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> "They have the best designers, i feel like in the US we have no taste, i knew this couldn't be an American company." -- @iamricks
how about monome (https://monome.org/norns)?
@chaosprint
glicol is cool. another two interesting live coding languages are tidal (https://tidalcycles.org) and orca (https://100r.co/site/orca.html)
I 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…
https://glicol-tidal.netlify.app
The BPM can be changed in real-time and not limited to 4, 8, 16, 32 grids of sequences.
I've always wanted to buy the OP-1 because it's such a cool little device. I'm not very talented when it comes to making music though so the steep price tag has always kept me away. Maybe one day i'll buy one
I've always wanted to buy the OP-1 because it's such a cool little device. I'm not very talented when it comes to making music though so the steep price tag has always kept me away. Maybe one day i'll buy one
https://learningmusic.ableton.com
Or my work:
The 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.
This is just false, the Korg Electribe 2/ Sampler, the AKAI MPC 500, the Roland SP404, the Roland MC101, the Novation Circuit and many other devices allow the creation of whole songs and can easily be brought into a plane because they run on internal battery.
> 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.
These devices I listed might not do everything the OP-1 does, but the OP-1 doesn't do everything these devices do either. The OP-1 is hardly an all-in-one music device and certainly not the first portable groovebox that runs off battery power.
A Electribe 2/Sampler costs $300, not $2000.
> Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money.
Answer my comment and I'll share with you my email for payment details. Put your money where your mouth is.
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As someone who has written a lot of music using Pocket Operators I disagree. They have been part of my songwriting tool chain for years and have pretty much worked their way into every recording I've made since I bought them. They are the perfect accompaniment when sitting down with a guitar to write music either acting as a metronome, a groove to jam over, or a complete drum/bass/synth backup with an arrangement (16…
What's your favorite PO? (or even a couple favorites) I loved playing with the one I have (I can't remember which it is off the top of my head). But it never became a major part of my music noodling workflow and now is collecting dust somewhere. I do remember at some point that a friend got a different one and I was struck with jealousy over all the cool stuff it could do that mine didn't. Maybe it's time to check ou…
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I mean there is no secret that Teenage Engineering is very inspired by the European early and mid 1900s design movement. I remember hearing an interview with Jesper Kouthoofd the lead Designer about how they approach product design in the same way as graphic design, just with more surfaces then a paper. Everything is based on a grid (Josef Muller-Brockmann and the International design movement), with focus on simple…
Just a tiny nitpick, did you mean Braun T520 by any chance?[0]
0. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/braun_kofferempfaenger_t520.ht...
I 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…
I am wondering if you can recall that whether one can create complex rhythm like this on OP-1? https://glicol-tidal.netlify.app The BPM can be changed in real-time and not limited to 4, 8, 16, 32 grids of sequences.
I have absolutely no use for the products made by teenage engineering, as I don't have a clue about audio production. But scolling thought their store, I still want to own these beatiful devices.
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I like their ID work, but at some level it seems more like well-proportioned, carefully considered graphic design - rectilinear forms with radii and cylindrical knobs. I can't count the number of ID projects I've worked on where an OP-1 was used as inspiration.
[source: A company I worked for worked on a project which started with TE doing ID and ME. We took their prototype level ME further, but not sure where the project ended up.]