I don’t understand why on the OP-XY they have limited the number of patterns per track to 9…
Is it because the limited RAM on the device ?
I mean… why did they do that, i expect the runtime to have enough memory available on a damn 2K+ device…
I really hope i am wrong and this is not a memory limitation, and that they will increase the number of patterns to at least 16…
No one knows. Probably the same reason patterns can only hold 120 notes regardless of how long they are.
Ram shouldn’t be a problem here I guess. On Digitakt 1 there was 64 mb of ram and we could have 16 patterns per bank x 8 banks of I remember correctly.
Yes, i was thinking the same when i was writing this post.
But then… what’s the reason ? they liked number 9 ? 
It might be due to having to turn a knob to switch patterns and how accurate that is when dealing with a large number of patterns. It’s quite fiddly even now to fast switch accurately, say from pattern 1 to 7 if you’ve got 9 patterns recorded.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love more than 9 patterns per track though.
The fast switching only really applies if you’re wanting to switch patterns live, when you use scenes to make your songs, then that problem doesn’t exist as you’re pre-programming your pattern selections.