TE OP-XY
Anyone else see this thing? Personally, I think TE is out of their mind if they think it's worth $2300. I see the sentiment being repeated a lot.
The disappointing part is, you know it'll sell like crazy, anyway. Screw them for this ridiculous price gouging. Screw people for supporting their price gouging. I'm not usually a vindictive person, but I hope sales are awful so they don't inspire anyone else to try this approach.
Seriously, anyone considering this thing, go buy a Digitakt or an Oxi One and use it with your phone and take a nice trip to Thailand or something with your leftover money.
All the synthtubers are gushing. I'd gush too if TE forwarded me one early for free.
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Most TE products are definitely extremely priced. I'm not getting pissed about it though. There is obviously a market for them and there is little in direct competition when it comes to size/form factor + feature set.
That being said, not worth it for me. Would rather buy one of my big dream synths for that price.
I have the Ep133 and while it has its quirks and limits, it's a fun device at a lot more reasonable price.
Yeah, I thought the KOII looked OK, and the price was fair, if not exactly worth it for what seems like some pretty fragile hardware with a laughable amount of memory in the mid-2020s. I think the new Roland P-6 is a much better choice if you want a portable, battery powered sampler. It didn't exist when the EP133 came out, though.
One often overlooked strength of the E133 is actually as a Midi sequencer. It has very high amount of tracks and high recording resolution for sequencing midi tracks compared to any other midi sequencer out there.
If I could have recorded midi live during performance with it, I probably wouldn't have bought my korg SQ-64
That's pretty cool. Sounds like it might pair well with something like the Retrokit RK008 or a Bastl MIDI Looper.
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