So... you judge character based on appearances?
No other gear company has tackled the all-in-one synth-sequencer-4trackrecorder-groovebox that is the OP-1 in the decade since its release. TE not capitalizing on this would be financially naive.
No other gear company has tackled the all-in-one synth-sequencer-4trackrecorder-groovebox that is the OP-1 in the decade since its release. TE not capitalizing on this would be financially naive.
> No other gear company has tackled the all-in-one synth-sequencer-4trackrecorder-groovebox
Seriously?
Plenty of other companies have. If you're old enough to remember, Elektron had an 8 track sequencer/recorder/groovebox that cost roughly the same price as the OP-1. Their mono model was actually cheaper than the OP-1 (and arguably nicer).
...which is of course to ignore the hundreds of other sub-$1000 grooveboxes that do 90% of what the OP-1 does. Hell, that's to ignore DAWs that cost 1/3rd of the price with 300% more features. If you buy an OP-1 as your introduction to electronic music, you are wasting your money.
To each their own, the only real winner here is the one selling their product.
Then again, considering how little progress there is to be made with music technology and how much of the industry is buoyed by marketing and brand, it makes sense that people defend their choice of consumption so fervently.
Like I said above, it's my mistake for criticizing consumerism on a website that lives, eats and dies on how much people buy into arbitrary things like marketing and brand.
Nothing about your comments in this thread convey enjoyment of music making. Instead you just seem to be expressing contempt for the op-1, it’s makers, and the people who do enjoy the product.
Your goal seems to be to condemn people who enjoy making music with the op-1, as well as a group of people who enjoy making instruments.
Does this enhance your enjoyment of making music?
I think it is because "just making same thing" is frowned upon and also industry cares to not eat itself.
For example take Digitakt and Digitone. It could easily be combined into one device "it is just code" and CPUs got faster since release of those but they don't, because they know having those "blind spots" in each of their devices (that other of their devices fit) is good for sales. Got a Digitone ? Want Drum machine to it ? Well, Digitakt got same interface you already know. Even their newest device Syntakt omits a lot of FM stuff to not step on Digitone niche.
Also there is plenty all-in-ones with more capability, all the way to monsters like MASCHINE+, MPC X or Force. People buy OP-1 coz they want to work within the limits and think that will make better music, not because it can do something unique anything else can't.
Which is understandable, given myriad options it's easy to get lost in tinkering with them instead of focusing on creation.
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."