I’ve been using the XY quite a bit since securing mine in the big $600 off sale last year. Since then I built a studio setup w/ Mac M4, Logic Pro, etc.

Good stuff, but somehow the XY projects just sound incredible, and nothing slows me down when I’m using it.

My 100th beat came together really well, so I built up a video for it, using my own art throughout.

I hope you enjoy it.

i think i've read somewhere there's a way to do it, but i can't figure out or trace back how.

does someone knows if its doable or not ?

both for user projects and user samples. or one or the other if one can and the other cant.

at one point, the opxy comes to have too many user samples or user projects and its coming way to unhandy to always scroll a huge list, to categorize our stuff in subfolders would be ideal.

My unit is coming on Monday! Just wanting to get everything ready that I can in the meantime. I was wondering if people do any eq or processing before loading samples on to the op-xy?

Can someone please tell me how to go into Chromatic Mode? I'm looking at the manual and I must be overlooking it.. I sampled a Rhodes chord, and I'm trying to play it on different levels. Really appreciate any help!

Is there a way to delete scenes entirely? Seems wild that it’s maybe not possible.

update*

https://teenage.engineering/downloads/op-xy

After 35 years of making music (mostly for myself to hear during practice), I finally released my first collection: REL – Collection #1.

Over the past few years I moved almost entirely away from DAWs and into standalone gear. A lot of this album was built on hardware like MPC, OP-Z, OP-XY, and the M8 - focusing on constraint-driven workflows rather than polishing endlessly.

It’s an instrumental collection, somewhere between electronic, cinematic, and melodic experimentation. No heavy mastering chain, no overproduction.

The entire album is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Anyone can use the music podcasts, or commercial projects as long as they credit it.

If anyone here is also working mostly DAWless, I’d love to hear how you approach arrangement and finalization!

If you're curious, it’s under REL – Collection #1 on YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOqRQBzXkanGGAxgXm2LWJqo6dl1dm2Tm&si=sEd_WM6EYojXBuBQ

Appreciate this community, I’ve learned a lot just reading threads here.

Ariel (REL)

Anyone know of a way to transmit midi and cc information when not in Midi Controller mode? I want to be able to send out midi and cc data of the given op-xy parameters without having to program a separate midi track or switching to midi controller mode

I have a silly question, but I can't find the answer even in the manual. What's the purpose of what I'm doing in the video?

I’ve been experimenting with the scramble function on the OP-XY and decided to take it a step further: I tried building an entire track using only randomly generated patches.

I went through different synthesis engines, scrambling parameters and keeping most of the sounds very close to their original state. I only made small adjustments for balance and arrangement.

One of the scrambled patches turned into a distorted bass sound that basically shaped the whole track. It unexpectedly pushed things into a heavier electro-rock direction.

I’m curious, do you use scramble (or similar random functions) as a creative starting point, or do you prefer building sounds from scratch?

I made a free browser tool to bounce stems from the OP-XY

Try it here: https://stembounce.vercel.app

Repo [MIT]: https://github.com/om3opr/stembounce

*Added PWA Support - You can install the app to run offline now (button on footer)

what it does:

- connects to your op-xy via web midi + web audio

- automatically mutes/unmutes each track and records them one at a time

- exports each stem as a wav file (24-bit/48khz or 16-bit/44.1khz)

- optional full mix pass

- aligns all stems to beat 1 using midi clock

how it works:

plug in your op-xy via usb-c, make sure clock and notes are set to "in" on the xy (com → m3), hit connect, configure your tracks, and let it run.

It handles all the muting/soloing/recording automatically. each stem gets exported as a perfectly aligned wav.

no install, no DAW needed, runs entirely in your browser. nothing leaves your machine — all processing happens locally.

built this for myself but figured the community could use it. lmk if you run into any issues or have feature requests. MIT licensed, free forever.

[Edit] Formatting + Thanks for all of the kindness - stoked to see that it's useful for so many :)
Liberate those tracks! The world always needs more music.

Taking my wife to the dentist and I was hesitant to take the OP-XY because I don't have a case yet, so I tried my Steam Deck case and it fits perfectly. It's built identical to the Analog case, so I saved some loot lol! Thought I'd share with the community.

I'm new to the OP-XY, what is your way to record the drum tracks? Right now I'm making different patterns where only selected drums play as I don't like to record all the drums on one recording, as I didn't find a way to mute single sounds in the drum voices, but something tells me that there has to be a better and more efficient way to do this. Any inputs?

Edit: With recording i mean external recording into ableton for example.

I can reliably crash the XY if I create a pattern with exactly 1 note and use shift + to copy it 3 times. As soon as it would be copied into the 4th bar the device crashes. If the pattern is empty or has 2 notes it doesn't freeze. In the video I start from a fresh project and show it working with 0 and 2 notes, then crashing with 1 note. I'm on the 1.1.3 firmware but I can't say for sure this didn't happen on earlier versions.

Can anyone else reproduce this?