Dear Frederico, I wish I could give you a thousand likes for this! What a wonderful and inspiring video. It was like watching a great artist (whom you are) painting a colourful masterpiece. Thanks so much for this, and please - NEVER, EVER stop making music!!! You rock!!!!! Will now binge watch all your videos over the coming days. Love and light from sunny Thailand 🇹🇭 ☀️🏝
@@OoraMusic Nice! Thanks man. I’ve been playing around with the OP-1. Surprisingly powerful tool! & so much fun. It just works. And is easy to use straight out of the box. I also enjoyed your talk about how actually minimising your kit can make for more creativity as it allows you to ‘let go’. I’ll be watching your videos going forwards. Cheers from England!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The past two years I have been searching for ambient op-1 tutorials. This is my fav. So simple and informative. Hope you make more!
Totally blissful ambient moods. Nice walkthrough. Love these layered textures you're getting with the Mood and Microcosm. The Microcosm is on my list to purchase next, along with a Digitakt and a Make Noise Strega. I think that will cover all of my generative ambient needs for the future!
This video is incredibly useful. Thank you! Do you have other videos similar to this where you build ambient music with the OP-1 and walk us through how you did it? I want to create washes in the background while I noodle on my guitar on top of it. I’m dying to recreate some of the ambient work by Robin Guthrie. Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing your process, I have been a fan of yours on Instagram for a while and always enjoyed your work. I just got recommended your channel. It is really inspiring to see how you create your pieces. I will certainly try to bring some of it into my own experiments! Subbed! Keep it up
These are all great pedals. I do find that you have to keep the gain on the Rooms really low with synths or the output is too hot. OP1 isn’t my jam, but there are a lot of other great sound sources that will work just as well. Really enjoying your videos, thank you for sharing 🎛🙌🏻✨
This sounds incredible. What a great tutorial! I recently got an OP-1 and have been struggling creating my own ambient tones with it aside from the preset synth sounds. For the sounds you used, were they sampled?
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been playing with my OP-1 a bit and it’s amazing for this type of music indeed. Norns Compass on top of it is also a winner, when used sparsely!
Federico, dude. This was amazing. Thank you for making this. Just ordered an Op-1 and ended up on your channel from looking at Bliss Mood pedal videos. So stoked for my Op-1 to arrive :-)
Such a cool collaboration of pedals! Makes me excited to save up and buy some of these awesome instruments and pieces of technology to use them to make music myself!
Hi Federico, thank you for this nice video with a wonderful musical outcome. This question may sound odd, but where did you get these angled trs connecters/ patch cables?
That was absolutely fantastic. Great setup, very informative, beautiful ambient music. Just a great video and thank you for introducing me to a couple of new pedals I didnt know about!
What kind of cable do you need to run from the out of a effect pedal to your mixer/interface? Do you need one of those ones that go to dual 1/4 or XLR, or can it just be 1 mono input into an interface? Thanks!
Wow, I use a very similar batch of pedals with my OP-1. Just curious, do you run your pedals directly into a mixer, or do you place something else in the chain between the pedals and mixer? My output signal seems weak at times and curious if there's a fix for that. A great multi FX you may want to look at is Cooper FX Arcades. Since it uses many different cartridges/FX, you can do a lot with it for a small amount of space. Cheers!
Dear Federico, you are an inspiration to me. But today, may I simply ask the name of your cables please? I’ve been looking for hours for something similar. Thank you! Hugo
I like this a whole lot! Very nice video indeed! Would love myself an OP1, and a Hologram Microcosm. Got a Mood, and it is one of my favorite pedals of all time.
Great explanation on the pedals, love my Microcosm! Curious, on your Shallow Water, do you notice crackling in the audio out when turning the mix and volume knob that only goes away if you touch the casing while turning?
So lemme see if I understand the cabling - mixing and matching mono & Stereo pedals always gets a bit messy for me.... : OP-1 mono to Mood; Mood mono to Shallow Water; SW mono to Microcosm; Microcosm mono (why not stereo, since Microcosm can really play with the stereo space?) to Rooms....Rooms stereo to DAW?
Cool! I was looking for something to combine with the SP 404 mk2 (most use it for lofi beats but it’s a secret ambient powerhouse)- I won’t need that first pitch efx because the cassette and vinyl simulators in the SPmk2 will provide lots of wobble on their own. Im going with the Mood and microcosm - I think they will be perfect for sending SP loops through. Thanks!
Fantastic video! That’s a lot of pricy gear there too. I’m still hurting from my op1 cost. ;) anyway super clean setup and I’m dying to know where you got your cables. (I know, odd question). Please link!
