Yamaha's portable music creation station adopts a similar colorful design to that of Teenage Engineering with their all-in-one drum machine, sampler, FM, and synthesizers while adding augmented reality into the mix.

Even if you’re not acquainted with the latest and greatest in electronic music production gear, you’ve probably heard of the Stockholm-based Teenage Engineering, a Swedish consumer electronics company founded in 2005 by Jesper Kouthoofd, David Eriksson, Jens Rudberg, and David Möllerstedt credited for reinvigorating the synth industry with an aesthetic approach expanding well beyond one note. The design-forward imprint of Teenage Engineering has gone onto influence much larger and established brands within the category, most recently with the release of the Yamaha SEQTRAK Mobile Music Ideastation, an all-in-one system capable of turning music into an augmented reality experience.
It’s near impossible not to acknowledge Yamaha’s SEQTRAK, which exhibits a notably “inspired” resemblance to Teenage Engineering’s OP-1, a similarity magnified by Yamaha’s decision to adopt a light gray and orange colorway that’s already associated with the Swedish brand’s Field System devices. That out of the way, Yamaha has designed a well thought out portable music creation station, with the two-tone design serving to visually demarcate a 3-part user interface separating drums, synth/sampler, and sound design and...