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Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

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Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#81

Remember this thing? https://play.date/ (Gameboy with a crank) Made it to the front page on here a couple times, if I’m not mistaken. Did this ever ship? looks like it’s been in pre-order for the last three years?

Had it for a few months now and it’s a fun little thing.

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#82

What do you expect from a fifty something marketing executive from an ancient banking family who names his company “teenage engineering” — something with shag carpet and wood paneling right out of the 1970s — when he was a teenager.

Didn't notice this detail in the interview - do you mean that he comes from a very wealthy family, and that was a factor in his founding of the company?

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#83

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You've sorta missed my analogy. You can get a Novation Circuit, Electribe or even a brand-new Model: Samples for less than $300, but none of them are the "Star Wars Hotel" that the OP-1 is. I could show you a product that is exactly the same and cost's half as much, but people will balk at it complaining that it doesn't have a cow animation like the OP-1 does. They've "productized" an instrument that shouldn't cost m…

I am also interested in the $300-500 all-in-one groovebox rivaling the OP-1 (without cow animation)

Same, show me what’s out there.

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#84

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What are the options with similar portability, sampling, synthesis, fx, and multitrack recording, that you can buy new, and is not just an ipad or something, for under 300 dollars?

You've sorta missed my analogy. You can get a Novation Circuit, Electribe or even a brand-new Model: Samples for less than $300, but none of them are the "Star Wars Hotel" that the OP-1 is. I could show you a product that is exactly the same and cost's half as much, but people will balk at it complaining that it doesn't have a cow animation like the OP-1 does. They've "productized" an instrument that shouldn't cost m…

It's not $300, but the SP404 MK2 is sweet

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've sorta missed my analogy. You can get a Novation Circuit, Electribe or even a brand-new Model: Samples for less than $300, but none of them are the "Star Wars Hotel" that the OP-1 is. I could show you a product that is exactly the same and cost's half as much, but people will balk at it complaining that it doesn't have a cow animation like the OP-1 does. They've "productized" an instrument that shouldn't cost m…

I am also interested in the $300-500 all-in-one groovebox rivaling the OP-1 (without cow animation)

https://dirtywave.com/

Close enough.

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#86

Remember this thing? https://play.date/ (Gameboy with a crank) Made it to the front page on here a couple times, if I’m not mistaken. Did this ever ship? looks like it’s been in pre-order for the last three years?

I've got mine. It's exactly what was promised, and fun to play :)

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#87

I too would live in a pinterest-ready castle filled with toys but i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is. The B&O of our generation.

> i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is Yet people buy their products in large quantities, for well over a decade... They are used by top tier artists and consumer alike, and are used on many hit songs. If you think they're so overpriced, there should be a massive opportunity to undercut them and sell such quality for less. But no one has... Again, for well over a decade... Maybe they u…

The candles that "smell like my vagina" for $75 by Goop company owned by Gwyneth Paltrow also sold out at launch, doesn't mean that that there's an opportunity to undercut them with better and cheaper crotch candles, not in the slightest; to put it succinctly there is a huge amount of people that make irrational purchases and there is no need to pretend otherwise.

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#88

Remember this thing? https://play.date/ (Gameboy with a crank) Made it to the front page on here a couple times, if I’m not mistaken. Did this ever ship? looks like it’s been in pre-order for the last three years?

They shipped the first batch but didn’t secure enough processors so are having to re-engineer for a different chipset/platform last I heard.

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#89

I too would live in a pinterest-ready castle filled with toys but i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is. The B&O of our generation.

> i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is Yet people buy their products in large quantities, for well over a decade... They are used by top tier artists and consumer alike, and are used on many hit songs. If you think they're so overpriced, there should be a massive opportunity to undercut them and sell such quality for less. But no one has... Again, for well over a decade... Maybe they u…

Where is Behringer when you need it?

Re: Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

#90
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Your coworkers don't have a problem with you being distracted and wearing headphones during a meeting?

Maybe they are referring to remote meetings where you can mute yourself.

Yea I mindlessly plunk around on it while muted.
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