Teenage Engineering OP–XY

$2300 USD....

Buy a Macbook Air, Logic Pro and a Mini Lab 3 and have hundreds left over. All while enjoying an infinitely more powerful stack.

Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but Teenage Engineering has had a series of very low quality, fault-prone gimmick devices that quickly end up forgotten in drawers. Hard to take this seriously.

nimbius · a year ago

from the guys who brought you a $1000USD bluetooth speaker, the $240 leather sack, and the always popular $50 tshirt comes, "we dont understand how western inflation works in the context of consumer confidence as it applies to discretionary spending as a function of income"

neom · a year ago

To be fair, I find the audio from my OD-11 considerably superior to my A9. Not as good as my Ferguson Hill Jetstream however.

xk_id · a year ago

Pricing your product is artistic expression, you philistine

twelfthnight · a year ago

Classic 2024 company. Started out with a few genuinely cool products and a quirky, fun attitude. Got popular, decided to exploit that good will and now everything they do seems greedy and inauthentic (regardless of whether any specific product is or not). Maybe this is a great product? But after the OP Field pricing shenanigans and OP-Z quality issues... hard to give them a second chance.

dist-epoch · a year ago

You're not the target market. You're not cool.

nickpeterson · a year ago

This applies to a lot of things in my life as I get older, it’s nice.

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wahnfrieden · a year ago

TX-6 is not a very low quality gimmick

whywhywhywhy · a year ago

Yeah but then you have a laptop not a toy. Whole point of this is it's more fun and satisfying than using Logic. It's a lot less about the sound it makes than you think.

"das sequenzer" ... shouldn't it be "der"?

ziofill · a year ago

I remember attending a German language course in Berlin (25 years ago) with some other international students and this american kid who was railing against using die and der for objects that clearly had no gender: "what do you say?? die snowboard? der snowboard???" (it's das XD)

anamexis · a year ago

I think they took some liberties to make it seem "more German". See also the umlaut in "liebe aüf den ersten blick".

dist-epoch · a year ago

das is what non-german people think it's what should be, and that makes it the correct one. simulacrum/simulacra, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story, etc

seeekr · a year ago

probably a riff on "das Auto" (Volkswagen ad)

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llm_nerd · a year ago

Seems like a fun device, somewhere between the OP1 and the Z. Decent reviews (Cuckoo and rando): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvo-MYh4vdA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHImk9MeqZM

barbazoo · a year ago

> liebe aüf den ersten blick.

"aüf" is not a thing, should be "auf"

batmenace · a year ago

Feels deliberate, just like ‘das sequencer’

Yeah, except that the rest seems pretty much correct. It's hard to know which one it is :)

Tepix · a year ago

Shoddy quality even in their prose.

ThinkBeat · a year ago

Is this built for using live on stage? Apart from that and mostly including it, it looks like a masochists dream.

Makes me appreciate what a good job Akai did with the early MCP.

cmrdporcupine · a year ago

Looks like a Sinclair QL. Which is not a bad thing.

But the faux-German is cringe. Weird flex, too, considering that Germany itself is a huge market for these kinds of instruments.

mcphage · a year ago

Teenage Engineering is based out of Sweden.

Yes, I know. And?

muhammadusman · a year ago

I want TE to make a keyboard so bad!

pacomerh · a year ago

Well, the Altar keyboard has that TE vibe, I don't know if you've seen it. https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/ Its also similar in how expensive it is :D

slater · a year ago