Originally published at: Teenage Engineering goes Medieval with new sampler - Boing Boing
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Does it have a sample of medieval historians fuming?
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There’s some sort of rule that requires GW to make an absolute mess of licensing(both greenlighting bad projects and missing opportunities); but this seems like one place where a Cult Mechanicus makeover and selection of samples suitable for particularly grim and superstitious industrial applications would work brilliantly.
Cog-skull, couple of purity seals; high gothic labels for the control runes; case that looks like it was stamped out on tooling that hasn’t been replaced in 15,000 years because nobody knows how anymore…
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TE are very, very experienced trölles….
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“Brother Master Fleet Admiral, prithee drop thine beats.”
“I obey, Brother Commander Lord Cardinal… EXTERMINATUS!!!”
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It is whispered that no living man has seen Ordo Malleus and The Black Ships in concert more than once.
The faithful, however, are earnestly exhorted not to miss one of the special occasions when Ministorum Choir Drones are graced by Mechanicus acolytes skilled in the operations of orchestral cogitators.
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This is no longer the cool-kids way of doing it; but there’s quite possibly enough hardware in this thing to have Dr. Markov deliver a fresh stochastic denunciation of inaccurate depictions of the medieval period every time you activate the peevish historian button…
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I didn’t expect this but I love it! Honestly, as a medieval archaeologist I am baffled but delighted by this recent resurgence in medievalism, especially in electronic music. I’m actually currently listening to the LoFi Girl medieval channel while working…
Medievalism has nothing to do with the real thing, but stuff like this is fun and harmless. Not like the darker sides of medievalism, such a crusader memes and far right Viking fanboys. Plus, no AI in sight in this TE product…
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I’ve got to hand it to TE here; this is hilarious. I know that they’re not in the rarified “comedy musical instrument” business, but this thing has electronic whoopie cushion written all over it.
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News to me.
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TE seems to have a fairly winning business model. Make neat stuff that does neat things and looks neat; charge a lot of money for some of it (OP-1, mixer thingy, that thousand dollar desk) and shockingly little for others (these two beatstations, the pocket operators); don’t mind polarizing feedback.
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That B&H video was quite fun. (Just in case anyone skipped past it.)
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I was seriously considering getting one and use to acompany my hurdy gurdy practices 
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Related: Bad Gear has posted a preview it and I’m sorry to say IT SOUNDS AWESOME. Usually digital hurdy gurdies don’t sound that good.
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In this case it would be Bard Gear.
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I feel obliged to link to this hurdy gurdy & electronics piece that an acquaintance of mine was involved in recently:
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Isn’t that TE’s promo? Far too few memes for Audiopilz! Also: he can make anything sound great.
I think the new one is an improvement on the original which has the industrial design of early 90s MIDI. Like a cross between a Roland sampler calculator and old school sequencer.
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I mean an old SP 404 has €280 asking price in Ireland. I’d probably fork out extra for the bardcore deluxe TE in preference…
https://touch.adverts.ie/other-music-instruments-equipment/sp-404-sx/34542200
Somebody stop me now please.
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Does a token gesture of holding robert down
“nooo, don’t doooo iiiiiit”
Ahh you got me, honestly I got way too excited when I saw Audiophilz posting a video, and I did not hear this demo on the TE page (they had several loops but did not reach this one), so I assumed he just was posting an advance of the review.
I found a video this morning reviewing the samples and they are good but clearly more electronic than I expected, so my expectations are a bit more tempered now. Now is just “nice to have” instead of “must have” (which is a tad below “buy it now fool”)
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