This is so true! Got an Arcade for my 13 old, Amazon said dispatched but it wasn't in the bigger box that arrived. Wasn't until the replacement turned up I realised it absolutely could have fallen out of the end in transit! 😂
Haven't seen you (or another commenter) mention that you can also press the sound button after already having selecting which sound you want to play to shift the low & high sections' octaves. It's a 'toggle', allowing you to play three octaves on the keys, like an octave up/down key on a controller keyboard. Hope this makes sense, give it a try!
I knew about the transposing feature, but not the per-note editing! Thanks free beat! ive been trying to get the megaman but i had to buy xmas gifts for the fam first! Gotta save up now
Thanks for this vid and the really clear explanation and demonstration of the new features. After watching I went out and bought a PO-128, and you are right, the chromaticism is a game changer. The pattern transposition feature makes it possible to write a riff and then change its key, resulting in a piece of music that has some of the flavour of guitar based rock, with a somewhat ambiguous key centre. The way that the effects work has been changed slightly, they are like the PO-33, with a 'no effect' button to remove effects, on the old PO-28 if you held down the FX key it would erase, making it difficult to precisely add different effects to a single pattern. Also the implementation of a simple mixer functionality which makes it easy to balance the three sequencer tracks using the A/B knobs works really well. It seems to me when comparing the sound of the PO-28 with the PO-128 that the overall quality of the sounds has been improved, but of course I may just be trying to convince myself that my new toy is better that the old! Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Congratulations, I hope you love your MegaMan! I wish they would have fixed the sequencer live record glitches, but most of the other features are great. Thanks for watching!
@@FreeBeat Only has four (so far). The 12, 28, 35 and {133 - microphone stopped working on that one} Saving for another (probably the 33) hoping the prices don't sky rocket in the meantime.
Flashing back to a comment from way back on your link's awakening cover, now that you've got a slick po-128, don't forget to try out that cover of the robocop theme from the gameboy version of the game haha
great video ! and I just checked again the user guide and there is no mention of that feature, amazing. I don't think they mentioned it either when it was released .
Wish i had've seen this video earlier. I bought a PO-20 and didn't even consider it wouldn't be able to play all 12 notes, because why wouldn't it? That seems like the most basic feature to impliment before everything else? Guess I'm gonna have to get the PO-128 now too
@@FreeBeat I did end up getting a PO-128 too and since then, i pretty much haven't touched the PO-20. It's handy as a Drum Machine if linked together, but otherwise the PO-128 seems to take care of everything on it's own
Unfortunately you're still stuck in whatever key you sampled into on the PO-33. It takes your root note and moves it across a very basic minor scale. You can technically get around this if you pitch shift the sample itself (not in write mode), but you have to do it for every single sample, and there is not information on screen to tell you what notes your on. I don't believe it's perfectly pitch quantized either.
@@FreeBeat yes, the pitch quantization is chromatic 😎. So, let's say you sampled a c note, you can play it in c minor, but you can pitch it 12 semitones up or down. It tells you the semitones on the screen (not in notes tho, but in numbers) So you can play in whatever scale you want, or edit your note afterwards, step by step, in write mode. I tried it, it works very well, although I prefer live jamming 😉
You can place fully chromatic scale into your po-33 as a drumkit and play it live. You can also turn the A knob for both melodic and drum section sounds and change pitch chromatically, but without note names.
You can sample it as a drum kit, but that takes up a lot of precious sample space. And unfortunately turning knob A only cycles through a minor scale of your sample on the PO-33, it doesn't do all 12 notes. Thanks for watching!
@@FreeBeat it cycles through diatonic (plus harmonic note) only if the note is already placed in the pattern. But when you pick a sound and tweak its pitch you can place then fully chromatic melody with all 12 sounds.
@@FreeBeat I think he means like pick up a violin and play through all 12 notes, maybe add 4 so when you make it as a drum it will cut it up and sample each note individually. Not record one note and adjust.
Thanks for posting this, I think this is really cool, and since I was looking at getting a second P.O. (I have the P.O. 35 Speak), this might just be the one! Particularly since I was looking at the P.O. 28 Robot, and this looking like an incarnation of that one. Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏
This would make an awesome partner for the 35! You'd have a lot of tonal flexibility, plus the Tonic kit with the 8 bit drums as well. Thanks for watching!
Any tips on how to sustain notes when sequencing them individually? I maxed knob B for realease and set the same notes 2 pads apart. Kind of helps and the release from first note slightly shadows the attack on the second note but not perfect. Also is there a way to record glide fx on an individual note that's been written already?
The street fighter and the Mega Man are two very different PO's. The street fighter is a sampler, where the Mega Man is a more standard synthy groovebox. They have very different functionality. Thanks for watching!
