Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation

4 comments

• socks 3 minutes ago
  Hey ericlewis - this is cool! Can I ask how you figured it out?! Doing this for my PO-33 was on my bucket list. I thought I might have to resort to voltage glitching to get a firmware dump, which is currently beyond my skills.
• gxd 36 minutes ago
  This reminded me of when people used to transfer games over the radio: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/40-years-later-a-game-f...
• larme 2 hours ago
  That's amazing. I wonder how accurate is the synth engine?
• kmeisthax 1 hour ago
  > The PO-32 is not receiving finished drum audio when you transfer a sound or a pattern. It receives structured data:

  Wait, isn't this what MIDI is for?

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  • Elidrake24 1 hour ago
    Sure, but being able to share the 'data dump' at the end of a Youtube Video is so much more fun/likely to be used.

    https://youtu.be/TLzAyouLQxw?si=mm6goX-cMyEZkwOI&t=102
  • iamjackg 1 hour ago
    All it means is that the PO-32 is not a sampler, it's a synthesizer, so it receives a "preset" for the synth rather than an audio sample.