Teenage Engineering is letting you pay what you want for the OP-XY

A few months after giving customers the chance to choose their own price for the OP-1 Field as part of its Flipped Out '25 promotion, Teenage Engineering is doing the same thing with with the OP-XY synth/sampler.

For the remainder of October, you'll be able to pick up an OP-XY for $1699, a hefty $600 discount on the launch price of $2299. If you've been thinking of purchasing an OP-XY but were, like many of us, a little put off by the price tag, then now is the time.

OP-XY is the OP-1 and OP-1 Field's monochrome cousin, a synth, sampler and drum machine built around a versatile step sequencer. A unique and thoughtfully designed instrument that's full of surprises, our only major gripe with it was the MSRP – but $1699 is a far more reasonable price point.

Oddly enough, Teenage Engineering is also giving you the opportunity to pay more for the OP-XY: there's a big purple slider on its website that lets you crank the price up all the way to $9999, should you so wish. Of course, nobody is going to give away an extra $8600 for no reason (we hope) but, as a marketing stunt, the pay-what-you-want model is an irksomely effective way to get people talking.

Just in time for the sale, Teenage Engineering has released a major firmware update for the OP-XY that introduces a number of new features, alongside a host of minor tweaks and bug fixes.

The most significant of these is the new sample slicing function, which automatically slices samples and maps them to OP-XY's keyboard. Three sample slicing modes are available: Transient chops up a sample around the loudest transients, Even slices it up into a number of evenly spaced sections, and Tap lets you tap in slices manually.

Also introduced in the update is an additional LFO mode, Duck, that creates a rhythmic sidechain compression-style pumping effect by modulating a track's volume with audio or note data. Any of OP-XY's instrument tracks and auxiliary tracks can be routed to the LFO, and you can even hook it up to the metronome for classic four-on-the-floor-style ducking.

Head over to Teenage Engineering's website to find out more.