Teenage Engineering’s days of churning out $50 digital musical toys appear far behind it, nevertheless it’s arduous to lament the corporate’s focus shift when it’s creating {hardware} like its new TP-7 Area Recorder, which encompasses a spinning wheel that can be utilized to start out, cease, and skip via recordings by merely touching it.
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For many who can bear in mind again to the iPhone days, the TE TP-7 Area Recorder is harking back to the unique iPod mannequin, which featured an interface centered round a wheel on the face that may very well be spun with a finger to navigate menus, skip via a monitor, or alter the playback quantity.
The Click on Wheel was ultimately changed with a round touchpad that didn’t transfer, however Teenage Engineering has seemingly drawn inspiration from Apple’s authentic iP0d design by giving the TP-7 its personal spinning disc on the entrance that simulates the tape reels used on audio units many years in the past. Not like the iPod, nonetheless, the disc on the TP-7 is motorized, and spins as an apparent indicator that the machine is recording sound. But it surely options sensors as effectively, and like a chunk of vinyl on a document participant, the disc might be manually spun as a option to management playback of recordings. You may even pause recordings by simply quickly stopping the disc from spinning, which looks like an intuitive approach to make use of the machine. In different phrases, it’s not simply there for eye sweet.
However the TP-7’s disc isn’t the one approach to make use of the machine. It’s acquired bodily document, play, and cease buttons, buttons for quantity management, and a devoted button on the facet for rapidly recording voice memos. Reverse that could be a distinctive rocker swap that can be utilized as an alternate option to alter the playback pace of a recording, or rewind it. And sure, the disc will spin quicker in both path whereas the rocker is pressed.
The intuitive playback controls will make it simpler for individuals who have to transcribe a recording, however Teenage Engineering has a good higher answer for that. When linked to an iPhone with a USB cable or wirelessly via Bluetooth, an accompanying iOS app will mechanically flip voice recordings into editable textual content, and the app may even be used as a distant for the TP-7 itself. Sorry, Android users–the recorder solely helps iOS, macOS, and Home windows.
Three stereo two-way jacks can be utilized for connecting enter or output equipment together with microphones, headphones, audio system, or for connecting the TP-7 to different Teenage Engineering gear, like its $1,200 TX-6 compact mixer. It comes with 128GB of storage and a chargeable battery good for about seven hours of recording or playback. Teenage Engineering hasn’t set a selected launch date simply but, only a promise of availability someday this Summer season, with a $1,499 price ticket.