Gesaffelstein - Pursuit [live cover on PO-32 Pocket Operator]

[@TottoXzip]

Dude thats totaly sick. One of my favorit gesaffelstein songs.

[@tubesockor]

Great to hear - thank you!

[@electroedition9381]

how do that?

[@tr3ninja]

That expressive finger pointing with the dynamic camera angles got me more pumped than I anticipated.

[@tubesockor]

Hehe, great!

[@djade76]

Seriously impressive! Well done!

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@stephensoto2126]

I just watched one of the best covers of a song in a real long time. Cheers. Holy shit.

[@tubesockor]

Yay, thanks!

[@SploopBaDoop]

Damn dude! This is top class. Really well done, and sounds great.

[@tubesockor]

Thank you so much for the kind words!

[@aSpeaker2BlocksAway]

Every time I stuck in production with the PO-32, I remember your video and than I know, it's me and not the Po-32 that isn't good sounding.

[@tubesockor]

Haha, thank you :)

[@willdahbe]

fucking amazing and just spot on. serious skills here.

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@RemixSample]

Very cool! What a great demo and awesome performance!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, happy you liked it!

[@lakloplak]

Did not expect the piano. Also the more I see that PO 32 I feel the need for it. Nicely composed piece :)

[@tubesockor]

Thank you! Yes, it was fun combining 2017 digital hardware with 1967 analog/mechanical :)

[@determined7786]

This is insane dude. Love all your stuff

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot, happy to hear that! And more stuff will come when you least expect it :)

[@PrometheusZer00]

This was ridiculous, so well done!

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@warlock242]

I've been exploring Microtonic lately and this just happens to be one of my favourite songs, how awesome!

[@tubesockor]

Cool, thanks!

[@ChunkyElvis]

Thank you for dropping a clinic right there. Learned a thing or 4. With great equipment comes great responsibility and you sir are a hero..

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot, Dillonski!

[@Medniex]

Awesome! Huge respect for such effort.

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Yes, it took some planning and rehearsing, but it was fun :)

[@Frozen_Smoke1972]

That is outstanding work. I really need to dive deeper into my one.

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, glad to hear that! Yes, it is quite competent - and with Microtonic as a sound design tool it is really powerful.

[@dether3]

This was amazing. I got the 3 pack of the 20 series and just started playing with them. Very easy to use and I love your video definitely sharing!!

[@tubesockor]

Thank you, John!

[@FinlandApollo]

Holy heck this is cool! I didn't have my hopes up for this but MAN, THIS IS COOL! :D

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot! Yeah, it turned out quite ok after all :)

[@spaurtacusmusic]

this is superb, well done

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@Meowsoniq]

Totally insane, amazing and incredible!!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot! You might find other similar stuff on the channel - and hopefully more will appear :)

[@JEROENHAHAHA]

Absolutely amazing. Outstanding.

[@tubesockor]

Happy you liked it!

[@Ensiferumer]

This is AWESOME! Tonic here I come!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, Domen - glad you liked it!

[@TheClearSight]

Man, you clearly know that little thing inside and out. Crazy.

[@tubesockor]

Happy you liked it!

[@sergiogt182]

Amazing, just got a PO32 couple weeks and my goal to perform a live set only with it.. thanks this demonstration

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Hope that you achieve your goal! :)

[@anthonyholmes113]

Mind.......BLOWN!!!!

[@FiveElementNinja]

Incredible

[@howardanderson3061]

Wow real cool, great job and thanks for posting!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Great that you like it!

[@BrettRiverBoat1]

Just so good

[@tubesockor]

Thanks!

[@FunkTree]

finally good sounding jam

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, great you liked it!

[@ydin9]

That's damn impressive, I already thought po-32 was the weakest show of the bunch based on other few demos I've seen but you've managed to push out sounds out of it that I didn't think were possible. Good show.

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Yes, I think it is fun to try to squeeze stuff from limitations :)

[@antonythoumere6357]

Vraiment Excellent.

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, Antony!

[@AggresarioX]

BRILLIANT! Bravo for pulling off on the PO32 no less

[@tubesockor]

+Nam0Bear Thanks!

[@JulienCanet]

Awesome, you are a killer of PO!

[@tubesockor]

Thank you! They are fun :)

[@zupikeroenchernobyl4796]

Bravo!!!! Saludos desde chile kápo!! Aquí esperando que me llegue para incursionarla💪🤣

[@tubesockor]

¡Muchas gracias!

