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By hent03 on April 3, 2022 9:48 am

The opz has this interesting auto-transposer function that can be used to change the key of a loop that you've created. Sometimes when I remember it's there I like to play with it because I like the element of surprise it offers. So this week I created a one bar loop (literally the first 1.5 seconds of the track) then used the auto-transposer to make it into a four bar loop (so the first 8 seconds of the track). I did this for every instrument that wasn't percussion, and played with timing triggers to try and escape the track sounding like the same thing over and over again. All things going well, you won't listen to it and think, "jeez, that sounds like a dude just abusing an auto-transpose function."

(Also I apologize for the hi-hats that sound like someone running their finger along a comb.)

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It gets a nice groove going and honestly has a good amount of variety in it.  I even dug the comb sound.  There's no reason household objects can't double as percussion instruments.

That's a cool use of the auto transposer.  Nice floaty melodies on top of the beat and I think the comb hats were a nice addition to the whole mix.

wat?! no apologies necessary, that comb-scrapey hi-hat sexiness is a smoooooov groove!

Thanks for sharing the process, that's a really cool way of expanding on the loop and I would have never guessed it was made that way from listening. Also since I usually find most hihat samples somewhat grating I really like the hair comb one ha!

thank you for sharing your experiences on the opz with us. It seems to be a very versatile toy.

I enjoyed reading the background of the track creation and I agree with Bleeoop that I would not have guessed just listening to the track. I like the continuous bass (but then, I am biased there) but the high bells/keys are the highlight of the track there. It feels effortless and just a nice trip.

I had no idea it was auto-transpose!  I would have thought that if the entire thing went up or down, but clever to just have a single note rhythm loop - i need to try that.

loved the comb!  UGH i want an opz!

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