@@fundamentalfrequency5110 Amazing work. Also there is still SO MUCH space for even more magic - MIDI input, microphone/line-in sampling, ARM enabled VSTs, integration (or just taking parts from) with Zynthian. Probably the sampler would be incredible feature that'd sell this project/device even more. Again, great job!
If you go to the GIThub repository you can contribute to his work, I will say, every single person who has been bitching about the OP1 Field and TX-6 should be contributing to this project and watching in earnest. This is absolutely one of the most impressive DIY projects I've ever seen. Subbed and supported. I'm still reeling over here.
I haven't really noticed anyone "bitching" about the field, maybe critiqueing that it's not a huge improvement since the original OP-1 came out, and that it's laughably expensive as this video easily showcases albeit indirectly. I'm happy if you can understand all of this GitHub, diy, soldering pcb board stuff. Though I find it weird how many technically minded people don't understand that other people may not, nor will ever, have that ability. There's plenty of musicians who can't solder together a small computer- let alone ever even twist a single filter frequency knob.
@@roxyamused My comment was fairly flippant, so maybe the point wasn't clear. The bitching I'm talking about is precisely what your response has confirmed. Tons of people, who know nothing about developing a product, swarming a companies social posts and complaining about A:the price and B: the improvements over last gen when they don't even have one in hand to know what they are talking about. There is a HUGE DIY community in the audio space. If someone doesn't want to do the soldering on an open source build there are likely tons of people in the community who will offer to do it for a non-extortionist fee. OR may even even trade services for something you are good at yourself. As a matter of fact, I intend to do just that as I have the worst soldering skills on earth and I don't want to risk messing it up. There's this strange thing in society where folks like to say "I could build that cheaper myself" or some variation of that...and it's not only ignorant, it's disrespectful. The way to change that is to actually try and build it yourself. You'll get it "Cheaper" (which is arguable since you will have to spend lots of your time (which is money) learning and doing the assembly yourself). But you will come out of it with a new appreciation for what goes into developing a product. This is who my comment was aimed at, and if you aren't seeing those comments that's ok, but I'm not sure how since there are literally thousands of them between Instagram and RUclips. If you don't want to build it yourself, that's totally fine! That's why there's a $1400.00 and a $2000.00 version that is super polished, made from premium materials and completely assembled for you! If you want to pay maybe... $1000.00 or less, then you might be able to do that by purchasing the parts list, asking someone in the community to assemble it and paying for their time. Just for full transparency. I own both the OP-1 and the Field. I love them. There is a MASSIVE improvement from original to the field. The audio processing alone is worth the upgrade. But that's also very subjective I realize. I have also already supported this project and hope to give my time in ways I can help so that we can create more options for everyone and every budget. I hope you'll get involved with the community on Github and poke around a bit. There are several folks already on there who aren't "technically minded" and are still contributing and asking for help where needed. This is a really, really awesome project and it provides a great opportunity for folks to learn, benefit and add value to the audio community. Sorry, I'm very passionate about the maker community. Thanks for your thoughts. I totally hear you on some stuff being outside folks comfort zones. I suppose that's the trade-off between DIY and pay the price for retail.
This looks and feels a lot like an open source op-1. That's incredibly impressive. Creating additional plugins and enhancing i/o options can really take this to the next level. I can easily see this becoming a great hardware hub where the focus is as much outside of the box as it is inside. One fast way to do this would be to incorporate a usb MIDI host and a single adat port. You've now got 16 audio channels and at least 16 MIDI channels. Toss in (possibly) CV ports and you've got something that can put high end workstations to shame in a handheld package. Keep it up!
@@pauljs75 shall be no problem if you give the project some time as it is open source and the tracktion engine offers complete daw capabilities. Just a matter of time and how to implement it in the devices workflow and environment.
Looking at energy consumption it probably won't be an op-1. Raspberry + Teensy will eat up 6xAA battery pack within few hours, it will be also much heavier. There was a project - OTTO, that was based only on Teensy and some STM, but was abandoned. The project is great, the machine still have a lot of free, unused processing power on board, so it can grow in terms of features, but this is something than OPs.
This is the first video in a while that has motivated me to want to build and add to an open source project. I can’t wait to see what the community comes up with, the “maker” niche is already pretty popular. I would recommend well edited tiktoks that show off the features and give a quick overview of the process involved. I’ve seen a bunch of DIY music equipment videos on my feed and it would bring more ideas to the project. Great job dude!
