PO-32 Tonic + Microtonic Tutorial
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2017
- Hello. Here's a tutorial on the brilliant Pocket Operator drum machine PO-32 Tonic, and its software sibling the Microtonic.
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New user reference guide:
3:27 01. Master volume
4:00 02. Sound demo
4:21 03. A & B sound parameters
5:07 04. Planning settings for a kit
5:54 05. A word on polyphony
7:12 06. Selecting pattern
7:50 07. Clearing a pattern
8:21 08. Select a sound, write a pattern
9:24 09. Shuffle/swing setting
10:36 10. Setting BPM
11:36 11. Live recording a bass
12:55 12. Parameter locking
13:34 13. Silently select sound
14:53 14. Add a clap
15:19 15. FX overview
19:39 16. FX jam sesh
20:31 17. Copy pattern
21:01 18. Delete pattern
21:12 19. Plan song over several patterns
23:56 20. Chain patterns
25:16 21. Syncing to a Korg Volca
28:42 22. Export presets and patterns
31:59 23. Import presets and patterns
33:55 24. Microtonic: Creating sounds
34:35 25. Microtonic: Introduction
35:56 26. Microtonic: Make a kick drum
39:59 27. Microtonic: Morph states
41:58 28. Microtonic: Make a snare
46:30 29. Microtonic: Make a metallic sound
51:52 30. Microtonic: Make a tonal sound
55:45 31. Microtonic: Saving kits
57:29 32. Microtonic: Send kit to PO-32
This comment ought to be pinned!!!
Thank you!
There are 32 parts in this PO-32 video. Coincidence?
Ty😮
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Over an hour with the Tonic? You're a true scholar who makes useful tutorials, not useless unboxing vids that don't teach you anything.
I didn't even realize I'd been watching for an hour until I read your comment, lol
I just bought one of these and I can't tell you how valuable this video was to me. From zero experience with a drum machine to actually understanding the thing in an hour. You rock, sir.
if you snapped of the memory lock tab and want to reverse that, do OT solder the two contacts toghether, but rather solder a micro switch so you ca switch the lock on or off whenever you like to ...
Love that this guy is using a mirror, what a champ!
I just freaking love your videos. The way you film them is different from the others. Way of placing the camera (filming screen and not screencasting), seeing your reflection, it all together feels like I'm sitting right next to you. You know, like friends home jam session. It makes you think about all this new software and hardware in a such more relaxed way. You're are great dude, cuckoo!
I always chuckle at the dubstep noises you make when you first present a piece of gear.
You perform a real service to the musician community. Thank you.
🙏🏼🙏🏼
You. You. You made me buy this. Opened it up today 12 hrs ago. Loving it. My 3rd PO.
When you brought in the Volca FM, at 26:00, I was like... OH YEAH, now it's gonna be good!
I like the pocket mirror lol
I am really enjoying Cuckoo's tutorials on the Korg Volcas and Teenage Engineering Pocket Calculators!
It looks like you're having fun which makes it enjoyable!
There is enough depth to the reviews to help decide whether or not to buy a certain bit of gear, without getting too bogged down with details!
Great video! I was very curious as to how these things worked and super relieved that you had a video on them. Your channel is awesome man. You're like the Bob Ross of electronic music thingamajigs. I greatly appreciate how in depth and interesting your videos are!
i upvote your video because of the first 6 seconds. thanks
I been using Micro Tonic since it came out. I always wanted a stand alone drum machine just like it. Now this. WOW!
Great job Cuckoo! Just received my PO-32 yesterday and loaded your patches on it today. Sounds great, thank you! Can't wait to try it with a few other gadgets of mine.
+Nicholas Phares cool thanks! Great to hear :) I hope you'll have a great time together with the new PO-32!
I just got the Po-32 and this has been extremely helpful!!! Thanks for creating this Cuckoo!!
Your sound effects in the beginning, intro, are awesome. lol. Great video as a whole.
