it’s priced at 19,990 SEK, about $2,100 - a reasonable amount for an electric moped, but significantly less than the OP-XY’s $2,299 asking price.
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TE is such a weird brand. There are plenty of arguments about them on electronic musicians’ forums thanks to their bizarre product line and prices.
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Yeah the table is a joke in poor taste. The EP -series are nearly excellent and really desirable but their insistence in “designers know better” by having 80s/90s level of sampling memory is is equally contemptible arrogance.
The original OP-1 was a groundbreaking and beloved instrument but even there some design choices are eyeroll inducing: if you make its note input dependent on “taping” performances, why would you have keys not designed for performance? Clicky buttons with a poor layout, without velocity sensitivity or aftertouch? The expensive toys gets thrown about a lot and I’m not sure it actually hits the point. The pocket operators are cheap *toys in the sense that they are physical devices which are utterly useless for actual music - you are much better off doing everything on them on any kind of computer/tablet/whatever as the knobs and buttons actually are so tiny they get in the way of doing anything. But outside of them, being useless, what’s wrong with toys? I remember Keith Jarrett being interviewed and saying that Miles rang him up so of course he played with him and when he got there he was made play a Clavinet or Rhodes or something and he goes “they’re just toys” so what did you do “well what do you do with toys? We played with them, Had fun.” and at their best (the original OP1) they had that aesthetic. People loved playing with them.
The tables and shit and the €1,000 janky little mixer that nobody actually wants other than to match their lifestyle purchases (it has all of the uselessness of the pocket operators with none of the fun) or pretty much anything called “field”…
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I have the first EP-133. It’s a cool thing but I use it so rarely, I keep forgetting how to do stuff and find it oddly less friendly to work with than the Elektron Model:Cycles I had for a while (despite Elektron’s reputation for being confusing). So it winds up sitting around unused.
I make much more ambient, drone, soundscapey stuff so it’s not like a drum machine is typical for that… but with both of those machines I managed to do some useful stuff. Just really not what I tend to reach for first.
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Well I saw this on the sidebar from the article on the scooter above, maybe it might be of interest to you?
(it’s the ability to dial in really slow tempos)
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I some times get to play around with a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Modular 400 and a Korg Kaoss Pad for about 10min before I make a noise that makes other people tell me to stop.
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For a good reason, at least!
A CHARITY boss has run the length of Hadrian’s Wall dressed as a pair of testicles to raise awareness about the cancer which killed his brother.
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He looks pretty awfully nuts.
And well done him !!!
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Nah. They’re never pretty.
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100% correct. I shall duly edit my post.
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Is the city particularly hilly, I wonder?
Toronto hospitals are weird with regard to elevators; some of them use the North American way of saying that the ground floor is the first floor, and another elevator in the same hospital will number things in the European way; the first floor is the next floor up from the ground. On one occasion, I had to get to a certain dept. and depending on the elevator, it was on the sixth or seventh floor.
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