Teenage Engineering OP-1 field review, not a review: in the field, on an album

Nothing defies trends quite like the Teenage Engineering OP-1. It’s small and lean, but priced alongside pro instruments. It’s a compact luxury synth. We bring back our resident expert on mobile production, Swedish gear, and multifunction compact goodness Andreas Roman to give us a review – or not. Swede anti-reviews Swede. Go. -Ed.

Sequential Trigon-6: hands-on sounds and impressions of the new polysynth

Sequential finishes out 2022 with something new: a deep polysynth with an architecture that draws on the legacy of the Prophet-6 and OB-6, but stands next to them as a third classic electronic instrument.

Francis Preve - November 17, 2022

The late Dave Smith with Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle, Tony Karavidas talking OB-X8 design

We’re fortunate for all the time we get to spend together talking about the stuff we love and meeting the people who make our musical instruments. And that time is always limited. So this moment from the OB-X8 team is especially worth watching for all four designers – and RIP, Dave.

Peter Kirn - October 26, 2022

Arturia V-Collection 9, feature by feature: a dreamy, futuristic update, new and old

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2022

Dave Smith brought us all closer together; Sequential and MIDI legend has died

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2022

The Oberheim OB-X8 is a beast – here are more sounds from it, straight-up

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2022

Oberheim is back with OB-X8, combining three 1980s legends into one analog polysynth

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2022

Dave Smith himself tours the Prophet-5 in a six-part series, one year later

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2021

Fire, voltage, metal, and thumping groove as Rojin Shafari tears through ‘It Made You Blind’ live

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2021

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