r/pocketoperators May 05 '25

"TRRON" MUSIC CONTEST - Bring your TECHNO

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25 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 3h ago

I like it bassy 🫠 [PO-33]

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28 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 1h ago

Been a minute.

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Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 6h ago

My music needs work, but the case design is coming along.

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8 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 21h ago

Hey guys I made some kind of dubstep

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24 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 1d ago

When you sample a harmonic and you hear it!

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11 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 1d ago

First Pocket 4p footage

0 Upvotes

My first 4p footage. Mixed d-logs, colour graded with some random luts (after the conversion to rec709).

https://youtu.be/cYavWGr6Onc?is=ov57Lz-1aWBlNZl3


r/pocketoperators 2d ago

best cheap case for PO 33.

3 Upvotes

Can anyone please offer a suggestion. Bought PO 33 for 14 year old. Whats best cheap case that covers the back at least. Be nice to cover the whole thing and is available in the UK . Thanks for any help


r/pocketoperators 2d ago

What in tarnation...!?

2 Upvotes

Somebody tell me what I did wrong.

I have 3 Pocket Operators (the Sub, the Office, and the Speak). I have them set to SYNC 1, SYNC 2, and SYNC 4, respectively.

I noticed something bizarre. None of the Sub's sounds would play, but they would actually control the Speak (and they're not even directly connected). Now, I don't mean sending its audio through to the Speak or the Speak modifying that audio with its effects. No, sir. I mean that I would press a button on the Sub and the corresponding sound for that button on the Speak would play.

Over and over again. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it because my SYNC settings are wrong?


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

Beats on a Plane

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36 Upvotes

SEA > SAN


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

Working on a rack for PO and HiChord setup. Thinking making it modular for more POs.

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172 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 2d ago

What is sound #6 on the PO-16 Factory?

3 Upvotes

Sometimes it does nothing at all. Sometimes it does some kind of record scratch, but that's rare. I can't figure out what it's supposed to be, or how to use it.


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

What to pair with PO-33 KO

11 Upvotes

What are good additions to pair or use alongside the PO-33 ?

Is there any kind of synths, beat pads or machines that can complement or use alongside the PO-33?

It could be anything that helps create sounds,Loops, Samples, Beats on the PO-33 or just make your creativity better?

If anyone knows or already uses things alongside the PO-33 let me know what they are.


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

Chilling

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4 Upvotes

Quick jam


r/pocketoperators 2d ago

Metal P.O. Cases?

1 Upvotes

Has anyone happened to send off a blueprint for a 3D Print to a company that machines metal such as JLCCNC? I'd be interested to see an aluminum or brass case. I've wondered if conductivity between lines on the board and the case would be an issue, possibly branching and touching lines that weren't meant to touch. But I figure if you line the inside of a metal case with a thin coat of rubber paint then it might prevent such issues.


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

messing w some nice chords from ig

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26 Upvotes

gotta start sampling social media more… this one feels cinematic


r/pocketoperators 3d ago

New to PO world

16 Upvotes

Hello! I'm just a regular dude that start liking this whole music world.

I was doomscrolling till I saw a video from a dude playing a beat in a Pocket Operator and I got astonished!!!

Just thought myself: oh yeah another hobby to try and see that I won't be as good as that dude in 15 minutes, so I'll get frustrated and completely forget about it lmao

I bought a mvave fm-1 and I mess with the sounds and I'm enjoying it, and I saw that I could plug in the PO, so I bought A PO-33 immediately because I'm a anxious person

That said, is there some content for beginners? I l have zero knowledge about music theory but I like making some sounds

I downloaded Koala Sampler but it's not the same as having a dedicated device, I don't wanna get overwhelmed by the phone notifications and the PO was the cheaper I found. I live in Brazil so anything I buy gets a loooot expensive.

