¿Crees que Teenage Engineering pasará un año más sin perder ninguna de las dos cosas? ? Piensa de nuevo. La empresa acaba de anunciar La caja de ranura OP-XY de la que se rumorea desde hace mucho tiempo. Parece un campo OP-1, pero funciona como un OP-Z relativamente antiguo. También cuesta $2.300.
La compañía describió el OP-XY como un “potente sintetizador y compositor todo en uno con capacidades de secuenciación profundas y sencillas”. Eso suena bien, el flujo de trabajo principal aquí es la secuenciación, a diferencia de la grabación en pseudocinta que se encuentra con sus hermanos OP-1. La caja de ritmo cuenta con un teclado recortado y una tira de 16 botones con LED para controlar el secuenciador.
Hay un multisampler dentro de la caja, así como algunos motores de sintetizador, kits de batería y una variedad de efectos útiles, incluidos efectos de pinchado, con un sonido excelente. . En cuanto a las especificaciones, esta pequeña bestia viene con 512 GB de RAM, un sistema de CPU dual “capaz de ofrecer potencia y eficiencia de procesamiento increíblemente rápidas” y 8 GB de almacenamiento interno.
Teenage Engineering se enorgullece de la “progresión de acordes cerebrales” de groobox. Esto permite a los instrumentistas programar secuencias de acordes “dejando que tus manos hablen”. No sabemos exactamente qué significa eso, ya que las manos suelen estar involucradas al programar cualquier secuencia de acordes, tendremos que esperar a que la experiencia práctica entienda lo esencial, permite la grabación en vivo, lo cual es algo bueno.
Al igual que el OP-Z, hay un giroscopio incorporado que permite a los jugadores ajustar los parámetros simplemente moviendo el dispositivo. En cuanto a la conectividad, hay un puerto USB-C, una entrada estéreo de 3,5 mm, una entrada MIDI, sincronización MIDI y un nuevo puerto multisalida que puede enviar datos MIDI, CV, gate o sincronización. Incluso tiene Bluetooth MIDI.
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También es un éxito absoluto en el departamento de apariencia. Esto es sorprendente, abandonando la estética de juguete del OP-Z por algo que se parece inquietantemente al OP-1 Field, aunque con el color cambiado a negro mate. Hay una pantalla OLED brillante y muchos de los mismos botones y perillas multifunción que el OP-1 original y de campo. Se ve tan genial y lo quiero.
Como se mencionó anteriormente, hay roce. El OP-XY cuesta 2.300 dólares. Has leído bien. Esto es $300 más que el campo OP-1. Infierno. Puede comprar un OP-1 y OP-Z estándar nuevos y todavía le sobra algo de dinero para cables y otros accesorios. A pesar del precio, soy cautelosamente optimista acerca de este producto. Me encanta el campo OP-1 y no me importa quién lo conozca.
Este es realmente el primer dispositivo costoso que la compañía lanza desde el ya mencionado OP-1 Field. el año pasado y para ella Ambos cuestan $300. OP-XY ya está disponible.
Teenage Engineering no es ajena a los dispositivos extraños que desafían toda descripción. esta es una empresa Y, eh, Todos lo sabíamos. También sabíamos que la compañía probablemente lanzaría una continuación de su lanzamiento anterior. Sin embargo, ni en un millón de años podríamos haber imaginado que este sería el caso. .
Esto es correcto. KO II es un sampler construido enteramente en torno a sonidos de inspiración medieval. Está todo aquí, desde el canto gregoriano y el oud hasta sonidos de batería que recuerdan a los Monty Python. La muestra viene precargada con varios efectos Foley temáticos, como golpes de espada, flechas, animales de la granja y, según la compañía, un “dragón de la vida real”. El EP-1320 Medieval lo tiene todo, si por todo nos referimos a muestras campesinas austeras.
Estéticamente es básicamente el KO II pero con un aspecto diferente. El diseño presenta rayas rojas, torres de castillo y, por supuesto, muchas letras latinas. De hecho, ni siquiera se le conoce como muestra. La compañía lo llama “el primer instrumento electrónico medieval del mundo” y tiene una pegatina grande en el frente que dice “instrumentalis electronicum”.
