Another case of the pitch bend issue has been mentioned. The pitch bend on the OP-Z completely broke within about a year, and even after replacing the parts, it broke again, so the same might happen with the XY.
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Update: just updated to 1.0.9 (unit shipped with 1.0.3 installed). The jumpiness is fixed. Pitch down still takes a touch more force than up, but I can live with it.
Mine shipped out on last friday but for some god forsaken reason TE seemed to deem it only worth of the slowest shipping possible, so I wont get it until this friday it seems… I mean I work all week so its not the worst but it still seems a little nutty to me that TE wouldn’t opt for a 3 day ship type option on something so expensive. Like every day it is in transit is another day for it to get the shorts beat out of it.
Just noticed I am having this pitch bend issue, but sounds like mine is the opposite of yours
My pitch bend down is immediately 0->100 with the lightest of touches, just barely can I get any values in between.
Whereas pitch up is how I would expect it to behave with a fairly usable range
Uh oh. Bendgate
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You can’t really expect perfect pitch bending in a budget device like this.
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Ran into a bug where I held a sequencer note down, was able to edit the sequence, which switches to showing just the steps for that note (if you keep holding the note down) but then it wouldn’t snap out of that view. I tried many things including changing notes, sequencing other notes, changing tracks, etc. finally I turned it off/on and it was back.
I don’t personally think OP-XY was fully ready for prime time, especially in it’s price class.
Also, I really have come to dislike the FX screens and find the tiny text and bar graphs unenjoyable to work with, maybe just my own eyes but it’s dissonant and not quick or clear, feels to me like the antithesis of the original op-1 philosophy. And maybe TE expect most to just set FX up for a track and forget it, but I’m finding myself in there a bit making tweaks and even sequencing FX changes (which is a really nice thing to have!) but wish UI was improved.
In fact, most of my gripes involve the screen GUI, with a few bugs sprinkled in so far and of course my quirky half-working pitchbend 
On the positive side, it’s made the stability and polished feel of the OP-1f GUI a joy to work with, while simultaneously making the OP-1f hardware feel immediately older. The XY hardware has a great premium feel.
It feels like there’s lots of shared DNA between the OP-XY and the Intellijel Metropolix. Step components on the XY give a similar palette of generative possibilities as the stage buttons and mod lanes on the Metropolix.
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Ey! What happened in the other OP-XY post???
People happened
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Thanks for the kind words! The mix is coming straight out of the Z to a TX-6 which adds compression and records straight to a USB thumb drive.
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I was curious abut!
About Bendgate… so much users here affected? I want mine for Xmas but If there is a problem I can wait.
I have experienced many of these problems in the past with other devices.
i wonder if there could be a calibration issue… maybe also TE could make a calibrator on the device so that you can check and change the device to fit according to its calibration.
So if the tolerances of the pad are so that its harder to push pitch bend + then it could calibrate so that assists in the pitch bend + so that you will get a similar pitch bend action in + and -.
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Ugh. This issue is making me consider canceling my order.
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They probably got Guitar Center’s batch 
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TE actually fixed the quality issues with KO II pretty quickly, so it’s a matter of (in case you’re not confident you might get unlucky) waiting two or three weeks.
They was different. It was a simple packaging problem mostly
Interesting device, but from what I have seen I am really not liking its design of visual representation of the FX and other rmodules - tricky to navigate, lots of free space . . simply just less informative and straightforward like in other devices like Elektron. Its even more abstract then my OP1f parameters screens.
It’s here. However, it’s cold outside, so I’ll let it warm up a bit. First impression: Those keys feel way more tactile and clicky than the ones of OP1-F. As a keyboard fetishist, I really like switches like this, but I’m afraid my wife will hate them.
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It’s a diff mechanism than OP1F. Looks like metal scissors vs Macbook like butterfly plastic scissors. Hope they last. Not that the OP1’s didn’t.