Stepping Stones - PO-33 - Lo-Fi

Enjoy my Lo-Fi track created on the PO-33 Knock Out from Teenage Engineering! Melodic Samples and chords I Created with Massive, Drums are from Battery 4, and the river I recorded in Colorado!
The Tutorial for this track will be up soon!!!
Here are all the samples that I created for the Track! A Few Extras too!
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[@GarHoover]

Download "Stepping Stones" for Free on Bandcamp! garhoover.bandcamp.com/releases

[@airflow64]

All Hail the GAR, hands down best knockout composer on YT, waiting for the album to drop !!

[@GarHoover]

Thank You! I have been considering making an album or at least making all of my songs available on Bandcamp to be downloaded for free! Should I do that?

[@airflow64]

@@GarHoover Sure, free is always good to test the market ,then price album #2

[@GarHoover]

fred 64 Smart Idea! Now I need to make some album worthy songs!!

[@Beloshytskiy]

It's true. Gar is one of the most talented PO musicians who composes and play true music rather demonstrating effects and making some fun noise. There is another guy with his channel "Beats, Batteries and the Great Outdoors" who makes wonderful music. You inspire me to learn my PO-33 and 32 and make music instead of procrastinating pressing buttons))

[@vincenzogiambusso]

@@Beloshytskiy I absolutely agree with you!

[@sorryimlate2639]

Two questions... how to you get your samples in so clean and how do you get your audio so crispy?

[@GarHoover]

I always create my samples (chord progressions, single notes, field recordings, etc.) in Logic before sending them to the PO-33 through the Line In! I tend EQ, compress, and chop the audio in Logic before recording it onto the PO-33! So a lot of production goes into my samples! I can create a full video on the process! I'm finishing up the tutorial for this track and it follows me making the song from scratch!

[@sorryimlate2639]

@@GarHoover Thanks and cant wait to watch the tutorial.

[@GarHoover]

Mr Lemons Tutorial is up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5y1aIh_ht5_paM

[@fischmobs2002]

GrooLoFi 😎🤙🏻

[@PaytonCarterMusic]

Love the pitched river sample. Sounds wonderful!

[@GarHoover]

Silver Reef Thank you! It’s a very satisfying sound!

[@simon_harrison]

thanks for the samples!! as a beginner at the PO33 it really helps to have some cool samples to start with

[@GarHoover]

Thank you! I am planning on making a large sample pack for people to use!

[@_SirCharge]

Hell yea

[@ethanmccullough2361]

Is there any chance you could create a sample library for the pocket operator it would be sweet

[@Stormsson]

I second this request!

[@GarHoover]

I'm all about making a sample library! Lately I've been providing download links in the descriptions of all of my PO-33 videos of the samples that I created for the songs, but a large sample library would be a lot of fun!

[@SyncdAlien]

Loving this! Is this whole sequence being played back exclusively by the PO?

[@GarHoover]

Yup!!! It was a real pain to sequence and organize so that I only have 4 samples playing back at a time but I managed to get it to work! I am releasing an Tutorial for the track very soon! It follows me making the track from scratch! It's 55 minutes long and thats after editing it down! haha

[@SyncdAlien]

I think the occasional tutorial is just fine and a lot of interest to viewers with the exact same hardware. 👍 I will add, I really do enjoy the most these videos with just the music and no requirement for me to think about the encoding and such. 😂😂😂

[@BEATS-bz1rd]

イイっす👍

[@MattGreerMusic]

Nice work here too. Good channel. Subbed.

[@GarHoover]

Matt Greer Music Thanks for the back to back comments! And thank you for the Sub!

[@MattGreerMusic]

@@GarHoover My pleasure. Good stuff here. Lots of PO-33 grooves on my channel too if you get bored. :)

[@vincenzogiambusso]

Hi, have you got any hint to record a bass sample with a good volume without having it distorted? I have a great bass sample, it doesn't clip when I record it in po-33,but when I play it, it is really bad, I have to apply heavily a low pass filter thus losing a lot of body is sound

[@GarHoover]

Hello! I try to cut out any unnecessary bass frequencies below 50 Hz but even keeping the sample from clipping, I always experience hiss so I also roll the high end off with the low pass filter and I make sure that there is no resonance.

[@qalx]

A tutorial of this one bro !! ✌🏼🔥

[@GarHoover]

I gotchu! I'm currently in the process of editing the tutorial! It's follows me making the entire song from scratch! It's a long one though, its 55 minutes long and thats with making edits! BUT I think that it's going to be very helpful for people and they can make the track with me because I have all of the samples available for download!

[@GarHoover]

The Tutorial is Up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5y1aIh_ht5_paM

[@christianstrums]

I'm in love with this man! The water samples and auxiliary percussion is so tasteful. And pitch shifting it to transition 👌. Where did you get the synth sound? Sounds chorusy

[@GarHoover]

Thanks! I made the synth sound using massive and added a delay (I think its called Tape Delay or something in Logic X) and modulated the time of the delay and it created the wavy chorus effect!

[@christianstrums]

@@GarHoover ahhh sick! I need to invest in cubase or something

[@GarHoover]

@@christianstrums Yes! Or you can use an app on your phone to make your samples! I've done that before when I did not have my laptop!

[@_SirCharge]

I enjoyed this. I'm in Boulder Link up if your near town. Let's do a colab yo?

[@GarHoover]

Eric Figueroa That would be awesome! I live in Littleton!