What does TP-7 stand for?
Tape Pocket
Tape Porta
Tacos Pana
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7?
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(sorry in advance)
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Lol, it was only a matter of time 
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Looking at the manual a bit it seems to have a pocket mode, which I would assume turns off the motor and lets it play freely in your pocket… I dunno I feel like this could hit the highend portable music player market well if the menuing is reasonable enough. All the recording stuff is just like bonus features to someone in that market. Not sure if I could convince myself to get one but stuff like my zoom H6 has a pretty horrid interface that relies way to much on a rocker switch/button combo.
Thanks!
One other question (sorry!) , I can’t quite work out from the manual if true asynchronous multitracking is possible… e.g. record on to one of the tracks then play it back while recording on to another track,
If it’s connected to the TX-6 while recording does that mean you’d have to monitor through the TP without being able to control levels of the originally recorded track?
That was more convoluted than I planned!
Tl:dr can it function like a portastudio?
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Yes you can use it in that fashion and even overdub an already recorded track.
One thing to note is that it is only three tracks available for recording with internal mic or analogue inputs. With TX-6 you get six tracks worth of recording.
A few interviews now up with Tobias at Superbooth. He says in both that the TP-7 is the final part of the field series so im guessing hope of a OP-Z Field is maybe gone.
That would be a good thing for my GAS
very interesting! do you have a link to these or are they the videos above?
ending the field series so soon, very succinct lineup
These two:
did tobias say the field collection is now complete? so no op-z field?
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It’s a beautiful device.
Tempting if you are of the mindset that your thoughts are more valuably formed and collected in a moleskin notebook than on a scrap of waste paper.
I think they missed a beat not having an excellent mic built in.
while I’m game for a beautiful and small field recorder (and dearly missing my Roland R-26),
since I kinda despise all Zoom recorders (even if they, yeah, work well enough, the OS is a hassle and I‘m not into the plasticpunk spider designs), I just don‘t get it.
At that price point you‘re competing with a sound devices mix pro 6
There‘s one good argument though in the comments back on cdm.link by a David B.:
„TE is a luxury brand now. I say this while absolutely conscious that Lambos aren’t in my future either. But… I suppose this could be the actual cost/price for devices not made using slave labor.“
That made me think…is the TP-7 build without slave labor? Is that even possible for any electronics to do without?
My sound devices for sure is not…
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I think if you look at any craft-made synth or music product, mostly the handmade small batch single maker stuff (modular or otherwise), there’s a certain degree of slave labor involved though it is self imposed. That is that the same person who designs, tests, markets, and hand builds, then deals with customer pushback/ complaints and afterward debugs and fixes firmware issues while continuing to source materials, build more product, support existing product, etc… out of a small one bedroom shithole apartment that constantly smells of solder, circuit board break-in odor and top ramen.
If that’s not a vicious cycle of slave labor then I don’t know what is. How that parallels TE? Not sure. I’m not aware of them ever having been a struggling company or assembling their own product in-house.
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Um…
This?
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thats where they make the tp-7?
I’m never buying another brick again. that shit is depressing.
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Some spicy Sweet Water talk in the background.
thank you for that colorful description, I can smell the solder and taste the ramen, and yes, I‘m very aware of ze „Selbstausbeutung der künstlerischen Klasse“
(self exploitation of the artistic/creative social class)
…but: my mind went to rare earth materials mined, in certain cases, by means of child slave labour.
I know this article about the cost of an „all American made“ iphone isn‘t the best, but at least outlines the problem - and there‘s more complexity to it, but sadly I‘m not an economist, only a noise-industrialist 
aaaaanyways, TP-7, i still don‘t get it - I‘d be all over it though, if I saw it in some retro sci-fi show, where a moustachioed Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with it.
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That article is dark. I mean there’s just too many depressing things to talk about in one day. makes me want to watch a disney jerry bruckheimer movie and forget that reality even exists.
It’s safe to say that if people have the money to burn and want to buy matching brushed aluminum high spec kindness guaranteed life sets I’m in no position to stop them.
Who am I that spends money on matching powdercoated black versions of elektron crap to judge?
especially after watching that video about the brick forming family, makes me feel guilty for living indoors.
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