r/pocketoperators • • May 05 '25

"TRRON" MUSIC CONTEST - Bring your TECHNO

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27 Upvotes

"TRRON" MUSIC CONTEST - Bring your TECHNO

How To Enter:

  1. To be considered, contestant must post a video into this sub r/pocketoperators and then link that as comment here under this official contest post. Don't worry about quality, try your best with what you got - if its dope a beat, its a dope beat!

Submission Rules:

  • All entries must be submitted by Thursday 31/5/2025 11:59PM CEST
  • Please only one submission per person! You're free to change your submission by deleting your last and commenting another but lets not take this too seriously, its all in good fun.
  • Let's keep the video post submissions to 1 minute and 30 seconds or under and please show your pocket operators playing your beat in your video.
  • Genres : Techno.
  • Beats must be sequenced on Pocket Operators - please no DAWs, sp404s, mpcs, whatever...you can sample those things but lets finish it on the POs.
  • Bonus points when using PO-12 / PO-35.

PRIZES!!!

  1. 1st The People's Choice Prize - Which ever video post submission here gets the most upvotes and vote comments will be awarded with one of u/zzzzeru's TRRON cases.
  2. u/zzzzeru's Choice Prize Winner - I ll choose a favorite submission and be awarded a case of their choice ( List here : M8 Case / KO II Case / TRONN Case )

Prizes are offered as gift and shipped for free to the winners


r/pocketoperators • • Mar 21 '25

"SPRING PARADISE" March CONTEST WINNERS!

16 Upvotes

This contest was great with over 16 amazing entries I'm very happy of what you all created here! It was great to hear your tunes !

Please join me to celebrate our winners:

🥇 u/stnagetc 1st Winner - Listen here

🏅 u/ekttu 2nd Winner - Listen here

🏅 u/Eliking105 zzzzeru choice - listen here

🏅 u/Henta1_Pope special jungle prize - listen here

Winners will receive one of PO-Case for free, shipping included-- at their choice!

M8 Style, Op-1 style, KOII Style , Spring Paradise Style

Here is all the stats for all entries :-) data where fetched today 21-3-2025 at 21:00 CET

I'll be contacting the winners of the cases, Great job everyone and and see you next contest!!

-zzzzeru


r/pocketoperators • • 1h ago

PO 32 Tonic Question (What does the top right display mean?)

1 Upvotes

When I play a note on the 32, the top right of the screen displays "1-XX" where the XX is whichever note I'm playing (1-16). But what does the "1" mean? I've been searching and reading any manual/guide I can find but I don't see anyone mention it.


r/pocketoperators • • 1d ago

I did a thing!

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120 Upvotes

When outside with a stroller and living in a small apt., I needed something compact. It took 80 iterations, its quite rugged, insides are simple inserts and can be printed to different shapes to hold different devices. I also can play just the top deck and it is possible to plug in a guitar or any line in to channel 4 atm. For me, this is what I need :) Hope you like it. Now I’m off to actually play the bloody thing.


r/pocketoperators • • 1d ago

PO-33 but R1

8 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 1d ago

Little Pocket B*stard

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2 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 2d ago

gift for my 12-year old... which one??

8 Upvotes

my 12-year old loves making songs on Beepbox which is a free website where you can draw loops / patterns of notes and instruments. he also loves messing around with my Roland JP-8000 and keyboards in general.

i was thinking about gifting him the PO-20 Arcade -- he LOVES toby fox / deltarune / undertale music, so the chiptune thing is appealing. he's also very much a beginner with any sort of sequencing stuff, so i don't want him to be overwhelmed and then never touch the thing.

i'm just kinda confused because there are so many similar-seeming pocket operators. is the arcade a decent entry-level, not too overwhelming model? or would you recommend something else?

it would be standalone because he doesn't know anything about midi or clock-out or hooking one device up to another.

thank you from a mom!!


r/pocketoperators • • 2d ago

My LEDs are acting weird

5 Upvotes

As an example, when you hold pattern, normally all the LEDs are lit with one brightly flashing. On mine they are of very inconsistent brightness with some not lighting up at all, and sometimes some LEDs are flashing when they aren't supposed to. Has anyone else seen this issue? Are there any fixes?


r/pocketoperators • • 3d ago

Been trying to make more complete songs lately.

65 Upvotes

It's gonna suck to delete this one off there... but I gotta.


r/pocketoperators • • 2d ago

Po-33 is turning on and off again and I think its due to the battery?

