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Stardate: 20221030.2246 | |
Location: The Lab | |
Input Device: Dell 7202 | |
Audio: Down on the Corner, CCR cover | |
Visual: Usual lab clutter | |
Emotional: done. | |
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I have just finished my rendition of "Down on the Corner" by CCR. | |
This was done on 3 Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering.[1] | |
Pocket Operators are these small, portable, battery-powered | |
synthesizers about the size of a calculator. You can make some | |
fun sounds with them. The ones I used for this song were the PO-12, | |
PO-14, and PO-16 (rhythm, sub, and factory, all gen 1.) [2] | |
The song came out very cheesy and makes me laugh. I recorded it but | |
it sounds a bit rough. I don't plan on spending any more time on it. | |
This exercise helped me learn about the quirks and limitations, as | |
well as the ideas and creativity that can manifest with the Pocket | |
Operators. Even though this is someone else's song, just listening | |
to the different parts, trying to break it down, and then piece it | |
back together in some way on a Pocket Operator gave me much to tinker | |
with. I used to do that quite a bit for the guitar, especially | |
before the Internet and accessibility to online tablature. | |
Like many of my reverse-engineered "exploration" projects, I learn | |
quite a bit by taking things apart, but sometimes I end up with extra | |
parts and screws when putting the pieces back together. That's kinda | |
what this rendition felt like. For those interested, I have added | |
this piece to the songs in my home in gopherspace. [3] | |
[1] Pocket Operators | |
[2] Pocket Operators (pic) | |
[3] xiled's explorations in tunage by xiled and other people | |
HTML-ized version of the phost for the gopher-impaired. | |
20221107_UPDATE: Gopher-ized the links. | |
20221109_UPDATE: HTML-ized the phost. | |
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