Teenage Engineering OP-XY

Yeah, agreed. Projects don’t load seamlessly but they’re almost instant and you can have literally unlimited projects.

Are others having the issue where you hold a sequencer step to edit it but sometimes it just immediately deactivates the step instead, as if you tapped the button? Of all of the many bugs I’m seeing, this is the most irritating.

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Sounds like they’re getting there lol

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lol, price will go up

TE products never go up in price. Check history.

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You have to press “paste” after “copy.”

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You mean like when the OG OP-1 went back on sale after a break, and the price increased by hundreds of eurodollars? That history?

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yeah wasn’t the original price like 600€ and after being out of production for a year it came back at 1000€? :smiley:

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After 1 year a brand new OP1f could be found at around 1,5k instead of 2k. I already see the opxy at 2,1k instead of 2,3. I think it will be stabilized at around 1,8k within a year.

Edit: I will definitely buy it at some point but I learnt not to buy too much in early access not only for price but more for stability (losing tapes with OP1f, screen issue on DTII…)

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Look at it now. Cant give it away :slight_smile:

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Why is it controversial that a consumer good will be available cheaper when it’s no longer the new thing? I would guess that few people actually paid full retail for the OP-XY even at launch, and I can order one right now at a 12% discount. It seems totally expected that sometime in 2025 you’ll be able to pick one up at at 15-20% discount.

Anyhow, price aside have they finally documented how to do things like setup microtonal tunings? Can you import something like a scala tuning file?

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Microtonal tunings are pretty self-explanatory on the OP-XY. There are a bunch of pre-configured tunings you can select from (equal, guitar, harpsi, bagpipe, medieval) and 11 user slots. Tuning is saved per preset. You can edit how much each note deviates from equal tuning in cents.

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So I ran into an issue last night which I assume is a memory issue and may possibly always be there. I had 4 multisample presets going and then I noticed on channel 1 - the first multisample preset had disappeared and I couldn’t get it loaded back up even if I removed the other multisample presets on the other channels. Idk maybe it’s just a bug but I assume it’s a memory thing.

That isn’t true. The OG doubles in price.

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So, I have questions about potential uses for getting midi from the machine into a DAW. Could you create songs with the internal sound engines, convert those to external midi tracks and export them all at once by playing the song with different midi channels into your DAW?

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Haven’t tried it but I don’t see why not!

You’re absolutely right—no one has ever crafted a song using more than nine patterns. Frankly, I don’t even understand why other devices like Elektron offer more than nine patterns; it’s clearly unnecessary. It’s simply impossible to create anything beyond that! After all, everyone adores repetitive tracks, and that’s the only kind of music being produced—endless loops of monotony, with no variation or progression. Who needs concepts like dynamics, modulation, or phrasing when we can just lean into redundancy?

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Maybe it’s not your intent, but you’re coming off as pretty aggressive to a good-natured post.

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Who needs to bother learning how to use the XY sequencer when you can just use it exactly the same way as you use the Elektron sequencer?

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Well, he is “Confidently Wrong”! :wink:

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