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Stardate: 20221030.2246
Location: The Lab
Input Device: Dell 7202
Audio: Down on the Corner, CCR cover
Visual: Usual lab clutter
Emotional: done.

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I have just finished my rendition of "Down on the Corner" by CCR.
This was done on 3 Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering.[1]  

Pocket Operators are these small, portable, battery-powered 
synthesizers about the size of a calculator.  You can make some 
fun sounds with them.  The ones I used for this song were the PO-12, 
PO-14, and PO-16 (rhythm, sub, and factory, all gen 1.) [2]

The song came out very cheesy and makes me laugh.  I recorded it but
it sounds a bit rough.  I don't plan on spending any more time on it.

This exercise helped me learn about the quirks and limitations, as
well as the ideas and creativity that can manifest with the Pocket 
Operators.  Even though this is someone else's song, just listening
to the different parts, trying to break it down, and then piece it
back together in some way on a Pocket Operator gave me much to tinker
with.  I used to do that quite a bit for the guitar, especially
before the Internet and accessibility to online tablature.

Like many of my reverse-engineered "exploration" projects, I learn 
quite a bit by taking things apart, but sometimes I end up with extra
parts and screws when putting the pieces back together.  That's kinda
what this rendition felt like.  For those interested, I have added
this piece to the songs in my home in gopherspace. [3]

[1] Pocket Operators
[2] Pocket Operators (pic)
[3] xiled's explorations in tunage by xiled and other people

20221107_UPDATE: HTML-ized the links.

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