even though I already know my way around the KO pretty good I enjoyed watching this _and_ learnt that playing samples more quickly makes the auto-slicing better and not the other way round! (and you get more extra seconds for more sampling!) Thanks!! :D
Kind of cool that 36k people of the world have taken the first step towards taking their PO drums to the next level by watching this. Thanks for sharing dude
Might be difficult to explain here but, one thing I've learned with the PO KO was, to avoid sound cancellation on a slot during playback when theres a sound overlapping, I recommend to record samples sorted in four separated drum kits (say, slot 12, 13, 14, and 15) and sample Kicks and hi-hats in one, claps and snares in 14, congas in 15, as an example. Often, when you record a drum kit sample using one single recording, you cannot use a piece of that record into the same slot, otherwise sound will cancel each other. Since kick and hi-hats in a edit mode music creation structure probally won't be overlapped, pieces of that recording will be succesfully placed on separate slots without cancelling. The same will happen with snares-claps.
i'm so glad i found your channel. it's so cool to see a drummer walk through how he lays down beats and how you feel your way through ideas. thanks for making this!
Thanks man! My buddy introduced me to PO's a few weeks ago and I just gave in and ordered a KO today. I'm trying to learn as much about the UI as I can before it arrives so I can hit the ground running as much as possible. This video gave me a lot of clarity for how these things are set up.
Of course, if you wanna cheat a little, I think it’s more than possible to make separate takes of recordings, mix them together via video editing, and make songs that way when the usual method is too repetitive or limiting. I plan on doing it with a few of my future videos and songs.
Thanks for putting this video up and I'm aware it's a year old, but I was surprised you were programming in all the beats (write mode then using the grid as a step sequencer) rather than playing them in. If you know how you want the rhythm to sound you can just hold down the write mode button while the pattern is playing and play the sounds in. It's good for drums but really essential for melodies where programming them in one pitch at a time is the ultimate ball ache. For drums it also means you don't need to switch between drum sounds as long as they're in the same bank (and you are able to play whilst holding down write with a spare digit!)
I’ve had my Rick and morty po for a while now. Your videos would have been super helpful when I first got it. But even now they are extremely helpful. I honestly put it down, but when I found you earlier this morning, I’m getting the itch again. Still saving for my op1
This is a wonderful guide! You presented it clearly, quickly, and still thoroughly covered much of the system, and explained some real-world applications. I appreciate you!
I definitely want to try one of these, my eyes are on the PO-20 atm... I'm also waiting the delivery of an OP-1, that's why I landed on your channel killing the time until I receive it. Keep it up man, your videos are great !
@@LiamKillenso many POs so little time. I like adding cool beats and stuff to bagpipe music… of all things. Added you on FB, I see you know a few local drummer friends of mine no surprise!!
So happy you got some PO stuff out! I'd like to think my suggestion had a little something to do with it 😁 but further, I hope TE sent you all that stuff as a content creator! Cheers, excited to see what else you bring!
Thanks a lot! I just watched your video on op-z drums. That’s was so useful. I think you might have found something that lots of people need namely how to make the drums sound so great. Most youtubers focus on the sounds. When I do music my drums sucks I would say all of the time, so your content is very helpful. Thanks.
So, when you said "ANY" you mean "PO-3x". Could you solve the transfer with PO-1x and PO-2x series? Maybe the 2x6 JTAG connector on the back is applicable to change the patterns burned into their memory...
With ANY pocket operator? Or really just with the KO and maybe the Voice and the Rick & Morty? Don't forget that seven other pocket operators aren't samplers!
Cool video man, loved it ! I don't think you mentioned it, but if you old a step on the sequencer and tap BPM, you can makes rolls, and that's pretty cool 🙂
I'm sorry, but you repeating that this is possible on any Pocket Operator and showing a workflow that is not possible on most of them is just confusing.
