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Te is a bastard company anyone who buys their product deserves every ounce of bullshit that comes with it. No excuses no sympathy. You made your bed now lie awake you ain’t getting any sleep
As an avid user and performer on PO-33, you nailed it this episode and felt the succulent layout in the first jam to be comically accurate! Even in my own videos 😂
I keep my KO at my desk at all times. As a gamer who grew up playing the gameboy, its the perfect device for making me feel like I'm just messing around while actually making something potentially dope. I change the batteries like once or twice a year lol.
The po33 is probably one of the pieces of gear i use the most lol I actually have a carrying case for fitting it in my pocket, used the crap out of my first one and bought another in a heartbeat! I think i can say that I know it inside out! My go-to deum machine for volca jams, and it's best friends with my monotron delay lol
I’m convinced TE is just creating products to see how willing people are to let go of their hard earned money 😂 TE: “Think we could sell this for $500?” “…. Make it $1800, and take out some functionality” “Yes sir!” Their table they sell is nice though ;) Love ya Flo’!!!!! Always bringing it!!! 💜🙏🏼
My favorite idiosyncratic rube goldberg PO33 trick (well, 133 Street Fighter) is: I plug drum machines and synths into it, either 1) run then straight through, overdriving the input, or 2) sample them. Then I resample them back into my MPC Live II. KO is super punchy when you find that nice pitch spot.
My PO-33 was €90 really well spent. For a few years it went on quite a few train rides with me, and I had lots of fun with it. Rule 1: everything you create on it is extremely volatile, just accept that. Rule 2: don't even attempt to create more than 1 project at a time. It's a very bobrossesque machine with plenty of happy accidents when using the FX. Then, just record all the patterns into a DAW (just set the tempo to the same value; it stays in sync for minutes on end with the PO-33. Chop every bar, mix, and build a song around it. It really was the start for a couple of songs for me. Truth: after a number of projects, the lofi sounds and fx start sounding all a bit the same, and the novelty wears of. I sold at €15 loss, and regret that sometimes.
Nice final jam fella! I made the mistake of loading an Amen + the other 2 classics already chopped into 1/8 note, erm, chops, which made the PO33 a fantastically fun Instant Jungle Machine, but meant that it's hardly been used since.
As low-fi and weird as it is, I adore this thing. We're spoiled as electronic musicians. It's like having a crappy Fairlight in your pocket, and that's a good thing--I think I paid $60 or less when it was released. If you told me back in 1985 that this thing would exist, I would have laughed at you.
The lack of mute and solo on samples is my biggest gripe with it and the PO-12. It's still a ton of fun and totally agree with the polyphony limit, I've had a ton of happy accidents with the note stealing.
Usually I end up sorta wanting the stuff you have on this show but it's definitely not the case for this one haha. It's definitely not your fault though, I'd vibe so hard to that first jam in a festival setting. Another great episode! :D
I think I have 4 or five POs? Can't remember - more than three, anyway. (I keep the PO-32 at my desk, fwiw.) I mean, they're fun to play with and I can always guarantee myself an unexpected, happy accident that I can use to fritter away a couple hours. If I don't have any idea about what I want to do, the PO's constraints give me a comfortably small sandbox to play in without much risk or feeling like I need to make an investment out of the time. If something good pops up, I reach into the box-o-battery-powered-noisemakers and pull out another PO to join it. If everything falls apart, I pop the batteries out and proceed with my day. They are unserious and fun, low-effort and low-investment. Works for me. Thanks for looking at the 33.
The Capybara (or bieber) on Jam 1 was a scream. The following suggestion even more, namely the "Soma Quantum Ocean"! Its describtion reveals: "experimental electro-shamanistic project" "Combination of an analogue device and special psychological exercises" "High quality analog binaural noise generator" "Aluminum housing" "Ritual object for explorers of inner space" Any questions? It's still in the synths category at Klangfarbe.
Thomann Reviews got some gems for Soma Quantum Ocean "Entirely useless. This has to be the worst purchase I've ever spent money on. I've got no purpose for it,all it does is play white noise" - 3/5 stars
@eightcoins4401 Splendid! 😂 Somehow Soma labs might've lost their grip on the ground. Not even I'd have expected them to throw something more superfluous than their _Messiver" onto the market.
Hilarious that someone in the Teenage Engineering boardroom suggested they take the multi-pocket operator strategy to their flagships. Not getting that idea past this channel!
