OP-1 Demo for DJ Mark Farina

Published on Feb 2, 2014 djthomaswhite·88 videos

"This is a demo I made for DJ Mark Farina to showcase the OP-1 in an underground house style (my personal favorite type of music). Mark plays funky and underground beats with jazzy elements among many others.

I used the internal radio to take snippets samples from jazz radio announcer for the vocal bits and some of the song elements, although the reworking of them by chopping them in the drum sampler makes them unrecognizable. Using internal FX (Nitro and Punch heavily), LFO's, sequencing, synthesizer bass and drums I arrange all of these elements to the tape tracks. In the video I am showcasing the tape track content by advancing the loop sections forward to make a live arrangement. The buttons on the right I push occasionally trigger the internal CWO FX set to phase shifter sounding mode and the main EQ set to bass kill. Tape stop effects are also used at times, jarring the tape sounds like stopping a turntable while keeping the entire playback in sync and time. Towards the end there is a looped key I hold down which is a sample with a loop point and a LFO-controlled filter which causes the slow sweep up and down. There is digital noise I added by recording this at very low gain and boosting to prevent piracy of this song. My intention is to take the parts out via USB and dump them into Logic where I will make a proper planned arrangement with mastering and levels for release on Natural Rhythm Music as "Track for Mark."

Mark, I hope you like the demo. This is but a small taste of what you can do with the OP-1, but for us DJ's taking small bits of audio and re-purposing them is key to making funky tracks for the clubs. I figured the best way to introduce you to the OP-1 would be in this style.

Thanks for stopping by to check out another one of my videos!"