Has anyone had one of the greyscale screens of death since the new update? The one you see where the XY locks up when loading or browsing samples?
Not yet, luckily, but I have found a bug which I will let TE know about when I’ve investigated more.
Basically drum copy and paste isn’t working for me all of the time.
I’m using a drum sampler to trigger 2, 4 or 8 bar loops and when I go to copy and paste one of those loops, it doesn’t get pasted. On short 1-shot samples such as drum hits, it does.
I’ll make a report tomorrow if I can’t solve it.
On a positive note I’m loving the scene clone
Thanks for the update!
.29 honestly feels like a new machine to me. I haven’t had any crashes, and I’ve thrown everything at it. I feel like this is where it was supposed to be at launch, but I’m happy with how steady the updates have arrived. It’s been bumpy, but they’re clearly listening and addressing some major issues.
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Good to know, I’m feeling better about ordering another XY and giving this another go now that things seem to be a lot more stable. 
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You’re welcome.
I’ve not solved it yet, nor sent a report yet, but I did have an even weirder bug which has now vanished. I think I know what caused it. This is what happened.
I was in work and went to show a colleague the OP-XY, so powered it up and I accidentally pressed a key briefly during power up. A message flashed up in the top left of the screen saying “factory init”. I’d already let go of the key by this point.
The OP-XY booted normally (apart from the factory init message) and I played them a short burst of my current project/song and then I shut it down.
A few hours later I turned it on, and didn’t press any keys during boot up. Earlier it had been an accident. I can’t remember what key I’d accidentally pressed.
Anyway it starts to boot up, and that same message appears. The project loaded ok except for one weird thing - its name was now called “untitled”, like it would be if it was a new project.
The song was all there with its patterns, it had just lost it name, and was now called “untitled”
So I shut down, rebooted, and the same thing kept happening. So I created a new, blank project and named it something random and then saved it.
I then shut down and rebooted. That blank project loaded but it was also named “untitled” now.
Each time I rebooted that “factory init” message appeared. Each time the renamed project that I had saved was named “untitled “ despite me giving it a name and saving it.
In desperation I tried the following, which worked.
I briefly pressed the COM button after turning it on, and the “factory init” message didn’t appear. I went back to my original project/song - the one I’d shown to my colleague, and it reloaded fine, including with its proper title.
So a very weird bug. The “factory init” message scared me into thinking that all my projects and samples would be gone. I’ve made plenty of backups to my Mac, so could have recovered most of my work.
So please be careful and don’t touch any buttons during boot up.
I am going to copy this and email TE about it. I don’t fancy trying to recreate this bug. I wish I knew what key I’d accidentally pressed during that boot up in work. I do know 100% that it wasn’t the COM key, but one to the left of the device.
I honestly love this device. It’s one of the best music making devices I’ve ever bought, and I’ve bought (and sold) quite a few over the years.
Thanks btw for making some great YouTube videos. Always informative and well put together 
Drum copy paste bug update.
Forget the bar length of the sample. This is the copy / paste bug.
You can’t copy / paste ANY sample to an empty drum sample slot. Which is what you’d normally want to do.
When I’d tried to copy my 4 or 8 bar loops,
I’d assumed it was the length.
It wasn’t. When sample copy and paste had worked, I’d been using a preset drum kit and using the copy to copy a sample I’d loaded into one of the other used slots. So the copy and then pasted sample was overwriting a sample already there.
My problem arose when I had created a new empty drum kit. I had loaded 4 sample loops and wanted to copy and paste one of those. All other slots were empty and it wouldn’t copy.
I’ve recreated this bug. Create an empty drum kit and load a sample. Try and copy and paste that sample to another slot and it won’t copy. Load any other sample to that empty slot, go back to the sample u want to copy and paste that to the now occupied slot. The paste works perfectly but it won’t paste to an empty slot.
I’ll contact TE later when I get home
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This bug has been reported- It was talked about yesterday on the elektron forums
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You pressed the COM key. This happened to me too repeatably. I sent TE a video of it happening over and over, and they couldn’t reproduce it sadly.
Thanks for the kind words!
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Ah I wasn’t aware. Hopefully a fix won’t take too long
Are you sure you did not read “init file system”? This message is pretty normal and is displayed briefly at every start.
Nope. That message was also displayed at the bottom of the screen as normal, as well as the factory init message on the top left.
It happened several times as well so I had several chances to see it.
I can see why you thought I may have confused the messages but as they were both on screen at the same time, I didn’t.
I wish I’d taken a picture of it for TE and also the forum.
It looks like this:
That’s the message I saw
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I have this exact problem too! Any tricks to fix it?
Not yet. Hopefully they will fix it in the next update. For now I’ve just used preset drum kits and then load my samples into the already occupied slots.
My second XY arrived earlier this week and I ran into this bug as well on 1.0.29. I was FOR SURE not touching any of the buttons this time while powering on too.
Sorry to hear that, but at the same time at least it proves I wasn’t going mad.
It’s an odd bug, and one that I’ve not experienced since. Hopefully you won’t either.
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No crashes as of yet.
Plenty of own samples including a fair amount of 19s long ones.
Much mashing of step components and performance effects.
Sods law tells me it will hang on next boot up.
<hurrah…it fired up fine>