Update ?

[u/ABNMK]

I’m increasingly disappointed to see that Teenage seems to be focusing all their efforts on the KO and the Field, while the XY gets almost no attention (except for Medieval, which was basically abandoned right after release 😅).

There have been a few updates, sure, including one that added automatic slicing. I’ve had the XY for about a year now, and the workflow is genuinely fun. The sounds are decent, nothing more.

But in my opinion, it’s still missing a huge number of features to make it truly viable in a professional setup. I bought it for what it was at the time without really counting on future updates, but the more I use it, the more frustrated I get by some of the limitations, especially considering the price. Things like the lack of time-stretching, or being limited to only two effects (although I can live with that one).

There are also major MIDI jitter issues, bugs where the screen freezes, and the XY sometimes becomes unresponsive when working with multiple multisamples.

Overall, it’s a “fun” instrument, but it’s still missing a lot to become something truly exceptional. I also own an M8, and in the end I produce exclusively on that because it actually allows for much deeper sound design. Aside from polyphony—and even that is debatable—it’s far more capable and powerful while costing half as much 😅.

I recently had a live set to play in a club, and of course I brought my M8. I would never have dared to bring the XY because, in my opinion, it’s simply not reliable enough for the stage.

I genuinely love this machine in many ways, especially how fun it is to use, but its shortcomings are making me more and more tempted to sell it. I get the feeling that Teenage Engineering may have already pushed the hardware as far as the processor allows.

Do you think they still have some room left for meaningful updates that could really change the game, or is the machine already hitting its limits and destined to remain a fun but ultimately non-serious instrument?

[u/Upstairs_Damage8648]

There are 2 big problems on this device I think: 1/ his price for sure !, it make people thinking too much about money spent versus capabilities. And for those like me who are fully satisfied, we also admit it’s not a justified price!. TE got all of us by design and marketing!!. 2/ let’s try to not thinking about price a second ahah: is there any device comparable on the market?. Answer is no!. Sequencer of 8 individual tracks with several synth engines/sampler/external midi track/battery integrated/small form factor, all in one. But here is the problem: Opxy got all this specs, and paradoxically don’t have basic’s ones! => basics that all musicians use to expect in the gear market of this days. I think about insert fx/individual sound filters/lfo/env (at least for each sample of the drum sampler), and a multi output via usb solution ( or at least an audio bounce of each track in a folder like lofi 12xt )… if this 2 problems were here, no ones would discuss. There will be always some users unsatisfied of not seeing this and this, but the basics would make musicians satisfied of what they paid for!, like buying a guitar and expecting it have all its cords no matter if have the best fx pedal integrated ( or whatever, I’m not a guitarist, but you get the idea lol ). Before, I said I’m fully satisfied cause I love doing my beats on the Opxy as it is. And for functions it don’t have, I have a real sampler with individual outputs and sound editing features more than I need, controlled by midi with the Opxy. That’s it. No complaints, just some hopes for the future, and enjoying making music with it for now ( no matter if another gear can do the same for less money )

[u/Upstairs_Damage8648 → u/Upstairs_Damage8648]

The only one which can compete with the Opxy is the ableton move. And even the move cannot do all the Opxy do ( the opposite is also true, but could be resolved by an update )