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Hay nuevos efectos, para aquellos que temen que sean sólo copias del modelo del año pasado. Estos efectos incluyen el llamado “eco de cámara de tortura” y otro denominado “conjunto bárdico”. La herramienta de tono ha sido rediseñada y hay cientos de nuevos instrumentos multimuestreados. Teenage Engineering también dice, y no bromeo, que los pads de batería huelen a cacao. Nos comunicamos con este último y lo actualizaremos cuando obtengamos alguna información.
Por supuesto, esto es principalmente una muestra, por lo que los usuarios pueden ponerle lo que quieran a través del micrófono interno o la conexión USB-C. También es básicamente un KO II, por lo que tiene el mismo equipo de efectos de sonido, nueve ranuras de memoria, un pequeño altavoz y un compartimiento para baterías que contiene cuatro baterías AAA. Pero nada más sacarlo de la caja, tiene todo lo que podrías necesitar para un concierto con temática de D&D.
Igual que el original, cuesta 300 dólares. Los entusiastas también recibirán una camiseta temática, un disco de vinilo y una bolsa de transporte acolchada.
El EP-133 KO II tuvo mucho éxito, pero fue Incluyendo varias unidades que se enviaron con controles deslizantes rotos. TE dice que todo esto se debió a un mal embalaje. Esperemos que la empresa haya conseguido solucionar todo esto.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental IllnessJonathan Haidt Allen Lane (2024)
Two things need to be said after reading The Anxious Generation. First, this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story about children’s development that many parents are primed to believe. Second, the book’s repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science. Worse, the bold proposal that social media is to blame might distract us from effectively responding to the real causes of the current mental-health crisis in young people.
Haidt asserts that the great rewiring of children’s brains has taken place by “designing a firehose of addictive content that entered through kids’ eyes and ears”. And that “by displacing physical play and in-person socializing, these companies have rewired childhood and changed human development on an almost unimaginable scale”. Such serious claims require serious evidence.
Collection: Promoting youth mental health
Haidt supplies graphs throughout the book showing that digital-technology use and adolescent mental-health problems are rising together. On the first day of the graduate statistics class I teach, I draw similar lines on a board that seem to connect two disparate phenomena, and ask the students what they think is happening. Within minutes, the students usually begin telling elaborate stories about how the two phenomena are related, even describing how one could cause the other. The plots presented throughout this book will be useful in teaching my students the fundamentals of causal inference, and how to avoid making up stories by simply looking at trend lines.
Hundreds of researchers, myself included, have searched for the kind of large effects suggested by Haidt. Our efforts have produced a mix of no, small and mixed associations. Most data are correlative. When associations over time are found, they suggest not that social-media use predicts or causes depression, but that young people who already have mental-health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers1.
These are not just our data or my opinion. Several meta-analyses and systematic reviews converge on the same message2–5. An analysis done in 72 countries shows no consistent or measurable associations between well-being and the roll-out of social media globally6. Moreover, findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, the largest long-term study of adolescent brain development in the United States, has found no evidence of drastic changes associated with digital-technology use7. Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, is a gifted storyteller, but his tale is currently one searching for evidence.
Of course, our current understanding is incomplete, and more research is always needed. As a psychologist who has studied children’s and adolescents’ mental health for the past 20 years and tracked their well-being and digital-technology use, I appreciate the frustration and desire for simple answers. As a parent of adolescents, I would also like to identify a simple source for the sadness and pain that this generation is reporting.
A complex problem
There are, unfortunately, no simple answers. The onset and development of mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are driven by a complex set of genetic and environmental factors. Suicide rates among people in most age groups have been increasing steadily for the past 20 years in the United States. Researchers cite access to guns, exposure to violence, structural discrimination and racism, sexism and sexual abuse, the opioid epidemic, economic hardship and social isolation as leading contributors8.
How social media affects teen mental health: a missing link
The current generation of adolescents was raised in the aftermath of the great recession of 2008. Haidt suggests that the resulting deprivation cannot be a factor, because unemployment has gone down. But analyses of the differential impacts of economic shocks have shown that families in the bottom 20% of the income distribution continue to experience harm9. In the United States, close to one in six children live below the poverty line while also growing up at the time of an opioid crisis, school shootings and increasing unrest because of racial and sexual discrimination and violence.
