Thing is, TE have quirks and flaws as a company, but when they get it right its great.
I agree the OP-Z was very good. Would absolutely love to see it improved!
If this turns out to be a novelty toaster or something I’m gonna be annoyed 
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TE’s take on the analog heat concept? Create crisp highs, toasty mids and crunchy lows? Let all your bread-and-butter sounds pop out with incredible analog warmth? Sounds like the greatest thing since sliced bread to me!
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Personally going to wait and see what this is before I decide whether I’m interested.
….if it’s:
Some sort of op-lab-esque field line version of the Lebowski rug that allows seamless communication between op-1f, tx-6 & tp-7 and “really ties the room together man” - I’d be very interested.
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I hope if it’s not an op-z successor, we still do get that op-z successor soon. Like so many have mentioned, the op-z got so much right with the workflow that it could instantly be the best groovebox on the market with some changes. I still argue it needs a screen. I was very fast with mine without, but it was much better connected to an iPhone and I’d prefer that visual feedback on the device itself instead of using my phone. The synth engines need a lot of love. And obviously the build quality. I wouldn’t even care if the size of the unit turned into the size of the op-1 to make all this happen. I don’t need this to fit in my pocket.
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Really the OP-Z firmware and capabilities (with sampling overhauled) squeezed into the Move hardware and storage would be pretty sweet!
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The idea of the OP-XY being an OP-Z successor with a pad grid makes a lot of sense to me.
I’m interested because the OP-Z sequencing looked really powerful and combining that with clip launching would be a great pair for my Caladan.
Agree. The teaser post with the gray scale could also be a hint on touch sensitivity/ harder press stronger light.
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You just gave me this crazy idea… What if, hear me out, what if… The op-xy is not the op-z succesor but a new beast entirely:
A modular system
You have your main processing unit and you add what modules you need to it on the XY axis(rails, magnets and pin connectors?):
-need a keyboard? Slap one on.
-want pads? Slide module in.
-sequencer? No problem
-how about a mixer? You got it, mix and match.
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-want more hardware problems with TE? Here we go!
lol, given how prone to error the module slot on the op-z has been, I do really hope they won’t do something like that with the op-xy, as cool as the idea might seem on paper
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Dream a little, think this, but synthy-sequency-mixy te gadget goodness.
Just don’t try to imagine the price tag.
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Keep flipping back and forth between wanting to know the outcome of the US election and wanting to know what the hell TE is releasing 
How am I gonna sleep these next days? 
(note: NOT an invitation to derail this thread into politics, just amused to notice that the anticipation is at similar levels rn)
I personally hope it’s either:
- as others have mentioned, a USB hub to connect various devices (realized it gets quite complicated to do otherwise what with clocking and MIDI and sync and various different types of connectors on each device)
- Simply the tape part of the OP-1 but with undo and more robust, editable sequencing, to allow both the option of clean beats and freeform recording on top of them. Have been trying to juggle the EP-133 with the OP-1 for this but there’s a distinct amount of distracting mental overhead juggling sync with all that.
Stepped gradient plus XY does seem to imply some low-res range of values, like in a sequencer. Plus the EP-133’s XY knobs seem like that can’t be a coincidence. I’m getting Etch-a-Sketch vibes. Anyway, when are we gonna know? Thursday? Was that just someone’s random guess?
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I’ve figured they won’t do a Zf/2 because they wouldn’t change the name if they did. BUT. They could if they change the concept ”enough” for it not to be a true successor to Z. Z-like, but maybe a slightly different format, some features missing or changed etc.
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I’m surprised by all the talk about sampling with the OP-Z. I think I sampled a couple times, but for me I just always worked with what the device natively had in it. Granted back then I perhaps didn’t know better or had an inkling to do sampling. I’d be totally fine if the new device didn’t have sampling assuming it had a robust set of sounds and drums out of the box or ways to add new ones.
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completely agree, with a new and superpower synth engines, a microtonic or a new version of this will be awesome
They tried that and it was boring pile of shite
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TE have as many bad ideas as they do good ideas!
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Too late… I blacked out and my wallet left the room screaming painfully.
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The op-z stock drum sounds are really good, but the other included samples are not so good, or at least I got bored of them a bit quickly and sampling into drum tracks is a bit of a chore. Synth sampling works quite well, except you get often clicks at loop points.
Also, unfortunately the synths are not that strong, some engines do have a sweet spot. TE haven’t delivered on the promise of a lot more engines coming to the device and the engines don’t have the depth of tweaking/customisation, envelopes or modulation to push them that much.
So the net effect is synth sampling is useful to get a broader and stronger sonic palette that their synth engines do not provide. If TE synths were glorious rich and diverse then sampling short comings would be easier to look past. Likewise if sampling was better, the tameness of the synths could be ignored. TE could go either way to make a lot of people happy: improve sampling, or improve synth engines.
OP-Z is a great box. It could be incredible. Interesting to see what the OP-XY turns out to be!
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The pom series is not what I had in mind, I was thinking more like a field modular system with Nintendo switch type rails to connect modules to the main unit.
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