Teenage Engineering OP-Z battery

  OP-Z, the battery specifications are:

• Li-Ion 740mAh
• 3.7V-740mAh-2.74Wh
• 6 hour battery life
• 1 year stand-by time
• user replaceable

The battery is hard to find.

If  The OP z hasnt been used for a while it may just have to be woken up.

Apparently this is common with Li-ion batteries 

 

From the support pages this worked:

 

 

• connect OP-Z to a computer or usb charger, using the usb-c cable, and power it on.
• while still connected through usb-c, turn the unit over, loosen the four yellow screws and remove the back panel.
• remove the battery from the OP-Z.
• press the screen index button on OP-Z.
  a red led will light up, confirming no battery is present. this will reset the battery indicator.
• Leave the OP-Z connected to the USB cable/power
  
• turn OP-Z off and reinsert the battery back in the unit.
• Leave the OP-Z connected to the USB cable & power
• Let it charge up to at least 1 hour
• Disconnect the USB cable
  
• turn OP-Z on and you should be good to go. 
• seal the back panel and continue to charge the battery.

 

USB connections

 THere are lots of different types of USB connectors and jacks.

In the synth world they are used for a wide variety of applications ... from simple power to data transfer

The jacks can be confusing

 

These were the first types

 

B is commonly called a printer USB cable.

A is still the most widely used type of jack. 

 

USB-B micro is commonly found on lots of synths made in the past 5 years 

though it seems to be fading out of popularity in favor of type C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This Expert Sleepers FH-1 is a midi host

It uses a Type-A USB connector for MIDI

This is a 2HP midi module

It uses a USB-B micro socket

The Roland JUo6A boutique synth also uses a USB port: MicroB type for Audio, MIDI.

Older android mobile phones like my Samsung galaxy note 5 used this connector.

 

 THis has the advantage that you can plug your cable any orientation.

Most android mobile phones like my Samsung Galaxy 9 use this type of connector.

Many of these connectors supply power to your module.

It's handy to know what is what

The first two connectors (A + B) had just

four connections.

 

1 = +5V

2 = Data -

3 = Data +

4 = GND

The Mini & Micro cables added a 5th connector called

"ID". This helped distinguish cable ends.

 

 

 

 

So for the Mini/Micro USB A & B

 

1 = +5V

2 = Data -

3 = Data +

4 = ID

5 = GND 

This is the Teenage Enginering OP-z

It uses the Type-C connector

The OP-1 used type B-micro

Endorphin.es - Shuttle Control - choosing a USB controller

 Some of the midi controllers that work with the Shuttle Control

The old Korg Nano Control

 

 The Teenage engineering OP-1

The OP-z is particularly interesting as it has 16 midi tracks.

The online editor was a bit tricky at first to decipher, but these settings seem to 

work OK with the OP-Z

I decided to use jacks 5,6,7,8, & 13,14,15,16.

These correspond to midi channels 5, 6, 7, 8 which the OP-Z uses

for its Bass, Lead, ARP & Chords tracks.

I'm still experimenting with the rest of the jacks.

They could be sources of random voltages, LFOs, envelopes, Sync clocks, etc

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To add a "analog clock" set one of the channels to

Omni       syncronization         PPQN+ 24 (1/4)

This is great for driving a sequencer

 

To divide the clock in half just use a PPQN +48 setting

 

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