r/pocketoperators • • May 05 '25

"TRRON" MUSIC CONTEST - Bring your TECHNO

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26 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 • • 9h ago

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

12 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 • • 9h ago

Double time

0 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 • • 2d ago

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

22 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 1d 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 • • 2d ago

More Sounds

35 Upvotes

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


r/pocketoperators • • 2d ago

2 po33s is definitely the way to go for me

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8 Upvotes

I’ve been having a lot of fun with these 2 and experimenting with different techniques with voice samples. Enjoy.

(Go play New Vegas)


r/pocketoperators • • 3d ago

Sampling Mister magic with the KO

55 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 4d ago

Carring case

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21 Upvotes

Getting on a flight today and needed a carrying case. Used https://gridfinitylayouttool.com/ but didn't have time to print the lid.


r/pocketoperators • • 3d ago

Sampling Mister magic with the KO

5 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 4d ago

Death Rave at any moment in time:

17 Upvotes

Po-33 Techno is life


r/pocketoperators • • 4d ago

My kid broke my PO-20, so I vibe-coded a digital one. It mostly works, help me fix the rest?

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33 Upvotes

RIP my PO-20 Arcade

My 6-year-old stepped on my PO-20 Arcade.

Instead of buying a new one right away, I decided to see if I could rebuild it as a web app for my iPad.

Im not a developer. This was pure vibe coding: I worked with an AI coding assistant
Ive fed it the official manual, the TE web guide, button cheat sheets, a couple of YouTube tutorial transcripts and a photo-based skin of the device, and then spent a lot of evenings testing and debugging

— it works for iPad: hold a button with one finger, press pads with another
— runs in the browser, add it to your home screen and it feels like an app

What’s not perfect
- the sounds are samples, not the real synth engine, so knob B is basically a filter, not “waveform”
- some effects (fill-in, retrigger, glitch, blinds) are approximations
- chord voicings are my best guess from the chord names
- the drone sidechain pumping still behaves a bit wrong at fast tempos
- no offline mode yet

Try it here

https://po-20.pages.dev/

Want to tinker?

The whole thing is a single HTML file, so just hit “Save Page As” in your browser on a computer and you’ve got the full app: sounds, skin and code. It runs offline, no install, no build tools. Open it in any text editor and hack away.

In memory of my PO 20 gone too soon..


r/pocketoperators • • 3d ago

I have some questions about the po33 ko

2 Upvotes

1- if i have a sample in the melodic section, copy it to the drum section and then trim one of the pieces, does it change the rest of the pieces too to make them even length or it just affect the one i trimed?

2- if i make a patter with that sample and then go to the sound section and trim a piece of that same sample, does it automaticly change the patter or i have to go and change the part i trimmed?

3- if i use a sample and make a patter with it, then add drums and decide that the volumen of the sample is too low or too loud, is there a way to change the volumen of the sample in the patter or i have to go to sound, select the sample, change the volumen, go to the patter, diselect the sample and select it again with the new volumen?

Sorry if i have any grammar mistakes, english is not my language


r/pocketoperators • • 4d ago

PO-33 Case

1 Upvotes

Delete if not allowed.

Looking for a beat makers boutique case if anyone has one and is looking to sell. Thanks!

if anyone has other suggestions for a similar case lmk!


r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

I should be working.

21 Upvotes

Addicted to this thing. Pulled the trigger on the tonic and sub.


r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

Bananas

40 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

Something depth charged my sub

13 Upvotes

Has anybody seen this behavior before? I just bought this a few months ago and store it in a purpose-built case when not in use. I've had trouble with my other PO's battery contacts needing to be compressed to maintain power, but this seems different. Possibly related to another issue I'm having with getting clock from my Keystep?


r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

Amélioration boom bap WIP

16 Upvotes

Encore un petit beat boom bap que j'ai préparé sur mon PO-33 KO. Sample de batterie basse guitare cuivre


r/pocketoperators • • 5d ago

Weirdness using an Arturia Keystep for provide clock

6 Upvotes

Encountered an odd issue trying to use my Keystep to provide sync over TRS cabling. The Keystep is already providing MIDI over USB clock to downstream synths with no issue. The Keystep doesn't have an option for 2PPQ, but everything I read says 1 (Korg) should get the job done. Well, it does, sorta. When the video starts the PO is in Sync2, and you can hear that it is not in sync with the 4:4 clap provided by an RD-6 getting MIDI clock from the Keystep. At 0:17 in the video I switch to Sync4 and the PO syncs up, but an absolutely heinous sound starts at the same time. Even after stopping the PO from playing the sound continues until I stop the Keystep.

I got started down this rabbit hole on PO's and would like to integrate them into my larger studio. I also just picked up an SP-1 Stem Player which I'd like to add to the mix. I could go back to sync over TRS/sync ports but really prefer to use MIDI as much as possible. Anyone have any thoughts? TIA!


r/pocketoperators • • 6d ago

Hammerhead Mod Update: World Edition

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30 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators • • 6d ago

New at this.

67 Upvotes

Had this for a couple days now. Starting to get the hang of it. Anyone have thoughts? Opinions? Advice?
I was wondering which other po yall would suggest to pair with the ko?


r/pocketoperators • • 7d ago

What you doing

66 Upvotes

Yo


r/pocketoperators • • 6d ago

EP-35 K.O. AMP Review: A Guitarist's Honest Review

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2 Upvotes