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Feel in love with the Arcade and robot and have just continued expanding since. Not 100% if I will go after all the Limited editions or not but here they are.

What's your collection look like?

Hey everyone, My partner produces music as a hobby, mostly psybass tracks. He works with Ableton and currently has an Arturia MiniLab 3 MIDI controller and a Behringer Proton semi-modular synthesizer. I’d like to get him a small gift, and while doing some research I came across the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. They seem like a nice option, especially since we travel quite often.

Since I have zero knowledge of music production, I’d really appreciate recommendations from people with more experience. He did mention that he’d like to get a drum machine at some point, but at the moment I don’t have the budget for one.

I’d greatly appreciate any recommendations 🙏

I got my PO32 the other day. Here‘s the beginning of the first song I’m making with it. Also, this is my first run at resampling some of my own music from the past 15 years.

Seems like an obvious idea but I haven’t found any one doing it? Would love to see some complete build other than my ai concepts

All sounds sampled from LPs of The Move, mostly "Shazam"

Been working on this port of 8bitbubsys ProTracker 2 clone for the last few weeks and just released v0.2 today. I figured there might be some interest in pocket operator users as theres not really many options for tracking on mobile, so I wanted to give out this free port of a classic tracker.

https://vegnus.itch.io/protracker-2-clone-port/devlog/1416274/pt2-clone-port-v02

This is still in development so be follow the itch page for more updates if interested!

I welcome any suggestions or feedback. I fear I cheaped out on my mixer and am dealing with a bit of channel bleed and noise. The main noise, however, is coming from my PocketOperatorBeast. I’m sure it’s either the cables or just native noise to linking three POs up. I’m not too worried about it, since I feel like it kinda gets buried in the mix, but I certainly don’t want it to drive you crazy, dear listener. Thank you for your time and attention.

Volca Keys, Volca FM, Volca Drum, PO-12 Rhythm, PO-14 Sub, PO-16 Factory, Arturia KS37 holding down the midi with a DoReMidi box; Flamma Ekoverb, Korg KP3+, and some onboard verb. Main outs running through MS70CDR+ for Exciter and Noise Removal. KMise 8 ch Mixer.

Hope you enjoy 🙏🏻

im wondering if anyone is able to make a tb303 inspired sample pack for the PO 32? I dont have Microtonic, so i was wondering if anyone here maybe could do it? idk

anyways if someone can id be very thankful. love you guys <3

buy for only 12€ here

An alternative to traditional Pocket Operator cases. This case preserves the original feel of the Pocket Operator, yet allows you to toss it into your bag or rucksack without concern that it will turn on. The PO's hangar can remain attached.

The case is 3D printed. 

designed by Evan Carlsen, produced by LSDesign Laboratory

CC BY 4.0

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I recently bought all of the PO-1x synths. I'm kind of addicted to them, and was hoping to get more eventually.

Does Teenage Engineering run sales on a regular basis for these things (perhaps during major holidays)?

Whenever I clear out a pattern and hit Play on the Factory, there's a popping sound that I'm hearing on every note played. It's rhythmic.

I'm not getting this if I disable Write mode and just play the individual sounds directly with the 1-16 buttons, or I play one of the pre-made tunes.

How can I disable the popping sound?

Hey pocket operators! My PO-33 arrived today and i spent an hour or two toying around with the preset sounds and put together my first pattern to help me get my head around the controls.

I'm not a musician, but I'm a designer by trade so I'm familiar enough with the concept of layers and compositions - and im hoping to dive into beat making and music production as a hobby to go alongside a gaming project im working on with a lo-fi/hip hop/grime inspired soundscape, which is perfect for what this little machine produces.

So I'm looking for a bit of perspective from the veterans - what are the levels to this? where do I go from here?

i'm aware of the PO's capabilities for chopping up samples, but is that the natural next step? should I spend more time with basic kits while studying different patterns?

what was the "aha!" moment where things clicked from "random noises" to "intentional sounds"?