Teenage Engineering EP-40 Riddim Supertone: Inspired by Reggae, Made for Everything – Now Available!
The Dub and Reggae Specialist from Teenage Engineering
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Teenage Engineering EP-40 Riddim Supertone: Inspired by Reggae, Made for Everything - Now Available! · Source: Teenage Engineering
After weeks of rumors and leaks, it’s now official: Teenage Engineering has unveiled the EP-40 Riddim Supertone. The compact groovebox is available in a strictly limited EP-40 launch bundle with the EP-2350 Ting performance microphone, and it is available now. Both devices follow the manufacturer’s typical design concept: minimalist yet technically sophisticated down to the last detail. They are ideal for anyone looking to produce reggae and dub music spontaneously and on the go without sacrificing creative depth.
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone, Ting, and DJ Mixer
EP-40 Riddim Supertone: Teenage Engineering’s New Reggae Box is Officially Here!
The TE EP-40 Riddim Supertone combines sampling, sequencing, and synthesis in an unusually accessible way. With 128 megabytes of internal memory, 12 stereo or 16 mono voices, and a subtractive synth engine, this compact groovebox packs a powerful punch. Its extensive sound selection is particularly exciting, with over 300 instruments and samples curated by renowned reggae legends that immediately evoke the warm, organic character of classic dub productions. Loops can be fired off grid-synchronously while pressure-sensitive keys and a multifunctional fader control performance in real time.
The included EP-2350 Ting microphone adds an extra layer of creativity to the system. You can connect the mic directly to the EP-40 Riddim Supertone. It provides integrated effects and its own samples that you can trigger. This allows you to integrate spontaneous recordings, vocal interjections, or percussive elements directly into the running track. Thanks to its connections for stereo inputs and outputs, MIDI, sync, and USB-C, the setup is flexible enough to be used in the studio or on the go, either with four AAA batteries or with a power cord.
Groovebox for Dub and Reggae – Compact, Creative, and Iconic Design
With the EP-40 Riddim Supertone, Teenage Engineering once again presents a unique instrument: it is small and minimalist yet enables profound musical expression. Building on the playful approach of the manufacturer’s earlier products, it is likely to appeal to producers, live performers, and sound tinkerers who want to capture their ideas quickly and directly. You can get the EP-40 Launch Bundle here at Thomann* for € 349.00.
New Leak With Audio!
[16 October 2025] Straight from Jamaica comes this new video leak of the Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone in action. Dub sirens!
The reggae-themed Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone seems to be living its best life – and it hasn’t even been announced yet. So far, we’ve had photos from a party in Japan (below) and now a product demonstration to a room full of Jamaican musicians and producers, including King Jammy himself.
- You can see the full demo in the video below, which also includes audio (it sounds great), but if you just want the highlights, here’s what the TE team said about the Riddim Supertone:
- It has four sound banks, drum, bass, keys (melodic instruments), and effects, including dub sirens
- It’s got 12 pressure-sensitive pads to trigger sounds, and you can also use them in chromatic mode
- You can play the sounds via a MIDI keyboard
- It comes pre-loaded with eight projects
- There are loops that you can pitch shift, as well as one shots
- You can also sample in your own sounds
- It has resampling
- You can use the fader to control how much of the dub-style effects you send to the bus
- There are also synthesizer sounds
- It has 128MB of sample memory, expandable to 256MB
- You can back up samples to your computer via USB
- It’s battery or USB powered
- It has an on-board speaker
- It includes the Ting microphone, which has its own dub siren trigger buttons
- It also sounds like Jammy himself was involved in the sound creation, which is pretty special.
There’s still no word on when the new Teenage Engineering hardware will drop, but in the video, they say it will cost $399.
Teenage Engineering products are available at Thomann*.
Revealed in Possible Leak
[17 September 2025] Is the Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone a dancehall variant on the EP-133 K.O. II sampler? Leaked photos suggest a reggae-themed set with a Ting FX unit and DJ-style mixer! Update with more pictures!