@@LiamKillen Well, I'm talking about the workflow. You start with sampling, which is not possible on most of them. You change the tone and the gain separately for some of the sounds. But on most of the Pocket Operators, you have two parameters for each sound. On some, one of them is tone, on some, one of them is volume. However again, it is not possible to do these things on ANY Pocket Operator. You change the sound in the "effects" menu, again, not possible on most of them. On most of them there are no options under effects and those are usually assigned to a beat, but not to a seperate sound (the effect is for all sounds on that beat). You say, that "you can layer drums" but firstly, I htink most of them have a maximum of two sounds per beat, so not that much layering is possible, also some of them don't even have proper drum sounds and are more melodic. So yes. Programming a pattern, programming a sequence of patterns, changing the BPM and swing, those are things that you showed in the video and are possible on all POs. Don't get me wrong, I liked the video, it's a nice drum patern you got there. But I still stand by my first comment. Saying that this is possible on ANY Pocket Operator, twice in the video and in the video title, is just confusing.
So do you have multiple banks with different drum sounds? Within a bank you can only apply one sound per slot. So I think some of the questions asked about "over writing" may apply to this. Hope that makes sense. If you only recorded multiple sounds to One bank, you would be limited correct?
It's a bit of a shame it's all done in analogue, although perhaps that's a "philosophy" more than a practical idea. Cos if PO's could communicate digitally they'd be able to send digital samples without converting them to analogue and then back to digital again, inevitably losing quality. Would be nice, maybe not USB cos that's too conventional, but maybe a fast serial port over, like, a DIN plug. Or else an LED that flashes really fast and a nearby unit has a sensor, and an LED of it's own, so they can communicate that way. In the '90s, laptops had infra-red serial ports to communicate, with each other, and some printers supported it. It was the infra-red USB. Not much use as Wifi, tho, was only ever 1-to-1. The DIN plug I mention because it's something '80s computers had, and it's unused now, so would be perverse and quirky on purpose. You can get mini-DINs too so they're still practical. Or else, it could just use the existing audio in and out, and encode data into audio. Same was '80s computers did with cassette tapes. And then people would record those encoded beeps as sound and try and make tunes out of them! Anyway point is, needs a digital interface. I can see they're resisting having a PC connection and supporting software, that's against the philosophy too I suppose. I'd just go with LEDs, because they cost almost nothing, and to see an LED flickering lets you know it's working.
It lets you back up the full config via some weird audio-based data dump that I've not yet tried and restores from backup the same way. I assume that is done digitally with some error correction or the parameter changes would be too vulnerable to noise surely. If It is digital someone might be able to reverse it and generate a tool to create backups from scratch.
@@LiamKillen welcome bud, keep up the great work. I'm into the pocket operator and MPC one videos. I also like the OP1 and Z demos. Do you have a Boss RC-505 or 202 video?
@@LiamKillen it's a pleasure, thank you! Really loved that drum pattern in pocket operator. I've seen a video by a Spanish guy who made some great DnB beat into it, and your video here let's be make a different style, but justiciary love the fill/bridge bits you demonstrated earlier in the video. Whether you meant to our not it got my creative this going and that's why I had to say thank you ♥️✌️🇬🇧☮️😎🎉
My rick and morty pocket operator stopped working because the 2 button which is a crucial button for me wouldn't press, I took out the batteries then put em back in, it froze.
How do you select a sound, like before you apply it to a step on the sequencer? It’s just playing a random thing on each step instead of what I want it to.
@@LiamKillen thanks for answer, i was thinking about sampling from fl studio, ni maschine, vinyl and smartphone/youtube. Second question is it possible to save final project on po ko 33 and play it after switch off and next switch on?
hey man, nice video. thanks! and i got a question: your samples sound so clean, when you transferred them from the op. whenever i load samples from my daw or any other input via line, i get a lot of noise with it. usually i can filter it out but i wonder if there's anything else i could do?
