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Teenage engineering OP1 - Live looping [Thoj]
Thoj · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2017–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 23 other demo videos tagged Music theory, synthesis & production, the mean is 1.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.6× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 1.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 5 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-11-09.
- Channel / speaker
- Thoj
- Verified runtime
- 4m 5s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-11-09
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Music theory, synthesis & production. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teenage engineering OP1 - Live looping [Thoj]Current video | 3 | 3 | 100% | — | 4m 5s | 2015-11-09 |
| Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programsdemo · Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut) | 4 | 4 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 4m 12s | 2011-09-26 |
| Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloffdemo · Jim Pavloff | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 10m 55s | 2010-01-21 |
| Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pidemo · Sam Aaron | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 22m 1s | 2016-08-07 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Dropping Acid”. Its short rationale: OP-1 live looping demo for the musically inclined.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Get started making music”. Its short rationale: OP-1 suggested as an accessible way into making music.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?”. Its short rationale: Live looping demo of the Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer.