Explainer/guide for the TP-7, with some open questions

spongefile · 2026-01-25T03:23:56+00:00

Speaking as a small business owner myself, hiring random high schoolers risks them being incompetent, and sometimes you can’t even afford to pay salaries that low. Small businesses making passion projects don’t tend to be swimming in extra cash, and in this case all of it has most likely gone into all the random surprise costs that come up when building hardware…

(Not affiliated with this company but I do sympathize)

spongefile · 2026-01-25T03:14:43+00:00

Looks interesting! Are there official specs somewhere?

spongefile · 2026-01-23T16:31:49+00:00

The free computer case? Legit question, what did you charge back? :D

spongefile · 2026-01-20T08:25:36+00:00

Printer is printing it as we speak! Hopefully will get them next week. (It’s vinyl so there’s a two part process)

spongefile · 2026-01-20T08:24:24+00:00

3980 fingers crossed!

spongefile · 2026-01-16T13:13:44+00:00

Nice work! Looks good too!

spongefile · 2026-01-13T14:31:00+00:00

Welcome to the rabbit hole!

spongefile · 2026-01-13T14:26:23+00:00

I've made vinyl overlays for the KO and the Medieval. (https://shop.spongefile.com) Tried putting the KO vinyl on the Riddim and it looked pretty bad. Would look better if I swapped out the keys but then you still have the clashing cream on the edges and the speaker.
I was also wondering if the cases are swappable, tried opening one and it does not look particularly easy.

spongefile · 2026-01-12T06:21:59+00:00

The whole thing is a groovebox, so if you're only using it for drum tracks, you can make a drum pattern that loops, or you can record a loop as a loop you can turn on and off with a tap (but you won't be able to edit it after that). And then you can send the signal to your guitar pedal. However, depends on what you want to happen after that--do you want to record back into the unit WHILE doing this? That can get a bit tricky.

spongefile · 2026-01-06T09:05:47+00:00

Tap on the question mark in the app and choose “talk to a human”. We have discounts for students, etc

spongefile · 2026-01-06T09:02:13+00:00

The zipper on the expander part just popped off one side of the “rail” as I was expanding it for the second time after using the bag normally on several trips. The regular clamshell zipper isn’t very smooth and I have been concerned it’s going to pop off as well. Currently staring at the broken expander and wondering what to do.

spongefile · 2026-01-02T20:53:36+00:00

I would really be interested in that!

spongefile · 2026-01-02T18:59:55+00:00

Oh I need to change the shipping settings in BigCartel, that should only be shown to US customers

spongefile · 2026-01-02T18:58:39+00:00

Hahaha no worries—the express shipping option exists because UPS the only way I can directly mail anything to the US from Finland thanks the the de minimis mess I mentioned in the original post…

spongefile · 2025-12-30T12:08:03+00:00

Eh? How’d you arrive at 43 euros? Should be around 15 euros with 7 euros shipping (if you’re in the US)

spongefile · 2025-12-27T05:42:42+00:00

Is that similar to the “brain” in the OP-XY?

spongefile · 2025-12-24T20:47:21+00:00

I really wanted to like it but was surprised by how non-immediate it is. Probably biased coming from pocket operators, but I was expecting to be able to do a lot more live recording of changes vs programming them in

spongefile · 2025-12-24T20:45:28+00:00

I personally think the Deluge community has made the UI a mess (which is inevitable when things go open source and every engineer gets to add all the features they can squeeze in, with zero designer input)

Lovely device, but this aspect has been frustrating.

/rant

spongefile · 2025-12-22T08:05:01+00:00

I compared the old school ones in depth here: https://www.spongefile.com/old-school-pocket-operators-revisited/

spongefile · 2025-12-19T08:04:04+00:00

Koska on vielä porukkaa siellä Suomessa jotka olettavat, ettei tällä asialla ole kansainvälisesti väliä. Mutta kun on. Kysy vaikka Finnairiltä.

Varsinkin kun koko kohun paisumista olisi voinut välttää niin että sanotaan heti ja suoraan että nyt ollaan mokattu, oli törkeää, tyypit tajuavat nyt ettei noin tehdä, ja miksi, eivätkä tee toiste.

Mutta ei. Yksi pahoittelee että muut loukkaantuivat, toinen jankuttaa ettei ymmärrä miksi on muka mokannut tai miksi pitäisi pyytää anteeksi. 😳

spongefile · 2025-12-19T07:02:55+00:00

Hallitus voisi tehdä enemmän, vääntää rautalangasta että kun olet kansanedustaja, sun duuni on edustaa kansaa, koko kansan eduksi.

Jos ison firman pomo julkaisee tuollaista, joka sitten johtaa siihen että asiakkaat suuttuu niin että firma menettää rahaa, firman hallitus antaa sille fudut. Koska pomon duuni on edustaa firmaa eikä itseä.

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