Yeah,seeing how you sampled the banks from the OP,I’m wondering if anyone can in theory do this with any stand alone sequencer/drum machine/sampler for example an MPC live?
You know it would be good if you could actually play the boxing game. It's surely got the graphics, and enough buttons. They could even have it so the more you kept to a rhythm, the better your boxer would "dance", and then a hi-hat or something would be his big punch! And maybe kick drum for a body blow. Cos y'know people get bored on tours, and have a game would be one more reason to keep your Operator on you all the time. Prob not all of the Operators would be quite suitable, the one that's based on Mario's Cement Factory looks like they took out any gameplay possibility when they specialised it for it's intended job. But still why not? If it taught you timing it would even make you a better user and drummer! It could also tutor you in different functions. Why am I saying this here? Somebody tell Teenage and get back to me with their offer.
@@syedhateem4498 They're ARM SOCs. Maybe 32K RAM and maybe 256K or a couple of MB ROM? Just guessing, bigger chips are available but that would be a nice budget choice. The original Nintendo games used 4-bit chips, intended for use in digital watches. Not 32-bit ARMs. They'd have maybe 64 bytes of RAM and I dunno, a K or 2 for program storage. The Operators don't need graphics storing in ROM, since they're already engraved into the LCD glass. The sort of games we're talking about would be simplistic, if for no other reason than because the graphics can only have so many elements, and thereofre so much complexity. So really you could squeeze them in to some extra bit of ROM somewhere. Would certainly be possible, I think. Just a matter of planning it out beforehand, since the LCD might need a couple of changes here and there. You could even do a viral thing. Tell 5 musicians about it, or randomly include a leaflet with a few that are sold. Then they share the "easter egg" and how to activate it, with friends and others, and then others spend time trying it on other Operators. So that's an inventive to BUY other operators! And of course to use them musically as well. One guy could be assigned the responsibility part-time, and he'd be in contact with the LCD pattern designer. That's all!
@@LiamKillen Thank you very much, for me the video shows a sampling for another instrument, I do not know how can this will de done in a PO-12, for example. Sorry, surely I did not understood the video. Greetings.
I don’t understand how you’re doing what you’re doing. You’re on bank 10 and when you go to write another note how are you not interfering with what’s already written? Why aren’t the LEDs showing halfway, because you have sounds from that bank on the track already? How are you able to not write over your sounds with the new sounds? I can’t play a hi hat and bass kick at the same time without one playing over and killing the first.
Some POs are more linear than others but hopefully this video gives some insight on how to layer regardless of what PO you're using. Yes, with some POs all of the drums are on one track.
even though I already know my way around the KO pretty good I enjoyed watching this _and_ learnt that playing samples more quickly makes the auto-slicing better and not the other way round! (and you get more extra seconds for more sampling!) Thanks!! :D
Exactly! It’s a good lil tip- thanks for watching 🙂
@@LiamKillen Oh and may OP-1 get well soon.. poor thing :')
Thank you! It should be okay- i hope haha- still under warranty so should be fine.
fancy seeing you here... ;)
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I'm just getting into synths, and find programing drums to be particularly hard. Your beat boxing technique to lay down drums is amazing!
If you can sing it you can play it! Thanks for watching 🙂
If you have a thing for designing drums then go for it, otherwise it gets in the way of grooving
I watched a tutorial from Timbaland. He said that's how he starts every beat.
Hell yeah dude, your production value is going up up up!
Thank you!! 🙂
Oh boy, my Pocket Operator gods commenting each other.
Kind of cool that 36k people of the world have taken the first step towards taking their PO drums to the next level by watching this. Thanks for sharing dude
I always appreciate the love 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Might be difficult to explain here but, one thing I've learned with the PO KO was, to avoid sound cancellation on a slot during playback when theres a sound overlapping, I recommend to record samples sorted in four separated drum kits (say, slot 12, 13, 14, and 15) and sample Kicks and hi-hats in one, claps and snares in 14, congas in 15, as an example. Often, when you record a drum kit sample using one single recording, you cannot use a piece of that record into the same slot, otherwise sound will cancel each other. Since kick and hi-hats in a edit mode music creation structure probally won't be overlapped, pieces of that recording will be succesfully placed on separate slots without cancelling. The same will happen with snares-claps.
