Better sample management would be great, I’m having a lot of issues browsing samples and loading stuff in.
P-locking of drum sampler M1 page parameters.
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Some way of muting and unmuting tracks that doesn’t require two hands.
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Please make the OP-XY step components green, like those on the OP-Z, to make it easier to identify active steps!!! White is difficult to distinguish. If green isn’t possible, I know the sequencer has a red LED. It’s already frustrating that I can’t erase all step components at once, forcing me to locate them based on the brightness of white.
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I support this wish.
I wish it made better use of led colors in general like the op-z.
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I definitely agree with you. I think TE will do it, hopefully soon.
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Just had a couple of gigs where I used the OP-XY live for the first time. I think it’s really great and the form factor is such a plus for gigs where space is limited.
Really the only thing that is feeling very limiting is the inability to mute individual drum sounds. Many things I wish for this machine but this is the only thing that I feel is absolutely needed.
For those who are mainly focused on producing tracks this might not be such a big deal but for live performance I think it’s absolutely essential.
And I can’t think of any other groove box (other than op-z I think) that use this solution either so seems like a weird choice to me.
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Well you can just have each drum sound on its own track then so it’s more like the op-z. I’m not sure how they can possibly support muting individual drum sounds if they share the same track.
This will never happened. This would broke their design idea. Black white and red. Design over functionality. This is TE.
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I suppose red would be better than white for the step components if they believe green would conflict with their design philosophy. Since red is only used during recording, I don’t see an issue.
Random name for projects would be great!
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Sure, that is what I’m (and most others from what I understand) doing. However, this very much limits a lot of the performance features that are available.
Individual sample volume could be turned down or samples could be deactivated or probably many other solutions. I don’t think it’s very unusual to have a kit structure on a track and have individual mutes for the sounds.
Can’t you already turn down the volume for individual samples?
Yeah maybe they could do something with the track buttons to support mutes per sample.
Yeah you can. Just not in a very practical way when performing. If it could be mapped to a controller that would already help a lot.
Yes, I think that would be ideal.
You never know but I feel pretty optimistic we’ll see some solution in the future. Imo the machine is currently a bit in between ideas that are not fully developed. Maybe they find a completely different path that doesn’t involve muting individual samples but that still achieves similar flexibility when performing:)
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the drum instrument is weird… on the one hand, TE gives us stock kits with 24 different sounds, implying that you could put the whole beat on just one track, but in practice I find it very fiddly to look at the steps and not instantly know which drum is on which steps. So I typically dedicate a track to each drum sound, usually the first 4 tracks.
When you looking at the muting functionality, it feels like this might be more how it was intended and its hard for me to imagine a fluid way of muting individual parts (notes) considering its already a button combo just to mute the entire track.
then again, one feature i’d really like for the drum instrument is being able to automate pitch and even though the muting seems to prioritize thinking of it as a monophonic instrument, its polyphonic nature really complicates how that would be implemented as well…
drum instrument is trying to have it both ways and coming up short!
edit: also forgot to mention… step components prioritize this “monophonic” way of thinking…
I would like to see the ability to copy whole bars. Let’s say I have a pattern with two bars 1 and 2. Now I want to create new pattern and swap these bars. Copy bar 2 into bar 1 in a new pattern. Something what we can easily do in Elektron.
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That would definitely be nice.
I think this is super essential! Don’t know why it’s not mentioned more.
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The missing easy muting option is a very highly demanded requirement. I try to use scenes for that, but it becomes very unhandy when you want to use punch-in effects in parallel to build up transitions or drops, for example.
Idea:
- Having a Shift option for the Tempo button (once set, you rarely change anything there), which sets everything to “Mute Mode” or “Live Mode.”
- Then track lights (1–8) representing the rhythm of each track, so you can more easily identify which track plays what rhythms.
- Alternatively, use the lowest keyboard row for that lighting and use track buttons for EQ, FX, and so on.
- For drums, press and hold the track (i.e. Track 1) to access mute for individual sample tracks. While holding, you can of course still mute other instrument tracks.
- While in Live Mode, you could use the grey encoders to map macros to any function — e.g. FX, EQ, or Saturator.
- On top, a loop recorder mode to record and play synced loops up to 4 bars.
- Combined with a MIDI controller to steer mixer track levels, everything would be ready for live performances.
While I’m writing, some additional requirements others mentioned before:
- Second LFO. I assume the CPU is capable of handling that easily, plus enabling all parameters to be modulated (pitch, velocity, attack, etc.).
- Grain FX.
- FX per track (of course).
- Editable punch-in FX. After one year I barely use them anymore. Idea: assign step components to the slots and make parameters editable or even regular fx parameter.
- Separate audio out tracks for each track.
- To have one track as an audio (instrument) track for recording more than 21s samples on top of a beat. I don’t understand why this is missing, as they positioned XY as the master brain with CV output options and more — but I can’t integrate a recording of an external instrument’s output.
- Time-stretching and chopping of samples.
- Sample/preset browser is way under expectations. I might be sticking my neck out, but to code a simple multilevel file structure with help of LLM is about 20 minutes effort.
I really like the OP-XY overall, but it feels unnecessarily limited in many areas. And I guess that’s what most people feel. How many more devices would they sell if YouTubers didn’t always end with the verdict: “Very nice device, BUT …”
Everything is there — why not leverage the capabilities? People would surely even pay for such updates. Alternatively, offer an SDK for signed partners or the open source community if TE doesn’t have the dev muscle to handle the effort.
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