Is the live play over the top of your pattern still locked to a scale? (not counting transpose) or can you somehow change the scale while you're soloing as well?
Unfortunately the live play is locked to a scale :-/ I don't recommend the po-128 for any sort of live play, but for straight up sequencing songs it's the best pocket operator!
Thanks for the reply! I have and love the robot despite the locked scales anyway so the megaman is a no brain brainer for the extra sequencer track and transpose alone
Hey man, I already have the Robot and I've heard it's actually got some bugs. Should I upgrade to the Megaman and try to sell my Robot so I can afford it? I don't have much money, but I really wanna utilize the 3 track feature and ability to play any note. I have an Office as well, but it's hard to manually put the notes in by ear.
That's a hard one. It really depends on how bad you want to be able to sequence chromatically, and sequence melodies instead of playing them. Personally, I would save up and get the po-20 arcade as a third pocket operator. Hope that helps!
I don't believe there is a PO-10, do you mean the 12 (Rhythm)? If so, I'd say it depends on what (and how) you want to be able to work. The PO-128 will be much better for working on different melodic ideas, and sequencing them step by step. The PO-12 and 28 combo will be better for focusing more on rhythm. Hope that helps!
It's the same sounds as the robot, with the ability to record the second sequencer layer, and the ability to change any sequenced note to any of the 12 that you'd like.
Hey Free Beat do you have the same issue, that, if you punch in notes live, while holding down "write", the quantization is kind of screwed? so that the note gets written in the sequencer one step to early? Ich would love to know, if it is only a few units. I only have seen a few people complain about it online, although is such a huge drawback in my mind. I love to build up beats with the other POs, using the live method. It would be so awesome to have the same workflow on the PO128 because of it's epic scale feature. Greetings
Yes I do, I've made a couple videos about it actually. I've come to the conclusion that it's a great pocket operator for sequencing, but not live play or live recording sadly.
@@FreeBeat Hmm, I probably didn’t phrase that right. I meant to ask, would the notes/scale written in the PO-128 be understood (and play correspondingly) in the PO-14 Sub? - in the same key? But I don’t think it works that way.
Oh god, what an awesome feature! Recently got a po12 and feel kinda sad that it haven’t all the 12 notes. So, po28 also can’t do it? I thought that 28 and 128 are similar
The only PO's that can hit all 12 notes are the 14 and 16 (by using a pitch shift punch in effect), the 24 (by painstakingly dialing in a value from 0-11), and the PO-128. The PO-128 is by far the easiest, since the note value displays on the screen. The standard PO-28 is stuck to Cmaj/Amin with an extra G#. Hope that helps!
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After buying a PO as a Christmas gift, I can conclude that most RUclipsrs have very small hands.
I thought exactly the same! XD First impression was: “God, I remember it bigger in the reviews”
Best comment ever hahaha
This is so true!
Got an Arcade for my 13 old, Amazon said dispatched but it wasn't in the bigger box that arrived. Wasn't until the replacement turned up I realised it absolutely could have fallen out of the end in transit! 😂
Ha, I found this out recently too!
🤣🤣😂😂 best comment ever
This may be my first pocket operator, as a fan of megaman too the theme is the cherry on top
If you're a mega Man fan you are going to absolutely love it!
Haven't seen you (or another commenter) mention that you can also press the sound button after already having selecting which sound you want to play to shift the low & high sections' octaves. It's a 'toggle', allowing you to play three octaves on the keys, like an octave up/down key on a controller keyboard. Hope this makes sense, give it a try!
Oh woah, that totally works. Thanks for sharing, I might make this into a quick tip video since it speeds up the workflow considerably!
Wonder if this works on the 35?
Found this out messing around with my 128 yesterday. Nice feature.
I knew about the transposing feature, but not the per-note editing! Thanks free beat! ive been trying to get the megaman but i had to buy xmas gifts for the fam first! Gotta save up now
Looks like you've got a little time to save, they'll be back in stock in early February! Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for this vid and the really clear explanation and demonstration of the new features. After watching I went out and bought a PO-128, and you are right, the chromaticism is a game changer. The pattern transposition feature makes it possible to write a riff and then change its key, resulting in a piece of music that has some of the flavour of guitar based rock, with a somewhat ambiguous key centre. The way that the effects work has been changed slightly, they are like the PO-33, with a 'no effect' button to remove effects, on the old PO-28 if you held down the FX key it would erase, making it difficult to precisely add different effects to a single pattern. Also the implementation of a simple mixer functionality which makes it easy to balance the three sequencer tracks using the A/B knobs works really well. It seems to me when comparing the sound of the PO-28 with the PO-128 that the overall quality of the sounds has been improved, but of course I may just be trying to convince myself that my new toy is better that the old! Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Congratulations, I hope you love your MegaMan! I wish they would have fixed the sequencer live record glitches, but most of the other features are great. Thanks for watching!