The good news is that more young people are talking openly about their symptoms and mental-health struggles than ever before. The bad news is that insufficient services are available to address their needs. In the United States, there is, on average, one school psychologist for every 1,119 students10.
Haidt’s work on emotion, culture and morality has been influential; and, in fairness, he admits that he is no specialist in clinical psychology, child development or media studies. In previous books, he has used the analogy of an elephant and its rider to argue how our gut reactions (the elephant) can drag along our rational minds (the rider). Subsequent research has shown how easy it is to pick out evidence to support our initial gut reactions to an issue. That we should question assumptions that we think are true carefully is a lesson from Haidt’s own work. Everyone used to ‘know’ that the world was flat. The falsification of previous assumptions by testing them against data can prevent us from being the rider dragged along by the elephant.
A generation in crisis
Two things can be independently true about social media. First, that there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness. Second, that considerable reforms to these platforms are required, given how much time young people spend on them. Many of Haidt’s solutions for parents, adolescents, educators and big technology firms are reasonable, including stricter content-moderation policies and requiring companies to take user age into account when designing platforms and algorithms. Others, such as age-based restrictions and bans on mobile devices, are unlikely to be effective in practice — or worse, could backfire given what we know about adolescent behaviour.
A third truth is that we have a generation in crisis and in desperate need of the best of what science and evidence-based solutions can offer. Unfortunately, our time is being spent telling stories that are unsupported by research and that do little to support young people who need, and deserve, more.
According to police, a Florida high school track coach was arrested for allegedly attempting to have sexual contact with a 16-year-old boy without disclosing that he was HIV-positive.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported that Jarvis Young, 40, was arrested on Thursday and charged with sexual battery of a victim between 12 and 18 years of age by a custodial authority, lewd and lascivious acts by a 24-year-old or older on a victim between 16 and 17 years of age, abuse of a child without bodily harm, interfering with the custody of a minor, and being HIV-positive and engaging in sexual activity without informing the partner.
The investigation into Young began on August 28 after a 16-year-old Lakeland High School student told a school resource officer about alleged sexual contact initiated by the track coach.
The victim claimed that Young was giving him a massage when he removed the victim’s briefs and caressed his privates while attempting an oral sex act. The victim told investigators that he leapt to his feet and halted Young. Two days prior to the interview, the incident occurred in a school building where the two parties were present.
Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County announced Young’s arrest, who had been arrested previously for inappropriate sexual behavior with juveniles but was never convicted.
“Jarvis Young is a predator; he likes children in a way that no adult should, and he used his position of authority to exploit a child for his own illicit sexual pleasure,” the sheriff said. “He must be incarcerated and never allowed unsupervised access to children again.”
Judd stated that Young was charged in Polk County in 2011 with conspiracy to commit sexual battery by a person in authority after he and another person were suspected of picking up two teenagers they supervised and driving them to Orlando, where they sexually beat the victims. The case was dismissed because the statute of limitations had run out.
In 2017, Judd continued, the Lakeland Police Department discovered from another juvenile that Young reportedly stroked his thigh and unzipped his pants before the kid left. According to police, no criminal charges were ever made in this case.
While the case was being investigated, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office determined Young had traveled to Alabama. When he returned, he was arrested.
Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Fred Heid commended the sheriff’s office for their inquiry and stated that the district will continue to cooperate.
“In the presence of school employees and coaches, our students and families should expect to be safe.” “The allegations leveled against Jarvis Young are deeply troubling,” Heid added. “Although he was never convicted of any previous incidents, I am deeply troubled that he was involved in any capacity with our school system.”
The superintendent went on to declare that the district will undertake a thorough inquiry into how the track coach was allowed to become a high school coach. Heid also stated that the district would begin conducting more frequent background checks as an added precaution, among other things.
“We will thoroughly investigate the circumstances that led to this individual working alongside students,” Heid stated. “I will do everything in my power to prevent this from happening again.”
Young is no longer a part of the district.
The sheriff’s office believes additional victims may have not yet come forward and encourages others to do so by contacting 863-298-6200.
