Teenage Engineering PO-32 Pocket Operator Tonic is small enough to fit in your pocket and powered by a pair of AAA batteries. With a collaboration with Magnus Lindström of Sonic Charges, the PO-32 Tonic is an analog drum synthesizer with 16 on-board sounds and limitless external timbres. Indeed, the product was developed by Magnus and Teenage Engineering to jam-pack the sound of Sonic Charge’s well-regarded Microtonic drum synthesizer into the pocket operator’s form factor, recreating the oscillators, envelopes, and filters from the original Microtonic plug-in.
With 16 on-board sounds and 16 tweakable effects, the PO-32 is not merely a replica of the Microtonic. Instead, you can actually create custom sounds in the Microtonic plug-in and transfer them from your computer to the PO-32 by means of its on-board, receptive microphone. Thus, you can take the sound of the software with you in a highly tweakable analog format. You can also share sounds you’ve tweaked with other users of the PO-32 in a similar manner as described above. Conversely, you can receive data from your friends’/collaborators’ PO-32.
Teenage Engineering MC-3 is a 3-pack of mini sync cables for use with the pocket-operator electronic synthesizers. It allows you to sync the pocket-operator models together to complement each other and work together
mic for transferring sounds
16 fully customizable sounds
16 punch-in effects
16 step sequencer
parameter locks
built-in speaker
3.5 mm audio I/O
jam sync
LCD display
folding stand
watch + alarm clock
battery powered (2 x AAA)
1 month battery life
pattern chaining, up to 64 patterns
compatible with microtonic vst/au
Power Requirements: 2x AAA batteries
Battery Life (approx.): 1 month
Standby Time: 2 years
Dimensions: Not specified by the manufacturer
Weight: Not specified by the manufacturer