Teenage Engineering announces plans to stop making synthesisers

The Stockholm-based electronics and design company was established in 2005 and released its now flagship pocket calculator-inspired OP-1 synth in 2011. It later unveiled an updated version of the unit in 2022, described as "louder, thinner and 100 times better", for the instrument's 10th birthday.

Em entrevista ao Highsnobiety, o fundador e CEO da empresa sueca Jesper Kouthoofd disse que já havia divulgado a mudança de foco de fazer sintetizadores no outono passado como parte de uma reorganização.

He added that "the products aren’t the business" and that "we can be so much more than that.

Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety he wants Teenage Engineering to expand beyond its reputation as a synth producer and no longer be identified with a single product.

Over the years, the brand has become known for its quirky, experimental designs, which — outside of synths — include a choir of wooden singing dolls and a portable vinyl-cutting machine.

Em 2024, a Teenage Engineering lançou o “primeiro instrumento eletrônico medieval do mundo”, o EP‑1320 Medieval. Ofertas mais recentes incluem um “sistema completo de ritmo e baixo”, o EP‑40 Riddim, e um sampler e compositor chamado K.