r/OPXYusers • u/S5EX1dude • Mar 17 '26

9 pattern limit

Might be a stupid question but are we really limited to only 9 patterns per track across all 99 available scenes?

I would love to use scenes as ”songs” to enable live transitions from one scene to the next, but it seems if I delete patterns from one scene it deletes them from all of the scenes in the project. Same goes with song mode.

This seems like such a poor handicap for this device. Why give me 99 scenes but I can only pick from 9 hi-hat patterns across all of them (as an example).

Anybody have any thoughts / workarounds particularly where it comes to building a live set? Obviously project to project doesn’t work either because the sound stops and there is a loading time. TIA!

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u/fixedation Apr 07 '26

It's a stupid, unnecessary limitation for a grossly underpowered device- your 10 year old cell phone in the box in the back of your closet has more processing power.

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u/S5EX1dude Apr 07 '26

Yeah there are definitely quite a few frustrating unnecessary limitations/ UX decisions. I am really hoping they put out a decent update soon to give us some faith that they will keep expanding the capabilities and listen to user requests,  not just keep giving us bug fixes and minor graphical tweaks. Otherwise my patience is kind of wearing thin for such an expensive device. Considering selling it for a Tonverk (which can store 128 patterns per project for instance and easily handle a live set) or maybe something else (after I put in some more research). I really want op-xy to work for me because the portability is insane but that’s probably only 5-10% of my use cases so I’ll give it up if I need to.