I tried looking for it in this post, but it’s impossible for me to find, so if the person who made the searchable OP-XY manual, could you post it in the OP-XY/Z user thread?
I think it’s a great resource!
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Not sure about the length either, but think it would make sense if it could be 4 bars like all the rest of the tracks now?
You can change the time divisions on it like other tracks, right, e.g. each step equals a whole or half note instead of the default 1/16?
I’m here trying to convince myself to buy one, you seem confused.
Looks great, so far, sounds like crap.
Gimme an FM engine … come on.
To me the mc101 sounds terrible.
Sound-wise or workflow?
The workflow is awful, but the sounds are pretty much infinite …
Would be wonderful. With so much negativity in the world lately it’s really frustrating to have to deal with it here too. Especially when for a lot of us the XY checks all the boxes and is something we are genuinely excited about and want to discuss.
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People like different types of sounds, from 8 bit to FM to VA to ‘only real analogue will do’
This synth can obviously make some cool sounds. After watching probably all of the available videos, criticism would be that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of variation in the types of sounds or the users ability to change them radically (with modulation etc). Time will tell what people can get out of this thing, personally I love some of the engines in the OP-1F, but that does suffer from the same problem after a while (and I end up using more samples as there isn’t a lot to modulate anyway in the synth engines)
Here is the OP-XY user thread, btw.
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I keep saying if there were a Digitone engine inside this thing it would be the perfect synth/workstation. I hope someday they add a real synth where you can have multiple pages of parameters and a big fat filter.
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No multisampling. You have to do it manually one step at a time i think from the manual.
Can’t say I really find much of interest in the presets I’ve heard … it’s all a bit boiler plate but I’ve heard @MichaalHell bend some very nice sounds out of it. Multisampler will be very useful for it. Hopefully it is easy enough to share and/or buy packs for it as sampling some of my rarer synths is definitely the first thing I’m doing with it.
I think it can be used primarily as a sampler, just as the OP-1 field. For a digitone, just get a used OG one that you can sample in your OP XY. I don’t see a complex synth being integrated within this form factor with this UI.
Another option is to use it to sequence a more complex iOS / iPad synth to which you route the audio in the OP XY
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Thank you moderators, you really do a great job on trying keeping this forum as positive as possible, and at the same time trying to respect everybody’s opinions, as long as they are showed respectfully 
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At first I was totally against buying this but being able to have 8 samplers going would be pretty cool.8 gigs is a nice bit of samples as well… I still have to think about it and/or sell off some Eurorack stuff.
Sorry for spamming you with questions but I can’t figure out how to change velocity per step. Let’s say you want to randomise velocity on high hats only on the drum track, is that possible?
Is the sample workflow on this that you can send a sequence to an external synth and record that on the OPXY in one easy take? And then go to work on that saved sample how you like?
Or is just using mix-in of the external synth the more logical approach?
It seems that you are limited to 20(or 30) seconds at the time. So i guess short sequences could be done, but i am guessing that this is not the intendent workflow. I imagine this machine to be used with multisamples, or with snippets of audio, or internal or external synths. This coming from a guy waiting for his xy, so take it with a grain of salt 
Makes sense - OPXY not really intended as an ableton ‘freeze track sampler’
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I think its usually easier to record first. Using mix in creates issues with levels which are frustrating.
Got it, or do the mixing elsewhere (TE has a tool for that 
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