Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Teenage Engineering Choir. Is this collection of wooden dolls just a piece of interior design for oversaturated hipsters singing songs from the public domain or is it an actual musical instrument with its compatibility to standard bluetooth midi devices and the Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field?

Thanks to Klangfarbe for lending me both, an OP-1 field and an entire ensemble of the Teenage Engineering CH-8 Choir dolls:
youtube.com/@KlangfarbeCHANNEL
instagram.com/klangfarbewien

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:09 Overview Bad Gear - TE Choir
01:28 Presentation of the Dolls (feel free to skip)
02:10 Standalone Mode, Control via Bluetooth Midi / OP-1 Field
02:39 How does it work?
03:19 Start/Stop a Song
03:39 Midi Control, Articulation
04:16 Limitations, Bugs, Issues, Latency
04:49 How it ACTUALLY works in practice
05:01 What else??? (Github, Pricing, Thanks)
05:30 Hate
05:54 Jam 1 (Sleepy Anime Music)
06:45 Jam 2 (Classic Bad Gear Jam)
07:07 Finale (Art House)
07:37 Verdict