@AudioPilz I just searched my back-library of dark ambient dawless jams and I can't claim you on "Muad'Dib’s Pocket Operator: Worshiping Shai-Hulud with a Beringer Knockoff" So have a great weekend!
@AudioPilz hey btw if u dont mind.. what are your absolute fav drum machine/sampler/synths or whatever that have been featured on bad gear but are actually some of your favorites
It's a training device for Sweedypopkidz. Once they've made a Ritchie Hawtin soundalike soundbite, they can have access to a very tired Sony Erikson C702 for an hour at weekends. Harsh, dem Scandeeparentz
Amazing video as always! Before buying a ko: check koala sampler for your phone, it's a ~5€ sampler with a similar workflow, less limitations, in a device that you can actually carry around without the risk of it snapping in half. You won't have the stock TE sounds... are they worth 85€? I don't know...
Nice timing with the new not OP-Z :D The PO-20, 35 and 133 are my entries to the world of hardware synth. Limited but the tag price was ok. This serie is a bait for sure... and a great to play street fighter in an unconventional way ^^
@ honestly it kind of makes me want to make an open source version of this. Similar form factor but completely reprogrammable. It could be a sampler, or a drum machine, or a synth. Maybe the TRRS ports could be audio in and out or midi or cv. You could configure it however you want. Oh and a proper oled would be nice
Swedes are generally known for their mastery of fishing and this is most excellent bait. For luring yet aother nerd slash hipster to mortage the parents house in order to buy overpriced clacketty calculator or a collection of BT speakers in weird and creepy wooden enclosures.
I have one. got it before it became worthy of being on 'bad gear' 🤣 actually have a few of these kicking around. the sampler one is overlooked for being 'bad gear' worthy. 😁
The Pocket Operators got my attention in my early days getting into synths, but, ultimately, I ended up going Korg as those POs just look too fragile. The PO-133 specifically was my motivation to get a SP-404 mk2 instead 😂
I just keep that thing with me all the time as a little musical sketchpad. I am on the go a lot, and I often have Ideas for songs (that include melody, drums, bass), and if i want to keept it, i can wuickly record a few different 4-track variants with voice sampling and beat boxing. Sure, it sounds like crap, but its reliable and easy, and helps with manifesting an idea on the go, and its actually very fun (for me). which is what music is all about (for me).
Do you have any definitely good gear recommendations i could look up? I'm new to all this stuff and you've saved me some cash already shooting down stuff i was looking at. You've been fun so far. How do you feel about the sp500 turntables? Lol sorry lots of questions 😂
I honestly doubt anyone within 200 yards of my flat in York knows the word 'perfidious', and that radius would include a few hundred undergraduates at the nearby university.
@@AudioPilz isn't it just under a metre? I definitely don't know the difference between acres and hectares but I've never been in the landowning class...
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Thank you for inspiring me to launch my own audio channel. Much love
There are no coincidences. TE drops their most out of line priced item yet and then this drops
Total coincidence;)
Expect the XY on Bad Gear any time soon.
Total coinci-dance, dance, dance.
@@blakecasimir Only if it's on loan!
HE'S A SHILL!!! Just kidding lol
Notification: New Bad Gear!.. "wait, pocket operator? Crap. He's gonna make awesome music on a toy I couldn't control again, isn't he"
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once again, this left me inspired to make music with my bad gear
Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!
it's about time Bad Gear pulled up at the capybara party
Damn, that song is caught in my head now...
I am already looking forward to the TE OP-XY episode. TEs marketing team loves this show.
My last encounter with TEs marketing was a little intimidating;)
Te is a bastard company anyone who buys their product deserves every ounce of bullshit that comes with it. No excuses no sympathy. You made your bed now lie awake you ain’t getting any sleep
As an avid user and performer on PO-33, you nailed it this episode and felt the succulent layout in the first jam to be comically accurate! Even in my own videos 😂
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Ideal for people who want to impress their coworkers at the office but refuse to register the blank stares they get in return. 👎
lol
''Going medival on your wallet!" Great one as usual. Tnx!
Always a pleasure;)
I keep my KO at my desk at all times. As a gamer who grew up playing the gameboy, its the perfect device for making me feel like I'm just messing around while actually making something potentially dope. I change the batteries like once or twice a year lol.
Makes perfect sense!😀
GET NANOLOOP !!!!!!!
The po33 is probably one of the pieces of gear i use the most lol
I actually have a carrying case for fitting it in my pocket, used the crap out of my first one and bought another in a heartbeat! I think i can say that I know it inside out!
