Teenage Engineering PO-20 Arcade Synthesizer

Build a tiny arcade soundtrack with your thumbs.

Sixteen little buttons turn a bare circuit board into a pocket music workshop. Arrange a repeating pattern, twist the two controls and drop in effects to send its chiptune sounds in a different direction. The tiny screen makes the whole performance look like a game that has escaped its cabinet.

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By Teenage Engineering
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WHY IT CAUGHT OUR EYE

It puts a playful sound-design instrument into a calculator-sized object, with decisions you can hear immediately.

BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the PO-20 Arcade synthesizer, not the PO-33 sampler. It uses two AAA batteries. The burgundy case in the independent photograph is not included; the standard unit is sold without a casing.

One PO-20 Arcade, TE010AS020; circuit-board synthesizer. The burgundy protective case shown in the photograph is an owner's accessory and is not included.