[@on_certainty]

Fantastic

[@tubesockor]

Thanks!

[@mechanetik]

WOW. Impressive. Love this!!!!

[@Filterocity]

before going into this i was like "haha this is gonna sound pretty crappy and cute" and i clicked and i actually really dig this. nice job :)

[@tubesockor]

Great, thanks! :)

[@RAWRluver]

organized chaos nice xD fucking awesome man! And loving this bit animation you put on your tool there!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks Grey!

[@AABattery]

Top Quality! Master of the POs! :)

[@tubesockor]

Äsch :) But thank you! Glad you like it!

[@JUANJIANT]

wooowwww, this awesome performance with only one PO

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot, Juan!

[@MDWeezer]

PO-32 workshop in NYC this weekend, I will most certainly bring this up if no one else does to show the capability of this beautiful machine.

[@tubesockor]

+Matthew Williams Ah, sounds like great fun! Would be interesting to hear how it went!

[@agenttank]

this is amazing

[@tubesockor]

Thank you, agenttank!

[@noaftermath]

Freaking brilliant!

[@lurid_phaesporia]

Yeah damn you make this thing look worth buying

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@palettes]

so good

[@shelbatrajashari8916]

speechless

[@MoustiluigiRandom]

Parfaitement formidable.

[@tubesockor]

Merci!

[@limpicatto]

I enjoyed this

[@tubesockor]

Lovely, thanks!

[@RockwoodJoe]

Geez, total thumbs up!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks Joe!

[@RockwoodJoe]

@@tubesockor No prob, I can't wait to get my po-32 in the mail. Too much time in front of the screen is driving me crazy, looking forward to tinkering out in the wild. Great work!

[@monicareyes4390]

whattttt fucking amazing

[@kriskeogh7809]

Respect.

[@tubesockor]

Yo, thanks!

[@jostermayer]

teenage engineering should give you some free POs awesome

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@MrVengadorxd]

awesome

[@tubesockor]

Thanks!

[@jpradical]

very good! I start to dance (saludos desde Chile)

[@tubesockor]

Hehe, great! Thanks!

[@WINTERMUTE_AI]

EPIC! I ordered my PO-32 last night.

[@0zos0]

Hey man, would be amazing if you drop the patch aswell! Love the work!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, great to hear! And as a New Years gift - you might be interested in checking out my latest tweet :)

[@MattiMattiMatti]

Impeccable nails! And nice beats. GAS intensifies.

[@tubesockor]

Haha, thanks :)

[@256k_]

great job!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks!

[@ShockHRz]

Awesome work m8!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot!

[@lenimann]

I love it! Can I have the patch data please?

[@tubesockor]

Glad you liked it! Sure, sound dump is available - just find my Twitter account and scroll to january 2018 and a link is there!

[@BlinkyBillz]

SWEET!

[@tubesockor]

Yay, thanks!

[@BlinkyBillz]

you should def put the pattern export sound at the end of the video for people to fiddle with it!!

[@tubesockor]

Check out some old tweets on my Twitter channel and you might be happy :)

[@DECIMA1]

Awesome stuff!!!!!! :)

[@tubesockor]

Yay, thanks!

[@TheAkizaki]

Sickneessss

[@balares]

sick

[@tubesockor]

Jä!

[@kadandreatta9190]

killer!!! 👊

[@tubesockor]

Yay!

[@jetset808]

holy fuck dude this is dope..

[@tubesockor]

Thank you!

[@HonigMacher]

great :D

[@tubesockor]

Yay!

[@LineKernel]

Sick indeed , would you upload the sounds ?

[@tubesockor]

Sure! Follow me on Twitter and I send you a link!

[@LineKernel]

@@tubesockor Done! Cheers !

[@wwedz]

@@tubesockor me toooo :-) CRAZY MAD NICE WORK WOW!!!!!

