How It Was Recorded

Gear · synthesizer

Teenage Engineering OP-1

Portable synthesiser, sampler and four-track recorder, 2010s (reviewed January 2012). Digital all-in-one: several synthesis engines (FM, phase, string modelling and others), a short sampler, drum kits and a virtual four-track tape.

Source, read 15 Nov 2026

Records it appears on · 1

  • Willow

    Taylor Swift · Evermore, 2020

    • Drums and rhythm · InstrumentVerifiedMost of the drum parts on 'willow' were played on it by Aaron Dessner rather than programmed.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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No plugin suggested. A self-contained pocket studio with its own synth engines, sampler and tape recorder. No plugin stands in for the whole instrument.

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