The intersection between people who care about FOSS and the people who will willingly use TikTok is pretty small. Or maybe I just really hate TikTok and have a compulsion to argue against it at every opportunity. Yeah, probably the second one.
@@tissuepaper9962 the intersection between people who care about FOSS and TikTok may be small, but the intersection between people and musicians who like cool looking shit and TikTok users is far wider. I mean, I wish it wasn't but yknow (Don't take any of this too seriously TikTok is straight banned in my country lol)
Absolutely amazing work mate! I love the keyswitch interface and keyboard. The UI is beautiful and surprisingly visible for such a small screen. That all this runs on such lightweight embedded hardware is miraculous. This takes what has been done with trackers in recent years and brings the benefits of visual UI design. I can think of quite a number of small suggestions for the UI and DAW itself but I think I may have to build one before I really can sink my teeth into it. I will have a look at the build files and check them out shortly. If I were to give one big suggestion it would be to add more visibility to the encoder's function on each screen. A standardized way to do this is on stuff like the DSI tetra, Elektron digi series, or waldorf blofeld, which is to put labels for the encoders in a geometrically similar arrangement, e.g. the rotary controls would display as a row along the top of the screen and the pushbutton functions on the bottom. Some screens may not benefit from this e.g. the mixer or 4OSC device, but certainly on the arrangement/song mode and the sequence mode, seeing labels for "Length/Grid/Select/Loop" would be super helpful. Screen real estate seems quite tight so perhaps these could pop in to be visible just for a few seconds after an encoder is turned or pressed, with the last-used function displayed in a brighter color. Alternately, tapping the lemon button could toggle this display on/off. Overall an incredible project and I thank you for making it open source! Can't wait to see how this develops.
I agree with these points. The tight integrations of encoder colors and screen UI is what makes it so special. It would be nice if the LMN would take the same route. Other than that it's already such a cool project....and I can't believe how much effort must have already been put into it.
This is the best implementation of an autonomous DAW I ever saw. I get that this is an open source hobby project, but IMO a product like this can make a lot of devices on the market obsolete. Especially because it's OS. Wish you best of luck and keep up the good work!
I guess when you charge 2K for an OP-1, you force people to create an open sources version... That's... better because you can make it exactly what you need. Although I'm guessing it's a coincidence that LMN are the 3 letters before OP.
There should probably a screen under the encoders showing what they each do on any given screen... Or at least have a way to color-code the encoder functions to what's being displayed, kinda like what the OP-1 does in its interface. Also I highly suggest implementing a redo button as well. Otherwise amazing job.
If this could somehow be integrated and combined with Zynthian (also open source and running on Raspberry Pi), then it'd really be something amazing. You'd have access to pretty much any VST that could run on it on top of what there is now. Thus a library of 100's of soft-synths being available.
Daaaamn. Way to make an entrance onto RUclips, friend. This is amazing. Insanely exciting. If anyone wants to help with UI or Case design for this I'd be glad to lend my design/prototyping skillset, given appropriate time. Wow. Congrats on all the hard work here.
Damn. Mad respect to you. I bought an OP-1 (im not a musician, but a guy with way too many hobbies) and I couldn't stomach the cost and ultimately returned it. I loved playing with it, and this looks like an AMAZING way to get back into the hobby. I plan on building one.
Awesome take on the OP-1 form factor. Looks like a blast. A couple comments on the workflow: adding notes that aren't end to end seems a bit cumbersome. Would be nice to have a way to cut and paste multiple tracks at once, also being able to copy instead of cut? I'm interested to see more plugins people develop for this. Will there be like a user library for that?
Agree on that - it just needs a button to skip the playhead along by one beat, i.e. a rest button. Or possibly joystick right could do it, but a key would be better.
I'm in love with this now. Hope there is a way to recording external source to this machine and bring it into sampler in future :) love the way you making old school style keyboard here!! amazing work!!
Awesome! My OP-1 just told me to build one so it has a new friend, I may just comply. Also its jealous that sequences are inserted into track automatically without recording to tape.
I just found this and it seems like a good alternative to the OP-1, as well as an opportunity to learn a few things. Is this project still alive? And how much would you estimate the project to cost? Ballpark figure would be fine.
Damn. Really wanted this to pop off and become bigger. I wonder if somewhere the community is still active, but it looks like a ghost town rn on the github.
I love it! I'm definitely interested in helping with the UX and design, both functional and aesthetic. Can't code to save my life, but UX and industrial design are my comfort zone.
