Teenage Engineering knows a thing or two about elevating music making into a design experience. And now its' available on the Google Pixel.

If you’ve always dreamt of owning a Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field synth, but balked at its prohibitive price, you might be interested in checking out Google’s Pocket Operator for Pixel, a free music making app exclusively released for their Pixel devices in the Play Store.
The app’s graphical system is reminiscent of Ray and Charles Eames’ body of work, characterized by the use of playtime-style combinations of colors, shapes, and symbols to simplify complex tasks into digestible bits welcoming experimentation.
Google worked with Stockholm-based Teenage Engineering to utilize TensorFlow technology ? aka machine learning ? to simplify music sequencing into a playful and nearly all-graphical experience using the Pixel’s video capturing capabilities as the sample source. Upload a video clip into the Pocket Operator for Pixel and the AI extrapolates distinct samples and sorts them into a 4×4 grid to mix and add effects (up to 4 tracks and 16 beat patterns), with the video accompanying at the top. Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 all-in-one portable synthesizer is coveted equally for its Dieter Rams-like design as it is for its music making capabilities; the hardware design’s influence upon the Pocket Operator for Pixel app is obvious.
While its actual music making capabilities may not be pr...