My go-to deum machine for volca jams, and it's best friends with my monotron delay lol
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"I am the operator with my Pocket Operator."
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Teenage engineering. Too expensive for what you get.
Bang for the buck;)
Expensive hipster toys.
I’m convinced TE is just creating products to see how willing people are to let go of their hard earned money 😂
TE:
“Think we could sell this for $500?”
“…. Make it $1800, and take out some functionality”
“Yes sir!”
Their table they sell is nice though ;)
Love ya Flo’!!!!! Always bringing it!!! 💜🙏🏼
❤️❤️❤️I want that table too;)
Got one more point in my Bad Gear collection! 😀
Bad Gear Bingo!!!
Happy bad gear day
Have a nice weekend!!!
My favorite idiosyncratic rube goldberg PO33 trick (well, 133 Street Fighter) is: I plug drum machines and synths into it, either 1) run then straight through, overdriving the input, or 2) sample them. Then I resample them back into my MPC Live II. KO is super punchy when you find that nice pitch spot.
nice job integrating the po with regular MIDI/CV gear. But you are more patient than I am.
Start/Stop it every time you start/stop sth else;)
I cant lie, i got one of these earlier this year and i love it, its a great little sampler.
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4:32 I laughed my drink out my nose 😭🤣
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My fingers are too large
All fingers are;)
"Novelty toys for nerds" Yes, exactly.
;)
The PO-20 is a marvellous little self contained groovebox that does what it does well.
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Good tunes. It doesn’t seem to matter what you play on. Teenage Engineering always have crack pipe prices. Great vid btw.
Thank you!!!
This was the only one I would consider. You could pretty much do one video for all the rest of them and be done with the rest of the line.
It's only my second one;)
@@AudioPilzjust wait till you try out the PO office 💀
Looks and sounds painful, although I guess it's better than the Volca to do *that* thing they always mention in the Synth Memes group.
lol
this caught me off guard, I assumed Stefan already had a bad gear video of this thing
Had the Rick&Morty one on the show a few years back...
"most bare bones product design since john connor's atm card" lmao. and the Korg DS-10 got me too. always great references
Thank you!!!
PO-12 was my first bit of music gear ❤
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My PO-33 was €90 really well spent. For a few years it went on quite a few train rides with me, and I had lots of fun with it. Rule 1: everything you create on it is extremely volatile, just accept that. Rule 2: don't even attempt to create more than 1 project at a time. It's a very bobrossesque machine with plenty of happy accidents when using the FX. Then, just record all the patterns into a DAW (just set the tempo to the same value; it stays in sync for minutes on end with the PO-33. Chop every bar, mix, and build a song around it. It really was the start for a couple of songs for me. Truth: after a number of projects, the lofi sounds and fx start sounding all a bit the same, and the novelty wears of. I sold at €15 loss, and regret that sometimes.
Nice approach!!!
@1:39 The 8 bit meme was great.
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I went and got the KO II a few weeks back and love it. Great vid here of the OG.
Thank you!!!
Nice final jam fella! I made the mistake of loading an Amen + the other 2 classics already chopped into 1/8 note, erm, chops, which made the PO33 a fantastically fun Instant Jungle Machine, but meant that it's hardly been used since.
Thanks!!! Nice technique!
As low-fi and weird as it is, I adore this thing. We're spoiled as electronic musicians. It's like having a crappy Fairlight in your pocket, and that's a good thing--I think I paid $60 or less when it was released. If you told me back in 1985 that this thing would exist, I would have laughed at you.
"...and ramen noodles for one month" this guy music purchases!
;)
Bad Gear à la rescousse. Thanks for this show, the world is a safer place
The lack of mute and solo on samples is my biggest gripe with it and the PO-12. It's still a ton of fun and totally agree with the polyphony limit, I've had a ton of happy accidents with the note stealing.
Agreed!!!
We are waited for this!
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Usually I end up sorta wanting the stuff you have on this show but it's definitely not the case for this one haha. It's definitely not your fault though, I'd vibe so hard to that first jam in a festival setting. Another great episode! :D
Thank you so much!!!
I think I have 4 or five POs? Can't remember - more than three, anyway. (I keep the PO-32 at my desk, fwiw.) I mean, they're fun to play with and I can always guarantee myself an unexpected, happy accident that I can use to fritter away a couple hours. If I don't have any idea about what I want to do, the PO's constraints give me a comfortably small sandbox to play in without much risk or feeling like I need to make an investment out of the time. If something good pops up, I reach into the box-o-battery-powered-noisemakers and pull out another PO to join it. If everything falls apart, I pop the batteries out and proceed with my day. They are unserious and fun, low-effort and low-investment. Works for me. Thanks for looking at the 33.