Hey! Is this project alive yet? I’m thinking on building one of this to try it out! I am not a developer but I would love to give back something to the project!
Cool ! I would like to contribute but im a little rusty on juce and c++, im o tô javascript rn. Ill follow you there maybe one day i could get somethings goings
Has anybody ordered a bunch of the PCBs from a supplier that could be resold? It's hard to justify a batch order as a hobbyist but this could be a great opportunity to sell as a kit even.
Something a lot of daws is missing, is something to visualize an audio signal. I mean like an audio spectrum analyzer that reacts to the music. Kind of what fl studio has. I miss that feature in logic.
Wow! This is super cool. Is there any functionality for recording direct audio input? This would be a killer little musical sketchpad for me if there's a way for me to get my guitar signal in there. Either way it looks super sweet.
Really cool project, I've thought about designing something similar for voice-over. My idea is a smaller form factor than yours but with a touch-screen and access to a daw like Reaper with a built in soundcard and microphone.
This is the best implementation of an autonomous DAW I ever saw. I get that this is an open source hobby project, but IMO a product like this can make a lot of devices on the market obsolete. Especially because it's OS. Wish you best of luck and keep up the good work!
Very cool! Suggestion: add tiny oled screens (or perhaps even LED rings) to the four control knobs so you can show through UI the effect that twiddling that knob will have!
Nice job! I had a plan for a similar project, but only with a Teensy and it's audio shield. But i got stuck at the 'development' phase :-) Great you actualy DID it!
I watched this with an open mouth. Holy cow, you built this all by yourself? Other than writing plugins (I have no idea how to do audio programming), do you need help with anything? I really want this project to succeed.
Yes it was just me building this so far . Definitely plenty to do besides programming. CAD, technical writing, UI/UX. Check out the GitHub discussions tab github.com/orgs/FundamentalFrequency/discussions
This is extremely rad. I've watched this video like 4 times today and am still doing over the LMN. I've gotta get my hands on a Raspberry Pi so I can put one together.
I LOVE IT!! How you’ve made this look a bit like that Op-1, but yet, something TOTALLY familiar still to anyone who is familiar with those gorgeous pieces of old-school Hewlett-Packard test equipment! Whenever I see those extruded aluminum T-slots with PCBs that slide into a backplane, THAT brings some wonderfully welcome memories that remind me that still while we can’t go back to doing stuff quite that well today, we can sure at least learn a thing or two from those days and give it our best shot and nod to it!!
This is pretty awesome! Sorry if this was covered in the video and I missed it: is there any external sync capability at this stage in the project? This is excellent work; I'll be eagerly looking through the repos shortly 😁
An OP-1 for musicians used to, and who love popular/common sequencing methods? Have you messed with any Sonicware Liven's? That's what I'm into right now. I would love to get my hands on one of these, without building one. It would be great as a sampling/sequencing workstation along side my Liven's, and LXR-02. Your black and whites are the same as on the Liven's, which I very much appreciate.
Well, I thought I was ready to take a break from getting new gear, but I'm a software engineer, so my mind is running through all the cool stuff I can play around with in the code. I was looking at the parts list and I roughly estimated the build to cost around $150-$250 depending on where I get the parts. Anywhere near that price range is more than worth it. My only worry is that if I build this, I'll neglect my MPC Live II...
This is cool!! I like the Space Invader SFX feeling when you demo’d the pitch bend. Did you program 4OSC yourself? Pretty cool. One suggestion I have is to implement acceleration on the encoders when adjusting envelopes. My favourite envelopes have linear sliders but with a logarithmic scale (so the mid is 1s but the top is 10), and I feel like an acceleration curve could mimic the tactility of turning an envelope way up.
It's pretty cool. I think I'd like to build one. If there were something interesting that could be done with 3 more keys they could go in the empty spaces above B-C and E-F.
What did I just find. I’m extremely impressed. I was looking for reviews on Gear I like to buy, but I’m thinking of helping. Any suggestion of what I should do to help Contribute. What do I need, materials, sources? Great Job.
This is really impressive. Will look at building one of these, but maybe replacing the note buttons with a mini piano-style keyboard. It'll be slightly bigger, but still portable.
PRICE? Why is noone saying how much it would cost? Because price may vary. The Pi and the smaller board (4got the name sry) are sold out almost EVERYWHERE. The release price for the RPi 4gb was $55, now you can find it for $120-150 on eBay :s HOWEVER China comes to rescue with the Rock Pi 4 which is an almost replica which would only cost me $78 (60 + 4 cooling + shipping). I have not ordered it yet but I want to build it sooner rather than later. Great video! Thank you for this!
