it may not add to your workflow. its handy for me bc my primary method of composition is instrumental improvisation on guitar and piano so i can keep the tp7 rolling for hours and when 20s of material shines i can right then and there create loop points, add a 2nd stereo track for multiwav and begin to overdub etc. when connected to a cm15 it goes from sketchpad quality to production quality if one is thoughtful on mic placement etc
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Thanks for answeringā¦ Iām thinking maybe CM-15 would be best for my studio needs. Still, not sure about buying any of them
Hello
I have most TE devices and I find all products very creative and I quickly get into the flow. I also really love the design!
Unfortunately, Iāve had a problem with my TP-7 since I got it: the internal speaker doesnāt always work, it suddenly switches off and I donāt know if Iāve pressed some wrong key combinationā¦
I still have this problem after the last very comprehensive update. Has anyone else noticed something like this with their TP-7?
Itās a mystery to me, no matter what mode Iām in, the volume display goes off but I canāt hear anythingā¦then wenn i push some knobs
Does anyone have an explanation?
Thank you for letting me know!
Ramin from Lucerne (CH)
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thats def a faulty unit. id get that RMA as soon as you conveniently can. i visited lucerne last year. your city is absolutely beautiful. i hope to come back to visit again one day. you may recognize this pic in the banner for one of my compositions 
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i wonāt start to compare features outside the TE ecosystem, so if you compare the tp-7 to other devices that TE makes thereās only 2 unique features i can figure out really- the first is simultaneous multitrack recording. you can have 3 analog inputs layer over top each other at the same time or then 6 if connected to usb or then 6 total in asynchronous recording as compared to the op-1f total of 4 tracks.
of course this also comes with multitrack playback, of 6 tracks where op-1f only has 4. and the recording length on the tp-7 is much longer than on the op-1f.
then the other feature is tied to the tp-7 app with audio transcription. all the other tp-7 features can be duplicated in the op-1f or some with the ob-4 or then of course also the tx-6 can do a stereo recording of the mix straight to a usb stick and its not limited to 6 minutes of recording time.
but i guess its the TE thing where the features are packaged in a discreet unit, so maybe the sum is greater than its parts. and of course if you start to open up the comparisons to hardware outside the TE world, and start to factor in prices, thatās a whole other conversation of X can do Y and only costs Z, etc.
Hi chris
Nice picture and nice chilling music!
Of course, let me know if you will come back one time!
You are welcome.
Thanks for your answer.
I will contact te and hope they will helping me.
Saludos
Ramin
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ive always had very helpful interactions with te support and ive had a few devices replaced under warranty without any hassle. im sure they will help you. it might take a cuple we from start to finish but im sure they will get you all sorted out
thanks for listening! it was mostly done on a train from paris to basel and then basel to Lucerne. im sure one day ill be back, thank you 
I agree, though if youāre willing to get super specific it does do a few more unique things in their ecosystem:
- The fastest audio recording imaginable with the onboard mic. OP-1f is fast but you have to turn it on, enable the input (and/or select the onboard mic input), and make sure nothing else is connected. With TP-7 you donāt even have to turn it on to quickly record things from the onboard mic.
- Count-in before recording audio (I think the only other TE count-in is on the KO II before recording MIDI). No pre-roll, though, so you canāt hear whatās already recorded.
- Add cue markers to multiple spots on a recording (vs. 1 In point on the OP-1f)
- Play audio starting at different points via MIDI (canāt control the receiving channel though)
- Audio threshold recording (OP-1f & KO II do this but only for <20s samples)
Lots of thatās just after this most recent update, though, so those might count as cheating 
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Where can one read up on what the new capabilities for TP-7 are in regards to midi sync? Nothing in the manual. Did I miss it?
nope, nothing about it in the manual
i tried sending and receiving sync with ableton liveāthe tp-7 receives start / stop messages but doesnāt change itās bpm to match liveās bpm
sending sync from tp-7 to live, it starts / stops liveās transport, but the bpm is all over the place
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Yes, as far as I can tell it just responds to start and stop messages, annoying it wonāt update the BPM especially as you canāt change a BPM of a recording once itās been made
Probably obvious, but assume you have set ableton to revive not only transport (start/stop) but also set it to receive MTC/clock?
Just purchased. Is the memo button rattle a thing? Or do I have a dud?
its normal. upload a quick video if you want so we can confirm but AFAIK Its normal
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I keep coming back to this use case, as Iām also a noodler on other instruments. Did you consider other non-TE recorders for this as well, like Roland R-07?
If so, curious what the killer app for TP-7 over others was.
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i had a zoom recorder for a while but didnāt really compare tp7 to roland r-07 or many other options. i heard rumors at the time that the tp7 would undergo significant improvements over the years with fw updates (one of which has already come to pass) and i also heard folks saying the quality of sound in the built in mic was much better than you might expect. the look and feel is what ultimately sold me along with the thought of fw improvements over the years to come.
hard to say if my tp7 recordings sound better than the zoom ones since i dont have zoom anymore and canāt compare the exact same environment, but im very happy with the recordings and being able to create multitrack wav files on the fly and even being able to overdub or overwrite on the fly with loop points is a bit of a game changer for me so far.
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i really like this korg SOS ive been using in a similar fashion
i dunno exactly how it compares to the TP7
but the thing i really like is how it records each layer as a separate wav on the card
which i can then export and they all line up real easy for further individual processing, mixing etc
allows me to keep it loose when recording
but then when i got a bunch of stuff going on i can easily move to the next step
with a lot of flexibility still intact
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Have any of you folks kept the TP-7 even though the spinning disk thing makes a weird click while it goes around? I just picked it up and Iām having a blast with this thing but it seems like I got one of the duds. I have a rma coming back from zZsounds but that means Iām taking the chance of getting another broken one. Such a bummer TE has such crappy quality control.
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i tried out 3 different units and they all had some amount of mechanical noise when recording with the onboard mic while the disc was spinning.
the one i ended up keeping doesnāt make a click with every revolution, but it does pick up a faint, persistent scraping sound while the platter is moving.
iāve just accepted that if iām using the onboard mic to record, i have to turn the motor off.
i do worry that the more ff/rw and scratching i do with the platter, the worse the noise will get over time
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yeah i had 3 units and all had the noise, ultimately. one of them had this more noticeable click whereas the other two just had a bit of a friction/scratch sound that was much quieter. if im being objective, the sound is incredibly quiet and can really only be heard in an absolutely silent environment to the naked ear, but given the proximity to the onboard mic, it will pick it up. its not terribly loud but you do hear it in recordings. i too simply turn motor off for any sensitive recordings. most of the time i just leave it on, but when im recording music or producing something, i turn it off.
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