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Audio equipment pricing is hilarious. Your single most expensive tech purchase might be “a really good budget option :D” in the music world.
by okwubodu 5y ago
Audio equipment pricing is hilarious. Your single most expensive tech purchase might be “a really good budget option :D” in the music world.
- tomcam 5y agoYou are absolutely correct, although your observation isn’t completely relevant to the OP-1. The OP-1 is actually a synthesizer, and $1500, while a substantial sum, isn’t that much for a pro quality musical instrument.
- Dylan16807 5y agoWhat does 'actually a synthesizer' mean, and is it something you can't do with a $20 chip?
- playpause 5y agoIt means it’s designed and built as a musical instrument, to be played.
- polytely 5y agoA big part of the selling point of a hardware synthesizer is the user interface, which will be deliberately be designed to remove friction in making music. The OP1 is overpriced even by synth standards, but it seems to me like a well-designed piece of gear.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoThe device is more than just a chip. It's a human interface optimized for music production. Carefully selected knobs and buttons for specific features so that as you get an idea in your head, you can immediately apply it to the music you're making/playing. It must never crash, freeze, nor behave unexpectedly. The price tag is the guarantee that it's designed by musicians, for musicians, and built to spec. That's worth a surprising lot to people who seriously make music, even as a hobby.
- Dylan16807 5y agoThat's you explaining why this particular product is good. But something can be a synthesizer with terrible buttons and unhelpful behaviors, can't it?
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoOh yes. Like the Pocket Operators. But they are accordingly cheaper.
- stavros 5y agoThe UX of the OP-1 does look outstanding.