PO-33 KO! How to make a (HUMBLE) beat!
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The KO! has returned for some more beat making goodness. In this video, we show you how to make a beat using the PO-33 KO! The step sequencer on the KO is fairly flexible, allowing you to program steps into the 16 step sequencer, or record them in live. There are 16 patterns in the unit which can be chained together to create a song. In this video, we walk you through making a beat from the hi hats, claps, kicks, and melody. We also show you have to create variations in your beat by creating multiple patterns in the theme of the song, including intro, main part, bridge and drum breakdown.
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This video was inspired by the Kendrick Lamar song Humble from the album Damn. It was produced by Mike Will Made It and Pluss.
For those keeping track at home, all the songs in this video were made on the PO-33 KO using the sample tips and tricks from my videos.
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Watched dozens of PO33 videos and this is the first that made me aware of the "retriggers per step" functionality.
That’s awesome. Have fun.
Imagine what we could do if TE made the pocket operators open source and reprogramable
I would happily pay $200ish
It happened once. The beats were explosive. It was called Chernobyl.
One of the best tutorials on the PO-33 out there!!!
I looove the explanation regarding patterning choices. More of this, please. - People with no music theory background
Thanks. Glad it helped.
I watched another tutorial/presentation video of the K.O. where my (otherwise quite enthusiatic) guy put in some semi-random drums and said "Yeah, okay, not that nice, but it's a pocket operator, so what did you expect?"
This. This is what I gone did expect! Something deep. Something native and brutal. Or I would have bought a flute.
Excellent demo.
Thanks! Enjoy your KO!
Most of all remember to “be humble”
Mr Danny Lane always!
3:40 “You’ll know you got it right when your girl starts twerking uncontrollably” lol. Great video too!
pro quality. insanely underrated content bro!
Thanks!
I have my PO-33 KO for almost a year and I use it a lot!
This video taught me some new tricks and also a bit of Music Theory!
This deserves a subscribe.
Hey, thanks for your comment. I’m glad you’re learning new stuff, that’s what it’s all about. Enjoy!
Came for the PO, stayed for the humour, subscribed for the music theory 🙌
Thanks!
One of the best ‘KO Explainer’ vids I’ve seen. Good job.
precisely the kind of video i was looking for. thank you!
Thanks!
Im amazed by this series, its just mind-blowing what Ive learned, thank you so much! and please keep going!
Thanks!
Your video production quality is insane
Thanks!
the re-triggggggerrrr how have I not found out about this before
Yeah. It’s a good feature.
You'll know you got right when your girl starts twerking. My friends nodded in agreement
The music video is a masterwork
Thanks
Thanks for including some theory behind melody construction etc.
Thanks for your comment!
I do believe it's 1: D# 2: E# 3: F# 4: Fx 5: G# 6: A# 7: B 8: C#. What you call the root is the fifth, no?
You need to get a few of the other pocket operators. Mixing and matching is half the fun. They save my life abroad. Throw a few pocket operators and monotron delay in my carry-on and jam on the flight or in the hotel.
Depending on what you're looking for I could recommend a few of them.
Thanks! Which POs would you recommend? I've only played with a few, the KO is just more of what I'm into.
@@OllieLoops
They all do different things and have totally different sounds and effects.
Other than the KO, one that is fun to play with just by itself is the po-20 Arcade. The KO kind of ties them all together with the drum kits and sampling capabilities. I recommend checking out the website and watching a few videos to look at the features of all of them to see which one you want to play with the most.
@@user-zi5rs1by7b Thanks! I'll check them out.
Okay you convinced me to get one
Awesome! Enjoy it!
Wow nice triplet hi hat Trick. I didn't knew that.
Thanks! Enjoy!
It's dope!!
Wow awesome video. Thank you very much
stephen latham thanks!
Thanks a lot!
That retriggering trick isn't in the manual or anything...crazy how much stuff is hidden in these little things
Yeah, I think their approach is to let users discover things through exploring the device. But sometimes I wish the manual described things better.
Top notch vid thanks :)
Thanks!
I'm ashamed I thought of a melodie half way though after the piano sample thinking "Yeah I'm sure I could make a humble cover with a po33". To only realise at the very end that it was what you were doing.
I'l just sit down and be humble
Haha. You could still do it. Have fun!
great series!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot, man
Enjoy!
thanks a lot!!
