thank you so much for taking the time and energy to share your information and experience so far!! i was wondering if you could possibly explain in a little bit more detail how you’re using the 2 units together… maybe i don’t quite get it but- you record from the tx6 into the tp7, and you record these as multitracks. then you can play that content from the tp7 back into the tx6 and because its multichannel you can then apply the effects of the tx6 to the different tracks, change their levels, etc.?
i’m still trying to wrap my head around any sort of logic or technical limit or desire in that the maximum number of multichannel recording can only be done when the tx6 is paired with the tp7… like since the tx6 can record the stereo master directly to usb, i guess there’s either some technical reason the tx6 can’t just straight up record multichannel itself, or then that feature is intentionally limited to necessitate a tp7?
Same here. Trying to wrap my head around what’s the TP-7 for besides being a super cool but expensive memo recorder. Obviously it’s meant to be not just that, and hints have been dropped in Tobias’ interview that they do update their products for a decade, and the field series is their future.
Maybe best to wait until they update their firmware to see where this fits in.
One thing that doesn’t make much sense is the very big box that you are supposed to be able to use as transport box. Very inconvenient size. also the cardboard box of the tx-6 is very bad. yeah, tx-6 should definitely record multitrack, kind of silly that it doesn’t…
i think it’s great that Tobias stated several times that the field line of products is THE premium line of TE and that clever and innovative engineering has a price point that’s beyond someone’s expectations but won‘t stop TE from making such things.
„work on your budget“ he says and it‘ll come available.
but there are products from TE in nearly every price range to get creative with.
they don‘t want to exclude anyone on money but they also don‘t want to exclude innovation on money , full circle.
Then please just don’t use 1 € mic in 1.5 k premium field recorder, it is not very cool thing to do.
Better use nothing, if you need me to buy your premium mic anyway .
I think it was good he said that. There’s a persistent idea that TE is a company that makes affordable products. When that was really just a line of them (Pocket Operators), but they’ve been held to that price standard ever since. It’s clear TE’s main goal is to make things that inspire them, and this is where they’re at right now.
Yep, I’m curious about this too @MichaalHell - I’m still wanting TE to just give us a firmware where I can multi-track the OP-1 Field into a porta and work the mix there. I was hoping the TP-7 would be it.
Essentially, my use case is this -
All four OP-1 Field tape tracks, streamed, multi-tracked and recorded live over USB into a similar portable device where I can handle the mix. The TE equivalent of the bluebox recording and mixing feature.
People buy premium products. If you are not the target group yourself, why spend time crying about irrelevant things on the internet?
The Field series could be compared to a luxury car, you can drive cheap car or car that costs a million. With both you can drive to different places. But for others, status and feeling are more important than getting from place a to place b.
I’m very interested in how the Field stuff all works together. In a way, the OP-1 F doesn’t really seem to be a part of the Field range. It doesn’t seem to gain much from being hooked up to the others.
I wonder how reliable is the multitracking from the mixer to the tape? The best thing about the OP-1 is that it just works 100% of the time. In my experience, as soon as you get USB involved, things get way less reliable.
With the TP-7, I guess I was hoping for something like a TE version of that Track 8 recorder from Superbooth, a standalone version of the OP-1’s tape section, with better I/O.
I have to say, though, I haven’t had this much desire for a tape recorder since Sony’s stuff in the 80s.
You can even overdub or make a new recording on an old recording. When you press record on TP-7 you can arm each track for recording on the TX-6 by pressing the mute buttons (a red light is lit when armed). So you could record a sequence on tracks 1-4 then record a guitar take on track 5 while listening back to the recording on track 1-4 and then do a vocal take on track 6 while listening back to track 1-5.
A very expensive and miniature recording studio of sorts.
Edit: one thing to note is that you cannot add tracks after you’ve created a new recording. Meaning that you have to decide how many tracks you want when you create a new recording. I think this is due to the fact that TP-7 is creating a multitrack wav file.
