http://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1/#form


OP-1 stands for Operator 1.
The OP-1 is a pocket size controller for your favorite software sequencer. Connect it to your laptop and it lets you control your sequencers transport with the common play, stop, rec, forward and rewind. Use it to control your software synthesizers with the 4 rotary encoders and 16 dedicated quick keys for fast selections.

... and a synthesizer
When you disconnect the OP-1 from your computer you suddenly have a stand-alone portable wonder-machine with 8 synthesizer models, 8 samplers and effects like Delay, Flutter, Filters and EQ all built in. Use all that synthesizer power to record your work with the truly unique (at present time, secret) sequencer. We promise you a really cool and creative way to record your sounds and tweak them in a completely new way.

A Portable Wonder
Use the magic step sequencer/arpegiator to get the notes right. If that is not enough use the built in motionsensor that sense every shake or move you make and turn it into really cool sounds.
Then relax and sample a beat from the built-in FM radio or memorize a tune by whistle it into the built-in microphone. Play your piece to your friends through the built-in speaker. Or...convert it right away to mp3 and mail it to them.

But the device is 10-12 months away and no details on price are available as yet. Start saving.
(stolen from http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/2009/03/op-1-wow.html)

this thing looks almost too good to be true but then pedigree of those involved is really promising, one of the engineers from elektron and the dude who made lsdj for the gameboy!

i'm really excited for this thing and think that it+404 would be crazy. only think that sucks is no foreseeable way to midi the two together.



more indepth discussion at the elektron forums

http://elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=56288&catid=11&limit=10&limitstart=0

thats so mindblowing i cant even comprehend how awesome it is

Just watched the video of the screen....so rad! It's got a 60's 70's modern vibe to it. I want one just for that.

should be expensive

that desk light is 649 Euros?! unless i'm reading it wrong

I also hope this is not an april fool's joke.


if not,
Great!

It's good to see it uses FM synthesis. . . I'm kind of becoming an analogue purist without trying

so it's good that theyre not trying to emulate analogue sounds.


I hope their claims of quality are not hollow.

It looks the part.

Although I see no audio outputs beside headphone

still looks complicated ¿¿ looooolz

holy shit that is baaad ass. what a toy it better be real.
well there's the speaker... =)