The OP-XY Just Blew My Mind!

I get it now.. The Magic of the OP-XY Is in the wild sequencing features it has. Step components, sequenceable punch-in fx, chord transposing, all that and more. So today I'm showing you how I made one of my coolest tracks just trying to learn these features while reading the manual.

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00:00 Yo!
00:25 The song and what we're covering.
01:17 Step 1: Step Components
02:51 Step 2: The Maestro effect
04:14 Step 3: The Brain Transposer
05:10 Part 4: Punch-In Effects
06:30 This is kind of weird tho :/
07:39 Part 5: Song Mode
08:52 Laust In the Sauce

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[peterbondmusic]

Mine arrived yesterday and I've had very little sleep. XY is mind bogglingly deep (in the best way). So inspiring. Thanks for posting these XY videos Ricky, they have been helpful in getting into it all.

[RoryRonde]

I will very likely never buy it but what a desirable piece of tech haha. It’s the Porsche of Dawless musicboxes.

[simontoogood]

The OP-XY Just Blew My because its so fucking expensive!!

[mdeerocks]

I did 180 on this one and ordered mine yesterday. Not because of this video (just a bit) but because I think it's fun.

[HNDCRAFTED]

The OPz is a hell of a lot of fun. These ‘components’ or sequencing macros as I call them are in trackers, things like the chord strumming ate in Live and other plugins.
I really think for groove boxes and sequences these macro edits are going to become more and more popular. I can see the next Elektron or Polyend boxes having a big list to choose from and maybe one or two bars will be all you need. Economy sequencing lol
The price is silly but things are worth what people will pay, and TE isn’t a charity. I can see Roland extending this idea in an affordable way. But if you want the design, thought and graphics, you are going to have to pay a premium to TE.

[heystrictunit]

This is why I use the OP-Z for all my synths. I’m not a keyboard player, and I don’t know music theory, but I have melodies in my head, and the OP-Z is the only device that helps me bring them to life. That’s why I bought the OP-XY the moment it went live on the TE store.

[MidlifeSynthesist]

I love that Youtube exists so that I can enjoy all of what the OP-XY can do through the viewpoint of an amazing host like Ricky (without spending a dime I might add). I can’t afford one, but I also couldn’t afford any of the lamborginis that Top Gear reviewed, and that never took away from my enjoyment of watching Jeremy doing donuts in them. Lots of love brother❤️ please keep sharing more!!🙌🏻

[meanwhilebackattheranch]

hope it blows more than just your mind for that price

[xairvideo]

Reading through the manual, similar to the EP133 you can press + or - to cue up the scene which should keep your brain timings correct. Shift and the scene number jumps in the middle which maybe by design can throw off timing. Great videos btw looking forward to picking one up eventually

[allthatforwhat]

Most of the comments can be summerized as:

I want this
I can't have this
I hate this

[hasan]

I needed to see this, the fun parts. Everyone is concerned with the price and rightly so. But the funnest, not best, device I ever bought years ago was the OP-1. I used it all the time no matter what other gear I had. I now have a polybrute, mpc live, deluge, sp404 and a bunch of modular gear and I still use my OP-1 field the most. Its just fun and thats something that gets lost in the price which is really "value to you" when you get beyond the number. That price is crazy but the value:fun ratio is pretty high from what im seeing. Thanks Ricky.

[Alphonso_]

No idea what you are talking about, but man that closed hat every two bars is dope!

[maikvanrossum]

Really enjoying to see you at work and also to learn from your ‘generic’ tips and tricks… but that’s it (for this video).

[enfinitesimal]

Hey Ricky, thanks for the video! You should be able to reset the "playhead" of a track by placing a Jump step component = 0, if it's like the OP-Z. The OP-Z's manual has a table that describes the different settings (section 6.4) including the Ramp thing you were wondering about.

[WHATISPOLITICS]

i’m surprised no one (that i know of!) has added that cool transpose function to their devices - it’s been in OP-Z for years and is awesome (though it didn’t always work so great in OP-Z). don’t know they haven’t added it to elektron devices

[SRDhain]

A great vibe on that track, Ricky. Thank you for sharing 👍

With regards to this instrument, after watching/ listening to many videos,   the pros are that it sounds great, the workflow is smooth, and it looks (and most likely feels) like a premium product.

The cons are the price & the workflow.

No matter which way you look at it, 80 to 90% of musicians wont buy it due to that. But it could be argued that many upper tier studio instruments (I'm thinking of some beautiful, heavyweight- literally- analog polysynths) are in a similar category.

The workflow itself palls in leiu of the usual DAW & controller scenarios & even the Akai keys / hardware UX/ UI. But maybe that's the idea, as to ease you into a different workflow, which does look like it could be fun if you feel the vibe.

T.E. always do things differently, as do.elektron, whose boxes i sadly cannot find a way to work for me. But limitations can be a wonderful thing. I've written tracks just using monosynths with no way to store patches(using one of them as a drum/percussion unit), and it pushes you into a discipline that'll help you creatively, if you're feeling the flow.

Ultimately, it's horses for courses and whilst i have no idea whether I'd use or buy one of these, i respect the creativity and risk taken to bring this to market.

[moolder]

Those strummed cords playing pads are a great idea. I guess I can recreate that on the keystep 37. will try later 🙂

[larryboy]

can you use maestro itself (without Brain) to enter different chords at various steps in the sequence, in other words arrange a custom chord progression within a key (with maybe a few notes out of key) then have Brain transpose that chord progression, and all the relative notes like the lead track, to a different key in subsequent sections?

[nitefly-music]

There is a key combo or sequence to start patterns and probably scenes at first step after the current one ends.

[niccogulie]

Have watched your videos for years YOURE THE BEST!