👍👍👍
The Capybara (or bieber) on Jam 1 was a scream. The following suggestion even more, namely the "Soma Quantum Ocean"! Its describtion reveals:
"experimental electro-shamanistic project"
"Combination of an analogue device and special psychological exercises"
"High quality analog binaural noise generator"
"Aluminum housing"
"Ritual object for explorers of inner space"
Any questions? It's still in the synths category at Klangfarbe.
🤔🤔🤔
Thomann Reviews got some gems for Soma Quantum Ocean
"Entirely useless. This has to be the worst purchase I've ever spent money on. I've got no purpose for it,all it does is play white noise" - 3/5 stars
@eightcoins4401 Splendid! 😂 Somehow Soma labs might've lost their grip on the ground. Not even I'd have expected them to throw something more superfluous than their _Messiver" onto the market.
Jam at 5:09 is inspired! The bad gear is GOOD again!
Thank you so much!!!
Weird, I was expecting the Polyend Synth going straight to a Bad Gear roasting. 😂
;)
Hilarious that someone in the Teenage Engineering boardroom suggested they take the multi-pocket operator strategy to their flagships. Not getting that idea past this channel!
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The Finale sounds soooo goooood!
I think I broke something laughing.
"Me... The Name of My Synth Project"
Please don't sue me;)
@AudioPilz I just searched my back-library of dark ambient dawless jams and I can't claim you on "Muad'Dib’s Pocket Operator: Worshiping Shai-Hulud with a Beringer Knockoff" So have a great weekend!
Jam #1: Now anyone can make Adult Swim bumpers
Jam #3: Dead Landscapes
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If I had a dollar for every PO 33 loop I made that sounded like an Adult Swim bumper...I'd have like five bucks but it IS absurdly easy to do.
Meme-ing your own video from two weeks ago. Impressive turnaround.
I only ever got the PO-12, and am very happy I didn't get any more POs.
I'm good too;)
Ooof, jam 2 is killer!
Thank you!!!
I love my KO! It works perfectly with my Volca Drum, Roland Ju-06, and Keystep 37 💪👊
What fitting timing! (TE in the spotlight now)
Coincidence?;)
Looking forward to the Teenage Engineering special edition Medieval version of this Pocket gouger
Nice work 👍
Thank you!!!
He is chomping at the bit 🤣
;)
Friday now begins !!!
Have a great weekend!!!
This is one of the three hardware gears i have and its a lot of fun if not very functional
True that!
@AudioPilz hey btw if u dont mind.. what are your absolute fav drum machine/sampler/synths or whatever that have been featured on bad gear but are actually some of your favorites
po33 led me to getting an mpc. i still really enjoy using it. the punch in effects are a lot of fun.
Agreed!!!
2:26 ELEGANTO
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It's a training device for Sweedypopkidz. Once they've made a Ritchie Hawtin soundalike soundbite, they can have access to a very tired Sony Erikson C702 for an hour at weekends. Harsh, dem Scandeeparentz
Ein toll gemachtes Leckerli, welches (hoffentlich) Vorfreude auf den XY macht 🙂
Danke!!!
In before this video drives the price up to $2299 😎
Jam at 6:55 was so good.
Damn and I thought we were getting another “direct to Bad Gear”
I don't think TE is open to that;)
We should see ramen noodles in the future!
I'm hungry now;)
I absolutely love my K.O!
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Amazing video as always!
Before buying a ko: check koala sampler for your phone, it's a ~5€ sampler with a similar workflow, less limitations, in a device that you can actually carry around without the risk of it snapping in half. You won't have the stock TE sounds... are they worth 85€? I don't know...
Nice timing with the new not OP-Z :D
The PO-20, 35 and 133 are my entries to the world of hardware synth. Limited but the tag price was ok.
This serie is a bait for sure... and a great to play street fighter in an unconventional way ^^
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One of those episodes you can work on anywhere 👀😁 EP-MICROTONIC or GTFO! 😁
I have a highly optimized work environment;)
This is bad gear, not terrible garbage.
