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In Reel you can record 4 different tracks or loops and play them either synced or out of phase with each other. You can also add warble, tape hiss etc.

​@@Shimmery.mp3Can you endless overdub each track? Bounce tracks down to a single track? Time limitations? Sorry for the questions it's hard to find documentation on the GitHub...I must be overlooking it

Thank you so much! Yeah I am sure Keys will be a future classic! It’s so much value in this small box ❤️

Thank you so much ☺️

You’re so good! The guy that makes $0 on his TH-cam account is a shill. I make these videos for the community. Not coz I have to. Fantastic work, sir! You got me!

@@Shimmery.mp3 Please don't listen to this negativity. So grateful for all of your content. So informative and helpful.

That makes me so happy to hear! Thanks 😊

Koala would be a good partner for the XY for sure. Love that app! Yeah that’s how I feel too about TE. There’s usually a way to get where you want to go :) glad you’re enjoying the videos! Cheers ❤️

So stoked for you! Hope you’ll enjoy it and thanks a million for the support my friend! 🙏❤️

I feel like there are quality of life improvements to be made like scene copying but still there are a lot of instruments out there that have a clunkier song mode than the XY. So I don’t think it’s a big problem

@@Shimmery.mp3at £1900 it’s a big problem. My old Casio RZ1 had a better implemented song mode

Yeah you have to record it in a daw(ableton) and then add drums or pair it with a drum machine. No way to do both in Plinky alone

Sample some drums and use the granular sampler, or use the noise envelope and play with adsr, then sequence or arp and sequence the arp? Plinky is so deep, there is a way for sure. Ours arrives soon and then we shall see if these ideas can make beat sounds.

You sure can design drums on Plinky. I have a video on instagram and sell a sample pack of it actually! Plinky is the best :) hope you enjoy it!

@Shimmery.mp3 any link?

@@Shimmery.mp3 I want yo create ambient drones.

Thank you! Yes that is pretty hidden away. If you hold shift and click the second knob to the right a few times it should say ”loop off”. Glad you like the video :)

It is a very powerful module :)

Thank you so much! ☺️

Thank you this made me so happy! ❤️ Will definitely make more vids like this :) just trying to get well from my cold 🤧

@ wishing you wellness mate

Thanks buddy 🙏❤️

Thanks for being awesome! ❤️

Thank you for watching my videos and welcome to the XY club! Hope you’ll enjoy it 🙏

Love looping guitar through OP-1! It’s not as easy as a looper pedal but the happy accidents are awesome 🤩

@@Shimmery.mp3 I meant to say this would make it useful for guitar looping haha. But yeah I see what you mean

Good question! I don’t think it’s hollow at all. It has great range and the sound quality is very good. I think a few very loud people think it sounds hollow since some of the synths are FM engines. FM tends to have a bit of that character. But there’s so much more here. You got analog emulations, samplers that can sound however you want and if that’s not enough you got a drive section that beefs up the tone. But if you’re looking for a vintage MPC60 AD converters that is ofcourse not what you get in the XY. It’s a modern well sounding groove box

Happy you got inspired from my video AND got your XY!!! Have fun with this awesome machine!

How so? This thing is light years beyond ableton move in design and function.

Dont go by the look. This thing is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy more powerful then the devices you mentioned. Theres a two hr deep dive on this by one of the creators and trust me 2300 bucks is exactly what id charge if id created this.

Rick is a legend! Glad you liked the video :) have a great day!

I havn’t found a way to get a fully blank track, no. The blank present idea is a very good idea 👍

You’re welcome! :) recieved some great workaround ideas from some heroes here in the comment section. You can change the scaling of the sequencer so it basically shows both bars in one. Or try to use the ”player” called Hold.

Love mad scientist questions 😄 absolutely you could record vocals and you can get it to work - and it would be glorious - but it might be a bit of a headache to get it right. But would loooove to see it happen! Let me know if you try 🙏

@ my op xy is back ordered, but it should arrive in January, hopefully. For now I will be meditating on the most amazing beats and vocal lines to punctuate the melodic synthetic rhythms for my musical adventure in 2025

That is a very cool idea! Go for it! Since XY has 24 voices you can have several resamples from one drum engine playing at the same time.

