r/teenageengineering

Like many op1 og owners, I’ve been having gradually worse issues with keys retriggering, or not working at all as the device ages. I tore down the ribbon cable, and found the core issue. TE uses silver traces with a binding agent. This binding agent, over time, deteriorates, turning the hardened traces into a loose putty that is easily smudged through normal use.

Wouldn’t be the biggest deal, except that TE also has stopped supplying replacement parts for what is clearly a part with a shelf life. Hoping to get some visibility on this, and see if somone from TE can chime in with a response.

If anyone is interested, fun times are happening in our Discord server. TE has been kind enough to provide us with a new KOII that will go to the winner of our song contest (Can't believe it). It wasn't really meant to be a crazy serious contest, but more of just a reason to make stuff, and it's growing, so I'm letting people know.

https://discord.gg/Fr7fMMbD

Everyone is welcome, but you have to have an OP-1 to participate. Although, you can still vote even if you don't have one, and you get to listen to all of the entries and see what people are coming up with. The more people involved, the more we get to experience what this little beast is capable of. Ask questions, share ideas and just enjoy some time together with really creative people.

The rules are that you can only use the stock sounds and engines that came with your OP-1 from the factory. No incoming signals. No mic, no radio, no line-in. 01:00 to 01:30 in length. If you win, you might be asked about certain sounds so you have to be ready to explain how you made them for everyone to recreate on their own (another way people can learn about the OP-1 and sound design/music production. OG/Field, all the same.

Deadline is Saturday, 4/11/26 at midnight PST. Submissions go in the #jambox channel via YouTube links, or .wav files, mp3's. I think there's even a Spotify submission in there right now. That's when voting opens up at the end and will remain open for 3 days. Then it closes, and first place is revealed.

If all goes well, we'll do another one with a whole new set of limitations :)

just above Salzburg I sampled various snippets from the radio

As the title says, PO-33 behaving like I have snapped off the lock tab, I can’t record new samples or delete what’s on it.

There was a bit of… oxidisation? I don’t know if that’s what I actually mean, a bit of Bluey Green under some of the black paint that had actually bubbled up a bit.

I cleaned it with iso and a fair bit of the paint flaked off!

I can see that one of the two gold bits on the underside of the lock tab has rusted a bit. After I cleaned it, I licked my finger touched those two bits and I could suddenly record etc. like it was fine, but only when my slightly moistened finger is touching the back 🤪

Any ideas on how to fix this so I don’t have to keep licking my finger to use it?

I have an issue with my Ep-40 Riddim where it turns on but then after like 10 seconds, it shuts off and it won’t turn back on even if I click anything or turn it back off then on with the switch until like 5 minutes later. How do I fix this? I only got 1 day left to return so I would love help. thanks in advance!

worst thing is that I purchased it abroad and only noticed the issue in the second unit now after coming back home. send an email to TE support, hope to receive some guidance on how to proceed. I’m pretty annoyed with this whole thing, it’s an expensive piece of hardware I expected much better quality than this.