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Thanks for all the kind words and feedback. There are some comments expressing interest in supporting a Kickstarter etc. If you're interested in receiving updates you can leave your email here: https://tally.so/r/Y55dXv Thanks again - this was a bit of a surprise!
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[context: I have eBay’d a couple of Pocket Operators because I was curious and the price was low enough I knew I could at least break even reselling on Reverb even after fees and shipping…This is how I rationalize my gas.] Maybe buy one and if it is not for you be ok reselling it at a loss…framing it as renting an instrument helps me. The Pocket Operators are musical and inexpensive for musical instruments. Like any…
The pocket operators have kind of 'grown up' and now they are doing a larger format thingie that is kinda like a pocket operator: https://teenage.engineering/products/ep I especially like the bardcore one: https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320
Edit: Because they don't make it totally clear- whichever one you buy, you can clear all the stock sounds and make any genre of music, regardless of the theming.
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And then the things you do to redeem your guilt for the second child is a whole interesting area.
Hi Brajeshwar (back to the old flashcoders days). Children grow up and in the end you get the full orchestra ^^
What I love about this is how physical it is. So yeah, there's some board running DSP. but the design is amazing. It really relates to some recent posts also in HN about many objects loosing their physical UX. from an age of having buttons and tactical interfaces, everything became more touch based / app based which indeed cut price and allows easier updating. but also lacks some romance which is exactly what this de…
Reminded me of a BlipBlox… https://blipblox.com
https://teenage.engineering/store/pocket-operators
I have a few of those, and heaps of my friends gat sucked deeply into playing with them at the expense of whatever they actually came over for. "Nah, I'm not hungry. You should all eat without me, I'll just finish tweaking this groove."
They're aimed (as the company name hints) as a little older than 3 year olds.
One hint for the OP, it's so cool how you can plug those toys into each other in a chain, and have them all sync - so the percussion, base, and melody can all be programmed on threee different POs, and automatically play together.
> A 3D-printed enclosure is fine for a prototype, but a real product likely needs injection-molded parts, which require expensive tooling. For kid-friendly toys, yes. But for older users not necessarily: https://teenage.engineering/products/po
How are these, are they worth the money? I have seen these before, but thought they might be crappy "jokes". However, if they are decent, I would love to play around with them.
(If you happen to be in Sydney Australia, reach out, I'd happily lend you mine for a few weeks if you want to try them and see if the novelty wears off too quickly to spend the money yourself.)
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How are these, are they worth the money? I have seen these before, but thought they might be crappy "jokes". However, if they are decent, I would love to play around with them.
"worth the money" is hard to say, especially for devices like these where the value is not really so much on the plain features as much as a more subjective factors like the design and the UI. I would say that purely based on features - probably not, especially with post-covid pricing. There are more powerful iphone or android apps for much less. Behringer, and to some degree Korg and Roland offer lower-end devices f…
I don't know if people younger than me, who grew up with touch screen devices, have that same affinity for physical controls over touchscreens?
I was looking for some synths for my less-than-two-years kid, after seeing their face light up when I fiddle with my Lofi 12 XT in front of them.
I had all these criterias : -Something without any screens -Something simple enough -Something that could withstand some rough play
I looked and looked, was considering proper Aira Compact synths, but ended up with the antiquity of the Bliptronic 5000 from Thinkgeek. https://youtu.be/6rCfhF-fNb4 They love it, the buttons are beyond fun to them, but the knobs are quite hard to turn for a little kid (1st world problem, I know)
I felt they were too young for a Blipbox, and I also bought an Orba 2, we'll see how that one goes.
But I dreamed of such a device, with easy to turn knobs, and colorful display, something simple to modulate sounds and just hear melodies. Seeing how you created it is both inspiring and discouraging, as someone with limited free time and electrical knowledge, but, you never know !
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[context: I have eBay’d a couple of Pocket Operators because I was curious and the price was low enough I knew I could at least break even reselling on Reverb even after fees and shipping…This is how I rationalize my gas.] Maybe buy one and if it is not for you be ok reselling it at a loss…framing it as renting an instrument helps me. The Pocket Operators are musical and inexpensive for musical instruments. Like any…
The pocket operators have kind of 'grown up' and now they are doing a larger format thingie that is kinda like a pocket operator: https://teenage.engineering/products/ep I especially like the bardcore one: https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320
Thanks for all the kind words and feedback. There are some comments expressing interest in supporting a Kickstarter etc. If you're interested in receiving updates you can leave your email here: https://tally.so/r/Y55dXv Thanks again - this was a bit of a surprise!
That is fantastic, I love it! If I may submit an extremely pedantic music nerd bug report: at 46s in the video demo ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qboig3a0YS0&t=46s ), the display should read Bb instead of A#, as the key of C minor is written with flats :) (The precise rule is that a diatonic scale must use each letter name for exactly one note, e.g. you can't have both G and G# in the same key, and you can't skip…
Using exclusively sharps (or flats, but that's not so common) is for piano technicians, frequency-to-note calculators, and similar utilitarian situations that aren't in a diatonic context.
Aside: this is also an easy way to explain double sharps and double flats. If you stumble upon one, and decide to see what would happen if you eliminate it in favor of an enharmonic equivalent (i.e., a natural), you'd end up with a scale that uses some letter twice and also skips a letter. The double sharp/flat achieves the use of each letter exactly once. A bit cumbersome on most instruments (keyed instruments especially), but it does make for easier sight reading (vocals especially) when stepwise movement uses each line/space of the staff, rather than skipping.
Would love something like this for my daughter, but with a max volume option she can't tamper with LOL