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.
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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…?
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.