OPx-4 Sound Design - Beginner Tutorial

[@falazarte]

I've been living this series with the OP X!!

[@EnochLight]

Wow - FANTASTIC TUTORIAL!! OPx-4 is one of my favorite (new) plugins for Force/MPC - thanks so much for doing this series!

[@joefilbrun]

Glad you're enjoying it, @EnochLight!

[@spindlenine]

Thanks Joe, please keep the OPx-4 tutorials coming.

[@joefilbrun]

You’re welcome! Planning to.

[@sinewaymusic]

Halfway through, I hit the Like button because this was indeed very helpful. Thank you!

[@KeirMurphy]

Really good Joe. I've messed around with a DX7 senselessly for a long while but I can't seem transfer across some of the concepts there yet to the OPX-4 so looking forward to do all of your videos.

[@gmorb666]

thanks

[@dawidwenderski9097]

Big Thank You! I am going to anoter lesson of Yours! :) Without Your Great tutorial it will be hard to understood anything from this complicated and awesome syntesizer.

[@Romenet310]

This was awesome. I will be referring to it several times to learn.

[@joefilbrun]

Glad it was helpful! OPx-4 can be a little daunting at first, but also really rewarding!

[@Jean-Mi_Paradis]

Awesome tutorial Joe! Definitely, a lot to be learned from OPX-4. Many thanks for your efforts putting this video together. Liked and subscribed! 😉

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks Jean-Mi - glad you enjoyed. Yep, OPx-4 is amazingly deep. Can’t believe it runs on a standalone!

[@stoneslice]

Very clear and helpful tutorial. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for watching and the feedback, and I’m glad you got something out of it!

[@giacomorml]

Thank you Joe, really appreciated video. Super clear and usefull! You have a new follower!

[@joefilbrun]

Hey Giacomo! Glad this was helpful for you. Thanks for the sub, and for watching!

[@HansEberbach]

Just subscribed. Thank you for your videos.. You come across as a very kind personality and your videos are straightforward and easy to follow

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for the sub! Good to hear this is all making sense. OPx-4 is such a fun synth to create new sounds with!

[@Noise-Conductor]

You a very good teacher I look forward to more lessons.

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for that, and I’m glad to hear this was useful for you!

[@mopoco9666]

great approach to this piece of software! thank you

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for watching mopoco! I’m glad you got something from it.

[@KeithJCarberry1]

excellent tutorial. unfortunately, on naming my macros, when i hold edit and knobs the screen you showed does pop up-- but with everything blank. any clue how to fix this? there doesnt seem to be a way to assign anything to anything on that screen ahh i came back to this and figured it oout. i missed putting knobs into track mode. excellent tutorial, thank you

[@keremk]

Thanks for this video Joe and the others that I will check. Is there a manual for opt that you know. I've checked but couldn't find any. Cheers.

[@joefilbrun]

Hey xself - you’re welcome! The user guide is on this page. Very close to the bottom of it. www.airmusictech.com/virtual-instruments/opx-4.html

[@keremk]

@@joefilbrun haven’t seen that thanks again 🙏✌️🕺🏻

[@scoopicman]

Very informative. Thank you!

[@joefilbrun]

Guessing you might be the same scoopicman from who I learned a lot about the Kronos from watching your videos. If so, happy I could return the favor. But either way, glad you found it useful!

[@scoopicman]

@@joefilbrun, yes, it's me. Your presentation is outstanding.

[@joegrant413]

Yes, please do more! The OPX4 is the most impressive MPC plug-in so far. And it’s my first in-depth work with FM synthesis. By the way, with this patch I noticed that my scales were a bit out of tune, I wonder which macro would cause that to happen. Anyway, thanks again.

[@joefilbrun]

Hey there - thanks for watching! I could definitely see doing some more OPx-4 videos. It’s really deep and we’ve barely scratched the surface. Not sure what’s up with your intonation on this one. I’d check to make sure no extra mod matrix slots are turned on, and that the operator Offset parameters are all zeroed out.

[@magicizaproblem]

Great video! make more opx and mini d vids if possible just to get ideas going.

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for watching Preston, and glad you got something from it! Definitely thinking about making some more videos for OPx-4 and possibly Mini D too.

[@magicizaproblem]

@@joefilbrun LETS GO!!!!

[@EnochLight]

Mini-D definitely!!!

[@oxycope8821]

Great tutorial! Subbed

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for the sub, OXYCOPE! Glad to hear this was useful for you!

[@zoltanmeszaros5132]

Afrer activating the opx-4 plugin on the Force/MPC, can you use this without a internet connection?

[@joefilbrun]

Yes you can.

[@edgarcortes]

Another great tutorial Joe thanks! I definitely needed that explanation on the unipolar and bipolar mod types, I'm already making some huge patches with these tips. One thing I can't seem to figure out is what the last slider on the bottom of each mod does, how different is it from the % knob at the top? Keep them coming, these are really great tutorials ✌🏽

[@joefilbrun]

Hey Edgar - thanks and that’s awesome to hear you’re getting good results! From my experimentation, I’m fairly certain that slider on the bottom attenuates the incoming control signal pre-shaper, while the amount knob on the top is post-shaper. So if you aren’t using a shaper, there shouldn’t be any difference between them. If you’re using a shaper though, it will limit the range of the input into the shaper transfer function which in some cases could pretty drastically alter the control signal vs. a non-attenuated input signal. I’ve been trying to think of a way to demonstrate this visually since it can be kind of hard to get your head around it just from the bar graph representation of the Target signal in OPx-4. I wish I could stick an oscilloscope right on that point. :)

[@edgarcortes]

@@joefilbrun ohh that's what it's doing! I guess the operator running through it would have to be very specific and completely clean and linear to really notice a difference. After setting 5 modulations on a single operator and hearing it go WOWOWOP moving the slider on one of them would probably be unnoticeable jajajaja.. For now I mixed several patches using your generative patch video as a base and the one level of control and mod from this one and getting great results. Not even AKAI went through the trouble of explaining the darn thing in any capacity, and much less to the level of detail your doing it, so thanks for your time! I don't know what it is about this goofy synth that just clicks, because like anyone in this space, I'm full of virtual synths like Pigments and Serum etc.. that are objectively more powerful but this one with the level of on hand control and immediacy is just what I gravitate to. Thanks for answering!

[@joefilbrun]

Haha, yep you can definitely pile the modulations up to the brink of insanity with this synth. I agree, what really makes this synth special for me is being able to run it on my Force, and have it feel very much like a knobby hardware synth - while still getting all the benefits of a software synth like being able to run multiple copies, save presets, etc.

[@heffe4257]

This thing is so nasty. I don’t know why I waited so long.

[@joefilbrun]

Hey heffe4257 - yep it can really cover a lot of sonic territory!

[@heffe4257]

@@joefilbrun Absolutely!

[@francescobertelli8588]

you talk too much dude we dont hear a single sound!

[@joefilbrun]

Hey @francescobertelli8588, thanks for watching. There's probably some truth in that. Thanks for the feedback. ;)