Oh my gosh! I wish I had your knowledge and talent. This is so genius! Genius! Genius! Genius! You area genius! Amazing! Truly amazing. As soon as I saw this I thought about building it myself then I realized all the actual practical knowledge that is needed for it to come together and I thought to myself: I'll just enjoy the video 😁
Building this yourself really is not that bad. There will hopefully be a group buy for the PCB and case soon. Once you have those you just need to order the other parts, solder it (it’s all through hole so pretty easy stuff), then configure the pi. Could be done in an afternoon.
@@fundamentalfrequency5110 Sounds perfect, will you please send me the link to get the PCB once it's readily available please? Thank you!!! A thousand THANKS! I truly appreciate you!!! Blessings wherever you are!!!
This looks great! Any way to put the software on say, an X86 CPU laptop instead of an ARM RPi? It would be cool to put this on an old laptop with an Akai pad. Thanks!
Hiya, I just found this while looking for more affordable OP-1 Alternatives. Anychance that there will be diy kits made to streamline the process of buying parts and putting it together? Also perhaps buying everything in bulk and selling kits can lower the price further
Holy cow, this is absolutely incredible! Amazing.
Thanks! I really appreciate that!
@@fundamentalfrequency5110
Amazing work.
Also there is still SO MUCH space for even more magic - MIDI input, microphone/line-in sampling, ARM enabled VSTs, integration (or just taking parts from) with Zynthian. Probably the sampler would be incredible feature that'd sell this project/device even more.
Again, great job!
Looks really practical
Thanks for mentioning this on the podcast. I doubt I would have found it otherwise.
holy cwo
Nice! Looking forward to seeing how this develops!
Would love to see a loopop review!
This is an amazing invention - great work on this project!
Thanks!
Aesthetically incredible. NICE UI. Seems very simple / elegant
Wicked cool
Nice project. Wist to get an lmms port on this.
neat!
genius!❤
If you go to the GIThub repository you can contribute to his work, I will say, every single person who has been bitching about the OP1 Field and TX-6 should be contributing to this project and watching in earnest. This is absolutely one of the most impressive DIY projects I've ever seen. Subbed and supported. I'm still reeling over here.
David, thank you..Every time i say this,people want to get mad,to stop complaining and get off their azz and DO Something,make somethingg.
It seems this project needs now some management - looks like a lot of people would be able to invest some time into this one.
I haven't really noticed anyone "bitching" about the field, maybe critiqueing that it's not a huge improvement since the original OP-1 came out, and that it's laughably expensive as this video easily showcases albeit indirectly. I'm happy if you can understand all of this GitHub, diy, soldering pcb board stuff. Though I find it weird how many technically minded people don't understand that other people may not, nor will ever, have that ability. There's plenty of musicians who can't solder together a small computer- let alone ever even twist a single filter frequency knob.
Anyone that wants to contribute needs to create a Microsoft GitHub account though and give away personal information
@@roxyamused My comment was fairly flippant, so maybe the point wasn't clear. The bitching I'm talking about is precisely what your response has confirmed. Tons of people, who know nothing about developing a product, swarming a companies social posts and complaining about A:the price and B: the improvements over last gen when they don't even have one in hand to know what they are talking about.
There is a HUGE DIY community in the audio space. If someone doesn't want to do the soldering on an open source build there are likely tons of people in the community who will offer to do it for a non-extortionist fee. OR may even even trade services for something you are good at yourself. As a matter of fact, I intend to do just that as I have the worst soldering skills on earth and I don't want to risk messing it up.
There's this strange thing in society where folks like to say "I could build that cheaper myself" or some variation of that...and it's not only ignorant, it's disrespectful. The way to change that is to actually try and build it yourself. You'll get it "Cheaper" (which is arguable since you will have to spend lots of your time (which is money) learning and doing the assembly yourself). But you will come out of it with a new appreciation for what goes into developing a product. This is who my comment was aimed at, and if you aren't seeing those comments that's ok, but I'm not sure how since there are literally thousands of them between Instagram and RUclips.
If you don't want to build it yourself, that's totally fine! That's why there's a $1400.00 and a $2000.00 version that is super polished, made from premium materials and completely assembled for you! If you want to pay maybe... $1000.00 or less, then you might be able to do that by purchasing the parts list, asking someone in the community to assemble it and paying for their time.