How can u have "chords" saved on the drum-set? It chops it all up. Please help. Im all new to this.
Hey, check out my Sampling set up videos. Basically, you can copy and paste samples into individual drum slots without it chopping your samples. That's the trick. I hope that helps.
999 like is mine! Missed the 1k like by one!
Thanks. I appreciate your support!
great video! is the volume for this device generally low? it seems even in headphones that the volume is hard to hear
You can adjust the volume on the device and it has a decent range.
bpm button + 1-16
where can I get this kind of piano? it's great! awesome video btw, just subbed
Hey, thanks for your comment. And thanks for your support! This is just a few piano app for iOS called "The Piano".
Just subbed.. Clear stuff..
Hey, thanks for your comment and sub! Much appreciated!
I sequenced the patterns wrong, how do I reset it?
Edit: nvm it resets automatically. Thank you SO much for this video, my first beat is trash but I LOVE THE PO-33!!!!
I’m glad you got it figured out. Have fun!
You got time divisions confused a little. PO-33 has 16 steps of 1 measure (1bar), which makes every pad a 16th. So, divided into 4, we get quarter notes.
This is such a great video and I am loving your content. But anyone learning music theory might be confused! U made some mistakes with the notes - when you were first talking about the one, five and six you were playing one, four and five, and the scale you played didn't match the notes - but please dont take this negatively, just letting you know. 🤗
Thanks for your comment. I am interested to hear more about what you mean. When you say I'm playing the I, IV, V, are you speaking about the notes themselves or the button presses on the device? I guess I'm confused because I thought I was playing I, V, and VI according the button presses on the device. But I don't play piano and I'm not an expert on music theory.
@@OllieLoops So, at 5:00 when you were playing what you called the I and the V - although they would be G# and D# in the scale, as you have rightly labelled, the notes you were playing were G# and C# which are the I and the IV of that scale. Now, that's if we're still in G#. If you listen closely, the root note that you're playing then, talking about the scale, is not actually the same pitch as the note you sampled from your phone. You bent it down to D#/Eb, which is where I believe your second problem comes from - the scale that you played, while correctly labelled (and impressively so, I struggled with why F## existed for a while), the notes you play, and the intervals between them, don't actually adhere to the notes you annotated on the screen at all. It actually wasn't any scale - if you were still talking in G#, the notes you played were G#, A, B, C, C#, D#, F, F#. I believe this might be because you sampled in a whole scale and bending the pitch also morphed the intervals between the notes? Unless you sampled in one note and messed up the buttons on the device. Either way, just me being pedantic, although I hope this helps whoever may be confused, including yourself!
Have a good day :)
@@florriemccarthy9347 Thanks for your thorough reply. Lets see if we can get down to the bottom of this. I don't recall bending the note. The filter cut off and resonance were adjusted in the video. But that's not what you were detecting, more on that in a moment. G# was sampled into the melodic section of the KO. The melodic section of the KO is set to Harmonic Minor Scale and takes a single sample and spreads it across the steps of the KO. For information about that, check out this video (ua-cam.com/video/jCawkhMOCvI/v-deo.html). Thus, the scale of the notes should be as noted G#, A#, B, C#, D#, E, F##. And to make this more confusing TE modified the scale to add an extra note to work between with the 16 steps of the KO. Further, the root key of the scale begins on step 5 and again on step 13. Now, here is where the problem lies and I think its why you're ear is detecting an issue. Looking carefully at the footage, I see that note 9 was pressed instead of not 5. So the notes being played started on D#, you are correct and you must have perfect pitch. So, I believe I was playing V, I, II instead of what was mentioned in the video. My apologies for any confusion. Let me know if that makes sense.
@@OllieLoops Ah, you're bang on :) I didn't think about it like that. This discussion has made my day by the way - it's not often I get to nerd out like this about music theory haha. And again, sick videos - I love your content.
@@florriemccarthy9347 Thanks! And thanks for helping me with that issue.
Just subbed... U have great content!
Thanks for your support!!
Where did you learn all the stuff about claps and perceived speed, notes creating closure or tension etc (the music theory) I can technically work the KO without issue but the beats are rudimental and lack finesse, the schooling is what I think it's lacking.
Hey, thanks for your comment. I can't say there was a singular source for learning music theory. But I read lots of books. I study and learn from wherever I can. One recommendation is to try to recreate songs that you like, you'll learn a lot by just doing that.