[@allroads8978]

Got that fire ! / got all this electronic gear - and strait (300+ years old) pano still gettin it done ( next time op 32 meets Chopin ? )

[@tubesockor]

Yup, mixing state of the art high tech with old school mechanical stuff can be nice :)

[@nickcote1917]

any advice or details about the gear or techniques needed as to film and post these type of content videos (filming the PO and having the sound play straight in video not from PO speaker, audio and video for the piano part or maybe the same for DAW content, etc) ... even the video creation itself seems complicated

[@tubesockor]

Hi! Since it is all played in one go, I used two cameras (one for top and one from side). I don’t recall which ones but even if the most flexibility comes when using DSLRs, it would do with basically any iPhone or compact camera. The audio is sent straight into a soundcard, recorded to a stereo track on the computer. For the piano part I used a camcorder and its built-in mic. Then these things should be assembled in a video editing program, and for this kind of content the simplest iMovie or Windows Movie Maker will do. The most important thing is to get the syncing between audio and video correct, and it can help to clap with the hands or hitting a note distinctively to match the peaks.

[@nickcote1917]

@@tubesockor thank u so much!

[@Beatz-Pocket]

Very creative. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, I tried to squeeze as much as possible out of it as I could :)

[@wombra8314]

awesome thanks! ✊🏿👽 been waiting over two months on backorder D:

[@wombra8314]

subbed 🙅🏻

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! More stuff will come!

[@leedavies6779]

nice!!!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, Lee!

[@bioelectric1788]

🔥

[@michaelshemesh3141]

Wow

[@tubesockor]

Yeah! :)

[@themartialartist1929]

Sick

[@tubesockor]

In a good way, I hope :)

[@themartialartist1929]

Yeah

[@tubesockor]

Thanks!

[@themartialartist1929]

Really gd😀

[@tubesockor]

Nice to hear. I have done another C64 cover (Delta) so feel free to check that one as well!

[@gonzaloriquelme2111]

Very Accurate, and very impressive. Proudly Subscribe ;)

[@tubesockor]

Thank you, Gonzalo! Hope to make you happy with more material in the future!

[@bernii4515]

ey cool... the rhythm ´s got something similar .. but this is also cool thanks

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Yes, the PO-12 is also a drum machine but the 32 is much more advanced.

[@Deaphdot1]

for fuck sake this is amazing... well done

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot!

[@7887derek]

ameising

[@tubesockor]

Thanks :)

[@psicomush]

4:06 what kind of voodoo is that?! 🙉🙉

[@tubesockor]

Hehe :)

[@alanb.8973]

Crazy

[@tubesockor]

Yeah! :)

[@looseyfur74]

mortalll kommmbaaaatttttt

[@tubesockor]

Jäää!

[@DigitalTownSquare]

Can I import drum samples from do studio onto here and save lets say multiple hits of every type of drum hit? And can I save a bunch of different drum loops and import them into different projects on fl studio. My problem is I'm really lazy to sit at my pc and would love to be able to lay down in bed and make a bunch of loops for different songs . How well is it for hip hop and progressive house?

[@tubesockor]

The PO-32 is a pattern based digital synthetic drummachine, not a sampler or a sample player. So instead of importing samples, you design sounds in the Microtonic software.

[@vintagewander]

Great performance man!

[@tubesockor]

Thank you! I created all the sounds in Microtonic, and then transferred them to the PO-32.

[@Palpitacje]

Lol, that piano outta nowhere. :)

[@tubesockor]

Hightech digital from 2017 meets low tech mechanics from 1960s :)

[@kord1327]

Hi Great fan of your work can u teach me how to make this synth in any other vst's (serum, sylenth etc) i would really appreciate it. Keep up the good work You are really talented

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, lovely to hear that! I don’t have access to Serum or Sylenth, but the sounds should be pretty easy to generate with many basic synths or modulars. But the easiest way to get this specific sound would be to use Microtonic VST since it has the exact same sound engine as the PO-32.

[@apeidon1639]

so fucking cool dude!!!!!

[@tubesockor]

Thanks, Jesús!

[@MatteoMi]

Hi, great tune! Is the 32 able to transfer all the song, say on your PC and save it? Or once is done, all this work have to be deleted to create something new? If the song can be saved, can be loaded back into the 32 ? Thanks :)

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Yes, the PO-32 is the only one in the PO series that can save/restore the sounds (16*2) and sequences (16). It is done by using an audio file (that can be saved on a computer for instance), much similar to how old modems used to work.

[@teun7923]

0:54 I LIKE THAT

[@tubesockor]

Jä!

[@iamthetinkerman]

This is awesome! Looking to buy a PO to start jamming to my own progressive house like sounds. What PO version would you recommend?

[@tubesockor]

So many choices :) But if you need samples, go for the 33. For detailed control over drum sounds, the 32. Live playing, the 28. 8bit chipmusic beats, the 20. Let me know what you want to do, and I might be able to help more!

