If you follow ANR, you’ll know that the OP-1 is a favourite of ours (see our OP-1 review). Some months ago at Musikmesse we had a nice chat with the Teenage Engineering guys at Musikmesse and saw a quick demo of the upcoming software update for their flagship all-in-one sound…
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Eager To Try Out The OP-1 Update Beta? Here’s Where You Can Find It
A few months ago Teenage Engineering announced that a new OP-1 OS was in final beta. Among the listed improvements and new features: – New (warmer) synth presets – A new sequencer mode called Arpeggio – Tape loops with crossfades (and more) We had a chance to see the new…
hardware reviews
Summer Trips, Carry-ons & Creative Challenges: Volca Sample OK Go, Acidbox ii, Mini KP2S, OP-1 and K-MIX
From Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards to Matthew Herbert’s manifesto, we have seen very different ways of working within constraints. We’ve all been there. Sometimes an empty page is full of too many possibilities. After all, “the enemy of art is the absence of limitations”, quoting Orson Welles. This is…
iOS
RADIOOOOO – An Amazing Musical Time Machine!
Remember when you started using the internet and everything was like… ‘wow’? Well, this was more or less my reaction when I launched RADIOOOOO on my computer earlier today. RADIOOOOO is a musical time machine that allows listeners from all over the world to discover musical treasures from any country…
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OS Update For The Teenage Engineering OP-1 – Exclusive Beta At Musikmesse
In the past few years, things have been quiet for the Teenage Engineering OP-1, one of our favorite sound design tools (see our OP-1 review). The latest OS update was released two years ago, introducing (among other things) the DSynth synthesizer engine and the Sketch sequencer. Then the Pocket Operators…
hardware reviews
MIDI: How to connect a DAW, an iPad, OP-1 & Elektron Analog synths using Kenton Thru-5 & MIDI USB Host
In our article ‘More MIDI, Less Computer’ we showed how to connect the OP-1 to the Analog Four/Keys (or an equivalent machine) using a Kenton MIDI USB Host. But what if you have a more elaborate setup? Let’s say you also use an iPad and a DAW on your desktop computer,…