Thanks for this!
This is excellent! For us non-drummers, there's a lot of little things to pick up here, your instincts for how to develop a rhythm are awesome.
Thank you! I’ll be doing some more of these in the future 🙂
Yeah man helped me lots, cheers 👍
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bro this video was more informative than any other drumming video I've watched! thank you so much!!
Glad to help Diesal- cheers
"If you can sing it, you can program it"👍. Most my beats start with humming and drumming.
yup!
Always saw these at guitar center never knew what they were great job explaining and walking through how to use one of these 🙏🏽
My pleasure! Glad it helps 🙂
i'm so glad i found your channel. it's so cool to see a drummer walk through how he lays down beats and how you feel your way through ideas. thanks for making this!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoy my drummerness!
Thanks man! My buddy introduced me to PO's a few weeks ago and I just gave in and ordered a KO today. I'm trying to learn as much about the UI as I can before it arrives so I can hit the ground running as much as possible. This video gave me a lot of clarity for how these things are set up.
So happy to hear that and happy to help! Cheers
Very useful tut, especially the layered hits
Apart from clearly explaining the programming this was also a great drum tutorial. Thanks!
Glad to help!
It’s always nice finding someone before they’re famous, can’t wait to follow you to that point!
Haha thanks man- we’ll see where this goes. I’m definitely not stopping anytime soon and it would be great to get to that point.
Thank you!
cheers.
Its the fart sampler of the 2020s, a spiritual succesor to the Casio SK-1 of the 80s!
lol! You can sample fart noises into it if you want, yeah 😂
You have a way of explaining in a simple cool way. Thanks
I’m glad it’s helping! 🙂
0:36 just an overall general delight
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Of course, if you wanna cheat a little, I think it’s more than possible to make separate takes of recordings, mix them together via video editing, and make songs that way when the usual method is too repetitive or limiting. I plan on doing it with a few of my future videos and songs.
Thanks for putting this video up and I'm aware it's a year old, but I was surprised you were programming in all the beats (write mode then using the grid as a step sequencer) rather than playing them in.
If you know how you want the rhythm to sound you can just hold down the write mode button while the pattern is playing and play the sounds in. It's good for drums but really essential for melodies where programming them in one pitch at a time is the ultimate ball ache. For drums it also means you don't need to switch between drum sounds as long as they're in the same bank (and you are able to play whilst holding down write with a spare digit!)
Thanks for your input!
I’ve had my Rick and morty po for a while now. Your videos would have been super helpful when I first got it. But even now they are extremely helpful. I honestly put it down, but when I found you earlier this morning, I’m getting the itch again. Still saving for my op1
Awesome! I'm always glad to help!
This is a wonderful guide! You presented it clearly, quickly, and still thoroughly covered much of the system, and explained some real-world applications. I appreciate you!
Thx for watching!!
Yo Liam you just Killend it! 👍
Lolololol
wow super underrated channel. well done!
Yisssss!!! Do more of those man! I loved it! :)
Some more interesting ideas coming from this guy soon haha.
I’m so glad I found your channel.
Manuel! Glad to help! And thank u 🙂
Youngblood, you are like educational! Thank you!
Glad to help! lol
What a great tutorial, i don't own a pocket op, but the general tips and tricks i picked up in this video are going to be a tremendous help.
Glad to help! Cheers
Cant wait to get mines, record into it as fast as possible, then pitch it down. It seems to give it alot of flavor
So funnnnn!!
got the Huh-Duh Six-Hungeo's by old mate Sennie
oh noice
I can't believe I've never thought of verbalising beats to make them easier.
