I owned the Mac App Store version, and yes it does not appear to be in the purchase history anymore. Likely because it's no longer secure for SSH use. I have a lot of older games and apps that still show up there. To my knowledge 2.4.1 is the last version. You can look up the Secret Geometry website on The Internet Archive, even 2019, and download the demo from there, an archive of the 2.4.1 demo hosted on Amazon S3. Because I made these videos years ago the developer in response once gave me a license key, which I was appreciative of. So my 2.4.1 'demo' does work as the full version on Apple Silicon under Sonoma at least.

Yes, the OP-1 Field comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable, (like what you’d use for an iPhone 15 or later) and it charges perfectly with the Apple 18W USB-C AC Adaptor.

Looks like field can function as a “MIDI host” and original probably can’t

Sorry, only just saw this comment :) Yeah you’re correct - the original can’t be a host. However there are midi converter boxes which will accept a USB midi device (think any midi controller, inc OP-1 original) and convert the signal to/from standard midi. I bought one and used it briefly with the original OP-1, I think the brand was Doremidi? But I didn’t use it a great deal because I later got the Field.

@@darwiniandude thanks for this info

I no longer have the car sadly, I liked it but I had internal engine failure around 100,000k’s. So that sort of put me off the brand :/ I’ve had no issues serious engine type issues with Mitsubishi vehicles ever over a number of them so I went back to those. SX4 was great though, hope yours is and continues to be reliable :) since I need more space now for family, current main vehicle is a Delica D5, a ‘soft roader’ Japanese import 4WD van.

Thanks mate. The j20b engine are known to be reliable and in general Suzuki too but hey there are obviously some that are bad. I do hope mine isn't. Congratulations on the Delica. Was your SX4 Manual or an Auto?

Mine was a J20A, 2007. Only car so far I’ve ever bought brand new. If yours is a J20B, it’ll be fine I’d say. Also, if it’s still going some 15 years later, it should be fine :) Mine was having low end knocking issues in 2010. On the old SX4club forums (dunno if it still exists) there was a big thread, “the engine failure thread” - mine still drove ok but I traded it in to a dealer, told them it had noises etc and I didn’t trust it. I didn’t want to sell it to a person. Anyway they rang me later to get the radio code (I’d changed it) and mentioned on the phone they’d had to replace the whole engine. Which is what I suspected. But as you say that sort of thing can happen with any car. But understandably I guess it put me off them :) I didn’t really do any mods, I mean I added a 12V outlet in the boot if that counts. :) It was manual. Great little car except for the whole engine thing. Due to my work commute, I kind of wanted an auto… but I test drive both and the auto just sucked all the fun out of it. I had to buy the manual. The manual was great.

@darwiniandude sorry mine is also a J20A lol so not sure how it goes 😅

@@darwiniandude 2008 J20A - Clocking 190,000 miles. No engine issues.

Yeah true - I don’t like all their products, for me I didn’t get on well with the OP-Z. But the Field is great. I also collect vintage computers, so I love that there is a little CBM PET on the screen :)

@@darwiniandudeWhat do you think of EP-133? 🤓

Ignoring the build quality issues many have reported for the moment, I love the aesthetic of it, but it's not for me. As I grew up with a piano in my house and have always have keyboards, I prefer have a keyboard style layout vs pads. Have never been interested in MPCs for example.@@P-S-T

No worries :) Hope it was useful.

@@darwiniandudeVery useful. Thanks! Keep posting. 😊

The B2600 has standard midi in, and USB midi, plus CV and Gate inputs. The OP-1 Field can actually host USB midi devices - the Arturia Microfreak works, my Presonus AudioBox Two (a simple 2in 2 out audio + midi interface) - but for some strange reason USB-B to USB-C on the OP-1 Field did not work. I own a Yamaha BT-MD01 USB midi interface. It’s a dongle that plugs into Midi ports and sends and receives Bluetooth MIDI, BLE. The OP-1 Field can talk to BLE midi devices. So that’s what I mostly use with the OP-1f, and was using here. Note that the dongle is powered from Midi OUT - B2600 has no out, only Thru. But it works powered from Midi Thru, I just had to set the OP-1f to not accept midi in notes, otherwise the notes sent to the B2600 would loop back to the OP-1f again. Hope that makes sense :)

Thanks :) Yeah I was pleased how it turned out… I will do a proper recreation and explanation for sure.

