Indeed Teenage Engineering is a design studio which just happens to have some synthesizer products. One of the TE founders, Jesper Kouthoofd, used to work with

Indeed Teenage Engineering is a design studio which just happens to have some synthesizer products. One of the TE founders, Jesper Kouthoofd, used to work with Elektron, a Swedish synthesizer firm. While there he designed the Machinedrum product's UI. https://www.elektronauts.com/t/elektron-and-teenage-engineering/955 https://www.elektronauts.com/t/elektron-and-teenage-engineer... EDIT: clarify what JK designed and added link.