It works so flippin’ well
@@LiamKillen game changer. Subbed for that alone!!
Very appreciated! 🤝
The brain is the most powerful sequencer :)
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More po33ko content!!!!
I’ve got a few others here’s a playlist!
ruclips.net/p/PLE5yApCgtOwAyvfvMIGeFhzFX1dFSzGV7
WHAT A GREAT VIDEOOO
cheers!
Awesome. Thanks. I think I’ll get the PO back out of the bottom of my bag now - cheers. Lee
Cheers Lee!
Very cool tutorial, thanks!
My pleasure!
I definitely want to try one of these, my eyes are on the PO-20 atm... I'm also waiting the delivery of an OP-1, that's why I landed on your channel killing the time until I receive it. Keep it up man, your videos are great !
LAlways! Thx for watching
Another slam dunk .. cheers indeed !
Cheerio
What a fantastic demonstration! So humble. Thanks for taking the time to show us. It’s literally going to save me days and days. Thanks
Happy to hear this! haha. Cheers
Dont forget to swing your kicks too!
The whole beat swings together! 🙂
Clean, nice intro, also a drummer and into POs - instant follow!
Thank you! I’m working on a TE series in coming weeks which will include some PO videos. Also BIG giveaway! Thank you for subbing!
@@LiamKillen Excellent! Have you already "spread the word" in the Facebook group for POs or general TE stuff? Looking forward to your videos!
I’ve watched a fair few of your vids, you explain things very well, me likey!
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Keep up the good work, Fella!
Always! Thank u ❤️
Drum programming gave me a Streets of Rage vibe 🔥🔥🔥
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DAMN nice!! i really wanna cop that rick and morty one!
Yes it’s funnn!
Thank you for sharing.
pleasure as always!
AWESOME DUDE!
Cheers!
fantastic
Thx for watching :-)
That beat is awesome
Thank you!
Dude this video is sick. Thanks!!🙏🏽
(Had to rewatch it, trying to get my PO game up)
*Sees last comment was 3 years ago*
My guy - it's really my pleasure. Thank you for watching :-)
@@LiamKillenso many POs so little time. I like adding cool beats and stuff to bagpipe music… of all things. Added you on FB, I see you know a few local drummer friends of mine no surprise!!
Thank you! Subscribed! 🙋
My pleasure Kale
very cool tutorial, inspiring and effective. Thanks for sharing.
It’s my pleasure. cheers
Thank you for knowing that was a bo didely fill. :) met him back in 2003. Nice man
That’s so awesome! Cheers
I enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing!
Anytime! 🙂
You are seriously upgrading my game bro. Keep at it I love these videos as a newbie to op-1 po-33
Glad that they’re helping you out! 🙂
So happy you got some PO stuff out! I'd like to think my suggestion had a little something to do with it 😁 but further, I hope TE sent you all that stuff as a content creator! Cheers, excited to see what else you bring!
They’ve been great! OP1 is busted for the time being- so more Po stuff coming for sure!
@@LiamKillen Yeah, that's sad. Is it going to Sweden for repair? I'd kind of like to see a video about the TE customer service/repair process....🤔
@@nocallnoshow6878 from what ive seen, its NOT GOOD
Great drum programming tips that would help any producer. Very nice!
cheers!
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Dope!!! Love it man great tip regarding the beat boxing I never thought of that
If you can hear it you can program it!
Good shit LK 👌
Thank you! 🙂
Could you make a slower video how to load sound on the pocket operator
Have you considered slowing down the playback speed?
real good stuff. very helpful info. thanks bunches for this, sir.
My pleasure! Glad to help 🙂
very interesting , thanks
Pleasure- cheers
Protip: When making a video featuring the OP-1, please ensure your hair follicle level rivals that of a Silverback.
lol
Just as you wouldn't shave your house cat I wouldn't expect you to shave your hands. Weird. Keep it natty! Love the content bro!@@LiamKillen
Thanks Bill! Cheers
Great tutorial. You should do more drum tutorials. How about how program the ”finger” sequencer on op-1? Thanks
ruclips.net/video/MBEL5zsoilk/видео.html Here ya go!
