Teenage Engineering OP-XY First Thoughts

[@Digiphex]

Without plants and toys I felt unomfortable watching a "naked" video. But I was in my cry closet when I watched this, so I endured. Good intro to this device. I hope they add a DJ filter in the EQ section and sidechain compression, per track FX, all the sample tools on the KO-II. I was surprised it had per track microtuning, a great feature.

[@tarekith]

Thanks for enduring the painful watching experience. LOL

[@donadoma]

Great vid! 👍 Had it for two weeks now and i love it. Hope they throw in a visualizer app in later..

[@Rustik1722]

One of the few people on the entire internet I trust & value their opinion.

[@tarekith]

Ha! I’m a shill and TE paid me lots of money to say nice things about their new baby. 😂

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i get it, you had to sell the cosmetic trinkets and gadgets to afford the op! congrats on the new instrument and thanks for a great vid.

[@tarekith]

Small ferns go for a lot on the green market these days.

[@NeoLudditevisons]

Was waiting for this review!

[@blinksy7201]

Great video. Can’t wait to see the full review. And to see what you think of Brain or best ways to export sessions to further work on

[@tarekith]

There's no way to export, but I don't care as none of the grooveboxes I've used over the years had that functionality either. I just mix it all in the device as best possible, then record the stereo output in real time. That's always worked fine for me., and I can solo a track easy enough if I need to split something out for some reason.

[@sock_park]

Thanks for the video, looking forward to the full review. I can't put the thing down!

[@sodiumlights]

Superb as alway, cheers.

[@tarekith]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LocaliLLocano]

As always thanks for your insights

[@tarekith]

As always, thanks for watching! Glad you found it helpful.

[@robertjamesonmusic]

The OP-XY is incredible!!! Would buy again

[@producewithjt]

If you had to chose between the XY and the OP-1 Field? I want to love the Field, but I think the tape, although I loved the idea for sampling and resampling, takes away the immediacy and performance aspect for me :(

[@tiredboi8326]

I sold my op-1 field to fund the op-xy. I'll let know if I made a good/bad decision lol. Just for the record, I adored my op-1 field. Had an og-1 prior to the field, which i also loved.

[@tarekith]

If you're at all looking for a performance tool, it's the XY for sure IMVHO. There's a couple neat things you can to on the 1F on that front, but the XY is far more capable as a live performance piece. The 1F is superb for writing if you don't want to strictly stick with sequenced music and plan to play a lot of it in real time by hand.

[@producewithjt]

@@tarekith I didn’t know how much I liked quantization AND playing my phrases until I got the Field 😅

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

Depends on what you play and how you play it

[@grahamrobinson9166]

Nice video! I see you managed to get rephazer op1 field packs uploaded. Did you manage to get any of the drum sampler packs uploaded … I adore the field fantasy sounds (that contrabass!!!), but can’t figure a way of getting it in.

[@tarekith]

The drums in the XY are handled totally different from the OP-1F, I'd rather load in individual samples instead of setting start and end points per key from one long sample.

[@nielshoffman1]

Is it possible to use the OP XY as a sequencer for the OP 1 Field and record it on the tape of the OP1F. And wich parameters does send to the OP 1f?

[@tarekith]

Sure, here's a list of all the MIDI CCs the OP-XY sends: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vRyW0LOE_XPJGqnRqkWqWTXjRxjs8st7MK-4FvNuVWc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[@samprock]

Yup, you have to sell all tiny plants and stupid toys to get your best tiny toy 😂 Love my OP-XY, keeping OP-Z too for good memories ❤

[@mrclaytron]

"No tiny plants" "No EDC" "No stupid toys" 😂😂😂 I'm already subscribed, but hell, I'd double subscribe if I could... I almost didn't even recognise that this was a Teenage Engineering product on your desk with the lack of hipster crap everywhere 😂 its very refreshing to see!

[@tarekith]

I'm glad people are getting my sense of humor and not getting offended :)

[@PlayBackRate]

There seems to be criticism on the sound, ..that it sounds thin .. I feel it has high resolution that may seam not has frequency hyped as some others but gives more depth and detail, yet I do understand where these thin comments are coming from.. how do you rate the fidelity HI Mid Lo compared to Okta 707 etc ..

[@tarekith]

I think it's a brand new piece of gear that's only been out for a couple weeks and no one has really had the time to delve into everything it can do yet. Overall it sounds fine to me, and there's a lot of sound shaping potential onboard. Personally I'm not worried about being able to create some nice modern sounds on the OP-XY, the tools are there blame the person using them :)

[@TheRoostersound]

I have it since a 2 week. The main thing I am not happy with are the filters and the envelopes. Does anyone like them?

[@tarekith]

You know you can choose 4 different filters on the XY right?

[@TheRoostersound]

@@tarekith yes but they lack character to me and the envelopes are strange to set up... also env amount on the filter... Not really grabby punchy... more sterile and technical. I cant get satisfying filter envelopes for bass sounds... lot´s of tweaking and not happy

[@drdracula]

Have you used it together with your opz?

[@tarekith]

No, they're so similar I don't really see the need. I'd likely reach for the OP-XY every time unless I needed to play one of my older OP-Z sets live.

[@calderwood9641]

Pretty sure you can raise/lower volume of multiple tracks if you are soloing them first. Not perfect but helpful.

[@tarekith]

Correct, I didn’t learn about that until after I made this video.

[@Tripwelleverday]

Does send the glitch bus effects to midi like ko2 that’s the craziest thing ever

[@motoboy6666]

Haha love the post-its ❤😂

[@Daniel-ew9lo]

How do you think it compares to the Octatrack Mk2?

[@tarekith]

They are so different in workflow and capabilities I don't really think there's a comparison, totally different tools IMO. Sorry.

[@Daniel-ew9lo]

Ok, thanks!

[@PSILOCYBINISTHEWAY]

Dude, if you didn’t hear already, this thing sucks, is overpriced and smells like 2 week old broccoli. Enjoy your XY, I’ve been loving it so far. Tracks can come seamlessly to me with it, I enjoy the workflow so far

[@MyNameJeff..]

Every synth engine sounds pretty weak

[@NetvoTV]

Is M8 MK2 sound better and can OP-XY tune to make it sound better?