Just for full transparency. I own both the OP-1 and the Field. I love them. There is a MASSIVE improvement from original to the field. The audio processing alone is worth the upgrade. But that's also very subjective I realize. I have also already supported this project and hope to give my time in ways I can help so that we can create more options for everyone and every budget.
I hope you'll get involved with the community on Github and poke around a bit. There are several folks already on there who aren't "technically minded" and are still contributing and asking for help where needed. This is a really, really awesome project and it provides a great opportunity for folks to learn, benefit and add value to the audio community.
Sorry, I'm very passionate about the maker community. Thanks for your thoughts. I totally hear you on some stuff being outside folks comfort zones. I suppose that's the trade-off between DIY and pay the price for retail.
This looks and feels a lot like an open source op-1. That's incredibly impressive. Creating additional plugins and enhancing i/o options can really take this to the next level. I can easily see this becoming a great hardware hub where the focus is as much outside of the box as it is inside.
One fast way to do this would be to incorporate a usb MIDI host and a single adat port. You've now got 16 audio channels and at least 16 MIDI channels. Toss in (possibly) CV ports and you've got something that can put high end workstations to shame in a handheld package.
Keep it up!
If you could somehow combine LMN 3 + Zynthian in the same box, then you have your budget answer to knock out the OP-1.
@@pauljs75 shall be no problem if you give the project some time as it is open source and the tracktion engine offers complete daw capabilities. Just a matter of time and how to implement it in the devices workflow and environment.
Stop it! You're staring to make me burp out butterflies
Strange, thats exactly what i thought when i first glanded at it. Lets hope its a damn sight cheaper lol
Looking at energy consumption it probably won't be an op-1. Raspberry + Teensy will eat up 6xAA battery pack within few hours, it will be also much heavier. There was a project - OTTO, that was based only on Teensy and some STM, but was abandoned.
The project is great, the machine still have a lot of free, unused processing power on board, so it can grow in terms of features, but this is something than OPs.
Don’t give Teenage engineering any ideas. They probably would charge $10,000 for that undo button.
Literally, the fact that there's an undo button puts it ahead of the op1 and op1 field. Full stop.
Dude I'm an industrial designer and I'd be super happy to help you out on that angle because this project deserves full attention
Awesome bro yeah could definitely use any help I can get. Feel free to start a discussion on the GitHub discussions tab if you have any thoughts
On it, cheers again for throwing in awesome idea to the community :)
@@ozlion152 looking forward to your contribution :) this is an awesome project!
what ozlion152 said
Please! I would buy a kit!
Mom, can we get an OP-1?
Mom: “We have an OP-1 at home”
Just kidding, this looks amazing!
More like other way around,
Mom can we get an LMN3?
Mom:"We have LMN3 at home"
LMN3 at home: (is actually just OP1)
This is the first video in a while that has motivated me to want to build and add to an open source project. I can’t wait to see what the community comes up with, the “maker” niche is already pretty popular. I would recommend well edited tiktoks that show off the features and give a quick overview of the process involved. I’ve seen a bunch of DIY music equipment videos on my feed and it would bring more ideas to the project. Great job dude!
Yeah the next build I do I’ll film for the tiktok.
The intersection between people who care about FOSS and the people who will willingly use TikTok is pretty small.
Or maybe I just really hate TikTok and have a compulsion to argue against it at every opportunity.
Yeah, probably the second one.
@@tissuepaper9962 well, you're at least not alone. :)
@@tissuepaper9962 the intersection between people who care about FOSS and TikTok may be small, but the intersection between people and musicians who like cool looking shit and TikTok users is far wider.
I mean, I wish it wasn't but yknow
(Don't take any of this too seriously TikTok is straight banned in my country lol)
@@turbochargedfilms your lucky wish it was banned in my country
Absolutely amazing work mate! I love the keyswitch interface and keyboard. The UI is beautiful and surprisingly visible for such a small screen. That all this runs on such lightweight embedded hardware is miraculous. This takes what has been done with trackers in recent years and brings the benefits of visual UI design.
I can think of quite a number of small suggestions for the UI and DAW itself but I think I may have to build one before I really can sink my teeth into it. I will have a look at the build files and check them out shortly.