I just bought the KO, Rhythm and Speak. This and Arcades ability to play chords, looks like I got at least 2 more to order.
Gotta collect them all hahaha
@@FreeBeat Only has four (so far). The 12, 28, 35 and {133 - microphone stopped working on that one}
Saving for another (probably the 33) hoping the prices don't sky rocket in the meantime.
Really nice groove on the demo, kinda sinister and sleek like it would fit a badass street thug-beat'em up-arcade-scroller!
Haha thanks so much!
4:28 hey it's lavender town!!
Flashing back to a comment from way back on your link's awakening cover, now that you've got a slick po-128, don't forget to try out that cover of the robocop theme from the gameboy version of the game haha
Oh yeah! Haha I'll get going on that soon
great video ! and I just checked again the user guide and there is no mention of that feature, amazing. I don't think they mentioned it either when it was released .
That really baffles me, as it seems the biggest reason someone would want to get this over the Robot!
Wish i had've seen this video earlier. I bought a PO-20 and didn't even consider it wouldn't be able to play all 12 notes, because why wouldn't it? That seems like the most basic feature to impliment before everything else?
Guess I'm gonna have to get the PO-128 now too
It's pretty crazy that only a few pocket operators can play every night, there are some workarounds though!
@@FreeBeat I did end up getting a PO-128 too and since then, i pretty much haven't touched the PO-20. It's handy as a Drum Machine if linked together, but otherwise the PO-128 seems to take care of everything on it's own
You can sample any scale to the PO33 also.
You can do pretty much the same thing on po33 i think, using tone knob
Unfortunately you're still stuck in whatever key you sampled into on the PO-33. It takes your root note and moves it across a very basic minor scale. You can technically get around this if you pitch shift the sample itself (not in write mode), but you have to do it for every single sample, and there is not information on screen to tell you what notes your on. I don't believe it's perfectly pitch quantized either.
@@FreeBeat yes, the pitch quantization is chromatic 😎. So, let's say you sampled a c note, you can play it in c minor, but you can pitch it 12 semitones up or down. It tells you the semitones on the screen (not in notes tho, but in numbers)
So you can play in whatever scale you want, or edit your note afterwards, step by step, in write mode.
I tried it, it works very well, although I prefer live jamming 😉
You can place fully chromatic scale into your po-33 as a drumkit and play it live.
You can also turn the A knob for both melodic and drum section sounds and change pitch chromatically, but without note names.
You can sample it as a drum kit, but that takes up a lot of precious sample space. And unfortunately turning knob A only cycles through a minor scale of your sample on the PO-33, it doesn't do all 12 notes. Thanks for watching!
@@FreeBeat it cycles through diatonic (plus harmonic note) only if the note is already placed in the pattern. But when you pick a sound and tweak its pitch you can place then fully chromatic melody with all 12 sounds.
@@scorpthe Interesting, I can only get the same notes in the scale when scrolling through them with knob a!
@@FreeBeat I think he means like pick up a violin and play through all 12 notes, maybe add 4 so when you make it as a drum it will cut it up and sample each note individually.
Not record one note and adjust.
I’m really glad I picked this one up
It's a super powerful PO!
Superb! Definitely want one of these 😸
It's an awesome little device! Not the best for live playing, but sequencing wise it's an absolute beast. Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for posting this, I think this is really cool, and since I was looking at getting a second P.O. (I have the P.O. 35 Speak), this might just be the one! Particularly since I was looking at the P.O. 28 Robot, and this looking like an incarnation of that one. Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏
This would make an awesome partner for the 35! You'd have a lot of tonal flexibility, plus the Tonic kit with the 8 bit drums as well. Thanks for watching!
Any tips on how to sustain notes when sequencing them individually? I maxed knob B for realease and set the same notes 2 pads apart. Kind of helps and the release from first note slightly shadows the attack on the second note but not perfect. Also is there a way to record glide fx on an individual note that's been written already?
Nice Video and cool Demo!
Thank you!
I’m sure someone asked this question I’m just too lazy to look for the answer. Can you upload your own samples to it?
You cannot. If you're looking for a sampler pocket operator you want the po-33 or the po-133.
Those beats were sick
Were we able to play any note on the po33?
Technically yes, but nowhere near this simply.
@@FreeBeat thanks
Does the Street Fighter have all the same capabilities as the Megaman?
The street fighter and the Mega Man are two very different PO's. The street fighter is a sampler, where the Mega Man is a more standard synthy groovebox. They have very different functionality. Thanks for watching!
Both equally awesome pocket operators in there own right.
Is the live play over the top of your pattern still locked to a scale? (not counting transpose) or can you somehow change the scale while you're soloing as well?
