Yeah @Muhr, definitely to do with the PO-12.
and one of the other images looks similar to a woodblock instrument:
What’s new about the PO-12? It’s been known about for ages, it’s a known thing with known goals and abilities.
The PO-12 will shift units for sure, it will be the next monotribe, get it, play it, tell everybody with ears they need one!
Bluetooth sync between Op and Po = foxy bingo
Maybe the OP-1 will get a PO-12 drum engine.
^ !
I’d love a vocoder for the OP-1.
Hopefully…
A: Vocoder in the synth engine or FX
B: Traditional LFO waveforms that are variable in all LFOs
C: Loop release fixed so we can use single cycle waveforms for wavetable synthesis
D: Sequencer update to enable pattern save and copy & paste between sequencers
E: More indepth midi so we can do multitimbral external sequencing of the synth engines
@RTK: I’m hoping the same thing – I think the chip powering the PO-12 is so basic that this might be feasible! 
It looks like a grain synth to me, through a bubble-blowing metaphor. Look at the colors and graphics:
Blue: grain speed
Green: grain spacing
White: grain size
Orange: variation amount
Swap green/white if you like.
The ‘bubble blow thingy’ looks more like a plastic coffee swirl thing to me. Maybe our OP-1 will make a great grind or even an espresso after the next update.
Who would buy a PO-12 if the OP-1 had its drum engine?
Or the PO-12 has been developed into something like a small, portable, quirky MPC in OP-1 coloring >.>
I doubt it.
Who would buy a PO-12 if the OP-1 had its drum engine?
umm, I would… 
And people without an OP-1!
Hmmm… I wouldn’t cause I’m not a TE museum but an audio enthousiast.
That depends if the PO-12 remains $49. If it does, then I think people will buy it regardless, it’s throw away money and putting the essential ‘sound’ of the PO-12 into the OP-1 will just be advertising the PO-12.
If you think about it, most OP-1 owners probably have synths or software that are theoretically better than any one thing the OP-1 does. Likewise, the PO-12s appeal is not the sounds, which in isolation are pretty crap - it’s the whole thing. The price, the funky design, the chip used, the interface that makes you think carefully about how to structure and time your music (or just provides a rigid lead you must follow without the guilt of thinking “I can do more with this”).
Regardless, it’s just a silly speculation - I don’t think they would do it, really. It’s either going to be a cased, finished PO-12 at which point we discover adding a display and clever stylish case makes it a lot more than $49, or the OP-1 firmware update. Even if it does say ‘something new’ - past experience suggests TE take their time, keep interest bubbling, then produce fantastic kit.
I would still buy a po12 if they put its engine on the op1
Something I thought of that would be a nice new product from TE.
We all know that the OP-1 has restrictions of processor and memory etc.
Well, imagine of TE brought out software on say the iPad and made a dock that both the OP-1 and the iPad plugged into … the App on the iPad brought a whole new load of synths and machines into the mix, all with the same colour-coded knobs on-screen that allowed the OP-1 to be the hands-on controller still for everything.
OP-1 MKII please! =D
One thing to note is that the image links to the overall store, not just the OP-1 feature page… Not much extra info.
I’m an avid iPad user, and what you describe should, to me, sound like a dream come true. But somehow, it sounds like innocence lost. Does that sound silly? I feel like the OP-1 is a closed ecosphere; a floating fantasy platform in an ocean of colors. Like the GUI designs from outsider apps might fracture the vision of the OP-1 design team.
Or maybe I just don’t want to shell out another $850! :o