[@hhouben6081]

@tubesockor excellent work . do you make it with the installed sounds of the tonic ???

[@tubesockor]

+H Houben Thank you! I made all of the sounds with Microtonic SW on the computer, and then transferred them to the Tonic.

[@tsunegata]

as i'm a total noob, can you please explain the "mute sound 15 trick"...didn't get it :D (by the way -> awesome performance)

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! Ok, let me explain: First of all, the PO-32 has four channels/voices in total, which means the maximum number of sounds that can be played simoultaneously. The channels are arranged as columns, and each sound in a voice will stop any other sound in that voice. In this song, some of the sounds have been programmed as silent (zero volume), among them sound 15. The trick in the original song is that Gesaffelstein has omitted the first 16th note, letting the user believe the 4/4 is somewhere else that it is. To achieve the same thing in my version, I hold down sound 15 at the same time as starting the sequence, which in consequence mutes that first note. Phew, I hope it got somewhat clearer - otherwise keep asking :)

[@dennismikha7541]

Where's the audio-data file thou? Plz share

[@tubesockor]

I remember I tweeted out some kind of link with it around 2018-01-01 - check out my Twitter account and you’ll find it!

[@blondi_80]

Are all these sounds presets? Awesome job sounds sweet.

[@tubesockor]

Thanks! All sounds are programmed by myself in Microtonic (even if some of them probably started out as a preset which then was tweaked).

[@VVVHHHSSS]

Imagine bringing a PO back to 1985, people would lose their mind.

[@tubesockor]

Actually, back in about 1985 I read a Swedish science fiction novel, it could have been about the 2020s. In that book, one of the main characters got away from some people chasing him by using his handheld ”minisynth”, turning on a police siren sound and throwing it in some other direction. I always imagined a ”minisynth” somewhat like the POs or Korg Monotrons. Eventually they appeared, although not with a speaker powerful enough to simulate a siren :)

[@VVVHHHSSS]

@@tubesockor Wow, that's awesome. There's really somewhat of a hardware renaissance lately, great times for synth enthusiasts. In fact, I kinda want to pick up a Volca FM after work....

[@alecman95]

I don't even like Gesaffelstein but how the fuck where you able to nail the sound? Considering to buy a 32 now haha

[@tubesockor]

Thanks a lot Alec! Well, it took quite some time to listen, create sounds and plan the performance but that's what I find challenging and fun :)

[@Radbalahhouse]

Thats awesome dude... but tell me how you mute layers?

[@tubesockor]

Playing and holding down a sound will mute any programmed trigs on that channel. In this track, I also use a number of ”silent” sounds, creating instant mutes.

[@Radbalahhouse]

Oh... let me try it here.. thanks for the quick response. i just didn't get this part " I also use a number of ”silent” sounds, creating instant mutes."

[@tubesockor]

Regarding silent sounds, some of them (13, 15, 16 in this track) have the volume turned down (in the programmed patch) so no sound comes out when playing them. But since holding down a key stops any ongoing or triggered sound on that channel, they will effectively work as instant mutes.

[@Radbalahhouse]

holly f..... how i never think about that. COOOL thanks bro! i will try to improve performances inspired on you. do you have a channel in instagram? mine is @monosraduh, i just bought some PO's and i'm for 4 months digging into that , speak, ko, tonic, arcade.. i feel like in a dream.

[@johnbalas7759]

How did you add the 6 and 9 manual drums? Man, this video needs a tutorial (and the patch, comme on, give the people your hard work)!

[@tubesockor]

Since there are only 16 pattern memories I had to plan the usage. At 0:53 I'm reusing the same pattern as played at 0:35, and this pattern has sound 2 as its "snare". But the beat before 0:53 is using 6 as the "snare", so I played it manually on beat 2 and 4 to match it. Then sound 9 is just a fill-in tom on the last eight-note in the measure. If enough people want me to do a tutorial on it, I might do it - same goes for the patch - who knows :)

[@johnbalas7759]

It took me 15 minutes but I think I get it now. This is a very clever trick!

[@tubesockor]

Thank you! Keep on practicing! :)

[@yerzmyeychiptune]

Interesting.

[@tubesockor]

+yerzmyey Absolutely! :)

[@jeanri]

share the patch plz ! Would be awesome ;)

[@tubesockor]

Patch is available! Follow my twitter account and see my twitter posts from some months ago :)