Teenage Engineering PO-24 Office User manual

PO-24 oce manual

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play / rec mode

indicates write mode is active

break away hanger

selected

tempo

sound

to select sound hold

sound and press 1-16

alarm

pattern

to select pattern hold

pattern and press 1-16

bpm

press to select tempo

hold to set master volume 1-16

hold step 1-16 + m

to set multiplier

sound 1-16

eect 1-16

time / note / additional info

sound parameters A / B

folding stand

knob A / B

solo control

eects

to toggle eects hold FX and press 1-16

play / stop

write

the unit auto powers o when no buttons are pressed

for a while, only powering the display to show time.

press sound + bpm to show battery status. press sound + write

to manually power o. this ensures that recent modiﬁcations

to pattern data will survive a loss of power.

auto power o (a.p.o.)

sound 1-16 eect 1-16

1. 5.25" ﬂoppy disk

2. 3.5" drive eject

3. 3.5" ﬂoppy disk

4. keyboard

5. matrix printer

6. joystick

7. mouse click

8. toggle switch

9. bass drum

10. pc beeper

11. hardsync tone

12. hardsync noise

13. ring modulation

14. bass

15. glitch fx

16. noise fx

1. aliasing

2. overdrive

3. repeat 4

4. repeat 2

5. lowpass ﬁlter

6. lowpass sweep

7. hipass ﬁlter

8. hipass sweep

9. distort low

10. distort high

11. retrigger

12. retrigger (fast)

13. glitch

14. glitch (fast)

15. blinds

16. noise eect

1. getting started

power-up

insert two fresh AAA batteries. pay attention to plus and minus terminals.

set clock

set time by turning knob A for hours and knob B for minutes. press any key to conﬁrm and exit.

alarm clock

press sound + pattern. set alarm clock by turning A for hours and B for minutes. (disable by turning knob A all the way down.) press any key 1-16 to set pattern for the alarm. to stop alarm press any key.

reset clock

reset the clock by removing the batteries and start over.

2. play

select pattern

hold pattern and press any key from 1-16 to select pattern. blinking led indicates active pattern.

play

press play to start playing. press play again to stop.

sequencer

a pattern consists of 16 steps.

3. making a beat

select sound

hold sound and press any key from 1-16 to select sound.

sounds 1-8 are sampled from computer hardware from the 1980s.

create

press write. rec symbol is lit on screen. enter sound/notes in grid. active steps will be lit. press play to listen to your pattern.

parameter locking

during play, hold write while turning knobs to write sound parameter changes over time. hold any key 1-16 and turn knobs to edit sound paramaters on that particular step.

4. eects

while playing, hold FX and press any key 1-16 to punch in eects. hold FX without pressing any key to clear eects. see reference on opposite page.

some eects also work in live mode

when the sequencer is stopped. hold FX and press the corresponding key to activate the eect. press FX brieﬂy to deactivate it.

5. solo play

while playing, hold solo and press any key 1-16 to toggle solo play for the corresponding sound. several sounds can be soloing at the same time.

when the solo button is released, the solo function turns o automatically at the next pattern boundary.

the solo function can also be turned o manually by disabling solo play for all sounds.

6. tempo and swing

press bpm to switch tempo. the bpm will be displayed in the upper right corner of the screen. HIP HOP (80 bpm) DISCO (120 bpm) TECHNO (140 bpm) hold bpm and turn A to adjust the swing. hold bpm and turn B to ﬁne-tune tempo from 60 to 240 bpm.

7. volume

hold bpm and press any key 1-16 to adjust master volume.

8. live record

while playing, except in write mode, hold write and press any key 1-16 to punch in notes. notes will be quantized according to the current swing setting.

9. step multiplier

in write mode, press and hold any key 1-16 to select step, and press bpm to insert a re-trig on that step. press bpm multiple times to switch between 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 multiplier.

10. making a song

(pattern chaining)

copy pattern

hold write + pattern and press 1-16 to paste the active pattern to the corresponding new slot.

clear pattern

hold solo and press pattern to clear the active pattern.

chain pattern

hold pattern and press a sequence

of keys 1-16 to create a chain of up to 128 patterns. one pattern can be selected multiple times. example: 1, 1, 1, 4 plays pattern 1 three times then moves on to pattern

4. the entire sequence then repeats.

11. sync multiple units

connect a standard stereo audio cable between the units. the master unit will control the tempo of the slave unit. hold solo and press bpm on master unit to toggle sync modes. press repeatedly to toggle between dierent modes displayed in the upper right corner of the screen. press play on slave unit to wait for master clock sync. press play on master to start.

sync modes

there are 5 sync modes. default mode is SY0. when sync is used the signal will be split between audio (right) and sync (left).

sync scenarios

example A

chain: PO-24 PO-20 PO-14 setting: SY1 SY5 SY4

example B

chain: external PO-24 setting: volca SY2 iphone computer synckontrol

example C

chain: ext. PO-24 PO-16 setting: SY3 SY4

example D

chain: PO-24 ext. (split cable) setting: SY1

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