Teenage Engineering OP-XY

I can’t tell from the manual – when you’re putting together a song in song mode, is each track locked to a single preset, or can preset changes be sequenced?

For example, can I have one part of the song where track 1 is a drum kit, and another part of the song where track 1 is a synth?

And one more question: any way to lock your playing to a scale, or highlight the notes of a scale?

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I think the tracks can only be assigned only one synth engine as there are 8 tracks and 8 engines that would be logical. You cant change to another. But the engines can be modified obvioulsy per step so saved presets of the same engine is okay.

One big negative about the OP-XY is that there is no clever implementation for easily inputting triplets when making a 4/4 beat.

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From where?

Should integrate really well, judging by how the OP-Z does that. I still have a 95% compete OP-Z template for the LCXL somewhere on my disk.

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Man, I am right there with you. Played some of my stored OP-Z projects today after not using it for a couple years and had a ‘wait- I made that?’ reaction. Totally lost my muscle memory. But I know it’s possible, so that’s something!

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i hope they learned something and don’t waste that kind of time this time out
slicing is on the way but the fact that it wasn’t a priority is a minus imho… hope it gets better

In his XY video, Cuckoo mentioned that the lead developer (Jonas, I believe) had been working on it for ‘many years’

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I’m wondering why the OP-XY isn’t on Guitar Center anymore, even though it’s been launched. Perhaps they got penalized for leaking it early??

Ordered from TE

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I really hoped for that.

Lol I love your optimism. Personally, I’d estimate the reduction in price complaints in that case as 3-5%.

This thing has parameter slides man. It is really expensive, but it has parameter slides.

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Thanks, hopefully mine is on the way shortly then.

My dilemma: 1 OP-XY or 4 used OP-1?

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Yeah — I ordered mine from GC while it was up and they confirmed today (bc I was also confused) that the order is good and they’ll be shipping 11/25 — but I didn’t ask why (XY?) the new one isn’t back up yet.

If I were TE I would’ve totally slapped them with some kind of delay order for that flub on their part; give their competitors a few days (or week) head start on orders, but I bet it’ll be up soon either way.

I’ve seen people on Reddit complain about the Woovebox price, apparently it being compact means the price should be 100 bucks or something.

Plenty of complaints about the OP-Z price, the M8 price and so on.

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Any way to report a feature request as more important, because many wants it? :melting_face:

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I’d probably ask myself the same question if I was a spider, lol

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