lol the screen is fine.
(I’m 50 and always need readers on my face.)
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on another note, after watching this video I am more excited for future updates.
As opposed to the OP-Z, the XY leaves spaces that can be added to, like:
- filters
- players
- lfo types
- fx & synths, which was already possible on the OP-Z
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That was my local music store when i lived in sweden 
got my sub37 and prophet6 from them, its a trustworthy store, if some more want save some on a op xy
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Yes! If someone needs glasses i can understand how’s that TE’s fault.
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I totally bought one but I chuckled when I read this.
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Timestretching! 
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I could really use one of those TE leather sleeves to carry the XY in the inside breast pocket of my coat. The case that I currently use is too thick to fit in there. I’ve put the XY directly in the pocket, which works but gives me an insecure feeling. The sleeve’s lesser protection than a case wouldn’t be an issue carried this way.
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Given more than 20% of the world’s population would have trouble with fonts that are too small, TE could benefit from taking that into account:
https://www.cehjournal.org/article/presbyopia-addressing-an-urgent-global-need/
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TE-designed smart glasses, now you’re talkin.
Useful but very long video. All the music they created to demo it was positively awful. Also funny to see that every reaction to any answer by the TE fellow was “sick!” or “totally nuts!” or the more mundane “awesome!”
- can it play two tracks then?
- of course!
- that’s totally sick!!! This is everything that I ever wanted and will ever want!
Also noteworthy that the choice of monochrome is because it conveys the feeling of being “pragmatic”. Well I’d say that’s the opposite of pragmatic, honestly. All shades of grey, diminute fonts, inexplicable block diagrams. Pragmatic, yeah.
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It’s a promotional demo from a retailer, hyping it up is the brief 
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Yes, but if only they could exaggerate a little bit less, that wouldn’t hurt anyone. ”our guy was literally drinking a beer and moving the XY with the other hand to bring layers in and out”. Yep, awesome, that’s all I ever wanted. 
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resonating with everything said here
He did say “pragmatic” a lot! It’s obviously one of the buzz words in the one-sheet written by the TE marketing department.
I’ll let him off with the “sick” and “totally nuts” 
He’s a young lad who’s buzzing on the device and working at TE - lucky him! He reminds me of ‘MadZach’ from old school DJTechTools tutorials.
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exactly what I would‘ve said since 2012 to people asking about the mysterious OP-1 and later OP-Zs functionality in combination with their design aspects…it’s the TE magic tho 
it has always been a mix of toyish but highly advanced principles of creativity and with that I mean the pure reflexion of personal feelings put into music equipment, TE ever since delivered that missing link or „soul“ extension.
sounds and technical aspects, controlled goosebumps 
I mean you‘ll notice a jack (normally superhyped) a bit down under because will is a great narrator and also brought the unity aspect (OP-Z) to life within his first YT tutorials!
he’s hyped but also carries Jacks euphoria and that’s here and there a bit much but the only thing iam missing and i hope it‘ll come is a Jack only video where most of the XY essence is built on live recording long long unquantized tracks because he‘s super talented by just catching a vibe with a piano only, Jack playing that mf with pitch and chords, personal expression 
WILL stated that TE keeps reading all of our stuff and they like our contributions a lot 
I love my op-z and, less so, my EP-133. What I don’t like about this XY just, plain and simple: it is actually not very innovative. 90% of it is just derivative work from the op-z. Now you have 4 bars, better sampling functionality, some envelopes, a few new toys that don’t add much. A screen that is clearly inferior to the app that you can use with the op-z. A line module. Am I missing anything?
So if we take the innovation out, we’re left with workflow (not too different and in some ways worse than op-z, owing to some cryptic UI decisions) and look and feel - which is totally subjective, but it seems to be pretty much a tribute to Clive Sinclair and his QL. I expected more, and that is my problem and not TE’s, really. But groundbreaking it is not.
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It’s like the history of electronic music production in a portable battery powered unit. I’d say that’s pretty amazing
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One other option for slim enough but great protection is the device with a decksaver and velcro straps.
Slim and solid.
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and that’s exactly the thing. just grab a few OG-Zs with different modules for different actions and a QuNexus and it’s all there.
add a few modules or things you already love to play and if to cumbersome only work with the Z as external sequencer or one thing at a time, it’s a versatile pretty looking and functional thing if you need something here and there…
I think it shows that @tngjonas codebase and OP-Z development has been successfully elevated into a new thing, it’s not that the Z is now unsupported it’s part of the family still and that’s great, I really love that thing 
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Yes, I believe you are. Have you tried one yet? It sounds much better to me and having the independent multimode filter and filter envelope makes a drastic difference imo.
I prefer having the screen on the unit and I think it is awesome. The resolution is finer with micro-timing. Automation feels smoother.
I actually feel this is the first time Teenage Engineering is being innovative. I didn’t like the OP-1 Field that much. The OP-Z was ok for me, but it didn’t blow me away. The OP-XY feels amazing to me and is much more enjoyable to use than any other TE product I’ve used before. I prefer the minimal graphics to the cow and monkeys, etc. from the OP-1.
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