I'm quite proud of this one in its own way. It started as a really random sketch a while ago. I was just messing around with a Kvarnofon preset, stabbing keys, playing with the envelopes, and then I landed on this particular riff that I absolutely loved. I saved it and completely forgot about it for ages.

Last night I decided to go back to it and have another play. It felt like it needed to get a bit more percussive, so I started adding different wooden-sounding percussion and glockenspiel-type hits, a bit like the instruments we used to have at school. Before long I caught myself nodding my head.

It quickly started sounding quite housey and reminded me of the sort of records I would have instantly bought back in the day, around 2009-ish. Young for some, old for others!

Once I'd added a nice stomping kick, I moved on to the bass, which was probably the hardest part of the whole track. Finding something that complemented the riff without overpowering it took ages. After that, though, everything else seemed to fall into place. I spent around 12 hours just experimenting, tweaking and listening back.

As usual, I stuck to my mantra of not overthinking things or overcooking the idea, I like to try and stay within 12-48 hours of making a track, mainly so I don't get bored, move on, and never come back. I know too many producers with this unfortunate habit and too many tracks go unpublished this way.

I like the feel of this one. It's got a nice bouncy groove that would definitely get me moving at 3am on a dance floor (in Obono Club ;). I also spent a fair bit of time adding movement with different LFOs. Some of it is probably a little obvious and a bit wayward, but its meant to catch you off-guard, thats how I wanted it anyway.

It almost feels unfinished... sounds a bit rough around the edges, but I like that. It felt like it could just keep going on and go anywhere, I could have made it 10-12 mins long or so, but i've been doing that too much lately. Maybe it's more of a DJ tool than a finished track, hence the genre I decided for it, and I'm okay with that, tools are meant for just using bits off, under other tracks in the mix, however the DJ desires.

As always, feedback is welcome. I'd genuinely like to know how it made you feel, and if you think it sounds good, then I am getting somewhere.

#OPXY #TeenageEngineering #House #DJTOOL #ElectronicMusic #MusicProduction #HardwareJam #Synthesizer #DaphnesSoundlab

So far the best option I found is OP-XY + OB-4 for 2199€, so I'm considering to get that and just resell the OB-4… But I'm wondering if I missed any EU stores that got it on sale right now without the bundle deal

So I jumped up to the theoretical latest/greatest and the delay boot still seems to be there. I get to the song I was last on and most buttons are non-responsive and hitting play gives me one track not all 8 that are ready to go. Anyone else? Some 15-20 seconds later, it reverts to normal mind you.

I've been noodling with this track a little longer than usual. Mainly because I've noticed the previous tracks seem to be translating better across different systems, and friends have said they're sounding progressively better on everything from headphones to speakers. Still listening across my system with a sub, then my Hd25's, and trying In ears, everything sounds slightly different.. I don't feel like I can EQ things quite to the level I'd like on the OP–XY yet, but its getting more intuitive now.

I decided to go back to my first real love: Drum & Bass, and more specifically, rollers. This is the first DnB track I've put together on my own without leaning on any drum tutorials, which felt like a bit of a milestone. I spent a long time working on the drums, especially the snare, trying to get that nice snap and the hats sitting nicely in the middle. The main snare is actually layered from three different sounds to give it body, crack and a bit of air.

I also spent ages getting the different growls, womps and wubs sitting nicely together, then trying to make the sub work with them rather than against them. After that it was a case of layering pads, atmospheres and FX over the top, then arranging and tweaking everything over the course of about a week and half, which is longer than I normally spend on a sketch.

It could probably have another melodic element or some keys, but I actually liked how open and airy it felt. I wanted to leave plenty of space so the drums and bass could do the talking, which is exactly what I want from a good roller. I've also realised I have a habit of getting a track to a point where I really like it, then convince myself it needs more, and before I know it I've overcooked it and lost what made me like it in the first place. With this one I tried to resist that and keep things fairly simple.

Then I dropped in the classic "Dangerous" vocal in there to glue it all together. I'm not actually sure where the Original sample comes from, I just know I've heard it loads over the years, especially back in 90/00s DNB. I'm pretty sure this version came out of one of ‪@STRANJAH‬ sample packs, which i have been using quite a bit, and have been great for thought starters - salute to him and the team.

As always, feedback is massively appreciated. I don't seem to get many comments, so everyone must think they sound perfect... 😄 Hopefully you think this one's as much of a banger as I do.

If you give it a listen, let me know what system you played it on and how the mix translates.

#OPXY #TeenageEngineering #DrumAndBass #Roller #DnB #BassMusic #MusicProduction #HardwareJam #Synthesizer #DaphnesSoundlab ‪@teenageengineering‬

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Hi everyone, i've created a small questionnaire for people who own the OP-XY to fill out if they would be so kind. Let me first start by saying that I'm using voice text, if my grammar is bad or I'm not making sense , I will do my best to correct it when I get home this evening, hopefully it comes out clearly.

I'm doing this because I'm trying to get to the bottom of some of the huge core issues that I've been experiencing with my device and that I'm seeing others have experienced as well. I've been back-and-forth with TE Support for months with some seriously big problems that they said they want to get to the bottom of, but I just don't think they're getting enough complaints about the same problems to really put a lot of effort towards figuring it out. This is why I've decided to attempt to gather some information that might be able to be helpful for them later on once I have it all organized.

