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This page is nuts: https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary/made-on-op-1 https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary/made-o... The crazy

This page is nuts: https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary/made-on-op-1 https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary/made-o... The crazy part about it is that they only really mention the bits that show the OP1 in a primary means, you can find every case of a modern musical team making something and find an OP-1 somewhere. Taylor Swift? Easy. Despite the clear flaws and price, the OP-1 just does something for creativity. Also: This is not seen in the list as they picked the cover they did instead, but you get to see the OP-1 used in force here by Chvrches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haunJARHPm4&ab_channel=NPRMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haunJARHPm4&ab_channel=NPRMu... After seeing what's going on in that you begin to hear where the OP-1 is used by them in creation of the album.

sdenton4 6y ago
A couple other sightings of my own: Nine Inch Nails live rig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXEvNUjgCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXEvNUjgCg Zola Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6hFRW3Lyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6hFRW3Lyg Dan Deacon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEwpOKhLT7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEwpOKhLT7E (The Teenage Engineering page includes, amongst many others, Depeche Mode, Ariane Grande, Timbaland, Animal Collective, Deadmau5, Usher, Bon Iver, Childish Gambino...)
- bsder 6y ago
  I never put any stock in what gear musicians use unless I see them before they became even slightly famous. Musicians get paid to use gear. I don't know of any moderately famous musician for whom that isn't true. My favorite examples of this are bands that have that cool Rickenbacker sound and shoot a couple of videos with them. And then suddenly once they get some traction, they're playing Telecasters in public all the time. Fender paid them. And that's totally fine--musicians get paid garbage so any source of cash is good. I just wish the musicians were more straightforward about it.
  - bzzzt 6y ago
    There's a national pop festival here which is broadcast on TV; for years I've noticed there's always a high-end Moog synthesizer on the main stage, even when the act only plays guitars... it's just product placement.
    - joebaxter 6y ago
      To be fair, many bands will use automation through midi or otherwise to "play" synthesizers without actually physically playing them. Normally you'd just see them playing the raw audio as part of the backing track but i could see big money arena bands with fuck-you money doing it with real synths live.
      - bzzzt 6y ago
        Most of the time the synths are not even plugged in ;)

sdenton4 6y ago

A couple other sightings of my own: Nine Inch Nails live rig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXEvNUjgCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXEvNUjgCg Zola Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6hFRW3Lyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6hFRW3Lyg Dan Deacon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEwpOKhLT7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEwpOKhLT7E (The Teenage Engineering page includes, amongst many others, Depeche Mode, Ariane Grande, Timbaland, Animal Collective, Deadmau5, Usher, Bon Iver, Childish Gambino...)

bsder 6y ago
I never put any stock in what gear musicians use unless I see them before they became even slightly famous. Musicians get paid to use gear. I don't know of any moderately famous musician for whom that isn't true. My favorite examples of this are bands that have that cool Rickenbacker sound and shoot a couple of videos with them. And then suddenly once they get some traction, they're playing Telecasters in public all the time. Fender paid them. And that's totally fine--musicians get paid garbage so any source of cash is good. I just wish the musicians were more straightforward about it.
- bzzzt 6y ago
  There's a national pop festival here which is broadcast on TV; for years I've noticed there's always a high-end Moog synthesizer on the main stage, even when the act only plays guitars... it's just product placement.
  - joebaxter 6y ago
    To be fair, many bands will use automation through midi or otherwise to "play" synthesizers without actually physically playing them. Normally you'd just see them playing the raw audio as part of the backing track but i could see big money arena bands with fuck-you money doing it with real synths live.
    - bzzzt 6y ago
      Most of the time the synths are not even plugged in ;)