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Field system, completed: Teenage Engineering TP-7 recorder test

Teenage Engineering's fecund design imagination has yielded inventions wonderful, ambitious, sometimes prohibitively expensive, odd... but can the company reinvent the...

Polystepper, a gorgeous electroacoustic synth made with stepper motors, and more wonders

Analog, digital... we're onto the physical, kinetic, and electroacoustic. For one example, marvel at the Polystepper by artist/woodworker Love Hultén...

Speldosa is a virtual music box from Klevgrand and Marble Machine creator Wintergatan

Production tool or stress relief? Maybe it's both. Swedish artist Wintergatan, best known for the physical Marble Machine instrument, has...

Sample machines in Elektron Digitakt 1.50: Repitch, Werp, Slice, Oneshot

Elektron has a major update for Digitakt in 1.50 -- now with Machines, as Octatrack, Model:Cycles, and Syntakt. Those bring...

This drum machine turns children’s heartbeats into music, raising visibility of kids’ heart defects

Teenage Engineering and designer Love Hultén worked together on the design for the CHD-4, a drum machine based on electrocardiograms....

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...