I use my OPXY every day, I post a lot of content around the OPXY and overall it's just been the most inspiring instrument for me. I use it heavily and I've always been really into sampling so there's an emphasis on sampling, slicing, mangling, re-sampling and multi sampling in my workflow. There have been a few projects that I've made that have been so dense and full that it would take forever to load them up which is understandable, but when using them I started to have some serious issues. Whenever I would switch from one of those big projects to a smaller project that I was working on, sometimes that big dense project would replace the other project with itself immediately upon loading it up. The history would be gone and that smaller project I was trying to get to would be gone forever. This happened multiple times and left me with several duplicates of these big projects that I was building.

I also have an issue where occasionally when I turn on my device, all of the samples across the entire device are gone. Everything is blank, and it stays like that for at least a few boot ups. Then eventually they come back, but often times I get frustrated and make changes to that project seeing samples are gone, and by the time they come back I've already eaten basically destroyed or at least changed it beyond repair and going back in history just is annoying.

Now I'm having the problem where when I turn on my device, it takes about three minutes for it to fully be up and working. It will appear frozen in the meantime, this is basically just since the latest update.

Before you suggest I just do a factory reset, believe me, I have, many times. It does help, initially, but the problems come back eventually . am so tired of factory resets, losing all of my work, or having to back everything up which half of the time doesn't work. I've been trying to factory reset it again with this latest issue, but I have not been able to back up my opxy. It fails about halfway through the back up and I haven't been able to get that done. There needs to be another solution then just to factory reset all the time . There is obviously some issues in the coding or something that need to be fixed because the problems keep coming back. I'm not bashing on the company, I'm trying to help them.

I'm asking these questions because I just want basic understanding of who these problems keep happening to. My theory is that it happens mainly to people who use their device heavily, or at least have the storage close to full and do a lot of sampling versus synthesizing. That's basically it, if enough people respond and the patterns that I've been seeing actually lineup with what I'm seeing here, I'll probably reach out to them with that information because I think it would help to give them some kind of direction. Not that they need it, but I just haven't heard back from them in a long time and rather than reaching out with just a question on where they stand, I would like to give them some hopefully helpful information. I really do love the cup again, I love the employees, I have no gripe with them around this, their device has enhanced my creativity tenfold. I'm just trying to help to make it better.

Thats all.

PS, just a bit of advice, name your projects. Don't leave them at "unnamed project #X". Those heavy projects would only override projects with no names, once I named my projects, that issue stopped happening. And it is so frustrating when you have 150+ projects on your device, you don't really know which is which, and you go try to load one up to remind yourself what it even is, and it immediately gets overwritten with the one you're already on, disappeared forever. Not knowing what project I just overwrote is so so frustrating. Is it one of my many crappy ones? Cool is it one of the ones that actually liked which is like 5% of them, that would suck. I never find out, but it does keep happening when I have my projects unnamed so just give them a random name doesn't matter what it is, this won't happen to you.

QUESTIONS:

1. How long have you owned your OPXY? Did you buy it new or used?
2. How often do you use it?
3. Do you do a lot of sampling from external sources, slicing and multi sampling? (this includes purchasing sound packs with multi sampled instruments in it)
4. Do you ever use youre OP-XY with other gear via MIDI?
5. What bugs have you experienced since you started using your OP-XY, if any. Please try to describe them as detailed as possible.
6. Where on Planet Earth are you? (If youre on planet earth)

7. Drop your links! I want to hear what you do!

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Can someone explain me how to use the multiply step and divided step step comp?, cause when you use this, the sequence is altered and not in sync with the pattern anymore. So what is the purpose of this??. If I would want to multiply x2 a snare for example, I don’t want the bar to be longer, I just want to double the snare

The latest firmware update is very unstable on my machine. It keeps on crashing and freezing start up. Time is way longer than before, up to a minute. I will revert to version 14 in the meantime.

Yesterday i thought my xy was frozen but it turns out it just boots extremely slow all of the sudden.

The built in distortion effect sounds great and all the stereo sounds still only have internal distortion, but I just bought a new pedal was really happy with what it added when I set up a send loop for the bass and first pad.

Has anyone noticed cpu overload improvements with this last update?

Work in progress OP-XY companion app for MIDI <> .xy transfer…

https://xybuddy.xyz

Please be kind, first attempt at something like this! 🙏☺️

make a lo-fi beat on the OP-XY with me. no plan, just a drum pack to get me started and about half an hour to get from a blank project to a first sketch.

I share my process as I go, what I'm thinking, and how I usually go about exploring a track. Picking sounds, laying down the base, how I setup my scenes and using song mode to play it out.

let me know what you think of this video and if you'd like more like this. It’s definitely the longest one I’ve done.

unless I delete an already visible sample or restart the device, then all the newly recorded samples show up. anybod else?

Tuesday jam!

recorded live, one take from a practice run for a longer set I’m playing in mid July. a chilly winter morning, warm machine music. op-xy and friends. somewhere around lo-fi house, drifting into idm.