I was having a look here and I saw a lot of ppl making great sounds with PO

And that's it, any recommendations?


r/pocketoperators 4d ago

Went to the lowest note on my piano for this one 😅 [PO-33]

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59 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 4d ago

Workaround for the PO-33 empty pattern sync bug

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10 Upvotes

Yesterday I posted a video about a bug I found where the PO-33 will stop sending a sync pulse if you live play sounds over an empty pattern. (Like if you want to solo on your KO over the groove the others are playing.)

This morning I found an easy workaround.

The key is that an empty pattern on the KO will lose its sync pulse if you live play on top of it, so you don’t want to send an empty pattern, you want to send a silent pattern. You can do this by writing some sounds on the grid and then parameter locking the low pass filter down to zero. (Or the high pass filter up to 11.) Turning the volume parameter down to zero doesn’t quite make it disappear, so filter instead.

The one catch is that you can open up the filter and play your sound over your silent pattern, but the programmed notes will cut it off. So build your silent pattern with a sound that you don’t want to use when you’re jamming.


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

abstract glitch ambient (???) idk

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27 Upvotes

r/pocketoperators 5d ago

PO-33 stops syncing when I play it in performance mode… can I fix this?

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11 Upvotes

I’m trying to sync my PO-30’s and the KO is losing the sync signal whenever I try playing it in performance mode. They are chained as
PO33(SY1) - PO35(SY5) - PO32(SY4).

They play together just fine when I hit Play (from right to left), but if I start playing the KO live, it breaks the sync signal and the other two only play while I’m punching notes in the KO.

This doesn’t happen when I connect them in other orders, but I want the KO first in the chain so I can record samples.

The Speak and Tonic are both just a few weeks old, I bought them during the recent sale. I bought the KO used a few months ago, so I don’t actually know how old it is.

Is there a way to fix this or do I just have a faulty PO33?


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

28 -> 128

6 Upvotes

I just got the po robot and arcade and i am in love with this shit….

My lineup is Speak, Robot, Arcade. The only issue is that I love the robot so much that I instantly want the upgraded 128 mega man.


r/pocketoperators 5d ago

teenage engineering

12 Upvotes

im waiting for my po ko 33 to arrive tomorrow and i wanted to know; is there any tips you guys recommend for understanding the basics in general? this is my first time buying or using something like this, do you have any YouTuber i should watch that’ll demonstrate the best of its abilities and how should i go about the care of the device?


r/pocketoperators 6d ago

Pocket Jungle Beat Challenge #2 🪖🔊

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33 Upvotes

Round two! Fire up your PO-33, drop those breaks, and show us what you've got.
https://www.patreon.com/PocketTrax/posts/pocket-jungle-2-167192270

THE CHALLENGE

Cook up a jungle track using at least one PO-33 and record a video performance of your banger.

This time there's no requirement to use any toolkit. You can use whatever samples, sounds and other gear you want. The PO-33 just needs to be the main part of the action.

RULES

🎛️ Use at least one PO-33 (feel free to pair it with other gear)

📹 Video performance required — show us your setup in action! A simple phone recording is absolutely fine.

⏱️ Track length: 90 seconds to 5 minutes.

📅 Submit your track by 19 October.

🏆🏆 TWO PRIZES, TWO WINNERS!

That's right! This time, there will be two prizes:

🏆 GRAND PRIZE

Win a POkZ-KOII case by Kumodot!

The Grand Prize winner will be chosen by Pocket Trax + Kumodot, based on:

- Creativity
- Composition
- Use of the PO-33
- Overall vibe

🏆 COMMUNITY PRIZE

A second winner will be voted by the Patreon members (paid members) and will also win a POkZ-KOII case by Kumodot!

One entry can't win both prizes—two awards, two winners.

Both winners will have their bangers featured on the upcoming Pocket Jungle Mixtape.

HOW TO ENTER

Drop your track + performance video in the link below by 19 October. More info here as well:

👉 https://www.patreon.com/PocketTrax/posts/pocket-jungle-2-167192270

Good luck, have fun and... DROP A JUNGLE BANGER! 🔊🪖🔥

Big up,
Pocket Trax