TE hit the nail on the head with their designs, don't quite know what's about them that makes them so fun. On the contrary, my serious musician friends have little appreciation for their products, gave some PO as gifts and they've been gathering dust since.

Amusing about your musician friends, I've had similar experiences. I think it's one of those things where you give it to James Murphy and he loves it and played with it every day, you give it to Stephen Hough he'll roll his eyes and never touches it.

A friend and I bought one and… it’s too limiting. We wish we had bought the op-1. We also got the pocket operators and these were fun.

Interesting, I have an OP-1 and an OP-Z and the OP-Z is for sure less limiting than the OP-1. That said they're not really the same device for the same thing, so I'd say it might not be that it's too limiting and more you bought the wrong thing for what you wanted to do?

Less limiting really? What makes you say that?

I was hoping you'd reply because I thought about this quite a lot today! Basically, I like to DJ/perform music vs make music, and so for me, not being a musician, the OP-Z limits me less, I can get more done and faster, especially in the more recent firmware versions that enable you to swap out a lot of preinstalled sound/function with custom. i suppose if you're looking to make music, OP-1 is considerably less limiting. However, I do think a lot of the recent OP-Z update makes it an all around more useful device than the OP-1

Ah yeah that might make sense. I’m definitely trying to make music. That being said, I haven’t touched the op-z in a long time and I think I only ever installed the first update, so a lot might have changed!