Teenage Engineering TP-7 Tape recorder

I really want this thing, cant explain it haha. I know my phone voice memo app does this and trying to do some multitrack mix connected with tx-6 sounds really fun but cumbersome compared to just using a daw right off the bat, but I want it.

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Stolen from fb Synth Memes

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you would think that teenage engineering wouldn’t want to allow Roland to be the only Devs putting the ‘Skipback’ feature in their machines… I know you’re watching T.E. c’mon now give it to me!

is there any reason why the tx-6 shouldn’t be able to do this?

funny. When the TE guy at Superbooth told me about voice to text, at that moment I was thinking the exact same thing.

What about this @MichaalHell? The playback back to the TX-6 is not in the manual?

If it do work it is an instant buy for me

I really would like to know if there is any reason why this multitrack recording from the tx-6 should require an extra device? It seems utterly pointless to connect a second device instead of simply recording straight onto the tx-6.
Does anyone know? @MichaalHell

I think Thats a miss print, because the TX-6 is the only way you can enable six tracks on the TP-7

the tx-6 doesnt even have a internal storage so it wouldn’t be possible anyway.

but if you mean multitrack recording to the usb drive, id simply assume that it just wasnt designed to be a multitrack recorder or to have such functions, unless connecting to another device. Most mixers/audio interfaces dont record and are expected to have a separate device for recording, and im guessing that is how TE saw it instead of the TX-6 as an all in one field product.

Im guessing TE planned the field series in advance with 3 mini boxes that have 3 different main use cases with a tiny bit of overlap. While the tx-6 is the most “all in one” type device of the 3, dont think its what they intended for the product.

Yes I mean the usb drive. I also have the tx-6 and I would like to know why it shouldn’t be possible to write the data onto the usb stick. TX-6 is obviously able to send the data through that very same usb port.
Very inconvenient in my opinion to require a second device (not even talking about price). Curious to hear what you guys think @circuitghost @MichaalHell :slightly_smiling_face:

I actually also wanted to know if there are any devices you know of out there that actually do that; that you can plug a usb drive and record multitrack audio onto it. I think that would convince me that it was a design choice to not overlap with tp-7 rather then a hardware limitations.

but yeah it seems tx-6 has been designed to only do multitrack connected to another device; be it a phone, laptop or tp-7.

For multitrack recording you always have to connect to a second device anyways… it seems like multitrack recording to thumb stick isn’t a viable solution… but I’m not that knowledgeable in that area, so I don’t really know.

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I think this might be related to the limited read/write speed of flash drives for multitrack recording. For example, the A&H Qu mixers also only record a stereo track to a flash drive and require an external hard drive (or computer) for full multitrack recording.

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Interesting to know that. Guess it gives some indication it has not been purposely gimped in a Apple type way

It kind of indicates it here (they simply mention it as sending over USB rather then specifically a TX-6 as I guess it can be sent to other things eg DAW)

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So now you have to buy the TX-6 and TP-7 to get (some) of the functionality of the Bluebox?

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Guess its designed simply for stereo to USB drive or 6 stereo straight into your computer / DAW since it acts as an audio interface.

I do wonder if TE sees the TX-6 as a finished product or more firmware upgrades on the cards.

More firmware updates for sure. It is TE :slight_smile: (…yet!)

I kind of doubt that but I‘ll try to figure it out and report.

My gut feeling tells me that this is exactly what is happening…