Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Modular 400 // In depth demo + synth tips

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*TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS BELOW - SKIP AROUND!!* So here we have an in depth - deep dive - mega tutorial - ultra look ... or whatever other silly name for a demo of the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Modular 400. I'll take you through each module giving some tips and ideas of how to use them (AM synthesis on the VCA is great, linear FM on the sine is great for example) and in-between each section break the video up with patches and examples both playfully dotted around the house playing out of the speaker and with direct recording explaining how to make certain patches.
Check out my video building the PO 400 here - • Building the Teenage E...
TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS
00:00 hello and patch previews
01:06 Introduction
01:54 Square - including PWM, audio rate modulation & more
06:12 Sleepy teddy time intermission
06:26 Saw - including linear FM, use an LFO & more
08:04 Kick & Snare patch - patching & sequencing two percussions sounds at once
10:24 Sine - including linear FM, vibrato & more
12:50 Gorilla’s bathroom break
12:58 Mixer - mixing audio, chord tones and mixing modulation
14:26 Bass riff with VCOs as LFOs & more
15:31 LFO - from slow to audio rate
16:45 Getting the washing done
16:53 Filter - vocal overtones, vowels, low pass sweeps & more
18:09 Self generating FM lasers
19:56 Envelope & VCA - ADSR shapes, VCA functions and AM synthesis.
23:01 Fresh air & sci fi noises
23:17 Sequencer - direction modulation, reset, binary inputs, odd step lengths and how to turn a sequencer into a graphic pulse waves oscillator
28:50 400 audio rate riff + modular drums & FX
30:13 Noise - noise as a percussion synthesis source and as a modulation source
31:45 Babies pram ride
31:48 Speaker - how does it sound? Comparison with two mics + direct sound
32:24 Cosmic space noise & self generating modular soundtrack
33:44 Rand - stepped sample and hold with random (from noise), stepping LFOs, retro gaming vibes and audio downsampling
36:54 How eurorack compatible is it?
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Комментарии : 203

@ChuckLeone 5 лет назад

Great demo video. I love the patch examples in random locations you sprinkled in.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

great cheers!

@bitegoatie 5 лет назад

First-rate educational video, as usual, with the welcome inclusion of little people of various species and states of animation, it kept me interested throughout. Good work!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

nice one, thanks.

@RobinRimbaudScanner 3 года назад

Love that you dressed up so smartly for this video. Looking very dapper DivKid!

@joanrue5169 3 года назад

This is maybe the best Demo of it! Thanks! Your daughter and this machine = Best friends!!!

@sodiumlights 5 лет назад

sounds really, really sweet! Thanks for this superb and thorough demo.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

cheers for the comment.

@jeremy8133 5 лет назад

Thank you so much for making this video, I didn’t know where to begin with this thing

@vigilancebrandon3888 5 лет назад

Wonderful demo. Subscribed. P.S. would love more vids on it. As of now, I still want it. Just watching gets my heart rate up!

@benedictjohnson2176 4 года назад

thanks for the thorough overview. You certainly have a delightful home : )

@gottdio2804 5 лет назад

Fuck yes, I can't wait to get my modular setup started with the 400. Awesome review, thanks for going through all the features and giving such an in-depth review in such a short time!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Cheers Gott.

@haydnr1631 5 лет назад

Brilliant video. Fantastic demo and tutorial that can be appreciated by anyone owning or thinking of buying any modular kit. I love the sounds it makes but just wish they made a 'grown-up' version. I'd be tempted to build my own front panel and tuck the yellow plastic 'toy' in the back!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Would be in the spirit of it to re panel it.

@TravellingSynths 5 лет назад

Love those fun breaks!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

I enjoyed some stupidity

@exitritual 5 лет назад

Fantastic demo! Thank you.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

thanks Scott

@braincoral9866 5 лет назад

ooh I've been waiting for this video.. :D

@DivKid 5 лет назад

cheers

@immersiveworlds 5 лет назад

Great video, as always!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

cheers Scott.

@Soundtrackloops Год назад

A fantastic demo. I just bought one new because they slashed the prices to nearly 50% off.

@DivKid Год назад

thanks, I'm glad it's helpful. It's definitely good thing at the new prices.

@7177YT 5 лет назад

made me smile throughout, so awesome. thx! edit: Love the owls. btw: Sequencer as audio source... o.0 >.< neat!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah sequencer at audio rate is a nice trick!