Amazing sounds. Loving your videos. Where did you get the piano/vibraphone sounds for the op1? Are they your own samples? And pointers welcome! Keep up the good work
Heeey! Love the vibe man! ☺️✌🏻✨It is lush and sticks like a magnet to my ears! I was wondering when you turned on Rooms the stereo image just opened up so widely, from the video i get that you go through with a mono signal and in the end on Rooms you go mono/in, stereo/out is that right? What about phase?
Love your videos...I would like to replicate this arrangement but could you tell me this...are you connecting the Op-1 to your audio interface? And I see all the pedals are connected to each other, but then are are too connecting them to the Op-1? Or audio interface? Thanks!
Man this is the video I just needed. I’m doing a lot of meditation. Would love to start making ambient music. I would like to buy a kit like this but visual wise I want to choose for the Moog Grandmother. Is there a reason why you would choose the Op1 over the Grandmother?
Hi man --trying to plug my guitar effects pedal into my op-1 and get playback from the op-1 speaker. Is this possible? If so what cords should I plug in and where? Thanks.
Hey Federico! First off, great video - thanks so much. Quick question: the felt piano - did you create that patch with one of the OP-1 synth engines or did you load samples? If it was samples, which pitch did you load? Thanks again!
Could you recommend me a great effect pedal to use specifically with a digital piano? (For Piano, Rhodes, strings and synth sounds) I want an interesting sounding expression but with direct tactile control over everything. Thanks!
A delay or reverb would be a great place to start with a digital piano/synth. both instantly get you to spacey places. tremolo is also a good tool to get movement in background of your playing. i love my Tacana tremolo I got from Sentimental Bob electronics. Super versatile. I also love my dd200 delay from Boss. Reverb can be subjective, but the Rv5 reverb from Boss is awesome, pretty versatile, and cheap (in price, not quality).
This may sound crazy, but would love to see a video about how to actually cable, set a set up like this up and get it into a DAW....know that sounds basic but would be great to see
From what I can see, and what happened in the video he is using this path: •OP-1 or “sound source” into mood (loop/freeze with color) •Mood into Fairfield (eq, warmth) •Fairfield into Microcosm (delay/pitch shifting) •microcosm into Room (reverb) This would then run into your audio interface for DAW or a mixer for live performance. If you look at all the cables in the video there is only one in and one out, so nothing seems to be using stereo pairs or splitting the signal path. Just a standard pedal chain, with each pedal having wet/dry knob, and mixing that till you have the desired result at the end.
Unfortunately, the hologram is a bit bugged, sometimes few algorithms have no output volume and you need to restart the unit. I hope it will get fixed soon
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I wish I could like this video a second time. This is one of the best ambient tutorial video's on youtube. Thanks for sharing your process.
Wow, thanks! Happy it was useful!
Dear Frederico, I wish I could give you a thousand likes for this! What a wonderful and inspiring video. It was like watching a great artist (whom you are) painting a colourful masterpiece. Thanks so much for this, and please - NEVER, EVER stop making music!!! You rock!!!!! Will now binge watch all your videos over the coming days. Love and light from sunny Thailand 🇹🇭 ☀️🏝
I checked your music thanks to this video, and I love it. I have listened to the track Lamento multiple times, have it on repeat. Great work
thanks :)
I've been enjoying your videos a lot. I just purchased the OP1. Intrigued by the other pedals here. Which is your favourite pedal for ambient music?
@@OoraMusic Nice! Thanks man. I’ve been playing around with the OP-1. Surprisingly powerful tool! & so much fun. It just works. And is easy to use straight out of the box.
I also enjoyed your talk about how actually minimising your kit can make for more creativity as it allows you to ‘let go’. I’ll be watching your videos going forwards. Cheers from England!
It's so damn expensive :(
@@holtimt buy used :!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The past two years I have been searching for ambient op-1 tutorials. This is my fav. So simple and informative. Hope you make more!
I ’ve watched this a few times now, every video you make is both informative and beautiful. Really appreciate you for sharing.
Wow, thank you!
New OP1F user. New Oora subscriber. Great video, keep them coming!
Totally blissful ambient moods. Nice walkthrough. Love these layered textures you're getting with the Mood and Microcosm. The Microcosm is on my list to purchase next, along with a Digitakt and a Make Noise Strega. I think that will cover all of my generative ambient needs for the future!
Yes, strega and microcosm is a great combo
You sir are a master and wonderful person for sharing your experiences from behind the curtain of your creativity 🙏🏼💕
And you are very kind. Thanks!
Educators, technologists, and artists are my favorite folks 🤘🏾💚🤙🏽
Thanks :)
I agree w. that.
just waiting for my Microcosm to arrive, so I was really excited to watch this........
its a great pedal!
