I’m not some tech genius who could spot a fake product a hundred miles away. I’m just not a gullible dumbass
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Pretty sure quite a few people got in on the R1 because it was cheap ($200) and designed by Teenage Engineering which people fucking love for some reason.
I unapologetically despise TE. Their synths are underpowered, overpriced bleep bloop squonk boxes with intentionally obscure UI because "aesthetics", but their cult following just eats that shit up when there are a bazillion other, cheaper, more capable devices out there. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that they had a hand in this disaster of a device and I hope their reputation suffers for it.
Exactly. And people fucking loved those things back when I was more active in the music scene. Having one was like a talking point. People would pull them out in the middle of conversations at gigs. Never mind that you can get a used Volca for not much more, that does more with a better UI, and most of them do actual MIDI, not just sync. But you don't see people walking around with those in their pockets because Korg don't have a fucking cult.
Pocket operators were cool. OP-1 is cool if it weren't so overpriced.