The TX-6 measures 90 × 62 × 23mm and weighs 160 grams, smaller than most wallets, dense enough to feel considered rather than toylike. In that footprint, Teenage Engineering have fitted a six-channel stereo mixer, a 24-bit/48kHz twelve-channel USB audio interface, a built-in synthesiser with four oscillator waveforms and four drum machines, eight effects including reverb, delay, chorus and freeze, three-band EQ per channel, Bluetooth LE MIDI, and an eight-hour battery. It connects to iOS via Lightning and to everything else via USB-C.
The milled aluminium body is a design object in its own right. Controls are flush, the layout is logical once you’ve studied it, and there is nothing on the surface that doesn’t earn its place.
Use cases range from the mundane (an absurdly over-specified headphone amplifier) to the genuinely useful: a portable mixing desk for location recording, a self-contained instrument for producers who travel light, or a DJ mixer for small-format sessions. Among its peers it has no direct peer. TE built it as much for performance as for studio prep, and the DJ mode confirms the intent.
£699 — teenage.engineering