The appeal of this instrument is that you can take it somewhere that doesn't have outlets to recharge it. Same reason there's a speaker, even though you wouldn'

The appeal of this instrument is that you can take it somewhere that doesn't have outlets to recharge it. Same reason there's a speaker, even though you wouldn't use that for recording. The Omnichord is a nostalgia buy, not the cutting edge (to the point that it doesn't even have corners).