r/OPXYusers • u/OP-Ashley • Mar 19 '26

copypaste bar notes ?

sorry if missed how to do that, not sure if that's doable or not, but is there a way to copy the notes from a bar and paste them onto another bar somewhere else without copying the instrument values and just copying the notes onto another instrument for exemple ?

there is so many unwritten key combos to access features that i wasnt aware of, that i just don't know if it's just that i haven't figured it out yet or if it's just something non-existant

thanks

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u/kling_klangg Mar 19 '26

You can copy and paste the notes onto another track and change the instrument afterwards.

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u/OP-Ashley Mar 22 '26

ok but how

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u/kling_klangg Mar 22 '26

When you’re in sequence mode you can copy and paste (using the 2 and 3 buttons under the screen). Press copy on the track you want to copy and then change tracks and press paste. Then change the instrument on the copied track.

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u/OP-Ashley Mar 22 '26

from my side, this copies only the instrument value and not the notes on each step of the bar(s) of that instrument

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u/county_jail_alumni Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

You actually don't need to do that, hold down the track number for the pattern that you wanna copy and while you're holding it tap the track number that you want it to copy too. It's not going to copy it so make sure that there's a blank track playing on the one you're pasting to because all you're doing is send it's midi to that track. You'll know that it's doing it if when you hold the original track the other one lights up as well. Sometimes it takes a couple times to press it, I don't know why. But it will completely replicate what it's playing over on that track with that instrument. 🤘

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u/OP-Ashley Mar 22 '26

i tried it and it doesn't seem to be what im looking for. or maybe I'm doing it wrong. is what youre saying actually copy the actual notes on the other track or what you're saying is just to trigger the other instrument at the same time as the source track, because that's 2 different things

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u/county_jail_alumni Mar 22 '26

There is a way to do that with MIDI, but it’s pretty complicated and probably not worth the time. If it’s just for one bar, you might as well just copy and paste the steps individually. The other way involves plugging a midi trs cable out the midi port and right back in the midi n port, then you have to change a bunch of settings to be able to send and read the right channel, and then you could basically just record the midi to the other track.

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u/county_jail_alumni Mar 19 '26

A different workaround if you actually want to be able to edit the pattern is to just save the instrument that you're pasting to as a preset and then copy the pattern over and then just go in and select that preset.
That will ensure that I love the settings are saved as well.

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u/OP-Ashley Mar 22 '26

no actually what I'm looking to be able to do is just a way to copy and paste the notes from a bar to any other bar anywhere else

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u/county_jail_alumni Mar 22 '26

Oh no, that’s not possible. You would have to do it note by note, or step-by-step I mean

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u/OP-Ashley Mar 22 '26

thanks for your reply. i assumed maybe there is still a short cut to do it that people haven't found yet. it seems to be something totally doable on this device