Teenage Engineering has announced that the PO-32 Tonic drum machine is now available to order.
The PO-32 is a drum synthesizer and sequencer, with parameter locks and punch-in effects. You can customize its sounds using Microtonic.
Features:
- real synthesizer engines
- sequencer
- parameter locks
- step multiplier
- unlimited sounds with micro tonic vst
- built-in speaker
- built-in microphone for data transfer
- 3.5mm audio I/O
- jam sync
- animated LCD display
Here’s a hands- on demo from with Magnus Lidström of Sonic Charge:
Price and Availability
The PO-32 Tonic is available now for US $89.
It’s clever that you can buy an $89, highly portable drum machine that can playback presets that you make in $99 software (microtonic). I wonder if they offer any kind of bundled or discounted price for microtonic with the PO-32 purchase. That would be a nice bonus.
That software looks pretty fun. I think it’s kind of similar to DM-2.
They sell a bundle with the plugin for $129
Edit, they DID offer a bundle
4:45 he says he made it 30-40 years ago! Big in the retro plugin game!
No, he said 13-14. Still pretty retro!
is it worth it without using the micro tonic app?
imagine if teen age made a little drum sampler /sequencer with P.locks and punch in fx in the form of one of these little boxes!!!
Magnus is an under appreciated or under recognized genius when it comes to synth development. Hopefully this fixes it. 🙂
no bundle this time? ok, i’ll steal the vst then, thanks.