The OP-XY is basically a Teenage Engineering greatest hits compilation.
Teenage Engineering is a design firm as much as it is a musical instrument company. Its devices rarely look or behave anything like what you’d buy from a Korg or a Moog. The best distillation of its identity remains the OP-1, a quirky groovebox that garnered as much attention for its aesthetics as its all-in-one music production features. Effects are accompanied by nonsensical graphics, like a mechanized cow, and it basically forces you to commit to a musical idea by using a virtual “tape” with intentionally limited editing capabilities.
But all of Teenage Engineering’s instruments are a bit odd and
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