Dylan is gonna love this,

Check out the OP-1, a midi controller & stand alone synthesizer from Swedish based Teenage Engineering which looks absolutely beautifull.

I mean check out how sick the sceen looks in this test vid

from the website:

“OP-1 stands for Operator 1 and is a pocket size controller for your favorite software sequencer. Connect it to your laptop and it lets you control your sequencers transport with the common play, stop, rec, forward and rewind. Use it to control your software synthesizers with the 4 rotary encoders and 16 dedicated quick keys for fast selections.

When you disconnect the OP-1 from your computer you suddenly have a stand-alone portable wonder-machine with 8 synthesizer models, 8 samplers and effects like Delay, Flutter, Filters and EQ all built in. Use all that synthesizer power to record your work with the truly unique (at present time, secret) sequencer. We promise you a really cool and creative way to record your sounds and tweak them in a completely new way.”

Their website says they are still 10-12 months away from completion and the price is TBA, there was a beta program open to 100 lucky folks that is now closed.

Teenage Engineering

[EDIT:] New Video added

I dont know what I’d do with it but I know I want one,
Steve