Teenage Engineering switches to the darkish aspect with the Subject System Black sequence

Teenage Engineering made its identify with refined design and sonic range, all wrapped up in a unifying aesthetic. Now the palette has been flipped with the arrival of a brand new end for the pocketable Subject system of recording units.

The brand new black end aligns the three key Subject units – the TX-6 Subject mixer, TP-7 Subject recorder and CM-15 Subject microphone – with the darkish matte floor of the just lately launched OP-XY sequencer, which melded sonic brawn with Braun-inspired darkish surfaces.

Along with the OP-XY, there’s additionally the flagship of the Subject System, the OP-1 Subject, the one gadget to not descend into this new all-black color scheme. The remainder of the units had been revealed at this 12 months’s annual Superbooth digital music present in Frankfurt.

Launched at present in matte black and obtainable for order on the Teenage Engineering web site, the three most pocketable parts of the Subject System are additionally benefitting from a firmware replace concentrating on the TX-6 and TP-7, including extra performance to those already feature-packed machines.

Briefly, the TP-7 gives maybe essentially the most OTT of all pocketable digital recorders, with multitrack performance, an analogue model jog dial and a high-quality built-in microphone. It will also be used with USB audio sources or the CM-15 microphone, a studio-quality gadget with its personal built-in pre-amp.

All this may be combined and mastered utilizing the TX-6, a seductively small (and slightly fiddly) multi-track mixer, able to internet hosting as much as 12 mono inputs. Along with onboard results, the TX-6 additionally works as an audio interface and has a easy built-in synthesizer and drum machine.

Lastly, the black sequence of units is accompanied by a colour-coded set of equipment, together with adaptors and stands, to maintain your pocket studio aesthetically in sync.