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
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.
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!
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 ...
My man, I consider your voice, and speaking cadence, a national treasure! ...And i hereby declare that you helped me transfer my first set of custom sounds!!!! (plus, the brilliance of the analog lip stick mirror frame-in-frame??? ...so good!)
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 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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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..
Hey im not sure if you can help, but i recently actually purchased the microtonic software and tried installing it but i seem to use it. i tried download all sorts of program trials like fruity loops, ableton live ,ect and i cant for the life of me get the microtonic to showup. please help if you can im about to go more than cuckoo.
+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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I just got into the po line with the po-12, but since one potentiometer was damaged while shipping, it goes back. Now I found this video of you and because I still got into the po-12, I realize how much more this thing can do. My question now: Do you still recommend the po-32 over other drum maschines like the volca?
I think the PO 32 and 33 are super cool. PO12 is very basic. I think they’re more fun than most Volca’s. But a lot of people like the Volca’s too. They’re pretty good.
I transferred everything. The whole kit. But in the video I'm fast forwarding. It reality it's about 20-30 seconds, depending on if there's patterns included or not.
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.
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😮
Try
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.
You. You. You made me buy this. Opened it up today 12 hrs ago. Loving it. My 3rd PO.
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!
Love that this guy is using a mirror, what a champ!
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 ...
My man, I consider your voice, and speaking cadence, a national treasure! ...And i hereby declare that you helped me transfer my first set of custom sounds!!!! (plus, the brilliance of the analog lip stick mirror frame-in-frame??? ...so good!)
You perform a real service to the musician community. Thank you.
🙏🏼🙏🏼
I always chuckle at the dubstep noises you make when you first present a piece of gear.
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 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 been using Micro Tonic since it came out. I always wanted a stand alone drum machine just like it. Now this. WOW!
i upvote your video because of the first 6 seconds. thanks
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!
The face mirrors are my favorite part of any cuckoomusic video. It's always so funny.
THE best PO-33/Microtonic tutorial out there!!!
I like the pocket mirror lol
Just bought one po-32 and purchased for the microtonic! Fantastic drum machine!
Your sound effects in the beginning, intro, are awesome. lol. Great video as a whole.
When you brought in the Volca FM, at 26:00, I was like... OH YEAH, now it's gonna be good!
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!
Love your Tutorial Videos - learnt so much and fast about any device you are showing.
+Christian Roeb thanks so much!
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 😁
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
I prefer your videos to others because you make percussive noises with your mouth
I just got the Po-32 and this has been extremely helpful!!! Thanks for creating this Cuckoo!!
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.
Thanks for the tutorial : the little toy turns to an incredible machine thanks to your help !
Watching your interview with Magnus really helped. Now I want one. Way more than a toy.
Just bought one. VERY EXCITED! IT"S NICE! I LIKE!
Sonic Charge's synths are like secret weapons these days. THANK YOU for this video
At first i tought it could actualy record vocals , how epic it would be with some tuning
Thank you for this! I find most other tutorials for the PO-32 (and the manual) to be all but incomprehensible.
This tutorial is a pure gold. Thanks!👍
"Tsh Tsh Drum machine - wooOoooo"
DrJubali lmao
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 :)
Thanks for this in depth tutorial of the combo.
Big thank you to you for putting this tutorial up
great video I like the claps you made
I have bought one because of you. Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot....if not...TONIC & other similar stuff....realy complicated for the FIRST time.. sooo ..great JOB. MAN.
This is a good tutorial.
just picked up this kit. real nice.
You are one of a kind! Great tutorial dude(: I'm heading over to buy a pack from you cuckoo 🤙
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.
wow look @ all this free advertising :OIOOOO po-32 === sooooo luckkky to have you man! peace out \o/
this guy is the man
This man is the GUY!
Superb tutorial! Thank you!
holy shit. what a time to be alive.
this aged well
@@jevogroni4829 lololololol
picked up the Tonic just on this video, cheers
Thank you so much for helping with this toy!
Just got my tonic ordered yesterday. Only two years late this time!
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.
Very much appreciate this tutorial - nice job!
Love your videos. Thank you for sharing!
Epic. So useful. Thank you!
thx for that fine description!!
cool idea with the mirror!
Thanks for dis!!! I just made a video with the tonic and a lyra 8 hehe
Just like this creator guy in matrix movies, you should be the master of UA-cam 😂💪
👏 great video, love it!
Thanks a lot! Super Cuckoo! Appreciate it!!
i want this man in my life
Great, now I need this one, too.
33:32 ..Mr.Mr Oizo "Flat beat".... XD
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 tutorial!
*Love* your video's
That mirror 🪞 got me in tears 😂
Ok .. Chukp I buy the pocket tomorrow is fantastic!
Best vocal sound fx, almos as good as reggie watts
great tutorial thanks
I managed to load the kit featured in the future music you tube review , they played the whole transfer
Hey guys,
I made a Po-32 Tonic Drum Preset available on FREE DOWNLOAD:
instagram.com/pierrelabret/
enjoy! feedbacks welcome!
Thank You!
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.
Unquestionably the best tutorial of this product on UA-cam....you Ian Anderson-lookin' MF! 😁
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.
Great video!
This was great, thanks a ton
So this pocket operator is unable to record samples into it from the aux input ??????
The PO-32 is a drum Synthesizer. It does not play samples. For samples the PO-33 is the one.
so helpful
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..
Hey im not sure if you can help, but i recently actually purchased the microtonic software and tried installing it but i seem to use it. i tried download all sorts of program trials like fruity loops, ableton live ,ect and i cant for the life of me get the microtonic to showup. please help if you can im about to go more than cuckoo.
This applies to all the pocket operators that have tonic, right?
Ur cool! Thanks for ur videos. A
YOU are cool 🙏🏼
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 :)
thank you a lot, very usefull. Power too you
Very cool!
hey man thanks for the video. thx for sharing your wisdom as well. super full walkthrough po 32. thank you. @cucko
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.
Ever coming to Italy Bro?!?! would be so nice to meet you?!! come Jam with us by the lake!!!!
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!
Can you buy the Dreadbox Erebus v2 and make videos with it
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.
I just got into the po line with the po-12, but since one potentiometer was damaged while shipping, it goes back.
Now I found this video of you and because I still got into the po-12, I realize how much more this thing can do.
My question now: Do you still recommend the po-32 over other drum maschines like the volca?
I think the PO 32 and 33 are super cool. PO12 is very basic. I think they’re more fun than most Volca’s. But a lot of people like the Volca’s too. They’re pretty good.
Good question. I have a volca drum, and I am wondering if I'd rather have a tonic.
Question, when you did transfer sound. only trasfered the kick? or the 4 sounds you created? thanks
I transferred everything. The whole kit. But in the video I'm fast forwarding. It reality it's about 20-30 seconds, depending on if there's patterns included or not.
yup but imagine you want to copy the sound #4 you did on microtonic. not the first not the second one only the #4. can you do that into po32? how? thx
+Stefano Tenuta yeah I think you can. I think there are two modes. To send one sound or the whole pack.
Sorry, just for clarity, were you backing up just one pattern or all 16 patterns on the operator?
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.