{"id":8312,"date":"2026-10-07T23:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:38:53","slug":"teengage-engineering-stop-making-synths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8312","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Engineering\u2019s CEO says it\u2019ll stop making synths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz89 _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">Kouthoofd tells me that, as part of a reorganization last fall, he announced to his team he is planning to stop making synthesizers altogether. The OP-1 is no exception. Launched in 2011, it put Teenage Engineering on the map and has been central to its success ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz89 _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cEveryone was like, \u2018What are you talking about?\u2019 But I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that, for us, the products aren\u2019t the business,\u201d Kouthoofd says. \u201cWe can be so much more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/1007489\/teengage-engineering-stop-making-synths\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kouthoofd tells me that, as part of a reorganization last fall, he announced to his team he is planning to stop making synthesizers altogether. The OP-1 is no exception. 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