op-xy agent

sequencer

Track scale

sets how long one step of the selected track lasts: at 1 a sixteenth note, at 4 a quarter note, at 1/2 a thirty-second. Each track has its own scale.

The OP-XY has changed since TE’s guide was written; this page follows the device.

Tracks at different scales share a scene: a slow pad at 4 next to hi-hats at 1/2. TE ties only the key marked 4 to a value; which keys give 16 and the fractions is not documented.

How to

Change how long each step of the track lasts

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Details

  • Holding and pressing a black key sets the track scale, the time one step takes; every track keeps its own.

    TE’s guide
  • The scale multiplies the length of every step; at 4 a step lasts four normal steps, so four steps fill a 4/4 bar.

    TE’s guide
  • , the black key marked 4, sets scale 4; the step lights then move four times slower.

    TE’s guide
  • Raising the scale is how a pattern outgrows four bars; 64 steps at scale 16 last 64 bars.

    TE’s guide
  • TE's guide lists the scales 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 16 and 1/2.

    TE’s guide
  • The changelog also names 1/5 and 1/7, repaired in OS 1.0.15.

    TE’s changelog
  • OS 1.1.25 gave the odd scales 3, 5, 6 and 7 their own quantisation grid, so 5 and 7 exist too.

    TE’s changelog

Our wording, for OS 1.1.33. TE’s page source

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