@rickbustamante 5 лет назад

Got enough Euro Rack modules Kid? Loved the intro, great stuff, cheers.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

There's certainly a lot of them.

@GazWilliams 5 лет назад

Excellent, excellent overview our kid!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

cheers Gaz, nice to see you in the comments section. You'll be knee deep in some extreme modular logic demo next :)

@clivemathieu9386 5 лет назад

BassFACE

@DivKid 5 лет назад

AceFace

@MSPatterson 5 лет назад

I quite like how everything has multiple outputs, to give you more options for patching.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah that's a big plus little multiple on each module.

@toolzshed 5 лет назад

Sounds Great!

@Dogboy73 5 лет назад

.......... Fantastic video. Love it.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

cheers, appreciate that.

@AndyVonal 5 лет назад

Nice tie, Ben!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

thanks

@alexandermontagnet3361 4 года назад

Thank you so much for the video and the detailed info! I felt lost before watching this video. Two quick questions, have you messed around with the TE 16 modular keyboard at all? If so what are your thoughts with it and the 400 together? If you have not, to get full use out of the 400 what would be the next thing to combine it with to actually make some good “god noises” or fleshed out sequenced parts?

@EaselCat 5 лет назад

Love it!

@midierror 5 лет назад

top demo/explination. audio rate mod ftw

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah best bit of it for me with this.

@davidroberts9458 5 лет назад

Great video ... Glad to see the comments on this video are much more positive then your PO-400 Build video! (Was kinda dismaying, especially because mine just got delivered and I have been looking forward to using it) With the audio signal ... have you tried running it through a amp module with overload?

@DivKid 5 лет назад

an amp with overload? Do you mean an amp with gain? I have options for boosting the level so it's no problem.

@videomove 5 лет назад

thanks, you rule!

@davidroberts9458 5 лет назад

Just got mine ... note about one of your gripes ... the speaker volume control isn’t a volume ... but a cross fade ... so turning to the left just maximizes the left channel (kinda)

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah, I realised quickly after. Shame it's not documented and a mono speaker doesn't do left and right.

@UnauthorisedService 5 лет назад

nice tips thanks a lot

@leContrebasson 5 лет назад

It,s great shit! Thanks dude!)

@DivKid 5 лет назад

cheers

@DavidDeLuge 5 лет назад

Very thorough video but what would you use it for? Would it be used to mainly generate samples that can then be played via a keyboard? I am struggling to see where I'd use it to make music since you can't "play it" as such.

@justinbrown8214 5 лет назад

I don't have one but I'm sure it's got CV or something so you can sync the internal clock with other gear like po12, volcas, beatstep pro, etc

@ritchrdronson7903 3 года назад

Can it handle CV/Gate signals from standard eurorack gear? Or is there a chance of damaging the 400?

@ludvista29 5 лет назад

Great video! Would love to hear this used with a quantizer :)

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah that's the first missing link. Been enjoying it sequenced by the Stepper Acid.

@nadamucho466 5 лет назад

Love the interstitials, especially the garden one. I'm totally new to this kind of stuff. Is it controllable with any kind of keyboard?

@remologpaintingwithsound2912 4 года назад

yes you can use a voltage control keyboard to play the keys for each oscilator

@justinwhite9754 5 лет назад

There is a high pitched buzzing that is always present through the speaker on mine. Do you have the same problem?

@petercarlsson6606 5 лет назад

It will be mine!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

@kollagebeats 5 лет назад

Can you use standard TS cables from your eurorack to patch the 400 or do you have to use the proprietary TE cables?

@TheSilentCartgraph3r 5 лет назад

TE cables only

@DivKid 5 лет назад

you can use any cables with it.

@budfoon 5 лет назад

Well it's gonna be perfect for my 10yo!

@marcel_h_ 5 лет назад

modular from washing machine just make me laughs so hard.Top a top demo Kid.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

haha

@elshuffles 5 лет назад

the patch at 14.00 can you talk through hows thats made again!

@gnarhess 5 лет назад

What sort of oscilloscope is this in your video?

@videomove Год назад

the no. 1 👌🏼

@DivKid Год назад

no.1 synthesiser?

@videomove Год назад

no. 1 youtuber when it cones to modular…

@DivKid Год назад

ah thanks, appreciate the kind words.

