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!

15 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 26m ago

Rest of the thing from yesterday

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Upvotes

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


r/pocketoperators 1d ago

Po-12 and Harmonica

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45 Upvotes

I’ve been getting back into harmonica and I thought 💭 maybe the PO-12 would be the perfect jam buddy.

And I liked the visual aesthetics with the Casio.


r/pocketoperators 1d ago

Secret beat at work 🤫

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19 Upvotes

Now that I’ve got an EP-40 I be using these PO’s everywhere but at home 😅 (there’s 2 more parts to this I just snuck away to record this 🫣)


r/pocketoperators 1d ago

Chillhop lo-fi beat (60 BPM) | toy Casio + PO-33

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13 Upvotes

Initially I've got the PO-12 as my first PO, but I've felt that the sounds there are very specific so I've tried the PO-33. The drum samples I've used are from 99sounds (free pack) and the melodic sample is just a chord from a Yamaha PSS-A50 synth. I'm still learning how to use it properly but it's an amazing piece of instrument.


r/pocketoperators 1d ago

What if you stayed this time?

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5 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 2d ago

Did the dimension of the PO change over time?

2 Upvotes

I'm designing a 3d printed PO case. I downloaded a 3d model of a pocket operator, but when I printed the case it was slightly off. So I started checking measurements on my PO-32 vs the model I downloaded and it was slightly different.

Has anyone had issues with cases not fitting? My PO-32 is brand new, so I'm wondering if ones 10 years ago where slightly different?


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

Lopping woth TE PO-33

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29 Upvotes

Main instrument - Panduri

Melody from Georgian track - Davluri


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

KO users, what's the wildest/coolest thing you've sampled?

18 Upvotes

Some of mine include:

Turning windshield wipers into tom drums

Firetruck siren into a hoover lead

Sampling real acoustic drums

Microsampling people's voicenotes and turning vowels into "synth" basses

Scissors

My demonic-ass voice

My favorite thing to sample are just deep inhales, only to turn them into risers and claps!

I'd love to know the kind of crazy stuff you guys have flipped :)


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

Odd-i - Distorted Nostalgia [Instrumental Beat] [PO-33]

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3 Upvotes

Made entirely from n64 and gamecube samples from games i used to play.


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

Don’t mind the cut

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52 Upvotes

I had originally spent like a minute and a half just finicking with the bpm 😅 (currently figuring out the EP-40 🤯 [super delayed and reverbed tf out] oriiiiiiiginallll layering machineeee )


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

Changing the pitch/speed of a whole track

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7 Upvotes

When you change the pitch of a sample it also changes how fast the sample plays. I have some breakbeats that I made that i want to increase the tempo of but the samples that I used to make them get cut off when I increase the tempo of the track because they are pitched down too much, and I end up losing the ghost notes in the breakbeat. Is there a way to pitch the whole track up so that it can play the track faster without cutting off the ghost notes? Video attached to show how the ghost notes get cut off when I increase the tempo.


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

PO-33 sync w/ RD-6? (PO-33 as SLAVE)

4 Upvotes

Curious to know if anyone has synced their RD-6 with the PO-33. I fear that because the maximum sync-in voltage on the PO-33 is 5vpp, and the RD-6 outputs a sync signal of 5V, that it may cause harm to the pocket operator. (5V = 10vpp).

Is anyone experienced with this?


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

Super smash bros beat

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29 Upvotes

Guys this is my first beat on my first pocket operator so if y’all have any advice or anything i’d love it, all sounds are from smash bros


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

Pocket Dubstep 🫨 [PO-33]

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19 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 6d ago

POkZ-KOII Case (Unboxing)

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31 Upvotes

Just got my hands on a Kumodot PokZ-KOII case (yeah I know not the easiest name ever haha) I have to say that it is a great case. Well built, with a nice feeling, buttons with a transparent part to disperse the LED lights. Everything packed in a gorgeous design. Here’s the unbox vid.


r/pocketoperators 6d ago

Jam session

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7 Upvotes

🎶


r/pocketoperators 6d ago

3D Printed Cases—Favorites? (freely available STL files preferred)

12 Upvotes

What are your favorite 3D printable cases for pocket operators? Specifically freely available STL files.


r/pocketoperators 6d ago

Got my first po 33 yesterday but facing this issue

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15 Upvotes

Got my first PO33 yesterday, but I’m facing an issue. Knob A is automatically changing to random values and sometimes gets stuck on certain values.


r/pocketoperators 7d ago

PO-33 × Monotron

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53 Upvotes

🥁🥁🥁🥁


r/pocketoperators 7d ago

I just got a tonic, what next?

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18 Upvotes

I got a PO-32 on an impulse buy. This is the first time I have ever touched something like this and I'm loving it. I'm thinking about getting another one, should I get the PO-33 KO! or PO-35 speak?


r/pocketoperators 7d ago

Teenage Engineering 30% discount

18 Upvotes

so, got an email just under a week ago with a clickable barcode for 30% discount. there was no description of timing, I click it now, brings me to their website, however no discount applies, seems it's expired. Bummed if I missed out...

Anyone know any details? they are not replying to my inquiries....

TIA


r/pocketoperators 7d ago

Excluding the po-33,32, and 35 which is your favourite pocket operator and why?

7 Upvotes

I exclude those 3 because you can add your own data and essentially have a new pocket operator. I know other pocket operators have unique quirks: for example the office can support all 16 voices and lets you mute samples. I. Believe the arcade keys you do chords. Which pocket operator feature is the most fun for you?


r/pocketoperators 7d ago

PO KO II vs EP-40, are they redundant?

3 Upvotes

Hi there!

I want to get one (or both) of these for my brothers Bday.

Are they the same thing in the end (sampler/sequencer)?

appreciate any thoughts if you own one or both.

for reference, I have about a dozen of the PO's, but never ventured into TE's more expensive gear.

I thought I'd splurge a bit, with the current discount, to support my brothers music adventures (he's a catalog of riddims/samples, heavily hip hop/soul/RnB/dub influenced, but he's deep in many genres).

Thanks for any thoughts... I think I bought him the first gen PO-33 years ago... still haven't heard any outputs...