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Export kits for the Teenage Engineering OP-1 and OP-1 Field.

Each kit is a single sliced AIFF file rather than a folder of samples, so the whole kit shares one section of audio length. Kit Maker 3 will ask which model of OP-1 you use the first time you click the format. This determines the number of audio channels and audio length. See OP-1 for the model setting and how samples are fitted to the time available.

Kits are built with 16 samples. The OP-1 has more keys than that, so the remaining keys repeat the kit starting again from the first pad.

Getting the kits onto your OP-1 #

  1. Connect the OP-1 to your computer over USB.
  2. OP-1 Field: press shift + COM, then T4. On a Mac, open the OP-1 Field in Teenage Engineering’s Field Kit app. On Windows it shows up in File Explorer, with no app needed. Original OP-1: press shift + COM, then T3 (disk mode). It shows up on your computer as a drive.
  3. Open the OP-1’s drum folder and drag in the folders found inside your OP-1 Kits folder. Drag those pack folders, not the OP-1 Kits folder that holds them.
  4. Eject the OP-1. Your kits show up in its drum browser.

The OP-1’s drum folder can store one level of folders inside; any additionally nested subfolders are skipped by the OP-1 and won’t show up on its browser.

Preset limits #

The OP-1 Field can hold a limit of 500 presets, including drum kits and synth sounds. Importing over the limit will begin skipping presets and show a vague warning.

The original OP-1 can hold 42 total drum kits. Importing over the limit may result in skipped kits. Kit Maker shortens kit names to 10 characters for the original OP-1.

One Maschine Expansion can make more kits than the original OP-1 holds, and a big batch can go past the OP-1 Field’s limit too. When that happens, the pack report says so. Pick the kits you want most before you copy them over.

Kit and folder names on the original OP-1 #

Teenage Engineering recommends keeping preset names to 10 characters on the original OP-1, so Kit Maker shortens kit and pack folder names for that model. All The Way Live Kit becomes AllTheWayL, and the kit number stays at the end when there is one. The OP-1 Field scrolls long names on its screen, so your names are kept as they are for that model.