Lets hope for a propper drum synth soon. Given that sequencer, its a rhythmic machine. Op-1 is more the melodic machine. So please give us a drum synth that gives the machinedrum a run for its money.
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a 2nd page for the synth OSC
for more depth
An OSC patching between synth engines,
so each track with synth engines can be ‘‘patched’’ as in FM/PM/Ring/Sync between OSC
Granular/wave table/Drum/Speech
2nd LFO
Fold / Comb /LPG filters
Pitch envl
Envelope follower
with multiple scales of output with multiple destinations options
A built in decimator/frequency/ aliasing scaling /dither quantization into the samplers
Rotate tracks
Solo/mute groups
More FX More & envelope types,
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2nd LFO would be a huge addition after the last update, due to the new ducking LFO. I want to add that to every track but not have it take away my only modulation source for the synth.
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Aww … you need the LFO for the ducking effect 
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geez thought that it had its own division thing ..
then I’ll add would like to see the
side chain be a audio bus …
much more dynamically musical in most scenarios..
Also zero point detection on sample points..
would also like
loop in on drum kits sample slots + include envelope /filter bypass options
It be nice to have sample reverse once the start point passes sample end-point …
and bunch more …
but who am I kidding Im basically describing a tonverk
crossing fingers that next OS (this month makes sense) will be superb 
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+1 for Envelope follower!
Ability to rename a patch seems like low hanging fruit.
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The OS developer /programmer did mention the possibility of a 2nd LFO in a stream about that last update … it be awesome!
He also did comment that real-time timestreacthing would possibly be too taxing on CPU unless really LoFi
To expand on this I would like to suggest another sampler option
Elastic LoFi ..
Basically a real-time timestreatch of a loaded ‘‘single sample’’ at low quality ‘‘charghter’’ with the option (once required tempo/pitch has been achieved real-time) to process the audio
offline render in high quality ..
This way it’s not taxing on the CPU
''only one note poly sample engine playing back in a lo resolution
(still can be fun with some added features to jiggle the format/character)
while still adding high quality timestreaching onboard the XY
On this note FX’s that could do similar (and is just an all around awesome FX to have on everything from drums & synths to vocals is
Pitch Shifter and a Harmonizer
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And f applicable it be amazing to
set the sample resolution for each track independently,
the XY sound very HiFi, like 5th generation VA, the Micro Korg 2 has a similar vibe to its sound its like its oversampled or has a very high rate of clocking and dithering the 0&1s ..
To me its one of the fundamentals thats is always missing in DAW like hardwere,
sure they have a bit reduction FX but being able to scale this at core level sounds different, from Pitch scales to the way the OSC animate
Like run your FM at 8 bit you drum kit a 6bit 12khz you hairdryer synth at the internal 32 bit … etc. it just brings more authenticity to a hardware workstation sound as it makes it sound like a track was created from multiple sources, if it would save allot CPU taxing then Id say its worth a look … although it may be way too late in the code stage to apply this …
My apologizes for the gear lust fantasy rant ..
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I love the idea of time stretching being static. Something like the Polyend tracker or M8, where you have a basic sample editing suite and you can print one or more effects onto it and create and save a totally new sample. Being able to have the base sample on the XY and then creating timestretched versions on the device would be awesome.
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I’ll add one more thing and IMO this would be satisfactory to even the most demanding of us in sound design ..
New Synth Engine with audio input:
Wave folding and Waveshapeer with drive
in a dual OSC system where the OSC can be replaced with an input from one of the instrument tracks
Use an OSC to cross modulate (FM AM) the 2nd OSC or crossmodulate an audio input from one of the instrument tracks or use two instrument inputs
cross modulate and feed them through a waveshaper and a wave folder (it works as like a filter) with some drive .. it’s a stellar combination in euro rack and has ton of timber potential ..
Haveing this ‘‘eurorack chain / synth engine’’ on a separate instrument channel where you can trigger ‘‘gate’’ the input and ‘‘CV’’ the pitch of the modulation in a polymetric manner with live input would just be a dream 
if not applicable; a wavefolder/shaper and drive option in the samplers as standard feature would be superb!
Is it safe to say we’ll get multichannel audio over usb since the Op-1 field just got it? It would make my life more content if it’s on the advent calendar. 
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hahahaha that’s not going to happen
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I think it’s highly possible. Remember when the og OP-1 got usb audio support like 4 years after release? Maybe 2014 when we had the ohpewonforum? 
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I’m trying to record with the OP-XY and TP-7, and with other instruments via the TX-6, but it’s hard to iterate without re-recording the entire track over and over again.
It would be amazing if there was a shared transport / arrangement playhead between the OP-XY and TP-7 so that overdubbing and punch-ins can be controlled via the OP-XY.
Currently they feel like loosely clock-linked devices. It would be amazing if they had a more cohesive recording workflow.
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You can’t sync tempo over bluetooth with the TP-7?
USB audio was like 10yrs after it released. I received definitive “no” each time I asked te about it in the years prior then one day they did it.
Drum synth would be a dream come true.
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i’m curious why you say so
seems doable to me but i’m not holding my breath
there’s one dude coding both the xy and the 1f. he just dropped a huge update to the xy, and then went over to work on this update to the 1f. yes i have no idea of what happens inside TE. i would guess that there’s no way this one dude coded an xy update at the same time he was coding a 1f update.
as well on top of that, the complexity of tracking out the xy is a lot more crazy than the 1f, so added to him already being busy with the 1f code, the task of making this happen on the xy isn’t a more trivial task, instead its a way more complex task that would take even more time. so on top of thinking the xy will get tracked out, thinking this will drop now is also less likely.
however, lots of people are saying on reddit that there will be an xy update tomorrow. we are all just guessing that’s for sure.
my personal opinion: back at superbooth this past spring TE kept teasing a huge firmware upgrade across all field devices that makes them work together better. that never happened in one big chunk. i think what it was going to be was multitrack out from 1f and xy and all the devices were going to play together nicely with the tx and tp. then something happened on the xy development which kept this guy busy with other things. the huge firmware update across all devices didn’t happen. and now he’s getting back to that roadmap… eventually.
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My guess is that the one big thing for making them work together better is the Bluetooth syncing, which I think was only missing from the OP-1F until this update. I havent had a chance to test multiple devices synced this way since the update, but it would make things a LOT easier if true.
yeah anybody hoping it’s the next drop will probably be disappointed…
didn’t know op1f + xy dev “team” overlapped! even more reason to be patient
i keep wondering about this and conceptually been bouncing around scenarios since tx6 release with OPZ in mind
Z + XY both exceed the track count of their OP cousins
but to me the mixer page for each should be the blueprint for routing and deciding what’s available via usb
compare with what’s now been made available for op1f:
- 2ch stereo
- 8ch (tape tracks 1-4)
- 10ch (tape 1-4 and stereo main output)
xy could follow that pattern by adopting the following:
- 2ch stereo
- 16ch (instrument tracks 1-8)
only complication would be figuring out whether to have a direct output from tape, fx1 or 2 somehow (a few instrument tracks could be summed to mono making empty slots for these others)
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