{"id":21846,"date":"2020-07-01T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=21846"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:19:32","slug":"teenage-engineering-and-rick-morty-team-up-for-a-ridiculous-beatmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/teenage-engineering-and-rick-morty-team-up-for-a-ridiculous-beatmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Engineering and Rick & Morty team up for a ridiculous beatmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0<\/strong>want a bunch of Rick and Morty samples all digitised and fuzzed up for making weird little beats, huh?<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n

If you’re not aware of Teenage Engineering they’re some of the coolest creators of weird and wonderful music-making packages in a very portable form. Their OP-1<\/a> is still one of the coolest pieces of kit I’ve seen come out in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ve recruited Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland to provide samples for their latest Pocket Operator, a series of stripped down all-in-one beatmakers. It uses an onboard 16-step sequencer with a collection of different sounds on top of the R&M samples to play with and mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can manipulate samples by changing their pitch and speed and adding different effects to get a range of different sounds in your sequence. It seems like a whole lot of fun, though some of the digitised samples are more of a funny novelty than any actual use in creating with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s okay, you can use a built-in microphone (or plug in your own) to record your own samples over the top of the vocal cuts from the animated series. Because of this you can essentially re-write the entire sample bank and it basically becomes their standard PO-35 Speak but with cool animations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find the PO-137 Rick and Morty for as cheap as \u00a379 if you look around online or around $120 in the US. Here’s Andrew Huang having fun with it so you can see how it works and get a hankering for some candy at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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