The face mirrors are my favorite part of any cuckoomusic video. It's always so funny.
Wanna have some fun? Do this:
1) Whichever drum patches saved to your PO-32 currently, select sounds 1-8 twisting the morph knob all the way left for each sound. It's quick because once you select the next pad, the knob will practically already be in place. And I forgot to add: put the pitch, dial A, into the center position, say 4 bars, for each of the same pads
2) Open microtonic desktop. Slide Morph fader all the way to the LEFT. Open a preset, construct or save a kit, or load in each patch for each pad.
If you're like me, try loading a preset that comes with a kit and patterns.
3) Optimize the order of the pads on MT by dragging the lanes up and down in the full-view sequencer. Better results than the "Optimize for PO-32" option, but you could press that button instead on the transfer interface if you prefer. When this window is open, MT will give you a preview of what the pattern will sound like, voice stealing and all, on the PO-32.
Sub kicks, for example, should not really be on pad 5 because it'll end up belonging to the same voice assignment as your main kick. I save subs to pad 8. Otherwise, it's 1=kick, 2=snare, 3=closed HH, 7=Open HH. And you have some leniency with the other pads, perhaps a tom or bass tone on 5, a clap on pad 6.
Just because a pattern doesn't use all the pads, don't just order them as the first handful of pads, unless one is clearly muted due to it being in an init state or something like that. You might go back and use those other pads for other patterns after all, or you might just enjoy playing the full kit on your PO-32
4) Transfer all the sounds and pattern to buttons 1-8 and pattern 1, or transfer all patterns 1-4 if you have some patterns already in place on MT.
5) Put Write button in perf mode on PO-32 so you can freely adjust the morph dial for each pad 1-8, and now turn each one fully clockwise. (If you're in edit mode, you'll be literally rewriting the default morph position for that related pattern, and you'd need to be holding the write button down to alter the morph dial for each pad. Not what we want to commit to in this example.)
6) Go back to microtonic desktop. Slide Morph fader all the way to the RIGHT. Open a preset, construct or save a kit, or load in each patch for each pad.
7) Repeat steps 3 and 4. That is, transfer the sounds to the same top buttons 1-8. If you loaded in a different pattern entirely with this other kit, save these additional pattern(s) to pad 9 or 5-8 as examples, so you ultimately can give yourself an even number of patterns per kit. Which leads us to the tip:
Now the morph dial on the PO-32 will transform between the two kits you created on microtonic. They didn't even need to be related to each other, and you didn't even need separate buttons for 2 patches. Any patterns you transferred will automatically recall the morph position you positioned them in, hard counter-clock, and clockwise. You could repeat this for transfers to pads 9-16, essentially saving 4 kits to PO-32 with room for 4 patterns each. I like to pack a bunch of patterns that have a similar tempo, even if they were saved as separate presets with separate kits.
Also, the patterns will be remembered in their morph position, although it may not show it in performance mode. That is, the first row as I've set it up will be the first kit, the 2nd row the 2nd kit, etc. If you want to play a different kit over the current pattern, you'd still need to adjust the dials in performance mode.
I know this comment is 5 years old but is there any way to upload a transfer patch or reference one your talking about to get an idea of sounds that would work cohesively
"Tsh Tsh Drum machine - wooOoooo"
DrJubali lmao
Watching your tutorial I thought that I can use the morph function to manipulate the level of the sounds and it worked! Now I can mix the sounds better in the PO32. Thanks for your videos! they are always very inspirational!
Cool, yes. The volume per sound is a missing feature. Great idea to bake it into the sound design!
Just bought one po-32 and purchased for the microtonic! Fantastic drum machine!
Love your Tutorial Videos - learnt so much and fast about any device you are showing.
+Christian Roeb thanks so much!
Thank you for this! I find most other tutorials for the PO-32 (and the manual) to be all but incomprehensible.