Yeah, there aren't many pedals that even begin to modify the sound so well.....it's exceptional
Just ordered one! August 👌
This is beautiful. Very inspiring.
Yes, it's an exceptional piece of gear - can't wait for my delivery
Just did a vid with mines again it’s awesome
Nice sound design walkthrough... Suggest trying a NightSky in place of Rooms to take it further... ☺️
maybe sooner or later!
Sounds outstanding! Thank you for sharing this
you have such a good ear for sounds and getting the most out of this amazing gear
Thank you for your amazing video. I like how you describe in clear details the instrument tools names, and how you use them. Very good demo.
Thanks!!
Dude this is awesome 👏 could you explain to a newbie like me how do you connect all theses pedal together ; like what’s your chain ?
great texture with just a tiny loop. sounds fantastic. thanks for the video walkthrough.
:) tiny loops 4 ever
This video is incredibly useful. Thank you! Do you have other videos similar to this where you build ambient music with the OP-1 and walk us through how you did it? I want to create washes in the background while I noodle on my guitar on top of it. I’m dying to recreate some of the ambient work by Robin Guthrie. Thank you!!
I will do this video again with updated tools soon
@@OoraMusic or even go into further detail for us Patreon subscribers! 😉
Thank you for the video! It's nice you respond so fast with a video after some Instagram comments asking for it.
Thanks for sharing your process, I have been a fan of yours on Instagram for a while and always enjoyed your work. I just got recommended your channel. It is really inspiring to see how you create your pieces. I will certainly try to bring some of it into my own experiments! Subbed! Keep it up
Thanks for your kind words!
These are all great pedals. I do find that you have to keep the gain on the Rooms really low with synths or the output is too hot. OP1 isn’t my jam, but there are a lot of other great sound sources that will work just as well. Really enjoying your videos, thank you for sharing 🎛🙌🏻✨
Thanks you for watching
This sounds incredible. What a great tutorial!
I recently got an OP-1 and have been struggling creating my own ambient tones with it aside from the preset synth sounds.
For the sounds you used, were they sampled?
probably they were some sound i sampled,it is really easy to create sound on the op
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been playing with my OP-1 a bit and it’s amazing for this type of music indeed. Norns Compass on top of it is also a winner, when used sparsely!
very true , love compass
Federico, dude. This was amazing. Thank you for making this.
Just ordered an Op-1 and ended up on your channel from looking at Bliss Mood pedal videos. So stoked for my Op-1 to arrive :-)
You will love the combination of them. Is a perfect match to me :)
Such a cool collaboration of pedals! Makes me excited to save up and buy some of these awesome instruments and pieces of technology to use them to make music myself!
Glad you like them!
Try the Ojai from Strymon to power your pedals. It will let you give more volume without them getting too hot. I'm so glad i got one.
thanks for the tip!
Beautiful! I’m inspired to run my op-1 through mood, haven’t tried that yet. Also pairs well with the cocoquantus for ambient 👍 love your videos!
Great video! I love your patch cables. Who made them?
I have since ages.. I think they are solder less lava cables!
Hi Federico, thank you for this nice video with a wonderful musical outcome. This question may sound odd, but where did you get these angled trs connecters/ patch cables?
Basinski would be proud! Subscribed.
:) love him!
Thank you Thank you for your Ambient set up and information on the pedals
My pleasure!
That was absolutely fantastic. Great setup, very informative, beautiful ambient music. Just a great video and thank you for introducing me to a couple of new pedals I didnt know about!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What kind of cable do you need to run from the out of a effect pedal to your mixer/interface? Do you need one of those ones that go to dual 1/4 or XLR, or can it just be 1 mono input into an interface? Thanks!
Just found your channel. Absolutely amazing! Keep it up :)
Thank you so much!
This is a great overview and really has me tempted to buy an op-1….thank you
hope this helped in decideing if its for you or not!
@@OoraMusic I’m still sitting on the fence but I did just get a BlackBox sampler.///
Very cool Federico! Keep these videos coming by. This combination of pedals is great!
Beautiful. I wish I could afford all of those fantastic pedals.
it was a long long process to acquire them all!
Wow, I use a very similar batch of pedals with my OP-1. Just curious, do you run your pedals directly into a mixer, or do you place something else in the chain between the pedals and mixer? My output signal seems weak at times and curious if there's a fix for that. A great multi FX you may want to look at is Cooper FX Arcades. Since it uses many different cartridges/FX, you can do a lot with it for a small amount of space. Cheers!