@stevebloomdevon 5 лет назад

Nice review....wanted one at the start .....just so yellow and lego like......by the end .....meh.... Mind you I do feel the need to spray paint the gear I own bright primary colours.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

enjoy the graffiti session.

@bembeleee 5 лет назад

You were in SonicTalk with Nick Batt subscribing aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

@bufboston1 Год назад

The toilet/ gorilla head tableau is excellent.

@DivKid Год назад

haha thanks George, I'd forgotten about that.

@stepanok 5 лет назад

Are the knobs responsive and smooth?...it seems sometimes in the video that you straggle a bit with one and another just ..bammm races ahead.....as they are tiny and it would make it difficult to work with . Thanks

@DivKid 5 лет назад

adding the lego technics gears helps with fine tuning.

@stepanok 5 лет назад

well, unfortunately the flimsy way these are attached means that after a while they come off. @@DivKid

@DivKid 5 лет назад

yeah I can see that been the case.

@johnmiddleton4291 5 лет назад

Do any of the CV inputs respond to stereo signals? Meaning tip is one CV, sleeve is another? The OP-Z module sends 0-5v cv on the tip and -5 to 5 on the sleeve to act as a pitch/gate and a modulation cv, simultaneously. Since they opted for stereo patch cables, it would be cool to see if that does anything here, especially since the two are supposed to work together.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

I don't think any of the jacks here are stereo mini jacks.

@johnmiddleton4291 5 лет назад

Interesting. A really missed trick then in the design, since the OP lab module on the OP-Z outputs pitch and cv on channel 1 and gate and cv on 2 using stereo cables.

@LeonTrimble 5 лет назад

@DivKidVideo what did/didn't you like about it?

@johnmiddleton4291 5 лет назад

The speaker level knob is likely design to control the levels of both left and right at the same time, sort of a sub mix. So full counter clockwise is all left, full clockwise is all right, and the in-betweens is a mix.

@johnmiddleton4291 5 лет назад

I see you addressed that further down the responses. I think this is supposed to be a sub mix output module in addition to just a simple monitor speaker. You can plug into left and right ins then set a balance between the two signals and take that from the out to your monitor set up. Definitely could be more clearly documented though. Also could do some stereo using the 170 system added on.

@allenschmitz9644 5 лет назад

so it's like a fade right fade left effect.

@johnmiddleton4291 5 лет назад

Exactly. A fade between the two inputs. There may be some gain boost full left or right and I have no idea what the prospective volume mixes between left and right are. No one really is showing any of that. Seems to be lots of little things on this that TE should document more thoroughly.

@TheFreeRadikal 5 лет назад

nice kick sound

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah I always enjoy synthesising my own percussion.

@Individual_two 5 лет назад

With your flu-ravaged voice I can actually understand you better. :) Good demo!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

ah interesting

@apparently_sonam 5 лет назад

@@DivKid Phlegmtastic.

@ghostly606 5 лет назад

The speaker volume is a balance. It’s receiving a left signal so anti-clockwise is full volume. Or so I’ve been told...

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah makes sense, not so much when labelled left and right, not documented as such and it's a mono speaker.

@fjazz 5 лет назад

I didn't understand the D1234 binary inputs on the sequencer

@DivKid 5 лет назад

while a voltage is high at those inputs it will skip forward to steps 1 4 8 or 16

@ednasdiscomachine6049 5 лет назад

I sort-of didn't want to like this. However, it actually sounds great :) The only way I'm going to power my modular outside is with a generator... :\

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah the weird dying power starve batteries failing is interesting the first time though.

@BrunoWiebelt 5 лет назад

thumbs up

@DivKid 5 лет назад

thanks Bruno.

@DriesBultynck Месяц назад

How do you connect this to your daw?

@DivKid Месяц назад

Typically you'd use a DC coupled audio interface to interface CV signals and take audio signals back in. Or send MIDI out of a DAW and then into a MIDI to CV device.

@DriesBultynck Месяц назад

Arturia keystep would fit nice

@CO5MA 5 лет назад

Cool! How do you like it?!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

pretty fun, some interesting sounds with the audio rate stuff.

@tiltedstudio 5 лет назад

Can I automate this using LEGO Mindstorms??

@migueldelag 5 лет назад

Yes

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah absolutely.

