Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators by LFT

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http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php
LFT made three pocket operators (little music making toys) called Arcade, Office and Robot for Teenage Engineering, as announced at NAMM2016.

added on the 2016-02-06 21:53:49 by _-_-__

Nice but He should rather build that FPGA computer Parallelogram.
With amazing FM synth and kickass graphics and music tracker...
As handheld device...
For portable chiptunes I have GBA, DS and OpenPandora...
But still there is place for FM handheld...

Parallelogram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42neZVvoMY

added on the 2016-02-06 23:12:00 by elan

People do what they do, and that's the only thing they should do.

added on the 2016-02-07 00:41:14 by _-_-__

cool stuff!

added on the 2016-02-07 02:26:39 by psenough

Nice!

added on the 2016-02-07 02:43:10 by bdk

that is fucking nice!

added on the 2016-02-07 09:41:06 by sensenstahl

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People do what they do, and that's the only thing they should do.

the fuck?

added on the 2016-02-07 10:23:02 by 1in10

its true. you dont need AMIGA to make good stuff

added on the 2016-02-07 11:19:51 by wysiwtf

Linus, you´re awesome!

added on the 2016-02-07 11:37:18 by Virgill

1in10 I just hated that the first answer I get to someone making something cool is that they should do something else. Why are people trying to boss other people around all the time? This sucks

added on the 2016-02-07 14:16:20 by _-_-__

^ +1 bossing is easier than diy.

added on the 2016-02-07 14:19:25 by sensenstahl

i myself dislike this consumer driven music toy culture which has been lowering the standards of music gear the last 10 years.
it only produces shit that one would do better with free software and some work or things that are old tech packaged anew
even for kids i think old pc would be better toy than something ready-made.

added on the 2016-02-07 15:11:08 by 1in10

1in10, how did you get into music in the first place?
What made you see the computer as a place to make music in?

added on the 2016-02-07 15:44:38 by _-_-__

I like the concept of the original set of Pocket Operators a lot, and these are cool too. I wonder how attractive the chiptune sounds are to majority of people, but at least they're different and cheap. I'm a guitar guy, but I like the music toy culture a lot.

added on the 2016-02-07 16:16:21 by Preacher

Nice!

added on the 2016-02-07 23:57:11 by numtek

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i myself dislike this consumer driven music toy culture which has been lowering the standards of music gear the last 10 years.

Having standards for what counts as music is an outdated concept anyway. Do whatever you like and listen to whatever you enjoy.

As for the Pocket Operators, I think they're cute little devices, but considering they lack MIDI, they're not really for me. I'll stick with the Korg Volca series for my on-the-go synth needs ^^

added on the 2016-02-08 00:56:24 by ___

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Having standards for what counts as music is an outdated concept

still prevailing today. quite prominent in demoscene.
its part of the validation culture.
and you are twisting my meaning. i never said anything about music. i was talking about music gear.

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Do whatever you like and listen to whatever you enjoy.

agreed.

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how did you get into music in the first place?
What made you see the computer as a place to make music in?

i don't do music inside a computer. let's get that clear.
i get the feeling you are fishing for argument.
these were my opinions. if you don't like em you are free to ignore em/me.

added on the 2016-02-08 20:05:08 by 1in10

1in10, well no, see I was actually interested. I happen to work at a company that makes software and hardware for musicians.

added on the 2016-02-08 23:34:55 by _-_-__

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I was actually interested

fair enough.

only thing i have been craving for is software in which notes and audio are handled equal/the same without sampler plug-in. like the arrangement is the sampler and instrument.
notes are regions and regions notes.

that in a hardware that never gets os upgrades from apple, which are not backwards compatible, would be perfect.

added on the 2016-02-09 00:22:20 by 1in10

Anyone got their hands on these yet?

added on the 2016-02-22 11:35:27 by Daddy Freddy