whaaaaat
Looks like EUR 1600 to me, at least… it’s still more than exciting…
payment failed several times. will order from a reseller maybe sometime. probably good it’s not going through. total impulse buy ;O
too bad te can’t get their cart shit sorted.
Mama?
The OP-Z is kind of underwhelming to me.
Hoped for something mindbending like the OP-1 looked back in 2009 when they presented it the first time on Messe…
Excited is an understatement, instant cop. Anyone ever noticed a Z looks a lot like a 2 lol.
16 track!!! But but… No screen?
Those coloured encoders? Or crank connections?
@Unflattered also video synth and no screen! maybe a mobile companion app?
What the F is video synth?
What the F is video synth?
I suppose something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a7Lw08Ps6U
and hope it displays those car 3d renders on Instagram.
Double post
somehow interfaces with pos? lots of similar button icons and colors plus "the introduction of step components"
like a te modular?
Video synth:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5a7Lw08Ps6U
I have zero use for that.
A couple of observations. Even though it says wireless, it looks like there are multiple ports on the top (1/4 in stereo? Midi?), I’m assuming it means wireless as in battery operated (like the op-1) and perhaps casting for video out? It would be hard to imagine a step sequencer w/o a way to note the position in the pattern(even the POs have lights), and there doesn’t seem to be any indicators (except for the black buttons, could be backlit, but there are only 10 instead of 16 for standard patterns)
Multi-timbrel, which means multiple instruments playing at the same time, so why would you need this if it wasn’t actual pattern sequencing? Perhaps video out will be handled by casting/app/software/hdmi/etc? The OP-1 is polyphonic, not multi-timbrel and that does the job well since the audio is recorded to “tape”, so definitely a bit more here then meets the eye…
Perhaps this is an extension that others were hoping for. Maybe the op-1 will get a user-serviceable upgrade to allow wireless connections to the Z. As previously posted: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Teenage+Engineering+OP-1+Connector+Board+Replacement/19125 shows that it would be quite easy for us to swap out this board. Wireless could be on that in the future… could explain why the OP-1 has been out of stock on TE’s shop for a while…
Anyways, just a conspiracy theory…
EDIT: Looks like in the last actual photo, the buttons might have lights on them for the sequencing…
That’s what I thought. Lit buttons.
Maybe the op-1 will get a user-serviceable upgrade to allow wireless connections to the Z. As previously posted: Teenage Engineering OP-1 Connector Board Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide shows that it would be quite easy for us to swap out this board. Wireless could be on that in the future… could explain why the OP-1 has been out of stock on TE’s shop for a while…
Maybe that connection is what is going on in this picture from @hudson or maybe it just uses the same OP-1 architecture.
https://www.instagram.com/p/7K88Dzq61D/
Looks like Wireless as in Bluetooth Low Energy. Maybe MIDI and companion app? Would like if there were a HDMI (similar to what the Organelle, but just so there is something visual for reference).
i’m still wondering about the “step components”