Thanks a lot! I just watched your video on op-z drums. That’s was so useful. I think you might have found something that lots of people need namely how to make the drums sound so great. Most youtubers focus on the sounds. When I do music my drums sucks I would say all of the time, so your content is very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for watching! I do love drums
Great video
Thanks Max! Cheers
Wow! He´s got the silicon case! He must be rich!
Rich AF !!
And the op 1
I’m like Bill Gates rich
how did i not find this channel earlier
plz become famous
Haha thanks man! I ain’t stoppin anytime soon
Do you have a video that simplifies getting your samples into the PO-33?
It’s super simple! And there are instructions on how to do it on the back of each PO
Killen it
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So, when you said "ANY" you mean "PO-3x". Could you solve the transfer with PO-1x and PO-2x series? Maybe the 2x6 JTAG connector on the back is applicable to change the patterns burned into their memory...
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@@LiamKillen :D
Any news since then?
I don't think you could even do this stuff with the po-35, pretty sure it's just the KO
With ANY pocket operator? Or really just with the KO and maybe the Voice and the Rick & Morty? Don't forget that seven other pocket operators aren't samplers!
Yes, you can layer on any PO
@@LiamKillen seems to me that since the ones without a record function only have one drum bank that you can use for two layers, it’s very limited
There are limits for sure but the concept of layering exists on every PO
Cool video man, loved it ! I don't think you mentioned it, but if you old a step on the sequencer and tap BPM, you can makes rolls, and that's pretty cool 🙂
Did i know this? I don’t think i did. Thank you for this!!
@@LiamKillen Of course you know, you just forgot ! (i'll not tell anyone)
Yeah we’ll just pretend
@@LiamKillen 😁😁
I subscribed… thank you for this! You got rhythm bro, lol 🙌🏾 #Salute
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the heavynes is probably from thge po 33 kos bbateries not being as full as the po 137
Yeah you're probably right.
I'm sorry, but you repeating that this is possible on any Pocket Operator and showing a workflow that is not possible on most of them is just confusing.
It is possible though...you can layer drums on any pocket operator which is essentially what this video is about
@@LiamKillen Well, I'm talking about the workflow. You start with sampling, which is not possible on most of them. You change the tone and the gain separately for some of the sounds. But on most of the Pocket Operators, you have two parameters for each sound. On some, one of them is tone, on some, one of them is volume. However again, it is not possible to do these things on ANY Pocket Operator. You change the sound in the "effects" menu, again, not possible on most of them. On most of them there are no options under effects and those are usually assigned to a beat, but not to a seperate sound (the effect is for all sounds on that beat). You say, that "you can layer drums" but firstly, I htink most of them have a maximum of two sounds per beat, so not that much layering is possible, also some of them don't even have proper drum sounds and are more melodic. So yes. Programming a pattern, programming a sequence of patterns, changing the BPM and swing, those are things that you showed in the video and are possible on all POs. Don't get me wrong, I liked the video, it's a nice drum patern you got there. But I still stand by my first comment. Saying that this is possible on ANY Pocket Operator, twice in the video and in the video title, is just confusing.
Gotcha
So do you have multiple banks with different drum sounds? Within a bank you can only apply one sound per slot. So I think some of the questions asked about "over writing" may apply to this. Hope that makes sense. If you only recorded multiple sounds to One bank, you would be limited correct?
That is correct!
huh' duh' six hunjoos
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It's a bit of a shame it's all done in analogue, although perhaps that's a "philosophy" more than a practical idea. Cos if PO's could communicate digitally they'd be able to send digital samples without converting them to analogue and then back to digital again, inevitably losing quality. Would be nice, maybe not USB cos that's too conventional, but maybe a fast serial port over, like, a DIN plug. Or else an LED that flashes really fast and a nearby unit has a sensor, and an LED of it's own, so they can communicate that way.