Unfortunately the live play is locked to a scale :-/ I don't recommend the po-128 for any sort of live play, but for straight up sequencing songs it's the best pocket operator!
Thanks for the reply! I have and love the robot despite the locked scales anyway so the megaman is a no brain brainer for the extra sequencer track and transpose alone
DOes this note choice&shift also work on the PO-137?
Unfortunately it doesn't :(
Just got mine!! 😁😁
Nice, have fun!
Hey man, I already have the Robot and I've heard it's actually got some bugs. Should I upgrade to the Megaman and try to sell my Robot so I can afford it? I don't have much money, but I really wanna utilize the 3 track feature and ability to play any note. I have an Office as well, but it's hard to manually put the notes in by ear.
That's a hard one. It really depends on how bad you want to be able to sequence chromatically, and sequence melodies instead of playing them. Personally, I would save up and get the po-20 arcade as a third pocket operator. Hope that helps!
So I've been looking into getting a po-12 and po-28 combo lately, but do you think the po-128 would be better to get instead of the combo?
I don't believe there is a PO-10, do you mean the 12 (Rhythm)? If so, I'd say it depends on what (and how) you want to be able to work. The PO-128 will be much better for working on different melodic ideas, and sequencing them step by step. The PO-12 and 28 combo will be better for focusing more on rhythm. Hope that helps!
@@FreeBeat thanks, and I'd like to apologize, I meant to say the PO-12 lol
So is this different from the robot? I thought this was a limited edition Robot with different sounds...
It's the same sounds as the robot, with the ability to record the second sequencer layer, and the ability to change any sequenced note to any of the 12 that you'd like.
Ooh, that puts it on my list!
Are there similar differences for the po-133 and po-137 that you think of?
Nope, those are both exact copies of their respective POs. Also I'll have a full review of the 128 out this week!
No, Ithought I was done with buying Pocket Operatrors
Lol...sounds great. Gamechanger
You know you'll never be done!
@@FreeBeat yeah....you’re right
Can we choose to not use the vibrato ?
I believe you can turn the vibrato amount down, unfortunately I don't have my device on me so I can't confirm it!
Hey Free Beat do you have the same issue, that, if you punch in notes live, while holding down "write", the quantization is kind of screwed? so that the note gets written in the sequencer one step to early? Ich would love to know, if it is only a few units. I only have seen a few people complain about it online, although is such a huge drawback in my mind. I love to build up beats with the other POs, using the live method. It would be so awesome to have the same workflow on the PO128 because of it's epic scale feature. Greetings
Yes I do, I've made a couple videos about it actually. I've come to the conclusion that it's a great pocket operator for sequencing, but not live play or live recording sadly.
@@FreeBeat Yeah i guess dealing with it is my only option. Thanks for the answer. keep up the great work
Do you know if this is true for the 133 as well or not so much?
Would this work in combination with, say, the PO-14 Sub? Probably not.
You can combine the two pocket operators very easily with a normal 3.5mm stereo cable :)
@@FreeBeat Hmm, I probably didn’t phrase that right. I meant to ask, would the notes/scale written in the PO-128 be understood (and play correspondingly) in the PO-14 Sub? - in the same key? But I don’t think it works that way.
@@stockholm1752 Unfortunately it only works on the PO-128 :(
@@FreeBeat You can’t have it all. 😩🐿
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A nice reminder to me to stop talking and get to the point faster 😂
This ...
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COOL!
Perfect for my flight to Japan 😍
Perfect for an airplane, just don't forget headphones 😂
Oh god, what an awesome feature! Recently got a po12 and feel kinda sad that it haven’t all the 12 notes. So, po28 also can’t do it? I thought that 28 and 128 are similar
Hello, PO-12 is different from the others PO and do permit semi-tones for sounds 15 and 16.
The only PO's that can hit all 12 notes are the 14 and 16 (by using a pitch shift punch in effect), the 24 (by painstakingly dialing in a value from 0-11), and the PO-128. The PO-128 is by far the easiest, since the note value displays on the screen. The standard PO-28 is stuck to Cmaj/Amin with an extra G#. Hope that helps!
any idea if this is limited ed? i was hesitating whether to buy it or not and now it's sold out D:
I have no idea, I sure hope not. It does say a restock is coming in February though, so that's a good sign!
@@FreeBeat ah ok that’s pretty reassuring then! Thanks!
By the way, very cool demo👍
Thanks!
Can we select any note we want? LOL
I might have mentioned it once or twice 🤣
@@FreeBeat LOL. Its HARD to make videos!
DID YOU DO THE LICK?!?!?!?! SERIOUSLY
that's awesome
I...uh...maybe....yeah I did the lick
Ho my god this is very ECLATÉ AU SOL
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