Teenage Engineering PO-14 Pocket Synthesizer: Sub Bass Sounds for Young Producers

Daniele Carbone: Ogni tanto lo uso ancora, ma all'inizio ho avuto una fissazione pazzesca. Le infinite possibilità che offre nella usa configurazione compatta e piccola garantiscono ore di divertimento.

Italy on Oct 20, 2023

Filipe R: Excelente, com muitos vídeos no youtube para ajudar a usar. O meu filho (10 anos) passa horas a brincar e fazer música. Para melhor qualidade de som ligar a aux de amplificador.

Spain on Aug 22, 2023

Will: Not a bad toy, needs a fair bit of practice to make a decent little tune

United Kingdom on May 17, 2023

Susan: I can easily see a person spending way too much time messing around with this!!! I already have, and I don't even know how to use all the features yet!!

This device is a small palm-sized synthesizer which, while including bass features, does not focus exclusively on them, despite its name. It's about the size of a small calculator, so it's tiny.

The variations and permutations you can create on this thing are truly remarkable. I've been trying this out for a couple of days, and it has not substantially repeated itself. At all. A few notes may rarely be similar, but it hasn't actually repeated itself! So there's little chance of using it up or getting tired of it.quickly.

On its own it is immensely entertaining for a sick or confined person. While you can't compose with it, exactly, you can play around, thereby generating lots of ideas. A worthwhile though expensive purchase, particularly if you're sick or convalescing!

United States on Mar 12, 2021

dude mon: My girlfriend got me the Mega Man one for my birthday and I’m kind of hooked. When I found out the Street Fighter one was a sampler, I got it. Then though I’ve pulled great bass out of both having a dedicated bass line for the pocket band seemed proper. That’s the rabbit hole you should be careful of, once you’ve purchased a few of these you could have gotten something nice without so much limitation. For the value of one though, you’ll be hard pressed to find something that makes sounds like this at this cost. Maybe batteries and finger pinching buttons aren’t great for stage performance but make no judgment of this books cover, they are studio companions. Some of the acid bass I’ve pulled out is comparable to my 303. Not to mention some real funky deep sub lines (sometimes it’s hard to get rid of static, but not impossible and as a lo-fi cat, sometimes I like it). The drum machine might be the cheesiest of all pocket operators but it is there so you can make a jam with only it, but I highly recommend this one as a backup instrument to other pocket operators or a Korg Volca. A tiny interface that gets ahead of you sometimes, lots of functions...

United States on Mar 03, 2021

Steven: Delivered.
Works.

Australia on Jun 29, 2020

StevieMix: I've seen these in the music stores for a couple of years and thought, "Cute, but what for?" So, after buying a Volca or two I wondered if maybe these would sync - and they do! Now I have 5 of the Pocket Operators and 4 Volcas, along with a Behringer Model D, Korg Monologue and some other older gear and having blast tying them together. These are easy to play with and pretty quickly you get the hang of it. I also have a lot of Android and IOS music apps, but I really like the PO interface. It would be crazy to have the PO's as app(s) for phones and tablets. Just picked up the Korg SQ-1 to see how that works with PO's and the Volcas. It's sort of "Tabletop" modular.

United States on May 21, 2019

Dawnee: I was frantically looking for a decent yet inexpensive gift for my aspiring DJs 16th birthday. After google searching I found this! He loves it! Im just a mom and thought this was a new sort of gadget but he immediately knew what it was because of Andrew Huang and was very excited so that was a pleasant surpeise to me. He is already using it for bass lines and when we go on road trips he is happy to use it. He wishes it had more drum selection like snare and high hat and beyter drum selection but for the price I paid there really are no complaints. He now wants all of them of course :) I'm very happy I found this..apparently you cant go wrong with with a Pocket Operator

United States on Feb 14, 2019

shelby: Right on

Canada on Jan 12, 2019

Providential: This is the most limited of all Pocket Operators, but that doesn't make it bad. Lots of fun to play with, plenty of fun to jam on, but not great for your only unit. You need to combine this with another PO, such as the PO-28 Robot which would be the lead guitar to this bass. This review will be for people already familiar with POs since it is meant to work in combination with the rest. If you're totally new to the Pocket Operator line I'd say start with either the PO-22 Arcade for 8-bit chiptunes, or the PO-12 or P0-32 which are more complete drum sequencers that work well on their own. On to the Bass...

Pros:

Thumping basslines. Other Pocket Operators have bass, but this one is specifically tuned to make really awesome bass grooves. I put on some good-quality headphones and in a few minutes with this and a PO-28 Robot hooked up I was making such rocking tunes that I was dancing in my seat. Fun fun fun. This thing will get a room full of people on the dance floor.

MSRP is $10 less than POs, so the price is in line with the reduced function as a bass-only-unit.

Like all other POs, can chain sequences and sync to other POs allowing for...

United States on Mar 10, 2018