I remember myself imagening a synth or sampler looking like a calculator 15 years ago. Dreams can come true 😄 And thnx for the crisp n clear review, BoBeats.
Great review Bo! Really good editing and information. I'd love to get this whole series one day, great little noise boxes, and they seem really good for coming up with creative groves. On another note, I'd love to see you review the Korg Volca Sample!
Yeah I love this and the speak so much. They pair so well with samples from a nice synth, or even field recordings. I'm actually considering getting the tonic as well.. I even bought microtonic already for use with the speak :D
I love mine! So easy to come up with cool variations. It's limitations really does inspire creativity, compared to a daw where you can get lost in a sea of possibility, and of course you can always sample the 33 if you ever need to get deeper or add variation. I love all my Po's but I will forever cherish my knockout.
That's the reason why I'm so excited about this tiny gadget. I enjoy All kind Electronic Music and I would love to try to make some cheeky beat but I feel so overwhelmed with the knowledge that's needed in order to do something interesting. I Like PO's constrains like I like programming for Commodore 64
👍 The PO-33 KO! is such a beast! I started using it for some tracks on my own channel and it is just unrivaled in how easy it is to make a quick sampled beat. LoFi hiphop, here we come 😎
Great review,in fact,you dont need using 2 fingers,after pressing the slot you can realse finger in it stay in record mode. Only pressing the record button.
I like that you also commented the limitations of it. Especially compared to the "speak" which has much more musicallY functionality, f.e. scales, chromatic transposing and those amazing Synthesis Models which are Parameter lockable. What I today hate about the KO.... After a while the Potentiometers become unsteady and truncating is Like serving Tea in the dark. Overall: awesome for the price and on a educational really interesting to Show to Kids how sampling works
Thanks for this review! So good! At 5:42, you mention a link in the description to Jacob Haq video - but you didn't leave a link to his video in your description. :)
I've Just ordered this to add to the po35 , the 12 and the 14 bass.. can't wait. plus this'll save me getting the po16. As a sample string melody definitely completes my lust for these. for now. Lol. Great demo. B.b.. 👍
This is a very cool video !! kinda makes a person want to go out and buy these little things... Nice beat too ... We should do a simplySynth pocket operator short song competition .. then do a live stream review of the songs.. then everyone vote on the Forum, and the winner gets 1 pocket operator .. That could be a fun BoBeats followers challenge .... I would even donate some $$ to help buy the giveaway pocket operator :) anyway .. awesome video as always !!
Just to understand (cause I'm really attracted by this little piece of engineering): you basically connect to a synth and you record whatever sound you want for each step and then you make a pattern? Is this one of the functionalities?
Nice video. Been looking at the PO-33, seems like an interesting creative option. Recently picked up a PO-20 and PO-32 at an insane discount. I knew they had kung fu, but even so was pleasantly surprised. Far from a perfect product, but they're really fun, easy and creatively stimulating.
This might be the best pocket operator ever. You can resample from it back into other apps like beatmaker3 when you want to save your work. I am dying to get one, while my circuit can play back samples there's nothing like a real hardware sampler for harvesting samples and at this tiny size it can get in and sample things that are impossible to record with a large sized sampler like the mpc live.
Bo you should do a sample of yourself saying "But I am a Swedish Viking!" that would be funny to have it remixed with some modular beats. How would you hook this pocket operator up to an Elektron Octatrack?
Oh you just hold clear button and swipe across the patterns. I think there might be commands for clearing the entire part as well but cant remember now
As always fantastic video bo. I find that when I sample the sample comes in lower than the sounds on the ko itself. It’s it the cable I’m using? I’m just using aux cable and plugging into various items and turning the volume up but not to the max. Any tips?
I am not sure why this is. I have not encountered it. Maybe check Jakob Haq in depth review if he mentions it. I think there is a link in the description to his video.
great review but what i really want to know is when you start with, lets say the hi-hat and then throw some fx on the pattern and then later add some sounds to that pattern... with the new sounds get the same effect or will only the hi-hat show the effects and the rest play normal?
I just have the PO-12 but I think it is really good and really cheap. Thinking about the 20 for the sounds and functions mentioned here. Also, want to get a budget sampler (primarily for vocal/spoken monologues) and can't decide between the KO or the SPEAK. Is there another sampler out there for the same price that's worth considering?
The speak records voice like a vocoder, robot like, never 100% natural. The KO just records it like a sound so its a perfect reproduction if thats important. Speak has more sample time than a KO. I have both.
