teenage engineering, the company that made news for slipping in an interview that it isn’t making new synths (maybe), might also make news for making its synths do new things. There’s an official (not hacked!) firmware update for the op-xy flagship, and it adds a new drum synth, multichannel audio, dynamic filter, and detune. The whole thing is debuting at their new retail outlet in New York City.

Okay, if you weren’t confused enough already, there’s a stream called midnight operations which streams live at 4PM Eastern, which is in the past, and it hasn’t started yet, and is also not at midnight in Stockholm. You can stare with me (at 22:33 CET) as nothing is happening.

Update: it’s fixed, of course.

I’m just there for the comments:

But I jest: this firmware update looks terrific, and is a good reminder that maybe letting the engineers do the engineering is not a bad thing after all.…