r/OPXYusers

An original track I made solely on the Teenage Engineering OP-XY.

Just figured I'd throw something together to show how cool this FX wizard actually is. It's been sitting on my shelf for months collecting dust, and I really wish I tried this out earlier! A cool little sidekick.

Ohpee exwhy

Disclaimer: I haven’t had this knocking about in my bag yet so I don’t know what state it would be in after several months, but it seems pretty sturdy to me. Has anyone used this as a case? Has it remained in one piece?

This one was quite a challenge to figure out how to get that classic plucky trance sound, but I am really pleased with the final result. All sounds are from the factory synths and samples. The Trance pluck and strings are connected to the gyroscoop to create some filter movement and tonal changes. Recorded into Logic Pro with a little loudness bump on the master. Enjoy… and hopefully a nice trip down to memory lane :)

Made this one recently and it’s genuinely become one of my favorite things I’ve written on the OP-XY. The PR groove gives it a feel I love, and the variations from Brain are kind of magical.

It’s my birthday today and this is the first Cartridge of Season 2, so I’m giving the full .xy project away free at khordmaster.com

Would love to hear what you all think!

Hi! You may be familiar with the OP-PatchStudio

The project has been abandoned for a while, as the author is focusing on other projects. I just got my OP-XY and took a little time to add some functionality and fix some of the major bugs.

→ App: https://maxupp.github.io/op-patchstudio/ → Code: https://github.com/maxupp/op-patchstudio

Changelog:

• Re-worked the multi sample workflow quite a bit. Drag&Drop notes to the piano roll works now. Replaced the simplistic, and quite frankly relatively useless, auto assignment functionality with a pitch-detection and a better filename inference logic.

• Added the previously missing ability to specify the octave for a multisample preset. Meaning when you load up a bass patch, the track might start off at octave -2, instead of defaulting to 0.

• Added explanations to most of the controls and field that were previously quite cryptic.

• Fixed some of the bigger issues reported to the original project:

  • #110 — leaving a drum slot empty shifted every later sample down a key in the exported preset, so kits played back out of order on the device
  • #109 — marker drags no longer die when the cursor leaves the waveform
  • #97 — "assign from names" for the drum tool (kick/snare/hihat etc.)
  • #106 — "auto set start" trims the dead air off in-app recordings

Before you ask: Yes, most of this is Claude Code, credit to my employer who allows private usage of our Max licenses ;)

Given the beautiful response and support from the community for the triad graphics, and how tricky it would be to create one for the other chord qualities, I created a triad web tool (free): https://vjxy.app/triads/

You can see the same info in this graphic but you can also pick other qualities such as major, minor, diminished, augmented, etc. You can also pick a scale, or tap out what you are playing to find one, and see just the triads in it.

Let me know what you think, and if you have ideas to expand (or for other mini tools like this) please share!

I added a mini tool within the tool to know what scale I'm in by tapping two or more notes. That's been super useful to me, and I never found nice looking ones online. Might spin it into its own, and its coming to the VJ-XY app in future updates.

u/-melo- posted recently an amazing video on triads and their inversions on OP-XY and OP1-Field, and with this blessing went ahead and prepared a graphic to have them all visible at once. In case reddit is compressing the image, it is also available in full res and PDF at https://vjxy.app/resources/

Open to feedback, and if there's enough requests for an OP-1 Field one, I might get around to do that as well (although the notes are the same hehe).

Edit: the F that should be D has been fixed in the downloadables.