I purchased a PO-33 about 7 months ago. But a few days ago, for no apparent reason, it stopped turning on. I found him with a completely dead screen and couldn't resuscitate him. I did everything that is written on the manufacturer's website, but it did not give any results. I began to study this issue and it turned out that this is a common problem faced by po owners, it just stops turning on for no apparent reason. As far as I understand there is some error in the design or program. I wrote to the support service of teenage engineering, to which they replied to me that they could not replace my tool and could not repair it. They sent me a list of components so that I could order them and repair them myself. This is strange. Because absolutely nothing happened to PO, it just lay idle for a few days, and stopped working. If even the specialists of teenage engineering can't fix this flaw (judging by how often PO owners face this problem), why do they offer to fix it for me on their own? Then they stopped replying to my messages. I was very disappointed. I paid $ 90 for a piece that didn't even work for half a year. I was refused replacement, technical support, and no response at all. And the output sound of this thing is really shitty.
To me this is one of these gadgets one can justify if you use it on only one song ever. I do question for how long this is real fun. For a student low on cash it can last a while I guess. But if you can afford more or less what you desire, to me it wears out pretty quickly. Not saying these are bad tools, they are actually very nice in the right hands (just like the OP-1). To wrap it up, I believe with some gear like you have you don't need this. Just sequence the synths you have, MatrixBrute, Basstation2, Sub37 and Digitakt. Since you're sampling your own synths the Digitakt might even (am pretty sure) give you more options without even having to buy and get used to the K.O. Do you need it, no it might even be contra productive. If it is a review of the unit, I get it.
Mike Hydropneumatic What kind of sh*t comment is this? You DO NOT make any sense at all. You know this is a review right? Do you have any logic at all?
Have you tried to make a backup (not recording of your song) and reload the backup to the unit? Having big issues with that and others had it too. Does it work for you?
Bought clear glasses after watching your reviews for months! Quality content as always. Probably not getting this one but I'm sure I'll watch this video like 3 times anyways!
I remember myself imagening a synth or sampler looking like a calculator 15 years ago. Dreams can come true 😄
And thnx for the crisp n clear review, BoBeats.
Cheers mate!
Love the Pocket Operators! ❤️ Especially K.O. and Arcade 👾 Thinking about adding Speak too 💬 Great video Bo ✨🎶
Great review Bo! Really good editing and information. I'd love to get this whole series one day, great little noise boxes, and they seem really good for coming up with creative groves. On another note, I'd love to see you review the Korg Volca Sample!
Thanks mate! Also a good idea there on a series on portable stuff
Super in depth and really well produced. I may have to pick one of these up at some point!
You should they awesome I've had one sounds it came out
I love my KO. Thanks for the overview of this marvellous thing.
You are welcome!
thanks for the great video Bo! 💚
Yeah I love this and the speak so much. They pair so well with samples from a nice synth, or even field recordings.
I'm actually considering getting the tonic as well.. I even bought microtonic already for use with the speak :D
Good stuff. My only issue is it's never in stock😭
Ave Mcree yeah i bought it a month ago and the shop i bought it on is still restocking 😤😤
basil n_c 😂there back in Europe at my secret shopping area but I can't buy because money😭😭😭😭
Ave Mcree hey dude, can you share your secret shopping area?:p
Coen T it's sold out again there but it's juno records in the UK. Google search "juno records" and walk into the gates of heaven.
I love mine! So easy to come up with cool variations. It's limitations really does inspire creativity, compared to a daw where you can get lost in a sea of possibility, and of course you can always sample the 33 if you ever need to get deeper or add variation. I love all my Po's but I will forever cherish my knockout.
That's the reason why I'm so excited about this tiny gadget. I enjoy All kind Electronic Music and I would love to try to make some cheeky beat but I feel so overwhelmed with the knowledge that's needed in order to do something interesting. I Like PO's constrains like I like programming for Commodore 64
Nice ... your production quality has stepped up a notch 😎
Thanks for noticing!!
👍 The PO-33 KO! is such a beast! I started using it for some tracks on my own channel and it is just unrivaled in how easy it is to make a quick sampled beat. LoFi hiphop, here we come 😎
I love the PO32 and hoped for a sampler down the line. The PO33 KO is all I hoped for
Great review,in fact,you dont need using 2 fingers,after pressing the slot you can realse finger in it stay in record mode.
Only pressing the record button.
Hi Bo, great review as always. Will you be doing a P.O. Speak review?
Or even better, making a beat with the circuit and microgranny 👍
There might be a Speak review if I have the time.