By far the best tutorial on PO-32 out there...excellent job and thank you Cuckoo! BTW...how did you get your name?
+Pablo Perez thanks! I got my name from Cuckoo Giannis Cuckoo bar on Crete island.
Very cool seeing you work the program. Can´t believe it sends the data over sound via the macs speakers! And that it works!! Totally awesome 😁
You are one of a kind! Great tutorial dude(: I'm heading over to buy a pack from you cuckoo 🤙
Thanks for this in depth tutorial of the combo.
Thanks for the tutorial : the little toy turns to an incredible machine thanks to your help !
Just bought one. VERY EXCITED! IT"S NICE! I LIKE!
Watching your interview with Magnus really helped. Now I want one. Way more than a toy.
This tutorial is a pure gold. Thanks!👍
THE best PO-33/Microtonic tutorial out there!!!
awesome and useful video, especially those text notes on the top of the screen. thanks!
Absolutely FANTASTIC Cuckoo - Thank you!
+mCKENIC Thank YOU! Happy to hear I'm being useful :)
just a small addition: to sync with external devices this is the explanation of the sync mode.
------: input---------output
SY0: stereo-------stereo
SY1: stereo ------mono/sync
SY2: sync---------stereo
SY3: sync---------mono/sync
SY4: mono/sync-------stereo
SY5: mono/sync-------mono/sync
Big thank you to you for putting this tutorial up
Love your videos. Thank you for sharing!
That was really cool Cuckoo. What an awesome introductory video. I'm torn between getting a young boy interested in music one of these pocket operators. I just can't decide on which one to get him. PO32 vs PO35 ?? This video alone would be a big help in getting him interested/helping to learn it. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for helping with this toy!
Very much appreciate this tutorial - nice job!
At first i tought it could actualy record vocals , how epic it would be with some tuning
Superb tutorial! Thank you!
thx for that fine description!!
Thanks a lot....if not...TONIC & other similar stuff....realy complicated for the FIRST time.. sooo ..great JOB. MAN.
I have bought one because of you. Thanks a lot
Epic. So useful. Thank you!
cool idea with the mirror!
Great tutorial!
Thanks a lot! Super Cuckoo! Appreciate it!!
Sonic Charge's synths are like secret weapons these days. THANK YOU for this video
GREAT video! I just discovered you. Also watching interview with you and the developer. REQUEST: Please consider making LEDs more visible in your tutorials. It was a little hard to follow along when I couldn’t see which of the PO-32 LEDs were on or off.
just picked up this kit. real nice.
picked up the Tonic just on this video, cheers
👏 great video, love it!
This was great, thanks a ton
Great video!
great video I like the claps you made
Great, now I need this one, too.
hey man thanks for the video. thx for sharing your wisdom as well. super full walkthrough po 32. thank you. @cucko
This is a good tutorial.
great tutorial thanks
Hey Cuckoo, great video. Would you recommend this over the Volca Beats or PO-12?
Just got my tonic ordered yesterday. Only two years late this time!
Thanks for dis!!! I just made a video with the tonic and a lyra 8 hehe
love it!!
this guy is the man
This man is the GUY!
33:32 ..Mr.Mr Oizo "Flat beat".... XD
Very cool!
Thank You!
*Love* your video's
wow look @ all this free advertising :OIOOOO po-32 === sooooo luckkky to have you man! peace out \o/
Hey Cuckoo! Love this video! So i am buying the PO-32 and Microtonic, and i'm planning on buying a Volca later to go with it for a (kinda) portable set up. Right now i am looking at the Keys and FM. Which one would suit it better? I mostly want to make mellow hip hop and would like some "spacey" sounds. I know they use a different kind of synthesis but for me it comes down to the sound. Thanks in advance! (sorry for my english i'm from Slovakia)
+Daniel Gális cool Daniel. Thanks. Spacey as in space invaders alien shootemup games? The FM is certainly capable of sort of alien sounds. But sometimes it's hard to make "normal" sounding keyboard sounds.
