I could really do with this, it seems that it would solve some problems, simplify my workflow AND mean I get to sell a couple of pieces of gear. I own an OP-1 and feel that it's worth the £850 I paid for it second hand but this TX-1 is over twice as much as I'd be prepared to pay. Shame given its design and feature-set. Maybe Behringer will put out a shitty £200 clone in a year or two ;)
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#22if i wanted a simple mixer and usb audio interface with fx send and i didn't want to spend a thousand dollars on it, what's the range of alternatives
i've spent under $150 on every individual item in my kit so far and it feels silly to blow past that on a mixer.
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#23I absolutely love their design language. I'll never have a need to own any of their products but I wish I could buy the gadgets I do need/want with this kind of design/style.
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#24I wonder why it's so expensive, I know it should be higher than regular consumers expect because it's a low volume high quality product, but so is the OP-1 and that seems to have a lot more manufacturing overhead. Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's? It's small but I think those should fit fine in that enclosure with a thick PCB. Anyone know if there'…
Their business model is basically doing that + envy and fomo.
Not criticizing it.
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#25I've come to expect Teenage Engineering's products to be expensive, but I have definitely underestimated them once again.
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#26Halo hardware, absolutely, but their design sense is utterly phenomenal. What a gorgeous piece of kit.
If I were ever to go back to the Wintel world (or whatever the word is for Windows+AMD), Teenage Engineering's computer is probably the only one my wife would allow in the house: https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1
I've only owned one Teenage product (the Megaman Pocket Operator) but now I really want the comp 1. Cool that they've expanded beyond synths!
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#27I wonder why it's so expensive, I know it should be higher than regular consumers expect because it's a low volume high quality product, but so is the OP-1 and that seems to have a lot more manufacturing overhead. Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's? It's small but I think those should fit fine in that enclosure with a thick PCB. Anyone know if there'…
Small run production with no expense spared of a designer product for niche applications. Expensive expensive expensive! That case looks like it was milled!
The niche application part is a little bit made up by them. Small mixers and audio interfaces are a HUGE market, and a saturated market. By going high end (by milling a case, for example) they shrink their market, but also shrink their competition. The number of portable mixers / audio interfaces / synthesizers (it’s a synth too???) with super fancy cases… they might be the only one? The keith mcmillian k-mix is the only thing even similar I can think of and it’s not that similar (and $699)
Edit: someone in another comment pointed out the 1010 music bluebox, which is definitely more similar to this than the kmix, for $549
Edit 2: I just remembered the existence of zoom recorders. The zoom h6 has 6 tracks, is a portable mixer and audio interface, and also includes 2 good microphones and can record without being tethered to another device. It’s about $400. It’s got a different vibe, but it’s also quite beautiful
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#28I can’t think of a reason I would need this, but I still want it.
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#29From the specs:
> to keep the battery healthy, the unit should be charged at least every 6 months. if not used for a long time, it may not charge again.
..... why is that?
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#30Like most Teenage Engineering products, it's an absolutely amazing-looking, well-engineered product with a ton of functionality that does a thing I don't actually need for far more money than I can justify spending on it.