Did you know you can play a pocket operator through a cellphone drybag?
Hi. I’m going on a kayak camping trip too ’ultralight’ to bring my OP-1, but I don’t want to go silent on my track-a-day no-overdubs mailing list. What pocket operator would you bring? I’m leaning towards the speak because I like the ”sound 16” percussion on it.
id say bring the tonic because the speak’s engine is just a simplified more basic version of the tonic. tonic has more polyphony.
I don’t think I knew the two units had so much common dna. Cool.
The tonic seems like too much the drum machine, though. Out of the box, anyway.
Maybe I need to go to the desktop app and design myself four groups of sounds to give me perc, bass, lead and “flavor”. If I put two pitchable sounds in two different groups, I suppose harmony is a possibility, even. A very un-PO proposition.
feel like robot or arcade could be among the list to consider…?
What do you think about the Factory? The chords are tricky to use, but you can get melody, comp and beats.
My friend goes, “I’d rather get weird boops and a melody than a beat.” So, I brought my little old Shure mv88 and the Factory for vocalizing and booping. Didn’t see that coming.
RIP PO? It was going well until my PO had a dramatic and fateful interaction with water. I’ve been letting it air out and generally be warm and breezy as much as possible, but I think this Factory has closed down. 
And on the 6th day the Factory was resurrected. Persistent air-ing and lagom sunshine and warmth — and it starting working again. One night it’s still kaput and the next morning glorious beeps and boops. And it even remembered the song I was working on before the mishap. Factory FTW.