@hasko_not_the_pirate 5 лет назад

Is it actually compatible to Lego? One could tune the oscillators with a mic and a motor.

@markuskoivisto 5 лет назад

Hasko Heinecke yes, they are. They chose to do that rather than make the knobs comfortable.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

It is yeah. I ordered some gears to make fine tuning easier.

@mylarmelodies 5 лет назад

missed a trick not putting that washing machine on x

@DivKid 5 лет назад

I know totally.

@ArtFluids 5 лет назад

Seems like a killer percussion machine, specifically. Nothing wrong with that at all.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah some cutting audio rate percussion stuff is great!

@AshBashVids 5 лет назад

Get some large lego technic gears, put them on the tune pots and you'll have more control over the tuning due to the increased knob radius ;)

@ipadoddschan7184 5 лет назад

Mister Shledge not much space on the sequencer for that ;)

@markuskoivisto 5 лет назад

Why didn’t they just make the knobs bigger and grippier?

@AshBashVids 5 лет назад

@@ipadoddschan7184 The VCO tune knobs, not the sequencer

@AshBashVids 5 лет назад

@@markuskoivisto A previous interview states allowing it to be used with lego technic for more creative results eg. moving multiple knobs at once at different ratios with gears

@DivKid 5 лет назад

I saw someone else doing that earlier today. I ordered some. Cheers for the suggestion.

@7thdanwebninja 5 лет назад

M8, lemsip, shot of whisky to taste. Other than that, awesome video.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Cheers James!

@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene 5 лет назад

No MIDI to CV? Not a keyboardist synth?

@Dogboy73 5 лет назад

Looking a bit Kraftwerk. I want one. Still shows as sold out though.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah first run sold out really quickly.

@irok81 5 лет назад

I commend you for doing this video sick. But why not just wait and do it when you feel better? A couple days later maybe? Sounds are very cool. Get well soon.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Couple of days hasn't shifted anything. I have a schedule to keep to so work couldn't stop entirely.

@irok81 5 лет назад

Ya schedules will do that. Good job on the video anyways. 👍

@DivKid 5 лет назад

thank you, much appreciated.

@spankenheim 5 лет назад

well I was kind of hoping this would sound like crap so I could write it off completely but it actually sounds pretty good. Still not likely to get one, but thumbs up.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Yeah doesn't sound how I imagine many think.

@inventanew 5 лет назад

19:28-19:36 wow

@DivKid 5 лет назад

@SpawnoftheEd 5 лет назад

great video. man i wish this was more of a "pocket operator" and less of a weird stand thing with "this module goes here" mind set. it's not really customization or portable.

@ArtFluids 5 лет назад

Two envelopes and two VCAs means you could get two separate synth voices out of this thing.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

yeah easy to patch up.

@PWMaarten 5 лет назад

Husky voice compensated with suit and tie.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

haha

@2.7petabytes 5 лет назад

Dammit! How cool! Bit pricey like many Teenage Engineering items

@jmsiener 5 лет назад

Yeah, what gives with the tie?

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Hi Jacob, why not. I felt my collar deserved a treat.

@robertsyrett1992 5 лет назад

extra husky div kid!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Huskid.

@clivemathieu9386 5 лет назад

Could have been so much cooler... the synth, not the video

@LeonTrimble 5 лет назад

i know right. they could have made it as interesting as makenoise stuff. why is this so basic? that's not what they are known for...

@DivKid 5 лет назад

I hope this is the start of a range of things they pursue in terms of modular of just general more open ended synthesis stuff.

@decibel001 5 лет назад

@@LeonTrimble alot of the cooler make noise modules cost $270-$550 this is a lot for for the price $499.

@LeonTrimble 5 лет назад

@@decibel001 not what i'm saying - teenage engineering are known for their their innovation in electronics, this may be innovation in size and price, but they usually move the paradigm forward... i was hoping their approach to modular would have been as inventive as make noise, in this form factor...

@OmriCohen-Music 5 лет назад

The flu this year is crazier than ever... Anyway, it sounds great, but do you think it has something more than just the gimmick? Feel better.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Some of the audio rate techniques work really well with the tone of this thing.

@0ooDT 5 лет назад

Read a post about the build quality being complete garbage with issues galore. Can anyone speak to this?

@markuskoivisto 5 лет назад

Some have reported missing parts like washers. Haven’t really heard much else. Have you?