In the '90s, laptops had infra-red serial ports to communicate, with each other, and some printers supported it. It was the infra-red USB. Not much use as Wifi, tho, was only ever 1-to-1.
The DIN plug I mention because it's something '80s computers had, and it's unused now, so would be perverse and quirky on purpose. You can get mini-DINs too so they're still practical. Or else, it could just use the existing audio in and out, and encode data into audio. Same was '80s computers did with cassette tapes. And then people would record those encoded beeps as sound and try and make tunes out of them!
Anyway point is, needs a digital interface. I can see they're resisting having a PC connection and supporting software, that's against the philosophy too I suppose. I'd just go with LEDs, because they cost almost nothing, and to see an LED flickering lets you know it's working.
It lets you back up the full config via some weird audio-based data dump that I've not yet tried and restores from backup the same way.
I assume that is done digitally with some error correction or the parameter changes would be too vulnerable to noise surely.
If It is digital someone might be able to reverse it and generate a tool to create backups from scratch.
You used all your voices on drums tho? 😱
hell yeah
Great video! You have yourself another subscriber ☮️✌️
Appreciate it! ❤️
@@LiamKillen welcome bud, keep up the great work. I'm into the pocket operator and MPC one videos. I also like the OP1 and Z demos.
Do you have a Boss RC-505 or 202 video?
I don’t! Thnks for watching 🙂
@@LiamKillen it's a pleasure, thank you!
Really loved that drum pattern in pocket operator. I've seen a video by a Spanish guy who made some great DnB beat into it, and your video here let's be make a different style, but justiciary love the fill/bridge bits you demonstrated earlier in the video. Whether you meant to our not it got my creative this going and that's why I had to say thank you ♥️✌️🇬🇧☮️😎🎉
Cheers!
No need to continuously hold two buttons on KO when sampling.
Thx for letting me know!
I want an OP-1 T^T
i feel u
My rick and morty pocket operator stopped working because the 2 button which is a crucial button for me wouldn't press, I took out the batteries then put em back in, it froze.
Try resetting it! Google “reset pocket operator”
good luck
@@LiamKillen I've already did.
Damn...
I thought the PO 33 wouldn’t let you put two drums in the same step. Is there a tip to getting the clap layered on top of the snare?
You'd have to load it onto a different kit!
@@LiamKillen makes sense, thanks for the pointer!
cheers
I think you can go max 4 samples deep as long as they're on different kits
If the p.o is as good as it is for the price I'd like to see how good the op 1 is
That's where things get controversial haha- it's pricey but honestly, I absolutely love it.
How do you select a sound, like before you apply it to a step on the sequencer? It’s just playing a random thing on each step instead of what I want it to.
you can record sounds into it-
Hi. I have a question. Could i record sample sounds to po 33 from computer pc by jack tsr cable? For example sounds from fl studio?
yup! as long as it's got a 3 mm male adaptor you can record from any source into your PO 33
@@LiamKillen thanks for answer, i was thinking about sampling from fl studio, ni maschine, vinyl and smartphone/youtube. Second question is it possible to save final project on po ko 33 and play it after switch off and next switch on?
Not for all pocket operators only Po33
The concept of layering?
Can you do blast beats or d beats with it?
They won’t sound authentic that’s for sure- unless you sample it
Oh no you bust your OP-1 😥
Yeah man- the performance function button is totally dead- too afraid to open it up because i’m still under warranty. Still waiting on a response
@@LiamKillen performance button? Which one do you mean?
The button that brings you to endless, pattern, sketch ect. I was in the middle of filming an op1 video too lol
@@LiamKillen ah man the Sequencer. Gutted.
Yeah man...
is it normal to always have a melody in the slots?
