Simple OP-1 Songwriting Session

[@iosmusicman]

Nice to have an unadulterated session. Real life! Great stuff. Cheers. Lee

[@FreeBeat]

Every once in awhile I like to pull it back and simply show an unedited session :) thanks for watching!

[@AceMyHigh]

This is possibly the BEST song i've heard someone make on the OP-1. And in 20 minutes too? Astounding! Congrats

[@FreeBeat]

I'm genuinely curious, what leads someone to make a comment like this? No worries at all if you don't like what I came up with, music is completely subjective, but what was it exactly that made you want to leave such a comment? Either way I appreciate you taking the time to engage with the video :)

[@AceMyHigh]

@@FreeBeat I just appreciate the song man, that's all! Thank you

[@FreeBeat]

@@AceMyHigh Now I'm curious why you edited your original comment lol.

[@Mr.Tubster]

Good´n, thx for sharing ;) Thumbz up! Greetings cya

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for watching!

[@YANTO_SHAPES]

Very cool Video. I got my OP-1 2 Weeks ago😁. This video helped me a lot. Thanks👍👍. Greetings from germany

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks so much for watching, enjoy your OP-1!

[@treeski3410]

Thanks for this. A few sequencer questions for you… Is there a way to lift a sequence recorded on tape back into the original sequencer that made it so it can be edited? I like to start with a basic drum sequence and then create variations (I.e. patterns) that can be arranged within a song, but I often come up with the variations as the song develops. Also, can multiple sequences be saved somewhere and then loaded into the sequencer after other projects have been worked on? Thanks again!

[@FreeBeat]

Once a sequence is recorded to the tape, it's stuck there, it's actual audio rather than MIDI data. However, the finger sequencer lets you save multiple sequences within it. Hope that helps!

[@ImranAli-uu4vj]

Love the face cam angle! Think it's a great add

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks! So happy to have the studio to actually set the angle up haha.

[@maecknyc]

I liked it to 7:23 then i started feeling it, proper funk tune

[@raytbrown2]

Thank you! This helped a lot.

[@FreeBeat]

Glad I could help, thanks for watching!

[@wiggesobk]

Great video and good to see how you cooked it up. Love the drums in this one. One question, does your synth pad feels different then the sampling pad? On mine the synth pad feels more stiff then all the other pads and i'm not sure if that's normal. It still works but it's weird.

[@FreeBeat]

Interesting, mine all feels the same. How long have you had yours?

[@wiggesobk]

@@FreeBeat that's weird. Just for a half year.

[@199ks9]

op 1 is truly op! Awesome 🤙🤙

[@FreeBeat]

It is! Thanks for watching :)

[@draconianrhythms]

Music to fight End-Of-Level-Bosses to 😁

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for watching!

[@pearsemacintyre1728]

i admire my OP1, but its such a pain in the butt. Never make anything usable with it, the tape is painful to use. Spend an hour making a beat that you can make in 10 seconds in Logic. It's well engineered and fun to mess around with, and thats kind of it

[@FreeBeat]

I've found that I can be more productive with my OP-1 than just about anything else haha. I released an all OP-1 album just a month after getting mine! Thanks for watching :)

[@FreeBeat]

@@pearsemacintyre1728 My bandcamp page link is in the description of all of my videos :)

[@AlexanderShelestov]

@@FreeBeat But which album is made with OP-1?

[@FreeBeat]

@@AlexanderShelestov FB-1 :)

[@mcstabba]

The OP-1 seems so god damn intuitive! I just wish it was able to record external sources to the "tape" as well (besides a few samples I mean) so it would be a portable studio that could feature a vocal track and guitar, mandolin, kazoo or whatever as well as the built in synth and drums with the sequencers. Of course it could be hooked up to a portable studio (or DAW for most people I guess) and vocals and other instruments can be added there so yeah, I might buy one anyway.

[@FreeBeat]

It can do that! If you'd like it to it can simply be a four-track digital tape recorder :)

[@ChesspiecefaceOO]

This is arranging not songwriting my man. Your vids are cool and informational, but this is almost disinformation. You are just recording some quick jams and arranging them into a sequence and mixing and stuff. I do it all plenty on OP-Z or in DAW but its just isn't composing/songwriting its brainstorming and then arranging. Its not a point of shame its just an important nuance I think.

[@FreeBeat]

It's all part of my personal songwriting process though. Just wanted to show a realistic session. Some of it is certainly arranging, but all of it is part of actually writing the song (again, for me at least).

[@ChesspiecefaceOO]

@@FreeBeat Well in that spirit I suppose the best rebuttal would be a vid about what happens to this track next and how it actually becomes your next thing etc. ;)

[@ahelcs7251]

you're arguing semantics. if this is what his songs sound like, then it's songwriting! the video is about his personal process, not about fitting into your preconception of how the process should function.

[@rabevier8071]

Why don't you make a video on writing on song on the Op1 opinions are shit these days talk is cheap show us man!

[@ahelcs7251]

@@rabevier8071 dude, that is a great idea!! im sure you'll buy me one, given that it's your idea after all, right? talk is cheap!