@DivKid 5 лет назад

there's no washers in the whole kit ... you need to cut some of the headers/spacers (might be what they mean) to get 8 from the 4 longer ones. I didn't bother as I couldn't cut through them.

@XanderEwald 5 лет назад

My girlfriend calls it the "cheese synth".

@DivKid 5 лет назад

does she like cheese?

@alexstixx 5 лет назад

I hope she likes him at least.

@XanderEwald 5 лет назад

Update: She is not my girlfriend anymore. I, however, will continue calling it the cheese synth.

@Breakbeat90s 5 лет назад

my girlfriend too if i had one

@XanderEwald 5 лет назад

Update 2: She is my girlfriend again and I decided to buy the cheese synth.

@paulb1953 5 лет назад

You just back from court?

@DivKid 5 лет назад

haha yeah I had my hearing earlier. I get full custody of the modular system.

@skunksmisery 5 лет назад

I'm the calculator with my pocket operator

@DivKid 5 лет назад

@asciisynth 5 лет назад

Washing machine reverb

@fengchen303 5 лет назад

And it sounds metallic

@DivKid 5 лет назад

super metallic reverb.

5 лет назад

Nice review! Half level is not good...

@DivKid 5 лет назад

You can boost it, but just something to note. For the record there's some eurorack module who's output levels are lower than nearly everything else.

@professionalhater2809 5 лет назад

This thing is sold out!!!

@7alken 4 года назад

well, ok, as far as you will be not disseminating this *hit near to me, ok, ok.....

@CubeRepublic 5 лет назад

I'd fucking hate to have to noodle on with a tonne of wires to make music for it only to sound like a heart monitor from the cardiac unit after spending 12000£ to have some kind of cup a soup rave moment

@WeirdMedicine 5 лет назад

my girlfriend calls it the "spongebob synth."

@dannycarbona 5 лет назад

Husky means short and fat

@bigmanlizard7326 5 лет назад

compare this to an AE modular system basically the same price its crazy how cheap and gimmicky this thing is

@deroden724 5 лет назад

Love the Scottish accent

@pawnotdaw4559 5 лет назад

deroden ?

@deroden724 5 лет назад

@@pawnotdaw4559 :)

@DivKid 5 лет назад

Bradford accent. Maybe a bit of cold/flu takes you further north the worse is it.

@TheRealSasquatch 5 лет назад

interesting - great video - just seems overpriced and dare I say - not overly tuneful.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

First thing you need for "tuneful" is a quantiser for the sequencer as it's just pure analogue voltages.

@jamescruz8678 5 лет назад

$549 USD for all of that seems like a good deal to me. EDIT: It's $499 USD. My bad.

@0m0n97 5 лет назад

Why dont you say the knobs fall out after a while?. Are youbsupposed to glue them?? This is made in a ridulous way. Why not a bad word for TE?? There are people who would not dare get it if they knew all the facts.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

I didn't say that because they didn't fall out. Mine still haven't fallen out. Don't glue them, they won't turn then! "Why not a bad word for TE?" ... Why a bad word? I've made a demo that shows the product for what it is, demo'd each function in detail and given some examples and patches. This isn't a review, I'm not scoring it out of 10 or making comparisons and pros/cons etc. The product is exactly what you see in the video without masking anything. I have a build video that shows how fiddly and awkward some of the build is. What "facts" are missing?

@prmcd 2 года назад

You could talk to whale's using this.

@samesong 5 лет назад

Half the level...bummer. So it's a toy after all... 🙄

@AshBashVids 5 лет назад

Just wait until you try buchla!

@DivKid 5 лет назад

me? I've tried Buchla, possibly going to be working some more so this year. Currently on a Serge venture at the minute.

@moistpeanut5986 5 лет назад

Its too overpriced for what it is in my opinion. Its a fun time killer for rich people but there are better options as an intro. Its great for instagram pictures though.

@fjazz 5 лет назад

Moist Peanut plz list a few better options as an intro?

@mpmi7588 5 лет назад

@@fjazz he's not going to

@moistpeanut5986 5 лет назад

@@fjazz Behringer Neutron, 0- Coast, Mother 32, SV-1. Also a real full eurorack case will cost you less than the Modular 400 with change for a few modules.

@DivKid 5 лет назад

"great for instagram pics" hahaha