If I were to give one big suggestion it would be to add more visibility to the encoder's function on each screen. A standardized way to do this is on stuff like the DSI tetra, Elektron digi series, or waldorf blofeld, which is to put labels for the encoders in a geometrically similar arrangement, e.g. the rotary controls would display as a row along the top of the screen and the pushbutton functions on the bottom. Some screens may not benefit from this e.g. the mixer or 4OSC device, but certainly on the arrangement/song mode and the sequence mode, seeing labels for "Length/Grid/Select/Loop" would be super helpful. Screen real estate seems quite tight so perhaps these could pop in to be visible just for a few seconds after an encoder is turned or pressed, with the last-used function displayed in a brighter color. Alternately, tapping the lemon button could toggle this display on/off.
Overall an incredible project and I thank you for making it open source! Can't wait to see how this develops.
I agree with these points. The tight integrations of encoder colors and screen UI is what makes it so special.
It would be nice if the LMN would take the same route.
Other than that it's already such a cool project....and I can't believe how much effort must have already been put into it.
This is the best implementation of an autonomous DAW I ever saw. I get that this is an open source hobby project, but IMO a product like this can make a lot of devices on the market obsolete. Especially because it's OS. Wish you best of luck and keep up the good work!
Adding one ARM vst, with resampling to other track -> function would propel this to a market leader!
Very op-1 like. Great to see an open source project like this. Nice work everyone that contributed.
as far as I can tell it's just the one guy
@@allorgansnobody yes so far it’s just been me. But that will change!
@@fundamentalfrequency5110 hats off man.
"if you mess something up, you can always press undo"
Ah I see you're flexing on Teenage Engineering here
Does the op1 not have an undo button !?
@@voicessamples7396 iirc you have to completely re-record over mistakes
(Edit: damn phone keyboard)
I guess when you charge 2K for an OP-1, you force people to create an open sources version... That's... better because you can make it exactly what you need.
Although I'm guessing it's a coincidence that LMN are the 3 letters before OP.
Look at this thing. Of course it isn’t a coincidence
@@aryjarvis3161 Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I think it’s great that it also is LMN3 or “Elementary.”
There should probably a screen under the encoders showing what they each do on any given screen... Or at least have a way to color-code the encoder functions to what's being displayed, kinda like what the OP-1 does in its interface. Also I highly suggest implementing a redo button as well. Otherwise amazing job.
This project is incredible, and being open-source I'm even more excited about what will come out of it. Amazing work!
If this could somehow be integrated and combined with Zynthian (also open source and running on Raspberry Pi), then it'd really be something amazing. You'd have access to pretty much any VST that could run on it on top of what there is now. Thus a library of 100's of soft-synths being available.
Great work, hope to see more of these around
jorb seal of approval
Thanks man!
Daaaamn. Way to make an entrance onto RUclips, friend. This is amazing. Insanely exciting. If anyone wants to help with UI or Case design for this I'd be glad to lend my design/prototyping skillset, given appropriate time. Wow. Congrats on all the hard work here.
Damn. Mad respect to you. I bought an OP-1 (im not a musician, but a guy with way too many hobbies) and I couldn't stomach the cost and ultimately returned it. I loved playing with it, and this looks like an AMAZING way to get back into the hobby. I plan on building one.
“I’m not a musician but a guy with way too many hobbies” oof I felt that.
Awesome take on the OP-1 form factor. Looks like a blast.
A couple comments on the workflow: adding notes that aren't end to end seems a bit cumbersome. Would be nice to have a way to cut and paste multiple tracks at once, also being able to copy instead of cut?
I'm interested to see more plugins people develop for this. Will there be like a user library for that?
Agree on that - it just needs a button to skip the playhead along by one beat, i.e. a rest button. Or possibly joystick right could do it, but a key would be better.
I'm in love with this now. Hope there is a way to recording external source to this machine and bring it into sampler in future :) love the way you making old school style keyboard here!! amazing work!!
op-1 killer one day
Glad you think so!
Possibly. Needs audio tracks.
Yo an op-1 for I'm assuming a significantly lower price
Awesome! My OP-1 just told me to build one so it has a new friend, I may just comply.
Also its jealous that sequences are inserted into track automatically without recording to tape.
Listen to your OP-1
@@fundamentalfrequency5110 my OP-1 with a busted screen is telling me the same thing.
So it's op-1 just you have to build it yourself? 😁
I just found this and it seems like a good alternative to the OP-1, as well as an opportunity to learn a few things.
Is this project still alive? And how much would you estimate the project to cost? Ballpark figure would be fine.
Damn. Really wanted this to pop off and become bigger. I wonder if somewhere the community is still active, but it looks like a ghost town rn on the github.
I love it! I'm definitely interested in helping with the UX and design, both functional and aesthetic. Can't code to save my life, but UX and industrial design are my comfort zone.