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@@OllieLoops Help! Do you have any idea how can I connect this thing to my PC so it outputs on my display speaker? The display also has a direct line in for AUX but still nothing comes out, I've tried different Windows sound options, I've plugged in my PC too in MIC or Line In , do I need some sort of special software? Sorry, super noob
Wasteland hey, I’ll try to help. I’m assuming your on a desktop, not a laptop, correct? If so, here’s what I would recommend. On the ko, connect an 1/8” stereo cable to the output (right side). Adjust the volume out of the ko to be between 12-16. Connect the other end of the cable to the line into on your display monitors. Adjust the volume on your display so you can hear it properly. That should do it. In theory, you shouldn’t need to adjust the settings on the computer. Let me know if that helps.
287 likes 0 dislikes lmao keep it up
Much appreciated!
What app do you use for a piano?
It’s just called Piano. It’s a free app.
Aitch and AJ tracey "rain"
That's a banger!
Holy fucking shit Ive read 8 manuals on the KO and not one of them evem memtion the triplet thing. Im starting to think I can just hold random buttons on the KO and find modes no one has discovered yet.
Haha. Let me know if you discover any new items.
So I must be doing something wrong here, as when I get to 3:20, these over-write the hi-hats from the previous steps. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I must be in some sort of setting that only allows one sound per step?
Hey, thanks for your comment. So in this example, the hi-hats were programmed on sound slot #15 and the kick drum was programmed on slot #13. So they should not overwrite each other as they are programmed independently. If I recall correctly, each sound slot is monophonic. But separating your drum kit sounds into separate sound slots allows you to program them polyphonically.
Additionally, I've noticed there is some hierarchy or glitch between the sound slots that results in some sounds not playing occasionally. This would leave me to believe there is a limit to the polyphony of the sounds being played back. In my tests, I got several to play at once. But randomly, I noticed some sounds would get cut off at times. Further research needs to be done on this topic.
I hope that helps!
@@OllieLoops second time of watching this and the drum sample video and the penny dropped... Its been a real bugbear of only having one drum sound per step until now... Thanks so much
@@barleyafloat Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that it helped you. Enjoy!
Ollie Loops it’s a game changer. Makes the PO-33 so much more versatile
@@barleyafloat Yeah totally!
Wait so i can overlap patterns?
Not patterns, but sounds. Each sound bank has its own pattern which plays with the rest of the sounds to make up the current pattern. Hope that makes sense.
So I don't understand how you got the pick slide to play once.
You mentioned pattern building and I don't quite understand how your doing that part.
@@UnoShots It sounds like you want to chain patterns together where one pattern plays after another in a sequence.
To Chain Patterns:
1. Press & Hold the PATTERN button.
2. Press step buttons 1-16 to select the first pattern in your sequence.
3. While still holding PATTERN, repeat step 2 to add additional patterns to the sequence.
4. When finished, release PATTERN and press PLAY to play the sequence (pattern chain).
Additional Notes:
- Pressing a step button more than once will repeat that pattern
- up to 128 patterns can be chained into a sequence.
In the video, the guitar slide sound was triggered on step 1 of a pattern. It was then sequenced (chained) to play once at the beginning of the song.
Hope that helps.
I appreciate your help that's awesome info and thanks for taking the time to go into that a little deeper for me I appreciate it!
@@UnoShots No problem. Have fun!
So my dog started twerking and my girl banged the door on her way out. What did I do wrong??
Sounds like you got it.
Not every piece of music is a song. The general rule is can it be sung? If not its not a song.
Good thoughts. Although there are plenty of instrumental songs.
I remember syrup sandwiches.,.,.,.,
Who could forget…
CAN YOU DO IT AGAIN BUT LIKE IM 4?
Too fast?
@OllieLoops I'm good now I've increased your view count by a 100 and think I have it under control!
But are you overlapping patterns and can we get more detail on that operation!
288 now from me
Thanks!
Kind of complicated for a first attempt. I seem to be doing something wrong.
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Isnt it some Kendrick Lamar beat 🤔😅
Nice video, lame beat
Thanks Pelvis!
Wayy too harsh. The drums are really really good. His drums are better than any other po33 video Ive seen. The piano was ok. Guitar zip thing was a waste of time. Good shit overall.