I like that you also commented the limitations of it. Especially compared to the "speak" which has much more musicallY functionality, f.e. scales, chromatic transposing and those amazing Synthesis Models which are Parameter lockable. What I today hate about the KO.... After a while the Potentiometers become unsteady and truncating is Like serving Tea in the dark. Overall: awesome for the price and on a educational really interesting to Show to Kids how sampling works
Great points there Bruno
Bruno : "serving tea in the dark" great metaphor !
🐂💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
With the 33, is it possible to use effects on incoming audio before it is sampled? Or are the effects only useable on samples?
When your teachers ask you why your calculater has a headphone jack: ''It's for my dyscalculia''
Super review! We love the PO-33!
Thanks for this review! So good! At 5:42, you mention a link in the description to Jacob Haq video - but you didn't leave a link to his video in your description. :)
Aw shoot :-) will add it
I've Just ordered this to add to the po35 , the 12 and the 14 bass.. can't wait. plus this'll save me getting the po16. As a sample string melody definitely completes my lust for these. for now. Lol. Great demo. B.b.. 👍
This is a very cool video !! kinda makes a person want to go out and buy these little things... Nice beat too ... We should do a simplySynth pocket operator short song competition .. then do a live stream review of the songs.. then everyone vote on the Forum, and the winner gets 1 pocket operator .. That could be a fun BoBeats followers challenge .... I would even donate some $$ to help buy the giveaway pocket operator :) anyway .. awesome video as always !!
Nice! I am having a lot of fun with the KO
Just to understand (cause I'm really attracted by this little piece of engineering): you basically connect to a synth and you record whatever sound you want for each step and then you make a pattern? Is this one of the functionalities?
Very cool indeed!
Nice video. Been looking at the PO-33, seems like an interesting creative option.
Recently picked up a PO-20 and PO-32 at an insane discount. I knew they had kung fu, but even so was pleasantly surprised. Far from a perfect product, but they're really fun, easy and creatively stimulating.
Hey Marc! Agree totally. They all have their obvious limitations but still manages to hook me every time
This might be the best pocket operator ever. You can resample from it back into other apps like beatmaker3 when you want to save your work. I am dying to get one, while my circuit can play back samples there's nothing like a real hardware sampler for harvesting samples and at this tiny size it can get in and sample things that are impossible to record with a large sized sampler like the mpc live.
I want the po35 also but the po32 is kind of problematic cause I use ipad rather than mac so I have no way to run the desktop plugin to edit drums.
The Bass Station is till such an excellent synth.
Sure is!!
Bo you should do a sample of yourself saying "But I am a Swedish Viking!" that would be funny to have it remixed with some modular beats. How would you hook this pocket operator up to an Elektron Octatrack?
Yes it's the best followed by the arcade :D
It's not even funny how out of stock these are here in Europe. I just want to buy this!
:-(
Same here in the USA. 😩
How do you clear a sound from a pattern? I have watched like 20 videos but none explain this. Thank you
Oh you just hold clear button and swipe across the patterns. I think there might be commands for clearing the entire part as well but cant remember now
CLEAR? button
Eye on Vision : did you solve that ? Please tell.
Bo's answer not clear.
Cheers.🐂💨💨💨💨
As always fantastic video bo. I find that when I sample the sample comes in lower than the sounds on the ko itself. It’s it the cable I’m using? I’m just using aux cable and plugging into various items and turning the volume up but not to the max. Any tips?
I am not sure why this is. I have not encountered it. Maybe check Jakob Haq in depth review if he mentions it. I think there is a link in the description to his video.
BoBeats thank you!
Nice Bo! 👌🏻
great review but what i really want to know is when you start with, lets say the hi-hat and then throw some fx on the pattern and then later add some sounds to that pattern... with the new sounds get the same effect or will only the hi-hat show the effects and the rest play normal?
The fx applies to the entire pattern. All tracks. Volume/tuning/filter/trim is per sound and can be sequenced per step
Cool video, my personal favourite is the PO-20, but I have the speak and do use it for random recording different sounds like my cats.
I just have the PO-12 but I think it is really good and really cheap. Thinking about the 20 for the sounds and functions mentioned here. Also, want to get a budget sampler (primarily for vocal/spoken monologues) and can't decide between the KO or the SPEAK. Is there another sampler out there for the same price that's worth considering?
The BASTL MicroGranny 2.5 is real cool but a little bit more expensive I think
The MG is great but being monophonic makes it quite limiting I think. I would get a KO above a MG any day.
