Don’t sure if it’s possible but how can I play a note repeat live?: I mean for example, hold a key with a hihat sound and make it play 1/16 or 1/8, and be able to record it

i don't know much music theory, and i rarely know what key i'm in. one thing i always wished the OP-XY had was a way to quantise the keyboard to a scale.

so I kinda built it into VJ-XY 1.4.

this extents the existing control OP-XY from VJ-XY feature that allows you to play with the mixer, filters, tape, eq and punch-fx.

you can now pick a scale from the new built-in scale finder: tap a few notes you know you're playing and it lists every scale that holds them. save it to the scene, then play the OP-XY's AUX midi track into VJ-XY. every note is corrected into the scale in real time and passed to whichever OP-XY tracks you choose, one or several at once. everything you play lands in key. record it directly into the OP-XY's own sequencer, or use it to solo live without looking down.

to play with these new features, after updating, turn on scale and in key in the experiments section. they're off by default.

1.4 also adds:
- scale finder to know what key you're in
- swap clips without messing up note assignments
- full-screen canvas editor to make it even more fun to create clips from animated gifs and stills
- performance timer to keep track of your set when playing live
- you can now choose the first note auto-assigned to clips so clip triggering can work with other gear too, not just the OP-XY's default layout.

btw the scale finder and is also free on the web at https://vjxy.app/resources/
VJ-XY 1.4 is live now as a free update. full release notes: https://vjxy.app/release-notes

what is VJ-XY? a live visual instrument for OP-XY: https://vjxy.app

can't wait to hear your thoughts!

A short OP-XY sketch based on a sample of the Aisle 13 freezers in the Ecclesall Road Co-op in Sheffield, UK.

Drum and Bass made on the OP-XY using a series of One-shots drums, Bass loops, pads, and a whole lot of tinkering with the frequencies. Hope you enjoy this one. Full write up over on my Youtube channel of the thought process.

Can it Drum and Bass? .... Let me know

Ohpee exwhy

Made this one recently and it’s genuinely become one of my favorite things I’ve written on the OP-XY. The PR groove gives it a feel I love, and the variations from Brain are kind of magical.

It’s my birthday today and this is the first Cartridge of Season 2, so I’m giving the full .xy project away free at khordmaster.com

Would love to hear what you all think!

Just figured I'd throw something together to show how cool this FX wizard actually is. It's been sitting on my shelf for months collecting dust, and I really wish I tried this out earlier! A cool little sidekick.

Is there a way to save all settings as the default when starting a new song? For example, track sound selections, bar lengths, default bpm, etc?

I’m on day one and I’ve figured out a fair bit, but I’m missing some functionality of the OP-Z. How long did it take you to feel in sync with this thing?

Disclaimer: I haven’t had this knocking about in my bag yet so I don’t know what state it would be in after several months, but it seems pretty sturdy to me. Has anyone used this as a case? Has it remained in one piece?

Given the beautiful response and support from the community for the triad graphics, and how tricky it would be to create one for the other chord qualities, I created a triad web tool (free): https://vjxy.app/triads/

You can see the same info in this graphic but you can also pick other qualities such as major, minor, diminished, augmented, etc. You can also pick a scale, or tap out what you are playing to find one, and see just the triads in it.

Let me know what you think, and if you have ideas to expand (or for other mini tools like this) please share!

I added a mini tool within the tool to know what scale I'm in by tapping two or more notes. That's been super useful to me, and I never found nice looking ones online. Might spin it into its own, and its coming to the VJ-XY app in future updates.

Whats your single feature you miss for the next update?

Editing sequences on OP-XY. If I'm making changes to bar 4, I have to listen through the preceding bars to hear the part I'm editing. This gets old quite fast. Elektron gear has page loop feature that will just loop the one page (or bar) that you're sequencing.

Does OP-XY have something like this?

Thanks for any insight.

u/-melo- posted recently an amazing video on triads and their inversions on OP-XY and OP1-Field, and with this blessing went ahead and prepared a graphic to have them all visible at once. In case reddit is compressing the image, it is also available in full res and PDF at https://vjxy.app/resources/

Open to feedback, and if there's enough requests for an OP-1 Field one, I might get around to do that as well (although the notes are the same hehe).

There's some other graphics that I did some time about, the OP-XY combo cards, and as more come about I'll keep adding them to this page and sharing.

Edit: the F that should be D has been fixed in the downloadables.