Teenage Engineering PO-33 K.O.

If you want a pocket size sampler, that's the (only) way to go. It's definitely a looot of fun. T E products are well built, endearing and surprisingly robust.

But. This is not chromatic. You can play major, minor and harmonic minor and that's it. I really don't understand the reasoning behind
such a limitation

Also, the beat slicer is pretty weak, and even simple hits can end up sliced in the wrong way. You can edit the slices manually, BUT, the encoders have absolute values (and are über sensitive) so, when you jump from a slice to another, it's very easy to mess up you start/end point just by lightly touching the encoder by accident

40seconds is a VERY short recording time, even for samples. That's 2.5s/samples. That's not much ! And you can't really delete a sample, you have to record a very short silence (which eats a bit of the precious space !)


All in all, it's a fun little thing, it's inspiring and fits in a pocket. Sadly, it has some very silly limitations that's makes it miss the podium.

Bummer.