The OP-1 is too Overpowered…Please nerf. 😉

Great idea only to be stumped by a stupid price.

fucking £800 fuck off….

So many people complaining about the price. So what? There are so many videos showing this device obviously helps creating great pieces of music.

I know nothing about music so I am way out of my depth here but I really like the look of this, it looks quite simple to use. I am thinking of buying this but is there a product like this that I should start with or would it be okay if I just started using this?

link this with a kenton 5pin USB MIDI host and your golden!

Why do people still go on about the price of this thing – even after five years? When people do, it’s like they say they really want it, but they can’t afford it, and then they have to annoy everyone who can afford it by going on about it being overpriced, to the point that it sounds like not only do they think it costs too much, but it makes them resent the OP-1, everything it stands for, all the music made on it, and everyone who has one. The only sensible reason for this kind of behaviour is trying to dissuade themselves from getting one. It’s unusually ambivalent and no other musical instrument ever has polarised opinion this much. What’s up with that?

Come to think of it, many musical instruments, digital or conventional, cost more than this, but people don’t usually go on about how expensive they are. It’s really only the OP-1 that gets that special treatment. Must be because it looks like a cheap toy and when people realise it isn’t cheap (but still think it’s a toy), they conclude it’s overpriced. Most who actually own one seem to go on about how it’s one of the best purchases they ever made, and not a single one of them, as far as I have seen, complains about the price.

Oh well…

I get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing that $850 price tag every time i see it listed on Amazon. Gives me a real chuckle.

I can’t get past it being £750 and it can’t even send or receive clock signals. That’s pretty poor I’m afraid. Surely that’s a very basic requirement for a unit like this.

Oddly you look younger now than six years ago.

Still €939 for this? No way. Ridiculous pricing.

The point of the OP-1 isn’t just to provide sounds. It is a tool to create music on the go and inspire creativity with abnormal design and constraints. If you’re only interested in the sounds this can make, you’re looking at this wrong.

I think it’s great people are still passionately arguing over this synth after 5 years. Now THAT is something if you think about it.

John Dwyer, of Thee Oh Sees, uses this now while performing ‘Sticky Hulks’.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrMacbbLxuc   I think he’s going to have a lot of fun with this tool.