msp, pure data), but you already said that's not what you want. :)
http://www.audiotool.com/app WTF?! this shit is awesome.
After following a few tutorials => Audiotools is indeed a very nice thing and can be learned by a total noob (=me) Very good answer. Also very inspiring for the time I'll craft my own "tone-matrix-on-steroids" :)
Let's trying redoing some BoC tracks with those Audiotools ^^
Let's trying redoing some BoC tracks with those Audiotools ^^