OP-1 Field vs OP-XY: 4 Things the OP-1 Still Does Better

OP-1 Field vs OP-XY — I love my OP-XY and it's the machine I travel with and finish the most songs on. So why do I still keep my OP-1 Field? Four things it does better — and I show the OP-XY's best attempt at each one. This isn't "buy one instead of the other." I own both, and they go really well together: the OP-XY sequences like a fiend, and the OP-1 Field plays and sculpts beautiful sounds in a way I keep coming back to. 0:00 — Why I still keep the OP-1 Field 0:45 — thing 1. Effects you can actually play 2:01 — thing 2. Synth engines you can see and sculpt 3:04 — thing 3. Arpeggiators 3:55 — thing 4. Radio sampling 4:42 — How I use them together 👉 If you saw the other side of this — the videos on what the OP-XY does better than my Digitakt II, and what I missed from the Digitakt — they're linked on the end screen. The OP-XY keeps getting better with firmware, but none of these four are things an update can easily fix — they're about hardware and sound character. If you've got both and you've found an OP-XY trick that rivals the OP-1's Nitro or its built-in radio, drop it in the comments. I'd genuinely love to see it. Gear in this video: Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field Teenage Engineering OP-XY #OP1Field #OPXY #TeenageEngineering