Hey! my pedals rund directly in the mixer. I should buy a DI sooner or later, but so far so good. Arcades seems amazing!
Dear Federico, you are an inspiration to me. But today, may I simply ask the name of your cables please? I’ve been looking for hours for something similar. Thank you! Hugo
Hey Hugo! I bought those ages ago, I think they are lava cables , the one you build yourself without soldering!
Thanks Frederico! Amazing as always - felice anno nuovo
Really nice. Thanks. I'm not sure I'm ready for the OP1's price point but I would like one.
yeah not cheap, but a great tool!
This is what I want to make. I love it! Thank you for the tips!
thanks!!
Great food for thought. What are those funky patch cables? They look ideal for close pedal placement.
@@OoraMusic will check them out. Thanks 👍
Mellow sound brother, very enjoyable moments.
Thanks for listening
I like this a whole lot! Very nice video indeed! Would love myself an OP1, and a Hologram Microcosm. Got a Mood, and it is one of my favorite pedals of all time.
Ouuhh what an ambience ! Great great sound, great video !
Great explanation on the pedals, love my Microcosm! Curious, on your Shallow Water, do you notice crackling in the audio out when turning the mix and volume knob that only goes away if you touch the casing while turning?
I’ve been wanting one of those microcosms for a minute now. Need to jus do it already
If you order from their preorders now, you can get it by April
So lemme see if I understand the cabling - mixing and matching mono & Stereo pedals always gets a bit messy for me.... : OP-1 mono to Mood; Mood mono to Shallow Water; SW mono to Microcosm; Microcosm mono (why not stereo, since Microcosm can really play with the stereo space?) to Rooms....Rooms stereo to DAW?
that is correct. I could have used stereo with microcosm, but somehow I preferred going mono into rooms , sounded better
@@OoraMusic sounds wonderful as does all yer music - thanks!
Cool! I was looking for something to combine with the SP 404 mk2 (most use it for lofi beats but it’s a secret ambient powerhouse)- I won’t need that first pitch efx because the cassette and vinyl simulators in the SPmk2 will provide lots of wobble on their own. Im going with the Mood and microcosm - I think they will be perfect for sending SP loops through. Thanks!
ooh now i want to try a sp!
Fantastic video! That’s a lot of pricy gear there too. I’m still hurting from my op1 cost. ;) anyway super clean setup and I’m dying to know where you got your cables. (I know, odd question). Please link!
Thanks! cables are mix from hosa and old lava cable i think
They look like George L guitar patch cables
Amazing sounds. Loving your videos. Where did you get the piano/vibraphone sounds for the op1? Are they your own samples? And pointers welcome! Keep up the good work
Thanks! I found it somewhere online, an op1 archive that I forgot the name, sorry
Great to see your process! What’s your process of sampling sounds into OP-1 (like felt)? Single note? If so - what pitch do you typically sample?
love this, short question: what kind of cables are you using (in shallow water and microcosm)? seem very flexible and handy!
I think they are lava cables, wich you build easily yourself... bought many years a go
Heeey!
Love the vibe man! ☺️✌🏻✨It is lush and sticks like a magnet to my ears!
I was wondering when you turned on Rooms the stereo image just opened up so widely, from the video i get that you go through with a mono signal and in the end on Rooms you go mono/in, stereo/out is that right?
What about phase?
I assume there's a mixer/audio interface involved here too? would love to know what kind. Great video by the way!
Im using a play differently model 1 into a UAD apollo 8
Very nice, I will also try it soon, I hope.
All the best
Really really nice!!! What kind of audio cables do you use? Seems cool.
i think they were lava cable!
Great sounds! Do you remember where you got your synth samples for this?
Op-1 fun has mostly everything that you will need.
I got a microcosm today can’t wait to get it and experiment
amazing pedal!
Love your videos...I would like to replicate this arrangement but could you tell me this...are you connecting the Op-1 to your audio interface? And I see all the pedals are connected to each other, but then are are too connecting them to the Op-1? Or audio interface? Thanks!
Op1 goes into mood with a stereo to mono cable, then into shallow water , then Microcosm and Rooms
But is the sound coming out of the Op-1 speaker? I’m trying to connect the Op-1 to my audio interface, with all the pedals.
Really a nice work! A question if i can: what kind of cable do you use to connect op1 with the mono input of a pedal?
I have a trs to ts, not sure is is ok, but always worked fine!
Perfect set up!
thanks
Man this is the video I just needed. I’m doing a lot of meditation. Would love to start making ambient music. I would like to buy a kit like this but visual wise I want to choose for the Moog Grandmother. Is there a reason why you would choose the Op1 over the Grandmother?
i love the portability of op1 and the tape recording systme, but grandmother is a great tool of course!
