Comments on: High-Density Screens Due; OP-1’s Gorgeous Display

By: Create Digital Music » Teenage Engineering OP-1: Insanely Slick, Pocketable Controller + Synth

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:26:07 +0000

[...] Details: The Casio VL-Tone of the 21st Century, Plus the Synth Alarm Clock! High-Density Screens Due; OP-1â€™s Gorgeous Display GA_googleFillSlot(”CDMu_interpost300″); iPhone 3.0 SDK “Library Access” [...]

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:21:52 +0000

5000 hours? Do you mean 50,000?
5000 hours is under 2 years of full-time use (leaving it on 8 hours a day). I ask because I’ve been looking to switch to active matrix from passive matrix OLEDs. The passive ones are rated for 20,000+ hours.

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:24:59 +0000

Hi!
We use one of the first OLED screens that have a long life time. It is guaranteed to last 5,000+hours.

Regards,
Johan

By: HomeTown

HomeTown — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:11:34 +0000

This looks great. The reason the big manufactures have not already done this though is:
1. the price
2. short lifespan of the displays. These have a very limited supply life. Consumer products turn over every 6 months to a year. The development life for a musical product is much longer so when a manufacturer is designing something, they have to find parts that they can source for 3-5 years. These displays go end of life way before that. Even the really big companies like Roland and Yamaha are very small and do tiny business compared to a cell phone or GPS company. In the music word, the design cycles are longer and slower, the product lifespans are longer and the quantity of products sold is low.

It will be a while before the big guys can do something with these.
Meanwhile the little guys can build 50 – 100 and charge a lot of money and give us something that looks really cool.

By: SoundDesignTutorials

SoundDesignTutorials — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:49:36 +0000

Man, that envelope editor was pretty, as was everything else. I really hope this thing will ship and be somewhat affordable one day.

By: wi_ngo

wi_ngo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:44 +0000

Man, this is really good stuff. Really excited to see how the final product turns out, and what kind of price point they’ll be shooting for.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:59:34 +0000

This looks great. Nice that they sold their tripod to put more resources into the thingy.

By: Laul

Laul — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:04:02 +0000

Really very interesting and exciting.

By: Eoj

Eoj — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:55:57 +0000

Wow, that display is s to the i-c-k.

Raising the bar of minimal design + good functionality + lush displays as the Blofeld did :)

By: Ambient Guy

Ambient Guy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:48:18 +0000

I thought the recent Korg collection of three small portable devices were a ‘must but this little thing is really like you say, setting the bar higher for hardware manufacturers :-)