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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 ...

I lack musical talent. I don’t have rhythm, melody, or a grasp of theory. I like music, though, including chiptunes and other electronic music. I’ve thrown myself at (and immediately bounced off) ...

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 ...

Teenage Engineering announced two new Pocket Operators at this year’s NAMM — the PO-35 Speak, a vocal synthesizer and sequencer, and the PO-33 KO!, a sampler. Both models are part of the Metal line, ...

We’ve been big fans of Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator synths for a while now. These little devices offer a (relatively) cheap and fun way to create your own electronic music, with different ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

Teenage Engineering will tomorrow launch its new and highly anticipated range of Pocket Operator (PO) synthesizers that were teased last year, and will priced at just $59. Within the with range of ...

Toys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these days ...

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