Yesterday I impulse bought/traded for an Analog Four mk1. I mostly planned to sample it into my XY, but they may become best buds instead—XY on drums and acoustic samples, A4 handles FX, pads, and giant basses.
Any tips or advice from y’all? I had a Model:Cycles then a Digitone but this seems so much deeper that I’m sure I’m gonna miss some cool ways to combine the two.
Is there any way to clear the tape? I hate how when you change projects or start a song over the tape track has whatever was last playing on it still. If you use a tape effect at the begging of a song it’ll trigger sounds from the wrong song for example and I don’t know how to prevent that when switching songs during a live set.
Would be great if hitting stop, changing projects, or maybe hitting stop twice would clear the tape.
I did the same as you and it’s one of my best purchases… try out feedback and neighbor oscillators it’s crazy! And check out this post!
I have to say, so far my second go around with the OP-XY has been a LOT more positive than the first try. Other than the Factory Init bug, I’ve not had any issues and no lock ups or lost data.
My initial plan to use the XY this time was just to stick with the stock samples and synths for now, since user samples were what seemed to be the most problematic before. That lasted about two days though before I started getting bored with the stock samples (sorry, the ones that came with the OP-Z were much more my style than the XY’s). I now have about 900MB of my own samples loaded on the XY, and I’ve got a full arranger view of a live set sketched out that relies on these samples extensively. So far smooth sailing!
There’s occasionally a small pause when trying to preview longer samples before loading them, but that’s all I can report when it comes to user samples.
The biggest issue for me at this point is just getting used to some of the quirks of the arranger. Definitely some improvements they could make there, but then again I wouldn’t be surprised either if we didn’t see much changed at this point on that front too. 
All in all though glad I jumped back in on the XY, and looks like I’ll have some new live stuff to share done on it sooner than I was expecting too.
Just mute the tape track on the first scene of the new project. Works perfect for me.
Edit: Oh sorry you need tape track on the first scene. I think clearing the buffer in-between projects would be fine feature.
Im glad you’re having a better experience the second time around!
I’ve been trying out some midi loop back shenanigans and this really makes me want the element LFO on midi tracks even more!
What I’ve been doing is to have the aux midi send midi CC to change the groove. Now if we had the element LFO on midi tracks then I could route it to have an envelope follower from the whole mix to modulate the groove…
I knew the potential was there, it just needed to keep up with me 
I think I am confused on how the brain works. If I copy/paste an arp chord pattern, and on the pasted pattern I change the chord using the brain and recorded it, why does the original arp pattern also switches to the new chord?
Because on an init project, Brain is set to affect instrument tracks 2-8.
You can either use a step component on a particular step for it not to be affected or you can go to Brain, press m2 and turn off the arp track. Click the encoders to change between tracks 1-4 and 5-8
Really starting to love this thing. It’s always some things one could wish for being different but as far as groove boxes go I can’t say I have tried anything quite as immediate and playable. Really good.
There are however a few things I don’t understand if is intended behaviour or not.
In this video, brain is used to change to chords outside the diatonic scale by pressing a triad outside the scale (for example to get secondary dominants).
This just does not work on mine. If I hold a triad the chord will just toggle between the different chords that each of the notes in the triad would be the root of.
Is there a setting I’m missing or something like that? How is it working for any of you?
love your xy content mate! thanks and keep up
Great impulse buy, enjoy!
Check out the Poly Config Rotate + Use Track Sound + Arp = Fun
Haha😊 I hope it’s clear from my post that it is not my video!
As you demonstrate what I am trying to do in this video maybe you could offer some insights into what might cause it to not work on mine?
Is it still possible for you to use triads to go outside the diatonic scale or is this an issue from more recent firmware updates. I see that all videos demonstrating this are a few months old already…
I love the XY! My biggest wish continues to be an easier way to P-Lock velocity/volume. This is super important when it comes to making parts sound more alive and dynamic, but I find the ways to do it on the XY currently are lacking:
I’m not sure what would be the best way to implement a different way globally. For drum and sample tracks, being able to P-Lock the sample volume would be ideal. But for synth tracks, I’m not sure I see an obvious solution. Perhaps a shift option on the M1 page could reveal a velocity value, like how volume and pan work on the drum/sample tracks.
Yeah, I would definitely appreciate a more direct way to alter velocity as well. Step Components work ok for me, but it’s a little frustrating having all notes on a step the same velocity too.
Step components for velocity are also very limiting because if you want to use another kind of step component on that step in conjunction with the “skip component” component, you will also skip the velocity modification.
What I really hope for is a screen that lets you make changes to a given note’s velocity AND fine-tune its duration. All notes recorded in live mode can have any arbitrary length, but all step-sequenced notes conform to the length setting in the bar screen.
I find this especially limiting for programming legato sequences because if you tie a note to the next step that also has a note on it, the tied note always lasts to the end of the 2nd step so you end up hearing it again when the note on the 2nd step releases.
Yeah would also love better velocity editing. I often end up just deleting and re-adding the trigs that I want to change velocity on because it’s faster and easier than using the step component to do so.
Hold trig and shift and - or + would be a good shortcut for velocity edits
Sub-step view to isolate the trigg steps on screen would be sweet as well. The traffic jams on drum tracks still need more isolation in general.