Great video dude!! Can I use the Microtonic software on my iPad?? Or is there any way I can import sounds using my iPad?
Hi Cuckoo! First of all thanks for the great vid! I have a couple of questions, is there any way to delete FX layered on the pattern? Is there any way to transfer my patterns to microtonic software so I could use them in my DAW?
Hi Cuckoo! I'm wondering which Pocket Operator to get, PO-20 or PO-32. I know it's difficult to give a general recommendation, but which one have you had the most fun with? I'm looking for a small device to use on my patio in the summer. I already have plenty of synths and drum machines, for example Digitakt, OP-1, Volcas and Roland Airas. I love making beats, which PO-32 seems to be best at, but I also want something that can make more complete "songs", which points me at the PO-20. Do I simply need both?
+ProQdev ha ha. The 32 is undoubtedly the most serious instrument, with the most depth. but without the software Microtonic you really can't explore the depth. It's a simple but versatile and great sounding engine. The 20 is great with the chord progression and side chain chords etc, but the sounds and expressions are limited to this one kind of style. If you're happy with that, it's plenty fun.
Hey cuckoo, your videos made me fall in love with the pocket operators and i'd like to get one now, but I can't decide which one to get between the arcade and the tonic. I love the arcade sounds, but it's kinda limiting genre speaking while the tonic seems more versatile but it's also more expensive and I don't think i will be able to get microtonic as well (don't have much of a budget). Which one would you recommend?
Nevermind, I couldn't resist and i bought a po-32 :P
+fillermo he he. The tonic will without any doubt be the one that will (musically speaking) last the longest.
I managed to load the kit featured in the future music you tube review , they played the whole transfer
Hi there. Quick question for you Cuckoo - I was already a big PO-32 fan, then recently bought the Microtonic software, and, WOW. The sonic range of this little wonder is now mind-blowing. Some of the best fun to be had is playing the fx live. But now my taste for tweaking has been tempered, I was wondering if there is a way to tweak the fx? Or indeed install totally new ones? Because that would be awesome.
Guess this is not the way to contact you...
There are so many comments! I still read most, but I don’t reply to everything. And sometimes I just forget to reply.
The FX part is locked, and cannot be changed. It’s actually tweaking the synthesis engine in real-time. They are not audio processing effects like on most other Pocket Operators.
Ah, pity. Thanks for getting back to me.
so helpful
Great tutorial, very useful. Somehow i still don't understand what is microphone for. Can you actually record something or it's just for that weird data transfer?
Great Video. I have some doubts about the hardware and the concept though.. No stereo output, if you want to Sync to another device? Only three bpm options? Pay another 99USD and use a computer just to be able to actually access the versatile sound engine? Ridiculously expensive accessories? It's a refreshingly different take on hardware design, but not a great value. For playing around i'd rather use an iPad App.
Ok .. Chukp I buy the pocket tomorrow is fantastic!
Hi Cuckoo!, This is Matty.
Is it possible to copy a pad to another pad?
Really enjoying this device, great reccomend.
what if in mircotonic you worked on all your presets from the center morph position, then adjusted the changes in the A and B position, then moved the morph position back to center before saving. Wouldn't you only need to save the preset once, rather than twice, in order to capture all the differences between A and B?
You'd still need to remember to put the morph fader into the center position before loading a preset again, or it would place the preset in whichever position you had last left the morph fader.
Also, if you load that same preset again without remembering to put the morph dial into the center, wouldn't you run the risk of going beyond the parameter range of the PO-32 when you transfer the preset?
Finally, will the PO-32 remember the position of the morph dial when the preset is imported. In other words, if the morph is in the center on microtonic, will the morph fader be in the center for each patch?
i want this man in my life
Hey guys,
I made a Po-32 Tonic Drum Preset available on FREE DOWNLOAD:
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enjoy! feedbacks welcome!
