First impressions - it’s super small, crazy light and feels nice. It effortlessly makes dance-hits, which thrill my kid and wife. The sounds sound good. The screen is helpful but not necessary. There’s a lot to learn here, really looking forward to discovering new bits and pieces over the next couple of months / years. I’ve had an OP-1 since…2012?..and I still find out new things.
I also plugged it into Bitwig and was able to sequence multiple instances of Aalto, which was super exciting. I didn’t doubt that that was possible, but…it was still exciting when it worked with zero hassle. Given Bitwig’s CV widgets and the ES-8, I look forward to it sequencing my modular soon.
The 11 year old was able to make solid sounding beats after ~ 2 minutes of instruction. Another big 
in my book. We weren’t able to do a whole lot with the animations yet, but I get the impression it’s going to be fun.
Circling back to the screen - it really is neat to see how responsive it is. Maybe I’m just easily impressed but I thought there’d be a lag…Bluetooth is fancy and the status screen really does look cool.