The speak records voice like a vocoder, robot like, never 100% natural. The KO just records it like a sound so its a perfect reproduction if thats important. Speak has more sample time than a KO. I have both.
Great stuff !
I purchased a PO-33 about 7 months ago. But a few days ago, for no apparent reason, it stopped turning on. I found him with a completely dead screen and couldn't resuscitate him. I did everything that is written on the manufacturer's website, but it did not give any results. I began to study this issue and it turned out that this is a common problem faced by po owners, it just stops turning on for no apparent reason. As far as I understand there is some error in the design or program. I wrote to the support service of teenage engineering, to which they replied to me that they could not replace my tool and could not repair it. They sent me a list of components so that I could order them and repair them myself. This is strange. Because absolutely nothing happened to PO, it just lay idle for a few days, and stopped working. If even the specialists of teenage engineering can't fix this flaw (judging by how often PO owners face this problem), why do they offer to fix it for me on their own? Then they stopped replying to my messages. I was very disappointed. I paid $ 90 for a piece that didn't even work for half a year. I was refused replacement, technical support, and no response at all. And the output sound of this thing is really shitty.
Thanks for letting me know. Totally shit service you got there :-/
Im thinking of getting a small synth or mixer with more sfx to gear up with this? Got any recomendations?
I feel the Po-33 does not have alot of effects but other than that its pretty good.
Could you make a tutorial video on how to structure a hole song pls
Yesssssssssee bro
Hi bo thinking about getting this after I get my circuit would you recommend it?
You can sync PO and Circuit together but its not a perfect match. I would actually get something with midi so you can sync easier
BoBeats ok thanks it looks like a cool device but I am definitely getting a circuit i can’t wait it looks amazing
Get one of volcas and PO. And circuit+PO+volca (fm for instance) will be perfect combo c:
John Mikheyev ok thanks
To me this is one of these gadgets one can justify if you use it on only one song ever.
I do question for how long this is real fun. For a student low on cash it can last a while I guess. But if you can afford more or less what you desire, to me it wears out pretty quickly.
Not saying these are bad tools, they are actually very nice in the right hands (just like the OP-1).
To wrap it up, I believe with some gear like you have you don't need this. Just sequence the synths you have, MatrixBrute, Basstation2, Sub37 and Digitakt. Since you're sampling your own synths the Digitakt might even (am pretty sure) give you more options without even having to buy and get used to the K.O.
Do you need it, no it might even be contra productive. If it is a review of the unit, I get it.
Personally I just enjoy having them with me on the go :-)
On the bus or train that will look pretty nerdy. But must admit I did that with my QY10 and QY20 in the 90s.
Who cares how it looks? If you want to be cool maybe you should consider switching from music to fashion.
Mike Hydropneumatic What kind of sh*t comment is this? You DO NOT make any sense at all. You know this is a review right? Do you have any logic at all?
Yup
Have you tried to make a backup (not recording of your song) and reload the backup to the unit? Having big issues with that and others had it too. Does it work for you?
I have never tried this using a PO
ordered one
Speaking of samplers, where’s your octatrack? ˆˆ
On a shelf ... :-o
BoBeats do more with that bad boy 😂 I love the octatrack
Bought clear glasses after watching your reviews for months!
Quality content as always.
Probably not getting this one but I'm sure I'll watch this video like 3 times anyways!
Looking gooood sir!!
I want one so bad ...
It's like a more difficult and time consuming way of making music. Who would sample a synth, when they could use the actual synth?
Because you can’t carry a Bass Station 2 in your pocket...
better than digitakt. I like the PO-35 speak better.
jerville1 You're joking right? This is a toy compared to the Digitakt.
Haha! Crazy.
The quality of sound when you try to sample is crap. Why??
Peter McDade could be the cable sampling in with is mono when it should be stereo or vice versa
This thing looks pretty cheap but 80€..... daaaaamn tho im sure its worth it 😅
Музыкальный калькулятор....скоро всё музыкальное напровление сведётся к двум кнопкам...вкл и выкл...
Love my ko had it since it came out you should check my TH-cam I got few ko videos
W T F piloting the space shuttle is easier
🤣🤣
Dude you are making the same as the other gear youtubers but 3 months late. I don't see the sense on this.
sometimes I am early, world first even, sometimes I am later :)
BoBeats I'll follow your content and lets see on the Next NAMM
cool! I hope to have some fresh stuff for review soon :) but there will also be videos about older stuff as well