Teenage Engineering TX-6 | Who Is This For?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Teenage Engineering just released a 6 stereo channel, battery-powered mixing console about the size of an external hard drive! And yes, this thing is prohibitively expensive! So let’s talk about who is this thing is actually for. Just how versatile is a product at this price point?
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It’s also a 6 channel audio interface, which is a big deal for iOS users!
So expansive for me, I got bluebox last year, and i'm using it ... fold cards bro 😀
Really interested in BlueBox after my research! Pretty sure the TX-6 is waaaay out of my price range and bluebox does a lot of the same stuff!
@@ShinesTV definitely get a Bluebox! I’ve been using one paired with Blackbox for the last 5 months for my portable setup and it’s been absolutely perfect.
@@ShinesTV love my Bluebox good value for what it does and can record live jams something the overpriced TX-6 cannot do. I already have plenty of synths and drum machines.
TE is now an iProduct accessory maker.
I’ll tell you exactly who it’s for. Have you ever been to a chiptune concert? There is a concert that originated in Australia and also goes to Japan called Square sounds and a lot of Chip tune musicians will use a music app on their modded DMG Gameboy and a pocket operator or two but unfortunately at least back in the day there was no mini mixer so they would have to plug stereo cables directly into the main mixer for the club now we have a tiny mixer that can fit in your pocket. Many of the chiptune artists just kept their game boy and pocket operators and when the opz came out, in a little shoulder bag so that’s what this is for.
I'll check that out, thanks!! I really dig chiptune stuff and have been learning how to use the music engine for the Playdate console. Hope to have some videos on that soon!
no deadass tho like how am i supposed to afford this flipping patties at the krusty krab
It's cool, ngl. Would never be something for me when comparing the price to what you get, especially because I am not very portability focused, but the idea and design is of course very teenage engineering, which means very cool :) About the drum maschine/synthesizer/sequenzer part... well, if we agree to not call this whole thing a gimmick, then I will at least have to call that part one. Doesn't seem to be such well of a developed idea with the sequences being pre-programmed and stuff, the synth also really does feel quite toylike for me, like they had to stuff something else in there.
Agreed 100% AFK Pilot! A fun product for sure, but that price is going to turn many people away when this could have been the best portable mixer for the masses.
if i wanted a portable mixer with a drum machine and way more functions for the same price I'd just buy an Octatrack 😂
Is octratrack also battery powered and audio interface?
@@davide2.07 is a battery and audio interface worth a grand? not in the slightest😂
@@Asiosky211 genuinely curious about the comparison when I asked hehe. I know some audio interfaces, like RMEs, definitely go past the 1k mark. But then again, those have world class pre amps, and have not heard anything about TX6s preamp technology
I’ll wait for Behringer to clone it for cheap
Same!
Hi There this is Mr C. T. Boxill-Harris, I was wondering if they need to do the exact same version of Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime, why don’t they just Replace the Synthesiser String Sound to an Musette Accordion sound, and also Replace the Xylophone Sound to an 4 Times More Deeper Chime Bell or Even a 5 Times More Deeper Still Drum Sound, Because it is Still my Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Favourite Song Ever Since I was about 11 Years of Age Thank You 😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏😉👍😉👏👏
The way I see it, they can charge whatever they want. Leave it to the masses to vote with their money. IMHO people getting upset over price is pretty wild. After all, if you feel that strongly over the recent product prices, don't buy it and be done with it. But seems people really REALLY need to make the price a huge issue and create so much negative backlash. So I see it as, those people complaining really WANT to buy it, but can't. So let that sink in...the products "are" desirable, but unaffordable. I make this distinction because it seems a lot of people are pitching their negative criticisms as TE making lifestyle products and nothing more. I don't think that's accurate.
If your a person who is always on the go and need a mixer for your other gear are you really making music tho? Should you be out ya know, doing stuff???? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hold up, this thing doesn't record? I swear TE is smoking the crazy shit. They make the pocket operators which are so cheap and often a great value, then they make things that are insanely overpriced. I don't get it
No XLR or phantom power. I'm super confused on why this thing exists.
XLR are ugly bastards. You don't want to use them. And power from a ghost? What the fuck. That's not aesthetically pleasing.
Not for me😢
A) my fingers are as sausagey as King Charles’ III
B) I’m poor
It’s for people that have more money than they do since. Maybe 99.99
Oh dude what ur looking for is a pocket operator. It’s a work of art tbh especially the 22 knockout
Yessss!! I love my PO-32!! That 22 looks amazing too!
@@ShinesTV do you have a mini eurorack? Or collect portable synths?
Hey 86! I'm jamming on a Mother-32, working my way up to a small Eurorack setup. I'm thinking it will be mostly effects to compliment by other tiny synths.
Thats a pretty huge price for such a tinny and basic device!
The blue box is not an interface, however.
Blue Box also have battery powered?
I think only USB powered. Small and portable, just not battery powered unless you have a power bank!
Can you imagine if they built cell phones. 20k lol
Ordered one today (lucky to find one 'cos they've sold out). Just to answer your 'who's it for'? answers:
1) DAWless- definitely not. I'm getting one because it's capable of multitracking 12 mono / 6 stereo signals INTO a DAW (like Logic hopefully)
2) Drum machine - not really interested tbh
3) Portability- 100%. Not just a little bit of portability though- crazy portability even just around your own studio. Until Jan I was using a Focusrite Saffire Pro40 8in8 (which I loved) but on an old laptop still IOS compatible w/ Focusrite's firmware (ba-powwww). All those interfaces though are pretty chunky so you don't move them around much- which means your laptop is only as far away from the interface as the longest firewire / thunderbolt / etc. cable you can get. Not anymore baby! Now my (potential) 12 input multi track interface is constantly near my laptop (powered by my laptop) so I can hop around the studio to whatever gear and plug it in direct w/out shifting gear or running long leads all to that chunky interface I'm too lazy to move.
Who do I reckon it's for?
1) This thing has 'Eurorack' written all over it. Even a modest Eurorack setup might have 4 or 5 voices coming out of it at once that you want to multi track record into a DAW and pick apart later on... this can do twelve at once. 4 of those might be Pocket Operators synced to the Eurorack, who cares?
2) Me- cos I was about to drop $2K on a 2nd hand Focusrite Scarlett but this thing is heaps more convenient!
Fantastic insight Beau!! Absolutely agree on the portability and the convenience factor. You might be changing my mind about this little mixer :)
@@ShinesTV thanks man- I just a nerd multi tracking.
Hmmm... not really seeing the portability aspect as you need a computer to use the audio interface/record.
@@sixdonuts yeah definitely not if you're using a tower but laptops are ultra portable.. I'm a TE fanboy for sure but, really, you could probably get a bunch of the functions that I want out of it just using a Zoom H6- in Australia you can pick them up new for AU$500 which is like a quarter of the price!!
Great point about the audio interface. I have a bluebox and it's great...but it could have the capability as an audio interface that would be something I would definitely use.
Definitely TOO PRICEY. But that means that it’s not for me then haha.
Totally agreed! Would love to get this someday though!
Wait, it’s more that $150? What?
It’s for me, sorry guys haha.
$1200.00?!?!
Ants, rich ones
Yes!!! This is what I have been saying. I thought initially it was for rich aunts. But the controls are so small. So it’s definitely rich ants.
Lol!!
it's not for me...too expensive😢
priced for rich hipster nerds
these 'dawless musicians' are starting to piss me off