I’m not totally sure what you mean
low freq isnt so clear at po33 it make some noize
Yeah it can be a little clicky / noisy at times for sure when you chop those samples.
@@LiamKillen of course i dont mean that its not funny , i want to be clear for that for the people were they dont know it
hey man, nice video. thanks! and i got a question: your samples sound so clean, when you transferred them from the op.
whenever i load samples from my daw or any other input via line, i get a lot of noise with it. usually i can filter it out but i wonder if there's anything else i could do?
I put the op1 drive down to 0, which seems to clean them up a little.
Can you do this without the op?
Like on another instrument?
Yeah,seeing how you sampled the banks from the OP,I’m wondering if anyone can in theory do this with any stand alone sequencer/drum machine/sampler for example an MPC live?
Oh yeah that’s absolutely possible!
Thanks man keep making stuff like bro appreciate the advice
Anytime! Cheers
wtf why ur have only 6k subs
🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ dunno!
You know it would be good if you could actually play the boxing game. It's surely got the graphics, and enough buttons. They could even have it so the more you kept to a rhythm, the better your boxer would "dance", and then a hi-hat or something would be his big punch! And maybe kick drum for a body blow. Cos y'know people get bored on tours, and have a game would be one more reason to keep your Operator on you all the time.
Prob not all of the Operators would be quite suitable, the one that's based on Mario's Cement Factory looks like they took out any gameplay possibility when they specialised it for it's intended job. But still why not? If it taught you timing it would even make you a better user and drummer! It could also tutor you in different functions. Why am I saying this here? Somebody tell Teenage and get back to me with their offer.
That’s a good idea!
POs have a very limited amount of processing and storage and they use almost all of it. Maybe if they upgrade their chips this could happen.
Anything’s possiblleeeeee!
@@syedhateem4498 They're ARM SOCs. Maybe 32K RAM and maybe 256K or a couple of MB ROM? Just guessing, bigger chips are available but that would be a nice budget choice.
The original Nintendo games used 4-bit chips, intended for use in digital watches. Not 32-bit ARMs. They'd have maybe 64 bytes of RAM and I dunno, a K or 2 for program storage.
The Operators don't need graphics storing in ROM, since they're already engraved into the LCD glass. The sort of games we're talking about would be simplistic, if for no other reason than because the graphics can only have so many elements, and thereofre so much complexity. So really you could squeeze them in to some extra bit of ROM somewhere.
Would certainly be possible, I think. Just a matter of planning it out beforehand, since the LCD might need a couple of changes here and there.
You could even do a viral thing. Tell 5 musicians about it, or randomly include a leaflet with a few that are sold. Then they share the "easter egg" and how to activate it, with friends and others, and then others spend time trying it on other Operators. So that's an inventive to BUY other operators! And of course to use them musically as well.
One guy could be assigned the responsibility part-time, and he'd be in contact with the LCD pattern designer. That's all!
What happened to your OP-1? How do you fixed it? I want to get an OP-1 but I'm afraid something like this happens
Yeah it happens- they sent me a new part within a couple of days it was a very smooth and easy fix.
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Who dat?
Your hurting fingers tell me clearly how much you enjoy the Official PO Case.
It’s nice n soft 🙂
Any PO can do this? All PO can sampling?
No the focus is more on layering.
@@LiamKillen Thank you very much, for me the video shows a sampling for another instrument, I do not know how can this will de done in a PO-12, for example.
Sorry, surely I did not understood the video. Greetings.
I don’t understand how you’re doing what you’re doing. You’re on bank 10 and when you go to write another note how are you not interfering with what’s already written? Why aren’t the LEDs showing halfway, because you have sounds from that bank on the track already? How are you able to not write over your sounds with the new sounds? I can’t play a hi hat and bass kick at the same time without one playing over and killing the first.
Some POs are more linear than others but hopefully this video gives some insight on how to layer regardless of what PO you're using. Yes, with some POs all of the drums are on one track.