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone, Ting, and DJ Mixer
Teenage Engineering has been pretty quiet lately, with only the Field System Black released in the last year. I figured it was probably working on some new products, but I wasn’t expecting a dancehall reggae-themed sampler, DJ mixer, and effects unit. But then again, you never expect what Teenage Engineering does.
A post on r/syntheizers on Reddit is showing a set of new products from TE that appear to be based on the EP-133 K.O. II sampler. There’s the Riddim Supertone, Ting FX, and an unnamed DJ-style two-channel mixer. The pictures seem to have come from posts from the Japanese musical instrument shop, Rock oN Company, on X (formerly Twitter), which have since been deleted.
An additional set of photos of the Riddim Supertone showed up elsewhere on X from user Koji Seto, who says, “Wow! I found a puzzling device! Don’t ask me about details. That’s the party tonight!” Very cryptic. Seto-san seems to be a tech YouTuber with a lot of videos about phones and those kinds of devices. Maybe he’ll post more later about the Riddim soon. (And he did! Check below for more.)
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone
So, the Riddim Supertone. Remember, these are unconfirmed leaks. We don’t have any actual information or confirmation, but based on the two different sets of photos, they look pretty real to me. I could imagine a reskinning of the original EP-133 K.O. II, but this seems to be more involved with that, with entirely different designs in the screen. A reggae variant of the EP-1320 Medieval, perhaps.
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto 
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto 
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto 
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto 
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto 
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto 
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone · Source: Koji Seto
Case in point: rather than the A, B, C, D buttons on the keypad, the Riddim Supetone sports graphics of four instruments: a drum, bass guitar, keys, and a record, suggesting DJ effects.
Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone Friends
Along with the Teenage Engineering Riddim Supertone, the photos also reveal two new devices, a DJ-style mixer and an effects box (or possibly a microphone!) called the Ting FX.
The unnamed DJ mixer is a slim, two-channel affair with the same colorway as the Riddim. It has two channels, each with a volume fader, FX and Cue buttons, gain, and three-band EQ controls. There appear to be controls for headphone volume, master volume with a MOD switch, a vertical LCD screen displaying volume levels, and an exposed battery chamber for two batteries. Looking at the labeling at the top, there are two inputs plus an auxiliary channel and USB, possibly for audio but more likely for power. But we shall see.
Lastly, there’s the Ting FX unit. It’s a handheld box with a prominent speaker on it that mirrors the ones on the Riddim Supertone. It’s hard to tell what this does. Effects are a big part of dancehall DJing, with delay especially prominent. You also need a good dub siren. Maybe that’s what this is? Looking around the back, there appear to be three dials on the side and… a belt clip? Color me curious.
So I checked back on Koji Seto’s X page, and he added some more pictures. Looks like he went to a party where the DJs were using this gear. He doesn’t say much about it, just that it’s not an official product yet so we have to wait, but you can clearly see one of the performers using Ting FX as a microphone.
Pricing and Availability – Speculations
As these are leaks, we have no idea when (or even if!) they’ll come out. As for price, the Riddim Supertone will probably be around $300, which is the standard price for the EP-133 K.O. II.
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7 responses to “Teenage Engineering EP-40 Riddim Supertone: Inspired by Reggae, Made for Everything – Now Available!”
teenage engineering is psychotically oscillating (pun intended) between fancy shmancy Apple products and Volca-types we should’ve gotten ages ago. gotta love it! *grabbing popcorn*
love it!
The Ting fx looks more like a microphone than a speaker
Nobody does cultural appropriation quite like the Japanese…
You do realise that Teenage Engineering are Swedish?
looks like it is inspired by the Casio MT 40. if it’s got that Sleng Teng Riddim preset I might be sold.
What’s up with these MB-level internal memories?? Is this 2005? Just checked on Amazon for fun, 2 GB disc-on-key: bag of 10 for 20$. Is there something special going on in Sweden concerning storage devices?
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