Ok, question. I can probably look it up in the manual, but how do you make each key in a drum sampler only play the sample while the key is held? Is there a gate/trigger setting? I’m thinking like playing the drum sampler sp404 style, with each key loaded with individual complete patterns right? I suppose I could set each key to choke every other key, but that sounds tedious. I still need to experiment a LOT more but figured I’d ask!

Found it! Shift + light gray encoder switches between loop and gate when key is held.

You and me both! This still leaves me with some feeling of control. It’s a bit time consuming but you could basically bounce every track on it’s own as well as different combinations.

Being destructive can be really, really good for creativity

Very true! I’m trying to be more care free while creating

@@Ancaja123 valid point...

Unfortunatley not. Don’t think it’s implemented yet.

oh man, still trying to figure it out, will let you know when I find out for sure!

Oh you are too kind! 🥹 Cuckoo is a legend and a really nice guy. Met him briefely last year. Thank you for watching my videos! It makes me so happy that fine people like yourself find them inspirational ❤️

Thank you so for the support! Really happy you like my videos ❤️ i couldn’t agree more 😎

That is very clever! thank you for the tip! 🙏😃

I use the TP-7 as a field recorder. Since this location aint close to my computer

@@Shimmery.mp3 Ah gotcha. Yeah. I use the TX-6 for that. Always wondering if the TP-7 has value for me.

It is a very nice recorder and a BEAUTIFUL machine. It looks sooo freaking cool! It adds some nice features to TX as well. Like how you can record all 6 inputs from TX6 and then recall them onto TX6 again. But of course it’s a expensive designer option. There are a lot good field recorders out there and you already have a workflow with TX6

That is very true if you have an empty track to use! But in this example i had used all the 8 tracks already(on purpose just to show it could still be done) :) thank you for the tip tho! I will remember that when i do this next time 🙏

@@Shimmery.mp3that’s true, I missed that you switched back to all 8 tracks playing there. But so a good workflow could be to have a drum sampler on track 8 that you could sample in to when the other 7 tracks are occupied and you need to free some tracks. It’s quite nice actually!

@ no worries bud! That is definatley a very good habit to create! Will be sure to do that if I feel the track has potential :) thank you for the tip!

If you press one of the keys on the drum kit and then press the recordbutton while the key still pressed, it will “zoom in” on the one drum sound, so this feature makes drum programming pretty easy with all the sounds on 1 track.

@jantuitman Forgot about that! thx Does it "keep the zoom" when you change bar pages?

@ actually, it was a bit worse than I remembered it was when I tried it out. You have to press a trig, than press record while keeping the trig pressed, and then keeping the trig pressed. So, no relaxed cup of coffee in zoom mode, keep a finger on a key. But the good news: you can switch bars while doing this. You can even lengthen the pattern while doing this. It is not the holy grail ( no editing of step components for example), but it is a handy help to quickly place / inspect trigs while not getting confused too much

@@jantuitman thx for the in depth explanation. sounds like my "midi squash" or "midi resample" method would be nicer for dealing with intricate drum patterns.

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That hold player trick is pretty slick actually! :O I didn’t get the other way to work. But will try again! Thank you so much for the tips 🍻

@@Shimmery.mp3 I think you are right,. I'm pretty sure I saw the holding across bars in a video, but it does not work now when I just tried it.

It feels like it SHOULD work. Probably ment to work like you say. Hopefully it’ll be added in a new FW. Still really like that Hold trick! Very clever! :)

@@Shimmery.mp3 Im thinking hold is perfect for chords. Or for a sustained base with legato!

Can you change the resolution on the sampler track to bring both bars onto 1 page, then use the first+last step trick?

You connect XY as an MTP to your computer and drag the sample in the samples folder. Then you can access it in the sample library. Will try to do an import vid when I’m feeling better from my cold 🫶

@@Shimmery.mp3 I figured all this out but there is one thing, there is only forward and reverse by holding shift. I don't see any other options like one shot, etc. So it loops when you hold down the key.

@antikytheramechanism7909 while holding shift try pressning the encoder that controls the fading of the loop points. It’s the second one on the right. If you press it twice it should say ”loop off”

@@Shimmery.mp3 Thank you! I seem to recall on OP-1 Field that I could see the markers for loop points, start, end, etc. Here they are black on top of black so you cant really see them to like with a pad set your loop point it is difficult to see.

I totally agree with that. They are really hard to see in the monochrome unfortunatley