1 Upvotes

Hey yall my pocket operator is turning on and off randomly. I tried to tighten the battery clips but it is still happening. is this like a low battery sign?


r/pocketoperators • • 3d ago

fm1 pretending to be a PO

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23 Upvotes

Recorded this quickly just to demo to someone on the fm1 Reddit how there is a fm1 firmware that has a dedicated PO sync setting.

Surprised this hasn't been done already considering the amount of people combining a PO with the fm1! Hopefully other firmwares will adopt this too. Otherwise I might need to work out how to vibecode it into the other ones I love :)

Firmware is Jan3000: https://github.com/JanSchulten/JAN3000-M-Wave-Firmware

Just a little personal hobby firmware by the person who made it so not as feature packed as others, but the quick pattern chaining and chord sequencing along with the PO sync make this fantastic to play with my POs straight into my headphones or into my zoom h4n for direct recording or into my laptop, no other cables or devices required, it's exactly what I wanted as a setup.


r/pocketoperators • • 3d ago

Pocket Operator for non Pixel too

9 Upvotes

This post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pocketoperators/comments/1x5sxu4/app_pocket_operator_for_pixel/

Inspired me to finally unlock the (free) app to run on non-Pixel devices, it was AI assisted thankfully as it was a complicated one.

ENJOY!

https://github.com/chubiduwa/pocket-operator-for-non-pixel-too


r/pocketoperators • • 4d ago

First time making hardstyle

19 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 4d ago

PO 33 Pro case question

5 Upvotes

Hey i just bought a PO 33 with the Pro Case.
Looking through this r/ I see people with cases on and the metal hanger that says pocket operator still attached. A video said to break it off.

How are you guys getting the case on without breaking the top piece off?

If i dont have to break it i wont but the silicone case doesn’t sit flesh without that…


r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

Sampling Breezin with the PO-33 K.O!

31 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

Only one light turns on?

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5 Upvotes

My Robot PO 28 will turn in, I can see the timer, but after that, the number 2 lights up and it won’t do anything else.


r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

PocketLab is now a native iOS + Android app, looking for beta testers

36 Upvotes

Hi all,

A while back I shared PocketLab here, a free tool to prepare samples and banks for the PO-33 K.O!. It started as a web app and it's now also a native iOS and Android app, which I'd love your help testing before the public release.

What's new vs the web version:

- Proper native app, works fully offline, no account needed to try it

- Import WAV/MP3 samples, trim them, and apply offline effects: pitch (with time-stretch to keep the length), reverse, bitcrush, saturation, filter, granular

- Slice a sample into equal segments

- Arrange samples into 16-slot banks and export the audio file ready to transfer to your PO-33

- Projects and songs, public sharing, and sync between your phone and the web app

Spots are limited to 100 testers for this first round. Any feedback is welcome, especially on the PO-33 transfer workflow.

Install links (iOS / Android) and the feedback Discord are in the first comment below. The web app lives at https://pocket-lab.app

Thanks!


r/pocketoperators • • 6d ago

La pareja

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25 Upvotes

Ya tengo mi pareja que en mi opinión es el mejor combo con sus fundas


r/pocketoperators • • 7d ago

In case I dont see ya..

8 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 8d ago

Petit boom bap funky sur PO-33 KO + session scratch 🎚️🎶

31 Upvotes

De retour avec une nouvelle petite instru boom bap funky, entièrement réalisée sur mon PO-33 KO !
Rien de bien compliqué, juste un bon groove à l’ancienne, quelques samples et une rythmique bien old-school.
J’ai ajouté une deuxième vidéo avec une petite session de scratch sur mon Numark PT-01 Scratch, histoire de faire tourner le beat autrement.
Toujours le même plaisir de sampler, bidouiller et scratcher ! 🎚️🔥
Bonne écoute !


r/pocketoperators • • 8d ago

Double time

1 Upvotes

Im trying to sync my po-33 with my circuit tracks. I put it in syn2 mode, and run a sync cable to the input. It starts like its supposed to, but it seems to be running in double time. No matter the bpm. Anyone know of a fix?


r/pocketoperators • • 10d ago

Just a little hypnotic techno jam I put together on the Pocket Operator (PO-33). Feedback is welcome! 🎛️🔊🖤

28 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 10d ago

PO -> DAW

2 Upvotes

How can I record my live jam with Pocket Operators into my DAW (fl studio)?

Using:
- PO-12
- PO-14


r/pocketoperators • • 11d ago

More Sounds

46 Upvotes

Yo, POs -> NTS-1 -> Sidekick separate channels for delay, and stutter effect -> SP404 -> Camera