Saaaaame. Super next level gadget. I’m in love with it
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Thanks very much, that’s the best solution so far. 
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Wait are you Little Scale?
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I can’t get enough of this thing. It’s so fkn cool. All I want is a way to clear the sequence of a specific sound, so I don’t have to go through each sound trying to figure out what’s doing the voice stealing haha.
This little calculator is so good for old school drum n’ bass, the fact the drum channels are monophonic means you can be sloppy with your chops and still nail James brown and the amen brothers!
Jump around if you have the stamina!
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Got mine yesterday made like 3 beats and recorded a bunch of stuff. I find that I like it better for just small one shots than longer samples.
Butttt
I found out to get past the 16 step thing if you chain an empty pattern it’ll allow a longer sample to be played in full instead of repeating.
I’ve been using my micro granny for longer samples. And also using the po-32 for kicks. The 808 that comes with the 32 is perfect <3
But all in all love this little thing. Probably will end up in a lot of my future stuff even if it goes through the OT or DT to get there.
How is the sampling quality compared to the original?
This might be old news to everyone else but I’ve come up with a workflow I like for making kits out of one-shots (mouth-sounds in my case):
- Make sure you have a spare melodic slot.
- Record a sample to that slot.
- Copy that sample and paste it to a slice in the destination kit.
- You can now delete the original spare melodic slot so you can do this again later.
Obviously this tends to eat a bit more sample space than a loop or “sample chain” would. But if you lift your thumb off the record button pretty quickly, it’s generally fine. it’s a lot easier in some cases than making a loop to slice, and it’s pretty immediate. Plus I find trimming easier because the resolution is a bit finer.
Came across this comment on Facebook with a tip for quickly backing up PO-33 audio… reposting but I can’t verify it works or anything.
“get a stereo jack to micro usb otg cable (they are cheap), with it you will be able to dump data directly to a smartphone. Just connect both set the usb mode as sound source and use a recording app. But remember that the jack has to be stereo, mono and trs plugs won’t fit the bill.”
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Is it that bad/good? 8-bit on drums should give them good punch. How about synth samples? Does the samples get noisy?
mu-law is a special form of 8bit fwiw
I love the sound of it. I just uploaded this EP today, recorded entirely with one PO-33, no effects apart from a light master:
The strength of the kicks really surprised me; they were sampled from a machinedrum so naturally big/punchy, but it actually carried over to the po-33!
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thanks! Just hit 1k subscribers on youtube nice to see it’s slowly picking up.
edit: spoke too soon; still hanging at 999! Youtube app was displaying it incorrectly
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I’m digging the hell out of this @pselodux. Almost footwork-ish. To me the PO-33’s lo-fi sound is musically interesting and a special character all its own. It’s best for people to work with it and see what they can do with it on its own terms, instead of feeling like it’s inferior because the specs aren’t what you were hoping for. I’m reminded of how the SP1200’s lo-fi sound was initially a technical limitation of the hardware until people realized that it sounded unique, amazing, and desirable.
How did I end up getting so excited over a sub-$100 pocket gadget?
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Dig your vids. Just subscribed. Should hopefully be back at 1k+
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Thanks! I’ve been very inspired by footwork over the past year, so elements of the sound are working their way into my projects, slowly 
This, exactly. As I mentioned in one of my videos, I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time. Of course it’s been possible with iOS apps, etc, but something in the PO format, with actual buttons and controls, is just so much more inspiring. I’m gonna get the PO-35 soon as well, but I think the 33 will be a keeper for me, for sure. It’s pretty much how I’ve felt about the Octatrack ever since it clicked with me.
Thanks, much appreciated!
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Agree with its sound being unique and lovely,
Long tailed sine wave bass drums get nice artifacts on their tails almost like a watery lofi reverb sound: it sounds like a few LFOs are at work.
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ooh, I’ll have to try that! Most of the samples I’ve loaded onto it have been super short. I think I may have to work on a PO-33 specific sample pack. I’m also tempted to start sharing my backups, maybe advertised specifically as sample packs.
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If it would have been the SP1200 specs. (sampling rate & resolution) I wouldn´t have blinked before buy one. Knowing that it´s 8-bit and the artifacts it produces it´s a turn off for me since that is not what I´m looking for even though the form factor, specs and effects are decent. I´ve owned a SIDstation for over 10 year so I know the 8-bit sound quite well. I still think they should write it in the spec. since it has a major effect on the output sound.
Have you used a PO-33 yet?