can kindly you explain the new filter to me?
I agree with this, once you get away from the traditional “multiple LFOs and mod matrix” school of sound design and start thinking about interesting ways to use the uncommon tools it provides then you can start to really go places with it. I’d still really appreciate a second LFO though…
There’s also a lot to be said for the fact that it kind of pushes you to be finished designing the sound very quickly and think a lot more about the notes and arrangement instead.
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After messing around with arranging for some time i have discovered my favorite/easiest method to record mutes:
- make a aux punch-in pattern that spans the entire length of your scene. You may have to play with the scale and number of bars
- Go to the track where you want to record mutes and live record them by holding shift and pressing the first key.
- Do this for all the tracks you want
- repeat for other scenes
This doesn’t require making new patterns for each of the tracks like with other methods because all the mutes are recorded in that aux punch in track pattern. Maybe this was obvious but I was really struggling with this at first because i was using step components and mixer p-locks which got messy fast
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It’s a bandpass without resonance, BUT it has its own separate compression and distortion parameters.
It can really smash up sounds! This is before the OP-XY’s mixer too where you can further compress and EQ. Makes sense that the new filter comes along with the new drumline synths. Extra beef.
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100 percent. also, lol. Yeah, I think an extra lfo would be nice 
Also, wanted to say that I think you have to be willing to just try things. I was kind of averse to just doing random things with the opxy at first because I generally try and be intentional about what I’m making, but I found that things interacted in ways I hadn’t expected and generally the stuff was musical and combined well. We all know about happy accidents etc but I think having a little faith in what the opxy is offering is needed to maximize what you get out of it.
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You have to use it well enough and often enough to build intuition about what the punch in fx or tape track will actually do to the sound but then you can use those things very intentionally IMO. I can make bespoke delays and granular effects in the tape track for very targeted sections of music with p-locking and I think it’s incredible.
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yeah sorry, I didn’t mean you COULDN’T be intentional, just that I thought I understood how something would work, but I really didn’t. I had to actually tinker with it, in context, to get a feel for it. Whereas with your conventional subtractive synth or whatever I basically know what’s going to happen 90 percent of the time.
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Another realization / delight that i had is that multisampling is super quick and accessible ; I was avoiding it because my past experiences multisampling on other stuff required a decent amount of set up. Intervals,octaves, note length, loop settings, etc.
With the xy, usually i will already have a sequence going using a sound i have internally. If i feel the sound could be better i replace it with the multisampler and start with just sampling 1 key. As it plays i can evaluate whether i want to sample more keys. And i can just keep adding or stop as needed. I usually end up with a few keys which span across my sequence specifically and nothing more. Setting up loop points is tedious I’ll admit, but it’s not that bad since i am sampling just what is needed and i don’t need the loop points all the time. Overall, it’s just really fast and efficient
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Also available on TE OP–XY sound packs - teenage engineering
Ok now when do we get to send USB audio from Op-XY to Op-1f and designate which tracks record to the 4 different tape decks on the OP-1f?! I want to be able to send tracks 1+2 to record on track 1, 3+4 on track 2, etc. It would be great to get the same usb audio matrix on the Op-1f to configure between the two!
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Thats on the OP-1 end… its only stereo in… so no 8 channels in.
From what i understand it´s not clear if we´ll ever get that.
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The word ‘potential’ is a poisoned chalice with music gear. Live in the here and now. Look what a mess Deluge became. Put some value on well thought out firmwares that take months/years for fruition. FM1 already looking like the wild west. Open source is like me putting out a half baked tune on SoundCloud - oh look at whats ‘possible’ then quickly move on.
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Also, the latest update for the OP-XY seems to have made it harder to get custom firmwares installed anyways with the “improved bootloader security”.
All the better for it
I really dont care about users open source firmwares on something like the OPXY…Its like paying for Netflix but getting youtube
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Off topic on custom firmware
Or like buying a new official 2D Mario, being disappointed it’s not Mario Maker levels.
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I dunno the Deluge is a prime example where that argument fails. I’m fine with TE protecting their OP but to say what the community can bring if allowed is silly. Plus you wouldn’t be paying anything, it just be DLC if that makes sense. However, I’m fine too with TE having a protected wall garden.
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I referred to the Deluge because its extremely convoluted. Too much menu diving, too many button combinations - they basically added loads of stuff as an after thought. I remember going to a Deluge workshop where the guy presenting it admitted to forgetting half of it as he was on holiday the week before…And i think with TE - its design and the FW (for me anyhow) is part of that. I dont want to look at the screen and see a load of macros someone has come up with.
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More than a custom OS, I think what’s lacking to the OP-XY is a companion software like Overbridge, a place to fine-tune and edit deep functions. Layering audio / MIDI tracks with brain / p-locks / punch-in fx tracks is sometimes overwhelming. Editing a MIDI track on a large screen is always more comfortable for example. I’d gladly pay for this kind of software.
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Jesus imagine bricking a 2k device to get braids 
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i’m under the impression most of these things aren’t high-risk of fully bricking a device, most of them leave the bootloader intact and should you run into a catastrophic failure you could just reload the TE firmware.
that said, it’s one thing to mess around with a $60 Mvave device, and another entirely on a $2k OP-XY. So either it’s pretty low-risk or high-reward, or both.
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