This one thing could become someone's entire hobby for a decade...
Hey! Is this project alive yet? I’m thinking on building one of this to try it out! I am not a developer but I would love to give back something to the project!
Cool ! I would like to contribute but im a little rusty on juce and c++, im o tô javascript rn. Ill follow you there maybe one day i could get somethings goings
Has anybody ordered a bunch of the PCBs from a supplier that could be resold? It's hard to justify a batch order as a hobbyist but this could be a great opportunity to sell as a kit even.
Something a lot of daws is missing, is something to visualize an audio signal. I mean like an audio spectrum analyzer that reacts to the music. Kind of what fl studio has. I miss that feature in logic.
I would have been excited about something like this 15 years ago but I have a mobile phone
pov i don't know jack shit about building electronics but i now have the mightiest of urges to try
This is incredible, bringing an op-1-like feel, at a lower price, and being open source allows for the potential to be infinite. Amazing work mate!
i can literally hear the lag between when the button is pressed [CLACK!] and when i heard the sound [boosh!]...
Omg. Someone (hopefully whoever did the work) sell a kit on tindie!
Holy fuck, that is so much design/coding work. I never had quite enough executive function to pin coding down as a skill
Can you add samples from the huge sound sample library on teenage engineering’s website?
Wow! This is super cool. Is there any functionality for recording direct audio input? This would be a killer little musical sketchpad for me if there's a way for me to get my guitar signal in there. Either way it looks super sweet.
Just dropping a comment to say I love this~
Imagine getting so fed up with the price of the OP1 that you up and go develop your own and make it free.
I want to help with graphic design, I have no background in it but I just see how it can be prettier on that blue screen
Could you some how allow it to upload presets such as the espi sp1200 sound
Awesome work man! Hope your project gets all the attention it deserves from the community!
Thank you!
Wow, beats the pants off the overpriced OP-1!
Incredibly impressive for a solo project. You’re pushing music making forward
give it a year or two and you'll have a $60 Elektron box.
Wow this is so awesome!!
btw how much did it cost to make the whole thing?
omg, fl studio mobile, literally 😲😲😲
When life gives you LMN, make great music
Really cool project, I've thought about designing something similar for voice-over. My idea is a smaller form factor than yours but with a touch-screen and access to a daw like Reaper with a built in soundcard and microphone.
Take THAT Teenage Engineering OP-1
Wow it's an OP-1 for programmers instead of hipsters
This is the best implementation of an autonomous DAW I ever saw. I get that this is an open source hobby project, but IMO a product like this can make a lot of devices on the market obsolete. Especially because it's OS. Wish you best of luck and keep up the good work!
I stayed hype the whole video, I can’t wait to see what this turns into. This is FIREEEEEEE
Very cool!
Suggestion: add tiny oled screens (or perhaps even LED rings) to the four control knobs so you can show through UI the effect that twiddling that knob will have!
Or just make them different colours, like the op1
Does it have Ableton or Cubase integration?
Mad respect to the open source community!
damn bro, this is gonna inspire me now
Nice job! I had a plan for a similar project, but only with a Teensy and it's audio shield. But i got stuck at the 'development' phase :-) Great you actualy DID it!
This is absolutely fantastic! The possibilities for the LMN are potentially endless. I love that its open source
this is insane wow
this is basically lmms but physical
did you lubed the switches?
I watched this with an open mouth. Holy cow, you built this all by yourself? Other than writing plugins (I have no idea how to do audio programming), do you need help with anything? I really want this project to succeed.
Yes it was just me building this so far . Definitely plenty to do besides programming. CAD, technical writing, UI/UX. Check out the GitHub discussions tab github.com/orgs/FundamentalFrequency/discussions
I watched this with an open mouth and my mouth is still open!
This is extremely rad. I've watched this video like 4 times today and am still doing over the LMN. I've gotta get my hands on a Raspberry Pi so I can put one together.
Truly brilliant, hats off to you and the amazing work put in to this. Hardware and software looks bloody brilliant.
Huge congrats on a very polished MVP. I will be following this at a minimum and I hope to find some time to get involved or support more.
undo button!
this was so elegantly designed!
Justin T & Andy Samberg: It's a DAW-in-a-Box!
It's a DAW-in-a-Box baaaabe...
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Can't help it.