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I love my ko. It’s such a fun toy like a yack back. I just wish it only cost 50 bucks instead of $100
Yeah, 50 bucks would be OK (no pun intended) price;)
@ honestly it kind of makes me want to make an open source version of this. Similar form factor but completely reprogrammable. It could be a sampler, or a drum machine, or a synth. Maybe the TRRS ports could be audio in and out or midi or cv. You could configure it however you want. Oh and a proper oled would be nice
ofc AudioPilz can make some heat on this garbage hahaha, Jam 1 was GROOVIN'
Thank you!!!
Vietnamese editor he hires for $8 a video: "He said 'bear' so I found a clip of a bear, and put it in"
No, that's actually my own childish stupidity;)
Swedes are generally known for their mastery of fishing and this is most excellent bait. For luring yet aother nerd slash hipster to mortage the parents house in order to buy overpriced clacketty calculator or a collection of BT speakers in weird and creepy wooden enclosures.
So hygge;)
Wow, if Toys R Us were still in business, this might compete with the other toy samplers in their Kid Musician section.
Lol, shots fired;)
Hey, I'm saying the intro tune keeps getting cooler! ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️
Thank you so much!!!
The downbeat Jam #1 was great.
Thank you!!!
If it fits in my pocket chances are that i won't plug it into my mixer's socket.
;)
1 month of ramen noodles, or 3 pocket operators. Choices choices. I need to know what flavors the pocket noodles and ramen operators come with.
Mmmmmmh, noodles...
Great video once again! :) Have you ever thought about making a video showing off all the gear you have? That coould be cool
Great idea, thanks!!!
I have one. got it before it became worthy of being on 'bad gear' 🤣
actually have a few of these kicking around. the sampler one is overlooked for being 'bad gear' worthy. 😁
Yeah, only did the Rick&Morty one a few years back
THIS OPERATOR DONT FLUSH MY POCKETS
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OH YES "Battleship" ....YES , YES , YES....
I loooove that game ...still !!!!
Thank You ..
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Your timing is SO perfect given that Teenage Engineering has released yet another overpriced piece of hardware.
Coincidence?;)
My first music gear :D
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I love the Ko 133
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I will be buried with one of these in my... wait for it... POCKET. I love my PO-33 so so much.
You got a case for these then;)
@@AudioPilz Oh yes. I've tried pretty much all the most recommended cases. The Beatmaker Boutique cases are the best I've found.
Welcome to Bad Gear the show that triggers my GAS
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The Pocket Operators got my attention in my early days getting into synths, but, ultimately, I ended up going Korg as those POs just look too fragile. The PO-133 specifically was my motivation to get a SP-404 mk2 instead 😂
I just keep that thing with me all the time as a little musical sketchpad.
I am on the go a lot, and I often have Ideas for songs (that include melody, drums, bass), and if i want to keept it, i can wuickly record a few different 4-track variants with voice sampling and beat boxing.
Sure, it sounds like crap, but its reliable and easy, and helps with manifesting an idea on the go, and its actually very fun (for me).
which is what music is all about (for me).
Nice!
Do you have any definitely good gear recommendations i could look up? I'm new to all this stuff and you've saved me some cash already shooting down stuff i was looking at. You've been fun so far. How do you feel about the sp500 turntables? Lol sorry lots of questions 😂
Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!! Maybe check out the Roland Aira Compact range - especially the S-1.
lol the Spy Family ‘elegant’ ref
Ah, a connaisseur!!!
@ being able to see the whole Macross series stateside when I was 8 before angry parents got it off the air in a year was eye opening to say the least
I honestly doubt anyone within 200 yards of my flat in York knows the word 'perfidious', and that radius would include a few hundred undergraduates at the nearby university.
What's a yard in meters?;)
@@AudioPilz isn't it just under a metre? I definitely don't know the difference between acres and hectares but I've never been in the landowning class...
What, not covering the xy or polyend synth this week? It's ok, I'm happy to wait till you are ready to give them a once over.
Accessibility of these vary;)
I bought it, then coincidentally at a similar time installed Koala Sampler on my phone. Guess which one is getting used more...
;)
My Po33 was a gate way to the 404mkii
Makes sense
I got a few Pocket Operators. The Arcade is good fun.
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Did you know that a Moog System 55 does not have MIDI?
CV connectivity was quite usable tho AFAIK;)
I tell myself I don't want one... but... ya it does look fun :)
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ELEGAAAAANCE!!!!!!
5:04. I guess the PO33 was used for the overdub of a baseline?? Or sample sourced into LIVE?
Sample sourced bc I needed portamento