Ever coming to Italy Bro?!?! would be so nice to meet you?!! come Jam with us by the lake!!!!
holy shit. what a time to be alive.
this aged well
@@jevogroni4829 lololololol
Hello, thanks for the cool video Cuckoo. Can someone tell me, do pocket operators feature pattern cuing or does it change pattern as soon as you select the next pattern so you have to time it? The PO 32, 33 and 34 all look sick.
They do, at least PO-33 (it's the only one I've got so far). It switches to a new pattern after the current one ends. And as long as you hold the `pattern` button you can queue up to 128 patterns (i.e. one pattern can be queued multiple times). But after you release the button I don't think you can add to the queue.
thank you a lot, very usefull. Power too you
Why I can't use the keyboard of my Mac while I am using Microtonic? I mean, I need to select between the numbers 1 and 8 with the mouse instead of with the keyboard, and it's a mess 'cause it's slowly if I want to see how all the buttons work and at the same time I need to use the mouse to pick up the number of the drums noise. Thanks !!
Hey Cuckoo! Just bought this beautiful thing and your tutorial was awesome! Quick question though, what hardware would you recommend for a beginner like me to use to connect to the 32? Something I could make some sweet melodies with, like you did during the sync demonstration. Thanks!
+Obie hey Obie! It would be sweet with something small like the OP-1, but cheaper.. hm.. you could buy a small USB keyboard to your phone, and play some nice apps like that, if you wanna keep it on the cheap side?
Thanks for the reply! I'm definitely looking at the OP-1 especially after seeing you use it and seeing what can be done with it. It is a bit on the pricier side but I'm looking for a used one around Stockholm right now, a bit scarce here though! Some apps on an iPad might be cool also, I'm gonna keep looking but yeah at the moment the OP-1 is looking really nice. Hope to see you in Stockholm for a gig soon! :)
OP-1 is great with it!
Can you buy the Dreadbox Erebus v2 and make videos with it
Could I possibly replicate the sets on any of the other POs in Microtonic and put them in the PO-32? Say I want to play with the Robot or Arcade sounds. I know they have different purposes but I want to know if the PO-32 is the best one to buy if you wanna play around with all kinds of music style.
+Aleixo Teixeira the PO-32 has a powerful but pretty easy to grasp multi purpose drum synthesis engine. But you can only make sounds yourself if you have he Microtonic software.. You can replicate many digital synth sounds, but the tonality is made for drums, so it doesn’t have the same strength for arpeggios and chords and stuff. I enjoy to mix tuned sounds and drum sounds. It’s a cool engine.
just a question: i would buy the po 20 arcade, i like it for its samples, but then i found all the samples ripped from a po 20 and ready to be imported on the po 32. So my question is: should i buy the po 20? or should i buy the po 32 importing the arcade samples? In this last option i could also import different sounds of other musical styles i like, this is why it sounds goods to me. Which would be the difference from a po 20 arcade and a po 32 with arcade sounds imported? maybe could i lose some features in the second option? thanks!
Great little machine and nice performance as well. It's possible to mute the single drum sounds on the PO-32?
+Pascal Augner thanks! Yeah I forgot to show mute and solo. Sound+(1-16) will solo the sound. During playback press and hold any key (1-16) to mute that vertical channel strip. So you can mute a whole channel of four sounds.
Thank you! Now i have to buy this awesome unit!
+Pascal Augner ha ha :)
hey cuckoo. quick question. If I download new set of sounds how can I back to my settings? is my factory settings gone forever? Or is there an option to download new pattern of sounds to - for example pattern 2 and still have sounds on pattern one - factory settings ??
i love my pocket operators but I find that tying the PO-32 to a piece of expensive software is a real kicker.. If anything it makes me want to sell the PO-32 and buy the PO-33 which is everything the 32 should have been..