This was super helpful and educational. Thank you!
Happy to hear that!
Hi man --trying to plug my guitar effects pedal into my op-1 and get playback from the op-1 speaker. Is this possible? If so what cords should I plug in and where? Thanks.
Those pedals are mostly unavailable unfortunately. Have you tried the red panda particle v2? Or the Cooper fx outward v2?
Gorgeous. Are the patches/samples you used already on the OP-1 or did you add them? Any chance they're downloadable somewhere?
all sounds I created and probably deleted , I am too lazy to save anything ahah
Hey Federico! First off, great video - thanks so much. Quick question: the felt piano - did you create that patch with one of the OP-1 synth engines or did you load samples? If it was samples, which pitch did you load? Thanks again!
Hello ! I downloaded the sample from an op1 sample libray that now i cant remember. I think was tune to c3.
Could you recommend me a great effect pedal to use specifically with a digital piano? (For Piano, Rhodes, strings and synth sounds) I want an interesting sounding expression but with direct tactile control over everything. Thanks!
Id say the microcosm is a great effect. it has also a looper , so you can do crazy stuff!
A delay or reverb would be a great place to start with a digital piano/synth. both instantly get you to spacey places. tremolo is also a good tool to get movement in background of your playing. i love my Tacana tremolo I got from Sentimental Bob electronics. Super versatile. I also love my dd200 delay from Boss. Reverb can be subjective, but the Rv5 reverb from Boss is awesome, pretty versatile, and cheap (in price, not quality).
Do you go right from the OP-1 into pedals and then into an interface? Do you need any DI boxes or impedance boxes or anything to make this work?
yes, never had a di box, sometimes would be better to use one, but i never had the real needs..
This may sound crazy, but would love to see a video about how to actually cable, set a set up like this up and get it into a DAW....know that sounds basic but would be great to see
From what I can see, and what happened in the video he is using this path:
•OP-1 or “sound source” into mood (loop/freeze with color)
•Mood into Fairfield (eq, warmth)
•Fairfield into Microcosm (delay/pitch shifting)
•microcosm into Room (reverb)
This would then run into your audio interface for DAW or a mixer for live performance.
If you look at all the cables in the video there is only one in and one out, so nothing seems to be using stereo pairs or splitting the signal path. Just a standard pedal chain, with each pedal having wet/dry knob, and mixing that till you have the desired result at the end.
is a good idea, i will think about something
Luke you got it right!
Unfortunately, the hologram is a bit bugged, sometimes few algorithms have no output volume and you need to restart the unit. I hope it will get fixed soon
Thanks for this feedback!
Any other issues?
@@franko444 thanks for the feedback! I have no issues cause I don't have this pedal, just want it :D
@@franko444 I use it as a send effect, so, I actually never bypass it
Amazing man!! Are those VST sounds downloaded or do they come from the factory on the op-1?
That is perfect.. Thank you for sharing this ❤️
You are so welcome!
Amazing soundscape!
thanks!
Federico, hi, kindly advise which cables are you using? Thanks!
I have hosa and lava cable
Set basically you could have used a spoon with all those effect 😂 love your work though very inspiring❤
ahahah fair enough!
🙏 - thanks for the walk through, super helpful, inspired lots of ideas fro me to play with
how do I connect an apollo twin x to the Microcosm pedal in order to get sound ?
that's pretty hard to explain, maybe will do a video soon
awesome. thank *YOU* infinitely
You're welcome!
Seriously wonderful stuff
Thanks!
How do you connect line level output to a guitar pedal?
Probably in the wrong way. best would be to have a di box.
Loved it. Wow
thanks!
Wow!) Its amazing!!) Thank you!!
Thank you too!
Incredible
thanks!
Thanks for making this 🙏🏻 very inspiring.
My pleasure!
Hi! Could you share what you are using to record your output?
in this case was an Apollo quad from universal audio
@@OoraMusic Thanks a lot! I have a simple setup and have yet to find a decent recording solution.
That sounds really nice. What kind of cable do you use?
Lava cable i think, bought ages ago
In your dawless setup, how do you record the audio? What do you use?
stereo mix out into uad apollo 8
Thank you that's really nice
I'm glad you like it
Great great video!
Thanks!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Fascinating. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
just for the reverb part I hit the like button aha
:)
Great tips
Glad you think so!
Does anyone know what these cables are?
I think lava cable or g cable solder less
Great video!
Thanks!
Love this and all your videos, so inspiring and soothing both. Ty
Thank you so much! Still learning on bettering my spoken part :)
wonderful
Thank you! Cheers!