Pocket Operator Tunes

I impulse bought a Pocket Operator “Arcade” (aka the PO-22) on Facebook Marketplace (and later a PO-33) and have been making some silly tunes. The Arcade is a super simple little synthesizer and sequencer with a handful of chiptune arcade-y type sounds built in. It’s limited, but is really easy and fun to experiment with for that reason. Anyways, I like documenting things, so below are some of the tunes I’ve made¹.

Tunes made with the Arcade:

After playing with the arcade for a while, a PO-33 showed up on Marketplace too and I couldn’t resist grabbing it. The PO-33 has a built in sampler with a mic which makes it a lot more powerful in principle. Here are a few efforts so far.

This one has a little sample from Oh, Maker; I’m fiddling with the live “effects” in the recording:

This one has a sample from a street performer playing flute in Harvard square:

I’ll probably add to this list as I keep experimenting.

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