Integrated Intuitive interfaces transformed gaming, games like Dead Space moved from immersion breaking HUD displays around the edges of the screen for important gaming stats and instead incorporated them directly into the world of the game. The same can be done with hardware synths and controllers.

Love this vid

They probably didnt add an output jack on purpose because they really REALLY want you to use their speakers and dont want it to be used just as a mixing tool or something. The speakers are really good after all. But its definitely frustrating that they didnt provide the choice to output the audio

Damn I miss the yape wheel so much, it atopped working one day and I have no idea how to fix it. Im curious if the Ortho remote can be used as the tape wheel. That'd be rad

please never change your way of saying things. you summarized so spectacularly what i never could for anyone i've ever tried to convey this to. i don't have every teenage engineering product but i do own the 1, z, street fighter p.o. & 4 among a few other te nicknacks. i've yet to take my 4 out of the delivery box. i've had it for about an hour now. been looking through the youtube algorithm for ob-4 vids and yours has got to be my absolute favorite. i enjoy people who enjoy potentiality. i myself let people talk me out of purchasing it when it first launched. price and hilarious use of the term "magic" did their part as well. but i come to realize that's what i enjoy most about te. their childishness in their very own core design philosophy. i enjoy that their systems are created for fun. and for growth. for now and for the future. i enjoy that long after the 1's release, people are still discovering things about it. ways to use it. teenage. a very apt name for a team of engineers.

I appreciated your video, :) i can see how you came to your title, but it seems like it is able to be misunderstood in ways that divert people away from your main point. Which, to me is your idea of its futuristic design and user interface and experience. Perhaps a revision of your title to something about how synths can learn from the ob-4? Or how the synth building communities can learn from this innovative design? Or maybe something to do with the synth experience, or aesthetic design. I think your title is a little too ambiguous perhaps. Once again, i did appreciate the video, well shot, looked wonderful. Nice one. :)

In short, "No". But if I could offer a more detailed explantion, "Definitely not".

Progressive disclosure, micro-interactions and contextual interfaces are a couple of notions between many that are often being explored by UX/UX designers. Sadly they don’t often find their way in mass marketed products that often because of corporate mediocrity and inherent lack of understanding design by people making decisions at high level. I am not a big fan of Steve Jobs the man, but had vision and taste. You mentioned Dieter Rams, it is well documented that his designs influenced widely how the original iPod looked like. This things looks pretty much like modern design on an oldschool radio (the one my dad had, form factor wise). I am not sure that form really follows function here, but as a design exercise and a beautiful object which delights and sometimes inspires it’s an absolute win for me.

Design is nice as usual from Teenage Enineering... but the FUTURE of synths? What did I miss? As the other TE products this is for design nerds not synth nerds.

a good-looking design but the obnoxious lack of a 3.5mm audio out, is not good design in my book. Beautiful video though.

I guess whatever this thing is supposed to do is lost on me. It's more like a weird toy with an unusual interface, rather than an actual instrument...and for that price..uhh what?? LOL

Oh I'm sampling this......

I’m not an ambient guy, so this is not for me. This was a good demo video regardless.

I really appreciate the kinesthetic nature of these pieces, just how physical and hands-on they are. There are so many people who love tape, its limitations and its creative opportunities; and even if these feel like expensive toys in some ways, I feel like a synthesizer or boutique sound design item SHOULD feel like an expensive toy, otherwise we'd just be using Serum, right? Love this.

Nice click bait title.

Horrible title, there is no synthesis in the ob-4, perhaps you meant the future of “sampling”