PO-PatchStudio
Pocket Operator PO-32 editor
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Design drum sounds and patterns for your PO-32 Tonic on a proper screen, then send them to it over sound. Free, with no ads and no account.
PO-PatchStudio designs drum sounds, kits and patterns for Teenage Engineering's PO-32 Tonic, then sends them to your Pocket Operator over sound. Free, with no ads and no account.
The PO-32 has no USB data connection. It loads new sounds the way an old modem does, by listening through its microphone. So this app does the fiddly part on a proper screen: build a kit, hold your phone next to the PO-32 and press play.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Shape all 16 sounds with the full set of 21 synth parameters, plus both ends of the morph
- Program 16-step patterns on the pads, with accents, and hear them before you send
- Send a whole kit, a single sound or a pattern to the PO-32 over audio
- Back up your PO-32: record its data dump through the microphone and the app decodes it into a kit you can edit
- Import Microtonic .mtdrum and .mtpreset patches, including files from older versions of Microtonic, and export your sounds back out
- Keep kits, sounds and patterns in a local library with tags and favourites
WORKS WITH
- PO-32 Tonic
- Also sends drum sounds to the PO-35 Speak's built-in Tonic channel
HOW TRANSFER WORKS
Put the PO-32 in receive mode (press acc + sound), turn your phone's volume up and play the transfer into the PO-32's mic. To back up, start recording in the app, then hold write and press sound on the PO-32.
Previews come from an open-source recreation of the PO-32's synth, so they sound close to the hardware but not identical. Once a sound is on the PO-32, it plays through the device's own engine.
A NOTE FROM ME
I'm a solo developer and a PO-32 owner. PO-PatchStudio stands on the open-source libpo32 library by Eric Lewis and years of reverse-engineering by the Pocket Operator community, which is why it's free. If something is missing or broken, tell me.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Teenage Engineering AB or NuEdge Development AB. Pocket Operator, PO-32 and Tonic are trademarks of Teenage Engineering AB. Microtonic is a trademark of NuEdge Development AB.
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Sounds you send to your PO-32 now play at the morph you hear in the app.
The Studio has Pads, Grid, Synth and Chain tabs, so each job gets the whole screen. Play and Stop sit in the header on every tab, and Loop Preview is in the Synth row. A second take of a backup fills in where the first one broke off, and leaving with an unsaved recording asks first. Want the House Kit back? Settings > Studio > Restore Demo Kit puts it back, and can save your Studio to the Library first. Plus Export for Microtonic from the More sheet and lots of smaller fixes.
The developer, Photon Consulting Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Photon Consulting Limited
- Size
- 14.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Tip: Huge Thanks $25.00
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- Tip: Big Thanks $14.00
- Copyright
- © SquareWave Studio
