Teenage Engineering today introduced the OP-XY, a new portable instrument that features a powerful sequencer, synthesizer, and sampler.
It’s a little bit like an OP-Z on steroids. Here’s what they have to say about it:
“we know you’ve had wet fantasies about a no-compromise, dual-cpu boosted and fully rebuilt sequencer, sampler, and performance instrument, based on the much-loved workflow of the OP–Z.
now including built-in cv, effect sends, and a best-in-class dac. with 8 individual instrument tracks and 8 auxiliary tracks for controlling any external synthesizer, modular or otherwise, and adding effects. we dare to say it’s probably the most complete, portable sequencer ever built.
it’s here. it’s real. it’s black. and it’s got so much more than you’ve wished for.”
The basic form factor is the same as the OP-1 field, but the focus of the OP-XY is on ‘serious sequencing’.
Teenage Engineering OP-XY Intro Video:
Here’s the unusual promo video:
Features:
- 8 unique synth engines
- New drum sampler
- Multisampler
- Synth sampler
- 4 filter types
- 24-voice multitimbral synthesis
- Players per track
- Instant sampling
- 6 built-in FX
- Master eq
- Master saturator
- Master compressor and limiter
- Stereo signal path
- Brain – intelligent transposer
- 24 punch-in FX for performance
- Creative tape looper
- 2 sequenceable built-in FX slots
- MIDI channels selectable per track
- 10 000+ project files with version history
- 16-track, 64-step step sequencer with 4 pages
- Powerful step components
- 9 patterns per track, 99 scenes song mode with 9 songs per project
- Presets per pattern
- 10 grooves for creative swing
- USB-C audio/MIDI host and device
- Audio-out – a multi-out jack, for cv, midi, audio and sync out
- MIDI-in
- Audio-in
- Built-in speaker
- Built-in mic
- Smooth parameter locks
- 1920 PPQN
- Pressure sensitive pitchbend
- Bluetooth LE MIDI
- Microtonal tuning
- Performance gyroscope
Pricing and Availability:
The Teenage Engineering OP-XY is available now for $2,299 USD.
pseudo DAF video?
Yes, here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSL1nXza7pM
very groovy!
Is it April 1st somewhere? It has to be. Right?
maybe if im a verrrryyyy good girl my wife will get me one ;-:
absolutely not, much no. fourfold price hike over op-z. op-1F was twofold. Might have gone for it if op-xy were twofold, but this is ableton push plus suite territory, *plus* an op-z. nonreplaceable battery does not help either.
2400 bucks for a raspberry in a plastic box ! let’s go hipsters ! 😀
it uses two Blackfin DSPs, but ok dude
This is made for people who commute. You can scratch the itch and do it all neatly in one box.
But in the studio for real jamming, live sequencing…. This has nothing to offer but handicapping you into looking through a straw. Cirklon would be a better investment.
Cirklon is a sequencer. It doesn’t do anything else.
Looks great in black.
Way too expensive…never understood a concept of all-in-small-gadgets..
I travel constantly and having an all in one device for me is crucial. I make so much music on buses, trains, planes, hotels.
This is made for moustachioed gentleman. I have just ordered three.
Everybody loves a built-in mic and speaker…
The only people that will end up with one of these are the Youtube shills who get them for free lol.
Every electronic music gear manufacturer makes high-end gear for professionals, and it makes hobbyists brains explodes.
There are people whose time is more valuable than the money, and they buy whatever they think will be useful.
It’s been this way forever.
So this expensive toy-box is a high-end for professionals. Ok
Clearly you don’t understand what it is tho ?
Absolutely you are right. I do not understand those TE gimmicks. And I no don’t want to.
And you have no idea what a “high-end for professionals” really means.
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Alessandro Cortini did an entire album on the og OP-1. Depeche Mode and Bon Iver have used one as well.
“high-end gear for professionals” is a Moog One. This is just another TE hipster toy to get shilled to oblivion by the usual Youtubers. TE just riding on that Covid $1600 for an OP1 craze. You know it, I know it, the dude that isnt dancing on the second video knows it, we all know it.
I buy quite a bit of higher end gear, this is not about how high the price is, but what you get for it. It makes no sense for just about anyone, considering similar products out there.
As nice as 8GB of sample memory sounds on paper, I won’t pay $2300 for it.
The video is AI or made to look AI (see Super Panavision on YouTube).
Did they send the phrase “ayrton senna dancing” to the Ai ?
XD
Lovely design but $2300 are you serious. TE is a lifestyle brand moonlighting as a musical instrument company. On the plus side this ridiculous price means the good ideas in it will be adopted by other designers at a fraction of the cost.
People saying ‘it’s for professionals’ – GMAFB, the Octatrack is ~15 years old and there are many other super-flexible options on the market. It’s neat that it’s compact, portable, and battery powered, but you give up ergonomics, performance controls, and i/o.
$799 ok
$999 still acceptable for the TE fans
$2300 you were taken for a fool $1300 ago
For those who complain about the price: look at the specs and features again! They are great!
There are some good specs but considering you can get 2 MPC keys or 2 MPC LIve2 or 3 iPads with hundreds of great Apps and some accesories for less…
An absolute beauty. Hard (ok, impossible) for me to justify at the price but as an “only instrument you have on a desert island” instrument? Yes, please.
Don’t be mad at TE; be mad at your salary/boss/economic system/parents/past decisions/whatever. They ask for what feels like ‘a lot’ for their instruments but 1) so does rolex/bmw/etc and 2) it’s not like they’re gauging thirsty people for a jug of water.
I believe the earlier displayless model flopped hard and now TE are trying to make that money back!
This is of course a much better product but the peice compared to the competition makes no sense!
This is fun. A computer music thingy that is not high-end at all – (of course). But if anybody finds a proper use for it – it has filled its purpose.
Personally I cannot use things like this – I need real keyboards and control. I do not need machines to make chords for me. But then I cannot blame Teenage Engineering for not living up to their name.
The price? Totally fun.
I on the other hand, don’t know how to make a chord (ambient producer) and enjoy an Omnipresent Lifestyle and an ironic moustache who’s upkeep costs more than tuition fees for an Ivy League institution. This will be pumped through Make Noise Bruxa and Mutable Clouds, modulated by 13x MakeNoise Maths (not a clone).
Truelly I LOVE Teenage Engineering
looks very nice
way out of my range in price.
seems like its more worth 1000-1500
Why would someone buy a Mercedes when they could by two Corollas for the same price? I’m so angry at the price of Mercedes vehicles that I think anyone who would even consider buying one is an idiot and deserves ridicule. Don’t they know they could buy two Corollas for the same price?