I have no idea what this device even is, but it looks beautiful and I want to try it out.
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#172The OP-1 has been the single most inspiring tool I've had in a decade. Every other sampler I've bought has always failed to reliably draw me in.
There is no putting a price on creativity. Sure, the competition can compete on specs and price, but they never seem to get me to want to turn them on like the OP-1.
Just my opinion of course. But it is already a classic at this point and is deserving of respect.
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#173From 2011: Finally. After more than two years of development the OP-1 is now ready for production. Due to initial limited supply we now accept reservations. Manufacturing, assembly and shipping will be eight weeks. $799 https://web.archive.org/web/20110201230202/http://namm.teena...
As a studio enthusiast and electronic musician, I always felt this was a reasonable price for the OP-1. I have a _lot_ of synths here, ranging from the high end Moog Voyager to various Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering.
$2000 however is just too much for this. The Polyend Tracker sells for $500 used in comparison, and while its drastically different - is vaguely competitive to the OP-1.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a ton of replies with counter-examples, but all of those are not exactly like the OP-1: a fun, easy to use, ultraportable, immediate music creation sketchpad. Many other grooveboxes are quite painful to use. Here I’d include the Korg Electribe which is terrible at inputting musical notes. Or the several trackers which look more like scientific calculators than musical instruments. My MPC live can run circle…
Who cares how trackers look. That doesn't mean you can't have fun producing music with them. I own a Model:Samples, the battery is just velcro attached to it. This is not awkward, it serves as a tilt stand which is actually nice. The Deluge buying process involve adding to cart, pay. How different is it from anything else really? We are talking about boarding a plane? How boot time of the MPC Live/One or a daw on a l…
The Deluge is simply an amazing device, and I can confirm it is definitely not difficult to purchase.
Also, quite a great company support experience too.
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#175The people complaining about the price tag: I get it. But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song. Why has no one else figured that out? With all these groove boxes etc, why has no other music gear taken the step of being portable and all-in-one. Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money.
Another example: Sunvox, runs on about everything. Extremely versatile for something that originally targeted Windows CE and Palm Pilot.
I don't make much music, but I've been having a blast tinkering with it.
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#176I do want it but man is it expensive, $1999...
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#177I owned and sold an OP-1. It is a beautiful piece of hardware and its analog controls and mashable buttons provide a more tactile experience than an iPad does. That said, the sounds it ships with really leave something to be desired. My subjective opinion is that anyone who's played with a best in class software synth (i.e., equator2) is going to find themselves feeling pretty limited by the blippy tones that you get…
Agree about the built-in sounds, but I solved that pretty quickly by adding things like mellotron samples to it.
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#178Bon Iver, 2015 interview:
> the thing I’m working with the most is the OP-1. It’s a sampler-based synthesizer, and I honestly think it’s the most important instrument that’s come into my life since I first picked up a guitar when I was 12 years old. I’m not exaggerating at all. I never leave the house without it. I don’t travel with the guitar anymore. I travel with just my OP-1. It’s been a big deal living with this thing. I love making music with it. I love traveling with it. I like using it as a writing extension. It’s a really special technology, essentially what a guitar is to me.
https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/lost-in-the-world...
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#179The cow. Why?
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#180Given that the feature list reads almost like new product and the OG is already pretty complex, I'm most definitely happier with mine now than before.
Yeah, "new product" indeed, especially considering these "features" from that huge "feature" list: - NEW COLOR SCHEME - DUAL VELCRO® BACK FASTENERS - ERGONOMIC POWER SWITCH - ULTRA-FIDELITY HEADPHONE OUTPUT - NEW CUSTOM USB CABLE - NEW FONT - NEW METRONOME SOUND - NEW PACKAGING - QR CODE GUIDE LINK I'm not gonna lie, I'm generally a teenage engineering fan (besides the price that is), but some of those features sound…
They also relist the same feature multiple times in slightly different ways ...
- INTERNAL FM ANTENNA FOR BOTH RX AND TX
- BUILT-IN FM RADIO TRANSMISSION
- OB–4 COMPATIBLE USING FM TX OR WIRE