Teenage Engineering OP-XY

[MichaalHell]

Welcome to the forum!

I have absolutely no problem sharing.
Sharing is caring.

The three main components for that track is

the saturation page, I have it on full mix with tone almost at the middle, I’m mainly using clipping to get the fizzling textures.

master compressor basically maxed out
Percussion set to 100 melodic to 20

Phaser set on both FX slots depth set to 0, rate 99, high feedback. The two fx slots are set to different frequencies so the clangs has more frequencies in them.

Parameter lock freq, feedback and depth and use step components so it only triggers at specific passes.

Then it’s just a matter of using the arranger and song mode to stitch together something akin to structure.

I’m using the factory drum samples for drum sounds and for bass I’m using the Prism engine with the ladder filter.

[MichaalHell]

So basically you would have to have a new sample engine ready.

Put a trig on step one, gated to the last step.
Press the sample button and set the source to internal.

Play your beat and while it’s playing go to the sample track, push sample and then push M1 at the moment you want to sample.

[johnnyhaggis]

wow, nice! like ugly, but good ugly!

[tendingtropic]

wow this thread is booming. went back 500 messages to see if i could find it and no: so asking it here:

1. the thing that worries me the most is the quality of the synth engines. is there a good demo somewhere?
2. i could see this as a nice sketchpad with the sequencers, if you can export the midi of each tradck (multitrack?) via usb-c or BLE to a DAW. Can you?

if the answer is yes to both questions, i might end up buying this and selling my OXI one.

[brian3kb]

Also, being able to press ‘Track’ + ‘Rec’ to randomize the currently selected tracks settings is good to get a starting point on the Z.

[MichaalHell]

You have that on the XY as well. Long press a track and then you get the option to randomize

Edit: it’s actually called scramble

[kosmonaut]

Gotta love Teenage Engineering , they are always providing a good laugh.
Just throw an insane price tag onto something that’s likely only worth ten times less, and bingo… cash in
It’s mind blowing anyone is buying that stuff. They gotta be rolling on the floor laughing constantly at TE HQs. And they probably could even film that and sell the video for 500 bucks.
Sad thing is they’d find more than enough folks willing to pay for it…

[brian3kb]

Thanks! Do we also have these performance tricks ported over?

@brian3kb

And there is the nifty temporary change performance feature where if you hold the ‘Shift’ key while changing any track parameters on the 4 dials, they revert back to their state prior to the ‘Shift’ key being held when you release it. Plus the ‘Shift’+keyboard keys trigger the punch-in effects temporarily for just the currently selected track.

[MichaalHell]

@tendingtropic

could see this as a nice sketchpad with the sequencers, if you can export the midi of each tradck (multitrack?) via usb-c or BLE to a DAW. Can you?

No that’s not possible. You can of course record the midi data, but there’s no export.

@tendingtropic

the thing that worries me the most is the quality of the synth engines. is there a good demo somewhere?

I guess it’s subjective, do you want music made with it or straight up demos of the synth engines?

[MichaalHell]

No and that a real bummer and something which I recently just realized is not there.

I have put that in as a feature request. Although you have the single track punch in fx as on the OP-Z

[Ottava]

2 things totally kill iPad music making for me

• touchscreen operation
• no built in I/O

By the time I attach all the dongles/hubs/interfaces/cables required, it’s a cumbersome mess.

But even if the iPad had built in I/O, that wouldn’t change the fact that touchscreens don’t make great musical instruments. So then if you want to use a MIDI controller to get around using the touchscreen, it’s yet another device and cable to plug into the rat’s nest.

[MichaalHell]

Thanks, I have to clean it up a bit, it needs more presence in the mids, but I think it’s a really cool start

[tendingtropic]

@MichaalHell

You can of course record the midi data,

this is fine too, can you do this in multitrack? so record the midi of each track/sequencer to a daw?

ps thanks for the answer!

[MichaalHell]

Yeah should be possible. All the tracks transmit midi data even the non synth ones.

You have a midi config and window where you can specify which channel goes to which channel. So if you create a cool song you can record the midi data from that song to a daw or something else.

[brian3kb]

The project history looks like it could be a performance tool, is that a quick operation when it does the save/recall, and does it continue to play while it does that, or is playback stopped?

Thanks for being so helpful with all the q&a!

[Infriad]

Thanks! It worked well

[Vague_versatile]

@BuzzLightsout

There will be huge updates

The only huge update I remember with TE products is the OP-1 OG getting usb audio and it was not really well implemented

[MichaalHell]

It’s quick operation but it stops the playback.

[MichaalHell]

I think someone posted a full update list for both the og and the field in this post and it was pretty comprehensive.

[Vague_versatile]

@brian3kb

And there is the nifty temporary change performance feature where if you hold the ‘Shift’ key while changing

I hope they will then add back what @brian3kb mentioned as it is really useful