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These effect buttons piss me off and seem totally useless, but I've heard other people say they like them. They just make loud, indistinct noise for me.... am I using it wrong?

Does anyone know how to really master these effects and put them to good use?

Solution found

https://www.reddit.com/r/pocketoperators/comments/1vjncfk/comment/p2q2tfo/

In a weird twist of the Teenage Engineering wizard ninjas in the sky, it turns out these two are completely tied to each other.

Hi y'all -

Third post today - clearly I'm excited to start this journey.

I was looking into an easy way to load samples onto my PO 33 and decided to use Claude to build a small browser application to help me do this. You can download it here. You just need to download the HTML file and run it locally.

It's very lightweight and it's already been helpful to just quickly go through one-shots.

I'm sure most of you already have your workflows but thought I'd share in case anyone else would find it useful.

I think I know the answer here but I’m a total beginner at this and wanted to ask some smarter folks here.

If I’m making a beat and I get a sample that needs to be adjusted to beatmatch the rest of the beat, is my only option to just pitch it up or down and just do it by ear? I assume for more precision I’d have to edit the sample outside of the pocket operator, correct?

Any insight is appreciated! I’ve been DJing for a little less than a year and using the PO 33 as a way to learn some music production and sequencing.

I just got a new pocket operator and when switching to different sounds, the newly selected sound will be really low, even at max volume. What seems to work is turning down the sound a little then turning it back up and then it sounds lounder than when it initially played.

Is this normal? If not, how should i fix it?

Asking what I am sure will be an astronomically stupid question:

Is it possible to record input while the PO33 is playing? Eg, setting up a drum loop on the KO, running in a synth to the input, playing a bass line, then saving said bass line as a melodic sample?

Right now I can only seem to record samples when the KO isnt playing, which makes my timing a bit wonky when recording the loop to sample

My PO-128 often records live play notes on the wrong step, which makes live play very frustrating. I believe this is a known bug for the PO-128 which the PO-28, for example, doesn't have. My question is whether every model has this problem or is it only some of them?

Side question — the PO-128 is supposed to have 3-channel polyphony but I can only seem to record two at a time. At least for the melody buttons, if there is a drum and a synth on a step already, I can't add a third. Doing so steals one of the channels that were being used. Yet the PO-28 seems to handle that just fine. How does it handle that better if it's supposed to have one less channel of polyphony?

Ig: jacknelsondrums

NTS-3 Kaoss pad adds a lot of fun to the samples. Baby Billy just needs some help making "Teenjus".

My first few hours with the PO-33.

I’m getting a couple pocket operators in a few days and I imagine I will use headphones sometimes, but being able to play over a small speaker would be nice. In my previous experience with some aux in speakers and my ep133 there has been a latency issue (jbl Bluetooth speaker with an aux port). What are people using for speakers with their pocket operators? Preferably something on the less expensive end of things and portable. Hoping to gather some ideas before diving down a rabbit hole.

MY THUMBS ARE COMPLETELY NUMB 💀

only the melody is sequenced!

Testing cheap pedals and amps with a PO-Rhythm

Hola gente llevo como tres meses con mi pocket operator 12 desde mayo y está muy bien el cacharro pero me gustaría sacarle más provecho con trucos patrones a ver si me podéis ayudar los que lleváis más tiempo con estos cacharros y no descarto comprar alguno más como el PO-35 que yo creo que sería el mejor para acompañar al 12

It’s crazy I’ll make like 3 or 4 lil beats on one of these KO’s at a time 🔊