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I know a number of electronic musicians, and none of them has an OP-1, or anything from TE. The only person I know with an OP-1 is a designer at a startup I worked for, and he "didn't get around using it much yet".

So yeah, the $2000 price point will work great for them, given their customer demographics :)

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Well there’s this guy on YouTube who demos all kinds of synths and got a huge following from his OP-1 videos: https://youtu.be/7z4hoazra_g

The video shows me that OP-1 is a pretty cool all-in-one package, but it probably needs honing a special skill to work with it as smoothly as that guy does.

Even with RMR though, he's pretty much moved away from the OP-1 videos, I can't recall the video where he explained why 100%, but I think he found it a bit creatively constraining.

He got upset a while ago because someone else started making a similar style of OP-1 videos (Top down, subtitles, wooden desk) which he felt was theft of his creative property.

Yeah what he doesn't show is the difficulty of learning all the quirks and features of the OP-1.

Professional musicians or even hobbyists prefer to buy several specialized devices that do one thing very well instead of having a very expensive device that can do a little bit of everything but with some limitations.

I know a few professional musicians who have them and you can look up a host of famous musicians who are known to use them: Diplo, Bon Iver, Deadmau5, Yasutaka Nakata, even Ariana Grande has one. It seems to occupy a similar space to the Elektron products —- high end with a steep learning curve

There isn't much of a learning curve. Modern Elektron products also don't have much of a learning curve versus their pre-Digi lineup.

Heck I doubt anyone in the music production industry even knows what Teenage Engineering is. They make toys for rich techies, but that's it.

Record producer here. We certainly do. It’s a well-known product that’s not uncommon to see being used by people.

I’d never decide to use one for my needs, but it is common enough to find among many music makers.

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