PO-2x
I'm proud to announce Arcade, Office and Robot, three affordable, portable synthesisers that I've developed for Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operator series.
- PO-20 Arcade is an 8-bit synthesiser and sequencer for rapid beat making and chiptune improvisation.
- PO-24 Office lets you create noisy, glitchy beats out of sampled vintage hardware such as floppy drives and a matrix printer.
- PO-28 Robot lets you play soaring 8-bit melodies live, while also including a sequencer and micro drumkit.
The Pocket Operators are available online, as well as through retailers worldwide.
Teenage Engineering is a Stockholm-based electronics company that designs and manufactures synthesisers, among other things. They got in touch with me back in 2012, asking if I'd be interested in some kind of collaboration. So we met up and had some great creative discussions, and then we both kind of lost momentum due to other projects. But when they started to work on the original Pocket Operators, the PO-1x series, it became evident that this was a perfect opportunity for us to do something together. The original plan was that I would design a single 8-bit Pocket Operator (now Arcade), but the scope grew and we finally settled for the three machines above.
The PO-2x series was unveiled at NAMM 2016, and you'll find several online videos where I give demonstrations for the press, such as the following one:
I also got to star in the official instruction videos, which were shot in a studio in Stockholm:
Finally, let me draw your attention to a nice tutorial by Cuckoo:
Posted Tuesday 26-Jan-2016 05:34
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Mon 25-Jan-2016 21:56
I'm delighted to hear you're involved with these modules. I saw them discussed a couple of days ago and ordered right away as they sounded incredible. I'm so excited to try them out when they arrive. My hope is to be able to record some loops with these so I can build up something for my game. We're so lucky to have someone with your genius pushing this genre.
John
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Mon 11-Jan-2021 21:46
lft wrote:
x3n0n wrote:
For sounds 10 and 11 (melodic and falling arp, respectively), I can tell that the "dominant" note is the one selected by knob A, but I'm not sure what the rest of the notes are and how they are related to the current chord.Many thanks!
Both of these place the knob-selected note at the top of the arpeggio, with a couple of chord notes as close as possible below that. I'm pretty sure more chord notes are used in instrument 11, to cover more octaves.
Instrument 10 plays the notes in a quick loop.
Instrument 11 plays through the notes once, from top to bottom, at a slower speed. It begins an octave higher.
Ah, I see. Thank you again, and happy new year!
Wed 28-Apr-2021 18:18
Thank you.
Linus Åkesson
Tue 4-May-2021 08:49
Thank you.
I'm afraid that voice recording wasn't created on the PO-28, nor the PO-128. They don't have that feature.
Wed 5-May-2021 21:42
lft wrote:
Thank you.
I'm afraid that voice recording wasn't created on the PO-28, nor the PO-128. They don't have that feature.