It’s really a super handy thing, since it can operate bi-directionally; one source to alternating destinations, or two sources alternating to one output.

Thanks!

Thanks :) Yeah I want to head back there one day and see if the spot is still like that… with the proper precautions taken :) Was pretty scary!

Oh no! Do you know what’s wrong? I’m sure it’s fixable. Inside they have what is largely a PC from that era. There is a Facebook group for them, probably other groups too. Good luck :)

lol - that’s fantastic. Hadn’t noticed. I don’t own more Korg gear but I remember the X5D.

It's a pretty funny old kid's toy. I recently bought a much later Vtech one that is actually a proper computer with BASIC and a mouse, colour GUI, connects to a TV. Pretty advanced.

Yeah it was pretty freaky. I need to go back there.

Yeah exactly :) Found the VHS when clearing out a relatives house. Had to upload it.

Not sampled, I recreated/played this with sounds from my Nord

@@darwiniandude all the more impressive. Love it. Fantastic.

Only downside is too much talking early on and it takes awhile to get to the cool sounds :) But yeah, thanks. :)

@@darwiniandude you took us on a journey, and we are enjoying the ride as much as the guide!

Maybe I will - I can’t say if the conditions will be the same, but possibly. It’s about two and a half hours away.

Thanks! :) This is a short clip from a bigger track I want to do, I should get on it.

Absolutely - times have changed. Their is aesthetic choice in the piano timbre and even the brand and model of piano sampled, but then the sample rom size and processing techniques used. How sympathetic string resonance is emulated and so on. I’ve never been a massive fan of many piano sounds but I really love my Nord Grand, since I can swap in so many instruments and the basic controls allow really significant changes to taste.

@@darwiniandude I wish I could afford a nord lol

Yeah I couldn’t afford one either for the longest time. Eventually could. I really wish they’d make a small Nord Sound Module you could load their sounds into. But then they’d sell less keyboards I guess.

I really liked mine. Unfortunately I had no internal engine troubles, it would’ve been very expensive to fix so we traded it in back in 2014 on a Mitsubishi.

Thanks! 😀 - it’s actually quite flexible sound wise, will be great for tapping the internal mic for rhythmic sounds and so on too.

@@darwiniandude can’t wait to try it out. It might also allow me to make videos with my voice modified

Yes - it allows us to finally have an audio input you can run effects over too. Even if not using the vocoder. So you can run CWO or Telephone over your voice in real-time :)

@@darwiniandude yes amazing! Didn’t thought about that use case

Wow. Yeah I’ve researched this a little more since it happened to me. There can be a certain percentage of liquid and solid that combines to make something in between.

You need to either have the game on your Apple ID if you purchased it back then, or jailbreak and find the original somehow. But I miss these early days of great games in iPhone.

This isn’t me in the video, it’s an old promotional video for the Oasys. But I’m glad it was helpful :)

Can you please send me your copy of it? It’s deadware. I have no idea how else to get it.

@@christopher6337 After your comments I have done some digging. The developer seems to be alive and well but now working for Flipboard. I have reached out to him. Ideally I'd like permission to release it - could upload to Macintosh Garden, a website for archiving vintage Mac software. The other issue I have is that my cathode license file has my personal name and main personal email address in it, so to release the license would also release my main email address. So I'll have to think that one over.

Do you happen to have any updates on this ? Fully willing to pay for a full version @@darwiniandude

Yeah, I’d agree with that. I have a Motif XS actually. No one keyboard is the best at EVERYTHIG, which makes it easy for me to have quite a few :)

Although it had less ram the Roland Fantom G was eating this thing a few years later without the computer connectivity.Mad midi and audio with a computer daw style seq.

It’s South Australia, but you know similar places in Darwin?

@@darwiniandude just looked like Darwin

Unfortunately, it is getting like that with the Kronos too. I need a replacement right end cap for my 1st generation Kronos X88 (2011) and it is unobtanium.

You literally can't get parts?

I’ve heard the PC components inside can be repaired.

@@darwiniandude and where is that then?

I don’t own an Oasys, but I used to have one at work I played with a lot. I saw discussion of PC board repair in the Oasys group on Facebook.