I LOVE IT!! How you’ve made this look a bit like that Op-1, but yet, something TOTALLY familiar still to anyone who is familiar with those gorgeous pieces of old-school Hewlett-Packard test equipment! Whenever I see those extruded aluminum T-slots with PCBs that slide into a backplane, THAT brings some wonderfully welcome memories that remind me that still while we can’t go back to doing stuff quite that well today, we can sure at least learn a thing or two from those days and give it our best shot and nod to it!!
This is pretty awesome! Sorry if this was covered in the video and I missed it: is there any external sync capability at this stage in the project?
This is excellent work; I'll be eagerly looking through the repos shortly 😁
No external sync
Yeah no external sync on this, maybe in the future though. Anything is possible :)
An OP-1 for musicians used to, and who love popular/common sequencing methods?
Have you messed with any Sonicware Liven's? That's what I'm into right now. I would love to get my hands on one of these, without building one. It would be great as a sampling/sequencing workstation along side my Liven's, and LXR-02. Your black and whites are the same as on the Liven's, which I very much appreciate.
Well, I thought I was ready to take a break from getting new gear, but I'm a software engineer, so my mind is running through all the cool stuff I can play around with in the code.
I was looking at the parts list and I roughly estimated the build to cost around $150-$250 depending on where I get the parts. Anywhere near that price range is more than worth it. My only worry is that if I build this, I'll neglect my MPC Live II...
Yeah 250 is about what I paid (not including the Pi, and laser cutting the case myself)
This is cool!! I like the Space Invader SFX feeling when you demo’d the pitch bend. Did you program 4OSC yourself? Pretty cool.
One suggestion I have is to implement acceleration on the encoders when adjusting envelopes. My favourite envelopes have linear sliders but with a logarithmic scale (so the mid is 1s but the top is 10), and I feel like an acceleration curve could mimic the tactility of turning an envelope way up.
I need this in my life
It's pretty cool. I think I'd like to build one. If there were something interesting that could be done with 3 more keys they could go in the empty spaces above B-C and E-F.
I was just wondering if there was an open source version of the OP-1, this is amazing can’t wait to build this thanks!!
What did I just find. I’m extremely impressed. I was looking for reviews on Gear I like to buy, but I’m thinking of helping.
Any suggestion of what I should do to help Contribute. What do I need, materials, sources?
Great Job.
This is really impressive. Will look at building one of these, but maybe replacing the note buttons with a mini piano-style keyboard. It'll be slightly bigger, but still portable.
Are those keys on that keyboard VELOCITY-SENSITIVE like on an Arturia MKII?
PRICE?
Why is noone saying how much it would cost? Because price may vary. The Pi and the smaller board (4got the name sry) are sold out almost EVERYWHERE. The release price for the RPi 4gb was $55, now you can find it for $120-150 on eBay :s
HOWEVER China comes to rescue with the Rock Pi 4 which is an almost replica which would only cost me $78 (60 + 4 cooling + shipping). I have not ordered it yet but I want to build it sooner rather than later. Great video! Thank you for this!
Oh my gosh! I wish I had your knowledge and talent. This is so genius! Genius! Genius! Genius! You area genius! Amazing! Truly amazing. As soon as I saw this I thought about building it myself then I realized all the actual practical knowledge that is needed for it to come together and I thought to myself: I'll just enjoy the video 😁
Building this yourself really is not that bad. There will hopefully be a group buy for the PCB and case soon. Once you have those you just need to order the other parts, solder it (it’s all through hole so pretty easy stuff), then configure the pi. Could be done in an afternoon.
@@fundamentalfrequency5110 any chance the case could also have a 3D model for 3D printing instead of just cnc sheets like in the video?
@@fundamentalfrequency5110 Sounds perfect, will you please send me the link to get the PCB once it's readily available please? Thank you!!! A thousand THANKS! I truly appreciate you!!! Blessings wherever you are!!!
This looks great! Any way to put the software on say, an X86 CPU laptop instead of an ARM RPi? It would be cool to put this on an old laptop with an Akai pad. Thanks!
I’m a graphic designer and a concept designer for video games. I would GLADLY help with this project. If there’s anything I could help
Firtunately, i could have made a 64 bar drum pattern in the time it took for the lmn to search for the drum sound. Get Cubase fols, buy some plug-ins.
Finally. The exact thing we have been looking for!
Know this could be an OP-1 competitor makes me so damn happy.
At long last... the OP-2 😎
Hiya, I just found this while looking for more affordable OP-1 Alternatives. Anychance that there will be diy kits made to streamline the process of buying parts and putting it together? Also perhaps buying everything in bulk and selling kits can lower the price further
This is amazing, such a powerful small unit that has every essential feature!