Teenage Engineering PO-35 Speak Pocket Operator Vocal Synthesizer

I love this little thing. It sits somewhere between a real professional tool and a toy. It's very small and portable, battery life is pretty good, and it can make a wide range of sounds. Getting a whole track devoted to Tonic is a huge upside; the drum sounds are deep and customizable, and the sequencer is great. Biggest limiting factors are that you are limited in terms of the sounds you can apply to the samples, and also there is two-voice polyphony: one synth sound and one drum sound on any given step. However, despite these limitations, the possibilities are still pretty deep, and chaining patterns together in a pseudo-"song mode" is possible. Overall, for $100, it's a great buy for anyone who loves synthesizers and music production. I wouldn't recommend this to a first-time synth buyer but if you already have a collection and want something fun and diverting, this is the one to get.

bought it grom Amazon Returns for a very good price. Item came without original package but looked like new and is in perfect working condition

I hereby declare the need in our lovely planet earth for a special edition PO with phonemes from the MIKUVERSE to grace our ears in syllables galore! Wondaful device, clever, smart, teenage, pocketable, playable, sharable, snackable, so many good things about this... leaving me with just one great big desire, which is ANOTHER ONE with the cool benefit of HATSUNE MIKU voice samples instead of the (very good) default set which is contained within this awesome unit. If you look at youtube you'll find many people who say this is THE best pocket operator because it's totally unique in the music world. Nothing quite like it!

Desde luego te pasas horas jugando con el bichito y salen resultados únicos y verdaderamente inesperados (a veces bien, otras no, algunas veces crea aliens únicos e irrepetibles que yo de ti guardaría en un Daw externo, foraster@). Parece un juguete pero no, nada de eso. Soy músico con 30 años de sintetización y este chiquitín se ha ganado mi respeto por su magnífica versatilidad a pesar de sus lógicas cortedades dado su precio (no esperéis calidad de sonido de grabación, es un lo/fi muy lo/fi). En resumen: horas de experimentación con un aparatito que verdaderamente puede dar un guiño personal a tu música. Super contento.

As the title says, it was a lot of fun. Recording voices and making beats was awesome. If you are looking to get into the PO scene, I'd suggest getting a Cheaper one first. The Arcade would be a good start. Sad to say, I had issues with mine and I was forced to return it. No matter what brand of AAA I put in it, I would randomly shut off and I was forced to manually reset it every time. Which if you don't own a PO, removing the batteries is a sketchy process. 5-Stars because it's a great product, I am just unlucky.