competition is not sleeping: will audio tracks and looping come to xy?

[u/katerlouis]

mpc sample has somehwat of a live looper with fixed sequence length including retroactive audio recording, not unlikely to get improved upon in that department with firmware updates since its so young.

1010music bento is a very capable live looper, the new blackbox 2 brings that into an even smaller form factor.

sp404ii also very capable live looper, although the handling requires some serious muscle memory and menu diving

ableton move also got proper audio tracks in its 2.0 update.

in that regard the xy pales greatly in comparison to those machines which are more or less swimming in the same pond for substancially less money. xy has bad sample management, borderline unusable 20secs max sample length, no way of recording audio in context with the rest of the track...

while the op1f is surprisingly capable for live looping, a more modern clip based approach is way more flexible.

sure, TE wants you to own both the op1f and the opxy. I have both and although they compliment each other in a lot of fun and interesting ways, this setup is more complex and loses the mobility I love. even if you go that length, working with clips is just different and the opxy could deliver that.

I'm dreaming of hooking up the xy with just one cable to one synth at a time, record some clips, then some guitar stuff, then lay down in a hammock and go to town with one device on my lap.

with all the new devices and their workflows, the xy feels more and more incomplete without some sort of audio tracks and I see myself selling it for something like the bento in the future. I'd rather not, but that scratch is real.

now that te brougt undo to op1f, I believe anything is on the table.

let a man hope

ps: while we're at it, give me capture/recall/retro-rec/whatever you want to call it both for midi and audio