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âRecycled aluminum and plywood.â They donât even hide that itâs made cheap.
this sounds like duck dynasty
But when you name the wood, it sounds more expensive, seeâŚ
Cheers!
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TE is really giving Apple a run for their money.
Remember the $1000 Mac Stand?
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Folding picnic table.
Amazing. If anyone buys this, TE rules for lulling such gullible humans under their spell.
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I love that they also emphasize that they wonât pay for shipping
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Saw it in memes first then here. Bizarre. Is this whole company a new dada movement?
Get the f*ck out.
I love my op-1 but I really do not understand them sometimes. They will send people free shit (YouTubers with 1k followers who canât wait to tell you they sent them free shit) then turn around and make a $1500 table. But hey! Letâs keep giving them free advertising! How many op-1âs or op-zâs or POâs do you think theyâve sold from this? Probably a few. One thing they are not is dummies.
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i understand the outrage⌠but the guy is a designer, people pay more for fancy shoes in haute couture, why be mad that some swedish guy is selling fancy tables that adhere to his minimal design philosophy, just buy a cheap table if you dont want one lol
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I donât think anyone actually mad, itâs just funny and ridiculous, maybe some people get a feeling that they are being trolled and do feel mad but I believe for the majority itâs just looks like a joke, like someone mentioned the apple premium monitor stand, itâs just funny to see a price tag of $1000 for a Pro monitor stand the same way itâs funny to see $1600 for a Field table with flimsy looksâŚ
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Yep. Purely funny to me. But I also recognize that cost and value are relative, so Iâm sure thereâs a (small) market out there.
No way they can release it without a big group of musicians taking the piss though.
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fun fact: the same designer (Jesper Kouthoofd) designed the Elektron Machinedrum and Monomachine, so cant shit talk too much lol
Hi all,
This is Jesper from Teenage Engineering.
Sometimes I check this forum to see what you Elektron users are up to.
It is always interesting, especially for me who have been working on some of the Elektron machines as a designer. I love that you comment on all kinds of stuff, have feature requests, get mad about details etc.I never write comments on forums, so this is the one and only exception.
I do it because I want you Elektron users to get the background story of the OP-1. And to clear things out a little bit in this thread.Around 1999/2000 I was doing the final work on the MonoMachine and had daily discussions with Daniel Hansson about what machine to do next. I told Daniel about my dream of a machine I have sketched on, based on the Roland SH-101 but in a pocket format. Daniel loved the idea, but was concerned about the battery power and the overall performance of a machine in that size. Remember that this was 10 years ago, and the technology wasnât quite there yet. So he told me to continue to sketch up a concept, but keep it more or less outside Elektron.
Anyway, I started to work on the machine as a side project. (Daniel and the Elektron team had another vision about a more live / dj sampling machine (UW that later bacame the Octatrack I guess) I did a lot of sketches of the functionality and renderings. And finally Daniel called me one day and said Elektron had a collaboration with Evolution to make a portable machine / controller. As you might guessed, when we presented the stuff, they thought we were insane and rejected all of it. It was too expensive. Impossible to manufacture, no clear target group etc. That could have been the end of story, but it wasnât.
As some of you know a tragic incident happend a few years later. In 2007 Daniel died in a car accident. He was one of my best friends and it was a great loss. He had called me just a couple of weeks before and wanted to show me a sketch of a new machine he had been working on for some time. (I donât know what he had in mind, but I guess the Octatrack is in a close direction, even if I know thereâs at least one other great talent behind that machine.)
At that time me and some friends had just started Teenage Engineering. I was still doing some work for Elektron, but when Daniel passed away, it wasnât just the same for me and I guess Elektron also wanted move on and build a strong team in Gotheburg, which I think was right. So the opportunity the make a portable machine was more or less gone.
All this came to a conclusion. If we donât make this machine ourselfs, no one else will. So we have put all our effort, time and money to make this machine real.
In many ways as a tribute to Elektron, but also to make a a 10 year old dream to make an extraordinary instrument come true.With that said, I just want you to know how emotional a project like this is. Itâs not about business or being smart or about money. Itâs your life. We do this because we love it.
We have dreamed about this machine and itâs functions for so many years. We have all put a large piece of ourselfs into this. This of course makes us sensitve for speculations etc.
I guess the above applies for the Elektron team as well.So⌠let us clear things out.
No, itâs not a clever marketing strategy lending out an OP-1 pre-production unit to a House Mafia band. They just wanted to use it as a prop in their vid. And it ended up as the center piece of the video. We had nothing to say about it. And of course the track wasnât made on the OP-1. It isnât out yet. And yes, you can create a song like that (why do someone who has never touched an OP-1 write things like "thatâs not possible to do on an OP-1?). Come on⌠itâs not that hard. And remember that the OP-1 is also a controller, so itâs nothing wrong to visually connect the OP-1 with a song made in Logic.
Keep up the good work Elektron.
-Jesper
Ps. We have some really great stuff going on. Ds.
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Next up the TI grass field.
A 500 gram pack of seeds that will grow a durable and sustainable field of grass of 2m2 for your field desk.
499 euro
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1600 for a desk. Whoever finds arguments to buy that has lost their mind.
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And their matching accessory, water?
(Only able to be purchased with their hydro flask)
Ranting, or just poking fun?
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I find this table absolutely beautiful. The target audience isnât bedroom producers (or producers at all?), that doesnât make much sense, unless you are really into industrial design. But these would look great at a design studio or the like, especially multiple in line. Reminds me a bit of the Eiermann table.
Do you really look at this and think cheap picnic table? Itâs ridiculously overengineered in the best way. With a price tag that makes everyone voice their opinion, win for TE.
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