When I first heard about Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators at last year's Moogfest, I was pretty skeptical. A card-sized digital synth in your pocket? Sure, it sounds cool. And yes, the folks at ...

Until last year, buying a Teenage Engineering synthesizer meant spending hundreds of dollars. But the Pocket Operator series that debuted at NAMM in 2015 changed that equation by putting the company's ...

For less than $100, Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators pack a lot of functionality into calculator-sized digital synthesizers. The no frills approach with exposed circuit boards that helps keep ...

Teenage Engineering is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Pocket Operator, a range of miniature music-making devices that launched in 2015 with the PO-12 Rhythm, PO-14 Sub and PO-16 Factory and ...

Folks who like to play around with synthesized sound usually like to get their hands dirty building hardware systems too, as evidenced by the many creations of YouTuber Sam Battle. Messing with ...

A criticism that's often levelled at Teenage Engineering is that their products are very, very expensive. It’s not one the Swedish synth company can easily refute, yet their flagship devices, ...

Swedish hardware designers Teenage Engineering have made a name for themselves by building some of the most unique and creative musical gear on the market. But devices like the gorgeous, ...

The buttons don’t make much sense at first. Many of them have numbers and arcane symbols instead of words, and there are a number of basic functions that require you to hit two buttons at a time.

The number of easily usable and programmable microcontrollers is small, so when selecting one for a project there are only a handful of very popular, well documented chips that most of us reach for.

When most people think of Teenage Engineering, they think of the OP-1: the quirky, stylish and prohibitively expensive synth and sampler that inspires adoration and animosity in equal measure. Whether ...